Bill Foley won't need much of a Hibs review to know where the problems are before vital transfer window

Forty days was all it took for Bill Foley to be given the keys for a look underneath Hibs ’ bonnet.

Just a little over a month since Bournemouth’s billionaire owner got the green light to throw some of his loose change towards Easter Road, his Black Knight consortium will lead a review into their football structure after a car crash of a season. Something certainly needs to change at a club that has veered badly off track.

Suggestions director of football Brian McDermott could be moved into a more recruitment-centred role, with another DOF brought in, just reek of another layer of bureaucracy at a time when the club is crying out for a simplified, clear vision. Nick Montgomery ’s job is not under threat right now and rightly so after a series of sackings that only deepened the malaise.

But the pressure has ramped up on the Yorkshireman. The five post-split fixtures to be played out in the bottom half aren’t such dead rubbers any more. Suddenly the focus on Montgomery has sharpened. And it’s fair to say the manager needs to improve results between now and the end of the season when he will hope to be given that all-important second transfer window to put his stamp on the side.

Who takes the lead role in the summer recruitment could be vital. Will the link-up with Foley’s consortium give Hibs an “edge”, as chief executive Ben Kensell claimed last month? Will Montgomery get the final say on who comes in? Does he have the backing of the new man on the board?

If anything is to be learned from Foley’s 18 months in charge of Bournemouth it’s that he doesn’t shy away from making big decisions. Less than a year ago Gary O’Neil was fired despite leading the Cherries to a respectable 15th-place finish.

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