Yeah, the contrary to how Brighton and a few others are working. If the board or the technical team have a clear and outlined a long-term recruitment policy - both when it comes to players and managers, these type of crazy signings can be avoided to a bigger extent. To me it seems we have been a bit clueless for a very long time and basically just brought in players without a proper plan for them. I wouldn't be surprised it's agent driven as well - as opposed to actually mapping out players (near or far, young or experienced etc) that would fit with the club's strategy.
If there is a idea and consensus on how we should work to achieve results over time, we wouldn't have to start from scratch every time we sign a new manager who want's to get the players he need for his particular formation or way of playing. If there would be a solid long term plan the next manager would be hired on the basis of that. There will always be some differences but for the long term development of the club and the result, it's key to work within a strategy and changes of staff and players would be a lot more seamless than going from extremes... It takes time to implement these things but once we an idea that we firmly believe in we need to stick to it rather than taking decisions on the basis of short term results.