This is exactly it, a model that serves you well if you consistently bring in managers who play the same/ similar style of football like Brighton.
This allows players with unique attributes, players like Winks and Vestergaard who are quite specialist in areas ( ball playing ) and very limited in others, to constantly be valued by the manager and always suit the team.
However when you hire managers who differ vastly from one another in their style, as we have, and allow them to recruit for their desired style, you end up with a squad like ours, with players that don't compliment one another, leaving a patchwork team and ultimately a poor one.
Furthermore, if you put your trust in managers recommendations and give them the final say, you allow for personal bias and ego to dictate signings. Rodger’s was evident here in his appointment of Congerton and his signings with us.
FFP has meant that the need for a singing to be successful is vitally important, as the ability to sell them, especially with prem clubs having to pay a premium in wages and fee’s is so difficult if they don’t do well, as has happened with us with players like Daka and Bouba.
Ultimately that is why clubs now leave signings to directors of football and their analysts, as they can recruit players consistently suiting the style of play the club has broadly decided to adopt. We need to shift to this model, it has its downsides, but ours has failed us.