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Striker
Agree with Rocky. It shouldn’t have taken 18 months to start putting the Scouting back in place.
And this extensive overhaul? Tony Coton who has presided over 3 poor transfer windows, Hill, Reid and a Scandinavian scout who worked with Coton at Villa. He mentions one working in the Midlands (another Coton link) and someone else who might come in.
I just personally don’t have any trust that this lot are the “best we can be”. Charlie’s own words when he took over
The people you mention are just the "overseers". Each of them will have extensive teams of scouts working under them. So far they've been trying to organise a plan for a whole network while also trying to do the jobs of that whole network themselves at the same time. Hardly surprising that the range from which we've recruited players so far has been less than admirable.
Putting the scouting back in place takes money, and quite a bit of it. That money would mean the books would have been harder to balance, which in turn would have made it harder to attract investment.
We now have the investment we were looking for, and so we've reached the next phase in the redesign of the whole club structure, the rebuilding.
I'm happy to see the wheels in motion for us to be better than we are.
If we'd managed to secure the investment faster, then maybe the scouting network would have been rebuilt faster, but if 18 months is what it takes to put together a comprehensive plan in order to do things properly, then I'd rather they took that long than did a slap-happy botch job in a shorter timeframe.
If something's worth doing, it's worth doing right. If it's worth doing right, it's worth taking your time over it rather than rushing it.