I totally agree. I get the argument about spending it on the team but my gut feeling is that it's an easy thing to say that we'll spend more on the first team when in fact, we're not going ahead because doing so would make the accounts look bad again after Kensell said they would be better.
I hate the short term thinking, we bounce about from one strategy to the next and it just leaves a shambles behind.
Paying them off, no Scottish Cup run of note, and finishing 8th would all have impacted the budgets. The season was a disaster.
The Gordon’s don’t let any of these long term strategies breathe, and that’s because they don’t put short term plans in place to facilitate them.
It’s a sequence of poor decision after poor decision: starts with binning Graeme Mathie rather than defining what his role actually should be and giving him a couple of people around him to make it work, then deciding we don’t need a Sporting Director and Ian Gordon can be head of recruitment.
Then there’s the chucking money at a development squad plan, brining in Steve Kean to build it, with the long term goal of creating first team players… while also spend big money on players who aren’t ready for the first team, yet not playing them in the development squad or sending them out on loan… all while not properly backing Jack Ross or Shaun Maloney in the transfer windows. Piss poor results and performances inevitably follow, managers are sacked, Steve Kean mysteriously departs, the development squad financial burden remains but it’s no longer really part of the plan, and none of Ian Gordon’s project players make any impact on the first team.
Then there’s Lee Johnson… less said the better.
Then Brian McDermott is given the DOF role, but that isn’t really his role and he’s just an overpaid scout? It’s unclear if he even has a place at the club less than a year after starting his DOF role…
Now we’re back to a Sporting Director, which we had when the Gordon’s bought the club, and we’re now having to pin our hopes that Malky Mackay can get us back on track.
The Gordon’s have put so much money in and have spent it so badly, it’s frightening. I hate to say it, but their tenure has been a complete and utter shambles.
