It’s more and more common now that clubs have a recruitment panel and in a couple of years I doubt many won’t. Why would you leave it to the one man who at a sniff of a better job would leave you or if they underperform you have to sack them and pay them off, recruiting players is the biggest cost to a football club and owners now want more control and rightly so I think.
I think the buying players to sell isn’t totally accurate. Their words were signing undervalued players. For example if Langstaff knocks in the same amount of goals as Mullen and you’re paying him a third of his wages it’s a pretty good way of doing things.