SCIAGFrom Despair To Where? To be fair, since Kia allegedly started taking control of our recruitment on the playing side, it's not been too bad. Virginia was shit, Boye and Timbe were pretty pointless signings and the jury's out on Araruna but Ejaria (3 times), Miazga (twice) , Martinez, Baker, Oliviera, Morrison, Puscas, Joao, Rafael and Pele were all decent signings, Adam did ok and Laurent looks promising.
That's a pretty good success rate.
Is there any evidence of him having any undue influence in the boardroom? Does he represent Gomes, Bowen or Paunovic?
Related but how many of those players are even his?
Timbe for example was signed from our sister club, and wasn’t Boye represented by his uncle?
Miazga has pretty public links to him but most of the players we’ve signed have been the sort of players we were signing anyway.
That's an extention of my point. He was seen at a game In January of last year and a week later we make 5 loan signings. Suddenly Kia is controlling our signings and creaming the club.
Kia's area of expertise is Portugal and Brazil. I can see him being involved in Gomes coming here and maybe the approach to Garcia before Gomes. He may have also had something to do with the approach for the Brazilian DoF but basically there seems to be a lot of conjecture over his role at the club when, in reality, we all know Jack shit. There seems to be a lot of people putting 2 and 2 together on the back of very little concrete evidence. It must be the agent, they're always the bad guys, oh, and Kia, he's the worst and he knows Pini Zahavi who's really bad too.