We tried a DOF and we ended up with Andy Carroll and Charlie Adam. The problem isn't a Director of Football or Committee or Manager on his own making decisions, the issue is the club wide policy. A DOF working to the same policy as the Committee is now will bring in the same players. I've said from the very beginning that if you have a policy based around young talent it won't work because of several factors, not least of which is the fact that they're too inexperienced to win anything so you're an unsuccessful club and the successful clubs will just cherry pick your young talent from you because the player will want to win things. We're seeing this now with Sterling. It's an ultimately self defeating policy because there's no return on your investment. The player leaves before his development is complete.
If we had gone in to the Champions league this year with a host of experienced players, there is a higher chance we would have made it through to the Quarter finals because they would know how teams in the competition play, know individual player styles because they had either played with them or played against them in the competition before. This in itself would alleviate some of the problems of having an inexperienced manager. Similarly if we had a highly experienced manager who was playing inexperienced players we might have gotten away with it because he at least knows what to expect. Our transfer policy has lead to a situation where its the blind leading the blind at the club (insofar as experience, not talent).
Our club's transfer policy is a cancer at the heart of our club and as long as that policy is there it will continue to slowly kill us; we will remain an unsuccessful also-ran at best. The policy needs to go. Once it does, we can examine the personnel based upon their performances working under what can be considered 'normal' conditions. The personnel aren't our problem, the policy is.
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