That’s just one way of looking at it. The other way of looking at that is indecisiveness when too many men are making decisions and aren’t in sync.
I find it extremely hard to believe that people running the operations(club scouts,transfer operations/interim dof, head of research) before Edwards was confirmed(in March), did no groundwork over the past one year.
They were just sitting ducks waiting for Edwards/Hughes to come in and were collecting pay cheques. Basically, what everyone is implying then, is that previous(pre March) regime did not identify any players, they did not do any succession planning or they could not find any players as per statistics model who would have fit into the clubs strategy of playing football, this summer.
At one side, we talk about basics of our playing style remains the same, but then we suddenly cannot find players on this planet who match our new coach’s strategy ? The whole arguments of getting or finding a new coach was based on a similar playing style. It’s strange to come up with the argument that research department list for search of players of buy and large similar playing style came somewhat empty.
And, now our messiah this season is a player at #6 who could not get into the starting 11 consistently last year.