It cannot be a good thing when a club is run solely from a commercially-driven perspective.
There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
As players, you can't decide who manages the club.
Sometimes it looks like the board and the chairman are the worst enemy of the manager and the coaching staff, the football versus the financial side.
If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the club. That law came about because of the developments of international football.
After more than 30 years in the dugout I have come to realise there is a need at many clubs for someone who can act as a link between managers and owners.
It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.
A football club's board of directors' job is to attract and get the best football players and keep them at the football club.
I think some of the English players at Chelsea run the club, pretty much.
Clubs need to take more ownership on how they recruit managers.
Each club has its own resources and its way of working.
