Originally posted by Kevin S
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Good appointment, he at least knows the division and has some understanding of the values of the club. The big question is how much control he has, particularly in the field of recruitment. There's a picture floating round of him meeting the chairman in central Sheffield and also visible is a bloke called Amadeu Paixao, who is an advisor. There's lots of stories floating round about Paixao's undue influence on the chairman and how most of our appointments have connections to him and / or Doyen Sports - put it this way, Paixao appears to be using us more to promote his interests rather than that of the club. Hopefully Bruce can also sell players, this is something the chairman doesn't like doing, although word is that as part of FFP breaches we've been told by the Football League that we cannot refuse reasonable market offers for any player.
Still it does all feel as if the rest of the season will be a bit of a free hit for him, we're going to have to play very well to make the play offs and we've got a big gap over the relegation places. Another cup run would be nice to keep things going.
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