Your right; Barber does have an input into the finances and contracts of the transfers. However, when asked whether or not the club is Premier League ready before we’ve been promoted, you can hardly expect him to say that the players currently trying to achieve that promotion will need to be...
Management of all the non playing stuff is literally Barber’s job though. I think it’s best that we leave him to do what he’s good at (although he does have a coaching badge apparently) and let the coaching and recruitment staff concentrate on the team.
As a fan I’d look forward to going to games and realistically hoping to put 2-3 past the opposition again. We won’t necessarily bounce back up, but we’d certainly be one of the contenders for promotion in the first couple of seasons at least. It won’t be ideal for Tony Bloom after having made...