Sometimes, I don’t think we appreciate how bad Nelson Rodriguez and Andrew Hauptman left the club for Joe Mansueto when they sold him the club, and it wasn’t just the things that we know like the horrid state of the academy or a lack of player scouting and personnel departments. The whole infrastructure was in tatters, including no employees, to take care of players coming to an unfamiliar city in an unfamiliar country and help them acclimate to living in the United States, especially in the middle of a global pandemic.
We can infer from the state of things The club was being run on a shoestring budget, and it’s going to take more time than you think to fix everything.