It’s always seemed pretty obvious in football (as in most businesses) that it’s the person making the decisions (the manager) who’s more important to success than the people acting on those decisions (the players).
I’ve never understood why clubs shell out so much money on players and the managers seem like an after thought in many cases. We have 2 glaring examples currently, in Newcastle and Brighton that this is wrong.
Chelsea would be the opposite of this at minute - spending 100s of millions on players and then appointing Frank Lampard.
Then you look at other teams like ManU who have blown millions on players like Pogba, Anthony, Marshall - who’ve all underachieved.

I realize that big name signings bring commercial benefits to a club but if success on the pitch is the aim then a manager who can improve almost every player he manages (and greatly increase their value as a result) is worth his weight in gold.

I think most owners are getting it wrong.