You've missed the point by miles.
Do you think Knight and Archer hit it off first time? Do you think Archer didn't treat DK exactly the same? Did DK give in when he wouldn't give Archer what he wanted? What Archer wanted was to asset-strip the club.
The simple point is - they can't have been...
Demonstrably bollocks.
Everybody knows whether any of the others would have better. Let's assume they existed and did meet Archer. The fact they got nowhere and did nothing after their meeting with him tells you all you need to know.
Back of a fag packet calculations...
£105m for the original stadium
£25m for the expansion
£20m for the training ground
£30m debt to cover in the past three years alone, plus whatever he was covering in the half a dozen or so years before that.
Don't see why it should ever be Bloom OR Knight. It's been Bloom AND Knight. The tragedy is that they haven't been able to work together.
Both have served their club, via their own abilities and strengths, in ways none of us could ever hope to repay - and both are worthy of our gratitude...