Fairly certain the Chairman signed all of these players, as most Chairpersons do.
Although you have conveniently cut and paste the quote part way through the first point to combine it with the second the point made was that we have a lot of players not good enough and a lot of these are Swann signings
The 20 players referred to were used as an example of how much money is being wasted and what is needed to recover. Most agree that Eisa and McAtee on their day and when they can be bothered are good players however their mind is elsewhere and so we should free up space – as far as I know Eisa and maybe McAtee were Hurst proposed signings but are included in my list as are Hippolyte and Turan who may be Cox proposals but the majority of the useless ones were brought in by the Chairman, including one whose father just plays golf with Swann; the others brought in when no manager or chief scout in place so who would be selecting these other players?