Much Of What We Did In The Summer Makes No Sense.
If you take Dermot Desmond at his word, and accept that the next campaign was supposed to involve some major upheaval off the field as well as on it, then so much of what we have done makes no sense whatsoever.
Let’s start from the obvious; it’s only last season that we formalised Hammond’s position at the club and then allowed him to do a full reboot of the scouting system.
Why did we bother if we were going to bring in a Director of Football who, in all probability, would rip it all up and start all over again?
Does that make the least bit of sense to you?
The only way it does is in an even more senseless scenario; Hammond is staying put and the Director of Football is being brought in knowing he has to live with that, and whatever Hammond has built.
Who in their right mind would accept the job under those conditions?
The decision to back Lennon in the transfer market was understandable, but he signed a striker when we had three on the books and no first choice left sided midfielder … we knew, therefore, that it was one of just a number of key areas we were leaving unmanned and which would have to be filled this summer.
We let so many things go undone, and we did so many thinks that we will now have to undo …
I just don’t see that there was logic to much of it.