The Importance of Retrospective Thinking in Football

Nick Hammond came across as eminently quite sensible. He wasn't like at the cold face smashing those deals over the line, but he did a lot of work on them. And it strikes me as a similar sort of situation in that you're enlisting somebody to make sure that a pretty critical window goes relatively to plan. It might be that Hammond coming in and just having this three month window in which you have no responsibility apart from deal with the transfer market, may be that that really makes a positive difference to them. If it does, I think you could say that at the outset, a lot of people say, well, that seems fairly, but yeah, that seemsfairly rational