Appointing Jones and Barrow was a total mistake and is a big part of the reason we are in the quagmire now
Dave Whelan didn’t appoint Jones & Barrow – they were Roberto Martinez’s choices.
With Jones in particular Bobby insisted that he would not come unless he could bring his backroom staff with him & Whelan paid alot of money to ensure that this happened
You can’t appoint a manager & say you trust them to do the job & then force backroom appointments on them because you don’t think their own choices are good enough or because you don’t think they themselves are good enough
If that’s what Whelan would have had to do to ensure Bobby was a “success” then there would have been no point in appointing him in the first place – you might as well as pulled in any tom, dick or harry of the street & got alex ferguson in as their assistant