Great read my friend. Football is filled with great examples of club that had to make a hard decision at one point in time to achieve great success. In my home country of Ecuador for years the majority of the clubs live under the shadow Barcelona (Yes there is another club named Barcelona). They where like Liverpool the top team of the country and then descend into obscurity because of bad management from directors and such. Today another team rules the country, Liga De Quito. Liga De Quito commonly refer to as LDU was the first country from Ecuador to ever win a Copa Libertadores. And I really have no one else to put down such work but the president and his assistant. Now in modern europe the same can be said about Barcelona FC. I remember seeing a great documentary about how Barcelona where broke with little money, and a great project from the president, I think Laporta turn the club around. The football world is fill with great examples of great project that started from nothing and came to frutition because of great planning from presidents, directives, and all down to managers. Today, Chelsea FC is being eaten by a cancer, and that cancer is the board. Until Chelsea manages to clear this, changing managers every season won't help.