DoF always made me wonder what they did, given you have a chairman, chief executive, manager and chief scout.

Surely the ce should have the role of director of football in his remit, instead of just creating more positions and salaries.

It's a football club with a relatively low income in corporate terms, there is no need for useless, expensive layers of bureaucracy.

The cult of Ashworth continues though, as we forget the millions wasted on zuvI etc, etc and just think of the good bargains like gmac and odious.

I listened to an Albion podcast a while back and it was an ex scout of ours who recommended Aubayang to Ashworth whilst he was at a young age at a French club and Ashworth went to watch him and said no.

Finding good players is harder than ever these days and imo a simple appointment of one man will not guarantee a flow of good players.

Every player market has been exploited now, Wenger started it with French players and and Carr at Newcastle had some success there too, in continuing this trend and then bought some right c rap like toivan, following the great signings of cabaye and tiote.

Now we have moneyball entering football, which I like and which we may be using already given the numbers of players we signed with previous bad injuries.

We seemed to have more of an interest in Egyptian players after what was reported to have been an increased interest after we watched (on tv) the performances of Hegazi and Gabi.

it was reported pulis liked the proposed signing of Hegazi, but not gabi.

So we got Gabi when tp left and he hasn't played (I don't know if anyone saw him for the u23?).