Sounds Familiar

Sorry if this has been posted already or isnt city related enough but read this paragraph from this article, sound familiar?

https://www.theguardian.com/football/football-league-blog/2019/feb/27/david-hockaday-leeds-massimo-cellino-manager

"Hockaday says he was shut down after recommending Virgil van Dijk, then of Celtic, as well as Craig Cathcart and Mark Hudson as preferred centre-back options. A move for Conor Coady, available on a free, never made it past Cellino either. “Flipping heck,” Hockaday says, asked about what might have been. “Don’t make me cry. I was scratching my head being told ‘no’ about those I had recommended while we were getting in these Italian-based players who were nowhere near it. That’s what killed me.”

and this one line...

"Other than his regret at failing to shore things up at Bradford, when Leeds were leading with eight minutes to play in his final game, he is immensely proud to have followed managers such as Don Revie."

Hopefully we have now learned the same lesson as Leeds. Fingers crossed.