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How I understand it... The owners at @wwfc.com are trying to fundamentally change how the club is structured, and how it is run, from top-to-bottom. This is based on having a first-class academy that ultimately helps the club become self-sufficient and gives the owner a return on his investment.

Agree! Easy to get lost in the fact that there is a long-term plan, which has been communicated, and is grounded in some successful examples. But you're right, the short-termism of the first-team decisions is making it feel less stable/enjoyable and seems to run contrary to a lot of the bigger plans

I wonder if they'd have been more patient had we not been flying under Bloomfield? Or perhaps it would just have made the extent of their planned changes less overt. That January window will be difficult to understand for some time I feel.

Felt like the sort of thing that you do on Football Manager as a kid, then realise that doesn't work! Yeah, I think Blooms must have been fairly clued in, and suspect that the apparent issue between DR and MB must have gone beyond their roles in transfers. But I've no clue!!