Problems:
1- His refusal to sign a major first team player from outside of the U.K which results in the signing of players who are not technically good enough. We cannot retain possession of the football and as a result the defence gets put under more pressure than they should. Central midfield gets overrun. Sidwell contributes nothing, reo-coker is defensively sound, but cannot pass the ball.
2- His defensive signings are clearly not good enough. Cuellar is slow, cannot pass the ball and get's turned by movement far too easily, the same for Davies...except he has a bit of pace!
3- He says it is going to be difficult to replace Barry & Laursen. He has had many many months knowing both would be going, and has done nothing except throw a young kid from the 3rd division in at the deep end, which is very unfair on Delph i just hope it does not ruin him. As for replacing Laursen after saying he would not sell a player before having a replacement already signed, he sold Knight and has replaced him with..nobody. Now any team we approach will know of our desperation for central defenders and the price will go up! Does that approach not seem slightly naive?
He has a few weeks to sort out the problems that were glaringly obvious LAST SEASON, if he does not then he has no excuse and will deserve the criticism he will receive.