Stop thinking that everything is a negative here. It’s been obvious that other teams have been taking a leaf out of our book, it maybe that we need to reset ourselves to go forward.
Not just a leaf, Jill. Newcastle have a few of our backroom staff already. At their level of pay, they don’t have to break the bank to poach them. If you were on £60-80k and another club offered £250k, would you turn it down? I wouldn’t. Even if it was Liverpool I was leaving. It’s a cheap* way for them to disrupt rival premier league clubs in as short a time as possible. Suddenly, those reports Klopp was getting in real-time at HT are delayed while we employ new staff and they learn the ropes. We’ll be fine in a few months, but the damage is done. They could just poach more staff next summer too.
City’s owners play tricks on a similar level but with their own staff. E.g. employing the family of the key coaches and players. That’s a cheap way of ensuring you keep the key staff at the club for longer.
FSG don’t use those dodgy practices as they don’t have a country’s wealth fund to tap into.
*by which I mean it’s cheaper than poaching managers, coaches or players.