This is why I got annoyed listening to one of the fan podcasts yesterday. Claiming people should either be happy that the head of recruitment is leaving or that if they aren’t then it’s proof that Robinson isn’t solely to blame our current mess. Apparently “you can’t have it both ways.”
Utter bullshit and a total failure to understand what has happened over the last year.
We had a great head of recruitment with years and years of experience here, who was previously behind our most valuable and profitable assets. Mark Thomas has nothing to prove to anybody. He was eventually sidelined and ignored in favour of Robinson believing that only he could be trusted with an ever increasing budget. The more money he was given, the more paranoid he became about anybody but him making decisions. This started last January (2022) and then went into hyperdrive in the summer. Said recruitment manager then got fed up and left, having turned down a better and higher paid job at Portsmouth just last season, while we are now stuck with Robinson’s squad and the players that he signed, bar a couple that Tiger pushed our way in Anderson and Wildschut. Robinson always ignored people a couple of times a season and signed his “project” crocks, but the last several transfer windows it’s been a virtual lock out.
It does my head in that people can’t understand what has happened, what changed and why we are where we are. Describing the thought process as linear is being kind to these people.