[WBA Will]

Club has just announced that Terry Burton & Mervyn Day have departed by mutual consent as part of the club's "ongoing review" into backroom staff performance.  Seems a pretty clear verdict that the recruitment they've presided over for the last twelve months hasn't been good enough.

Obviously the recruitment last summer wasn't good enough but this concerns me slightly because it gives TP more power and control over transfers. Tony demonstrated at Stoke that his biggest area of weakness was transfers, paying over the odds for mediocre players. I think he'd benefit from having other people around him helping in that area but it seems far too late for anyone to be appointed and make an impact this summer. Why was this not done either months ago or in a few months' time? I imagine it was the result of a "season review" but it still seems weird timing.