If you've got a rusty, old, beaten-up banger of a car outside, one with no MOT and no chance of getting one: bald tyres, no brakes and the windscreen has been replaced with polythene, putting a different driver behind the wheel isn't going to change anything.
Horseface is going to inherit exactly the same players as Ten-Bob, but he's not going to be given time to instill a different ethos into the changing room. So essentially it's the same manager but with a different name.
We all know they need a complete overhaul. Stripped to the bone and then start again. But that won't happen because they'll need money - and lots of it. This is the financial status they cultivated themselves. Money talks and all that.
The Glazers and 25%Jim want success NOW, immediately, not in 2030 or whatever.
The despot's 'special relationship' with the refereeing officials has long gone and the club now find themselves on a level playing field with the rest of us - something they have not experienced for several decades. Under the old regime they only had to turn up to get the three points: courtesy of Riley and his corrupt cronies they were, to all intents and purposes, guaranteed a win.
But the winds of change can blow bitterly cold, and extremely fierce when your foundations are not as solid as they should be. Because once that nasty, malignant demon has been exorcised from the swamp investigations will reveal what really took place under his governance, and if the rumours that have circulated for so many years about him turn out to be true the consequences for the club will be far reaching.