We tried to become a top 6 club with a football league mentality.
It wasn't just the fact rudders changed our approach to the transfer market and started buying like the big boys on talentless crap that thought they'd made it, it was the fact we have and always have had very low standards and a rotten culture.
It's always been the same - when you listen to the pods of players of the past many stories are based around alcohol and misadventures that we all laugh about but that lack of professionalism has always been at our club.
It's not just the club - it's the fans too that have this mindset. The amount of times on here you see members posting "they're entitled to let their hair down" "do you not have a break in your job?"
Madders a great example. He was trying to get into the England squad and it was a time when we were trying to make that transition to top 6 and I remember posting on here at the time how unprofessional it was he was being here there and everywhere gallivanting around the world - Dubai...next week the darts etc....dragging others like Barnes with him too.. Do you see Barnes now at Newcastle gallivanting about? No - I'd imagine Newcastle wouldn't stand for it.
The top players at top clubs don't have these podcast stories. They hold each other to account and the pressure of representing and being successful for their club is a driver that brings that success.
This can only change now with a change from the top, but maybe we just have to accept we'll always be Leicester City that will make it on the back page of the Sun!