Welcome to Soka 101, the podcast where we scratched the soccer riches you never knew you had.

In our last episode,

episode 90, we looked at the basic tenets of a well-run soccer club and brought up some

examples. On this episode, we're doing the opposite. We're going to find out what constitutes

a badly run team. Once again, we've determined criteria to judge how badly a team is run

and maybe, just maybe,

will even reach a consensus on the side that epitomizes dysfunction, poor leadership,

incompetence and corruption. My name is Ryan Bailey, joining me to point that their finger today.

Hello, Taylor Rockwell. Hello, good to talk to you, buddy. You two, pal, and Graham Rosvin. Hello. Hello, Ryan. Hello, Graham. All right, lots to discuss today. We should get straight to it. I think, gents, we're going to hear some team names crop up more than once, possibly, when we run through what constitutes a badly run team. Manchester United. Oh, excuse you, Graham. Excuse you.

We're going to try and comprehensively look at some of the elements that

the elements, the elements, the elements that make up a badly run Manchester United,

I mean a badly run club.

So we're going to look at the criteria here.

The five that we have selected, listener.

The first one is ownership.

That's the owners, the folks ultimately

responsible for making key decisions, as well as all the financial and leadership folly that

therein follows. And then we're going to look at kind of the on-field attainment,

how a club performs compared to how it's expected to perform at its level. So the expectation

of success versus the reality of success.

Our third category is management. That's the head coaches, the choices of those coaches,

the turnover of coaches. Fourth category, recruitment and development. How well these teams

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