We've got far bigger problems than Mou. The structure of the club is a mess.
Let's start off with all the other clubs
City - Director of football, have strategy and mimicking Barcas model. Players bought to fit style rather than just signing big names like they did at the start of the Sheikh era. They have even changed their youth model to mimic Barcas so even when Pep leaves they will get a manager that suits the bill rather than just a big name manager.
Spurs - Structured and now Pochettino being there there is a strategy with player being bought to fit a style. They don't really spend much and are playing good football and have the players from their youth system
Liverpool - players bought to fit a style and long term planning
Chelsea - have a structure in place - won the EPl with 2 diff managers in 3 seasons and buy players to fit irrespective of manager. Like Real MAdrid's model tbh but it works because they usually hire managers with different methods but same philosophy Conte, Mou, Ancelotti, Ranieri etc
Arsenal - they were like us under SAf as Wenger was all powerful but that's slowly being phased out, got Dortmund's former head scout, who has made purchases that Arsene doesn't like and they are preparing for a future without him and reducing his power
That leaves us - 3 different managers with different styles
Moyes, LVG and now Mou
buying big name players rather than having a specific style
Woodward isn't a director of football and tbh seems clueless. Still playing Ashley Young as a fb, Fellaini still at the club, managed to get rid of Rooney last year and he should never have signed a new contract after SAF left, too many squad players are sitting on massive wages, an indication of poor wage management tbh.
There was an article about the power struggle and how the old guard didn't want Mou and Woodward's power grew after Moyes flopped
so Now we will go out and splash on big names once again and if Mou doesn't work out we will have another manager with a different style with players he might not like.
We can all sit here and blame Mou for being Mou but we all knew what he was like before he joined. We all knew about him throwing players under the bus, we all knew about his tactics, we all knew about how he imploded.
So what happens if we sack Mou? Who would we get?
Pochettino? Would he even want to come seeing how much of a mess we are?
Simeone? Honestly I never thought I would say this but I would take him in a heart beat atm.
They would potentially be saddled with footballers that won't fit their style, then we would have another fecking rebuild once again. This is going down the same route as Liverpool tbh.
Any Thoughts?
(Mods please move thread if you feel that this isn't worth it's own thread)
Let's start off with all the other clubs
City - Director of football, have strategy and mimicking Barcas model. Players bought to fit style rather than just signing big names like they did at the start of the Sheikh era. They have even changed their youth model to mimic Barcas so even when Pep leaves they will get a manager that suits the bill rather than just a big name manager.
Spurs - Structured and now Pochettino being there there is a strategy with player being bought to fit a style. They don't really spend much and are playing good football and have the players from their youth system
Liverpool - players bought to fit a style and long term planning
Chelsea - have a structure in place - won the EPl with 2 diff managers in 3 seasons and buy players to fit irrespective of manager. Like Real MAdrid's model tbh but it works because they usually hire managers with different methods but same philosophy Conte, Mou, Ancelotti, Ranieri etc
Arsenal - they were like us under SAf as Wenger was all powerful but that's slowly being phased out, got Dortmund's former head scout, who has made purchases that Arsene doesn't like and they are preparing for a future without him and reducing his power
That leaves us - 3 different managers with different styles
Moyes, LVG and now Mou
buying big name players rather than having a specific style
Woodward isn't a director of football and tbh seems clueless. Still playing Ashley Young as a fb, Fellaini still at the club, managed to get rid of Rooney last year and he should never have signed a new contract after SAF left, too many squad players are sitting on massive wages, an indication of poor wage management tbh.
There was an article about the power struggle and how the old guard didn't want Mou and Woodward's power grew after Moyes flopped
so Now we will go out and splash on big names once again and if Mou doesn't work out we will have another manager with a different style with players he might not like.
We can all sit here and blame Mou for being Mou but we all knew what he was like before he joined. We all knew about him throwing players under the bus, we all knew about his tactics, we all knew about how he imploded.
So what happens if we sack Mou? Who would we get?
Pochettino? Would he even want to come seeing how much of a mess we are?
Simeone? Honestly I never thought I would say this but I would take him in a heart beat atm.
They would potentially be saddled with footballers that won't fit their style, then we would have another fecking rebuild once again. This is going down the same route as Liverpool tbh.
Any Thoughts?
(Mods please move thread if you feel that this isn't worth it's own thread)