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Ah man. This villa fan comes across as a bit thick. "Id be happy if we kept the current squad" ah yes those borrowed players costing you 500k per week which aren't included in your actually wage to turnover calculations. Im sure you would aye. We would also like PSR to go away

Everyone says that before Barca call.

Joan Garcia being linked with Barca by El Mundo.

Your absolutely right here, the thing that makes me an advocate despite these pitfalls is the importance of continuity and long term planning in this PSR world. Rebuilds aren't possible so having a DNA if you will is something I deem essential. The moment Howe goes for whatever reason is the moment we are up the creek without a paddle. I guess being unable to find the right person is perfectly logical as the people making these hiring decisions are the same people that hire management consultants. No disrespect intended to any management consultant that posts on here. (Unless your the fella from the chat thread)

Referee had absolutely no right to referring a game of that magnitude according to some random villa lad

Athletic podcast featuring some villa fune is available for your listening pleasure.

That's the thing though, they shouldn't if they remit is correct and they know what they are doing. I'm guessing thats the issue though.

Yourself and many others are skeptical of the role eh? Maybe I'm projecting but I really expect the role to be a long term one and have a very broad remit. The club should have a philosophy like Barca imo and despite us having two highly reputable DOF im yet go see any philosophy implemented at all. It all seems very uncoordinated to me, at boardroom level that is.

Off to inter isn't he?

In his defence (thanks for making me write this btw ) He obviously has to get a piece out as soon as possible whilst it's still hot to hit his clicks quota. State of modern journalism unfortunately.

Douglas coming up with. Guy who turned us down and former player is super well sourced.

It's a nothing article.

I don't think so honestly. Pif are trying to downsize on vanity projects after all.

Nobody in Europe is paying that asking price.

For the record I totally understand the appeal of just leaving it to Eddie, he's our best manager of the modern era, why wouldn't you leave it to him is honestly sound logic.

Cmon guys, chief scout scouted players as you'd expect. He recommended them as is his job.

So, Nickson buys the players Eddie tells him to and a new hire to oversee the other areas of the club?

That's how it appears to be yes, but let's see how it plays out. Maybe I'm totally wrong and he's leaving because Eales is. If so you'd expect a like for like replacement who's heavily involved in transfers.

It's taken us how long to replace eales? Boardroom competency isn't our strong suit.

Nickson is a scout, the job scope of a sporting director is much more all-encompassing. If Eddie wants to choose which players to buy and we are ok with that then promoting a scout above him makes little sense.

That job is way beyond the manager remit. We can't have eddie popping down and making sure the u8 are pressing properly.

To be fair, we've gotten the role wrong to this point so... The job of Mitchell and the like should be to set the entire philosophy of the club, think Ajax think Barca. Yet both Ashworth and Mitchell appear to have been negligent in this area.

This is what I expect has happened too and I feel really conflicted about it. I just hope this doesn't set us back in the short term.

Because he's Mitchell's man.

We will be losing Bunce as well I imagine, and he was instrumental this season if reports are to be believed.