Don't try to make excuses for them. This is 3 times on the trot. They made sure that the sale of the best player we they had produced in years and then pocketed the cash without a replacement. There is no excuse and it's the last straw for me.
It's unfathomable that, even by our chaotic standards, we failed to file paperwork on time on three occasions.
We may never know whose fault it really is, but I again think the situation with the owners is clouding incompetence and flaws of people like Broughton and Tomasson.
Broughton's recruitment has been somewhat of a mixed bag, but if Szmodics is his star signing of the lot, we need to recall that he was reportedly from John Park's list which we resorted to in the summer window. Likewise with Hyam. I would probably say Broughton's real star signing was Tronstad. Unfortunately, that ultimately caused our captain to leave on loan!
Whether or not Broughton is responsible for the deadline day failings, I'm not sure he has improved our recruitment of players. In fact, I'd argue we've gone downhill in that department.
My gut feeling is that Waggott will bin off the DoF and Head Coach structure. I know Waggott isn't the most popular man with supporters, but I think he'll have had enough of being publicly outed by a disconnected Head Coach, and he'll want to go back to the previous structure.