It's been a tough October for Fulham - no wins on the pitch from four games as well as off-the-pitch issues have seen the club go from the envy of everyone last season to a club in crisis.
Since Craig Kline's departure, a number of stories have come out in the national press regarding his behavior at the club, from wanting to sumo wrestle Slavisa Jokanovic in a press conference, to saying no to top quality players that could've made the difference to the club last season.
At the moment, it seems to be one thing after another at the Cottage.
The whole Kline episode will be one that fans will look back on in time and think 'just what on Earth was going on there?' much like they do with the Felix Magath era.
The ownership at the club got this one wrong, but things can still be fixed if people admit to mistakes and start putting the club back on the right track.
Stats in football is always a controversial topic - some people think there's no place for them whilst others will swear by them.
The whole Kline debacle will further fuel that debate - not divulging details of his model internally should've raised massive red flags in the first place, how can a club that use stats in transfer dealings know exactly what they're getting if they can't see how the model suggested that player in the first place?
There also seemed to be a problem with Kline's data model - any model that doesn't rank Aaron Mooy, Tammy Abraham, Andreas Perreira and the like doesn't seem like a particularly good one, and the fact that the model wouldn't be divulged to anyone at the club raises further questions about it.
Should one man have so much say and influence over transfer dealings at a club?
I don't think so.
I'm all for stats in football, I think recruiting with them is far better than recruiting without and this whole situation reminds me of when Brentford first adopted their Moneyball approach.
They got it massively wrong, there was an air of arrogance around Rasmus Ankersen, the co-director of football and too many players they bought in weren't up to it.
But they held their hands up, admitted they'd got things wrong and they went again, and now their recruitment is one of, if not the best, in the Championship.
That's what needs to happen at Fulham, now.
Tony Khan , who most certainly has the best interests of the club at heart, has made a mistake with Kline, as everyone does, but now is an opportunity to correct it.
He shouldn't be 'sacked' or removed from his post as some people are suggesting, nor should Fulham move away from stats based recruitment.
They should, however, move to a model that actually works and puts players like Abraham and Perreira at the top of the list of players to sign, like I'm sure they were with many other stats models.
There is still time to fix the mess that has been left in the wake of Kline-gate, the January transfer window is around the corner, and with James Lovell in place the club have someone who will take on board the opinions of Slavisa Jokanovic instead of dismissing them outright.
What decisions are made in the coming week will determine where Fulham go for the next few seasons, and after the mistakes made recently, they can't afford to get it wrong.
