Sounds very bitter to me, what a twat.
Jason Wilcox - New technical director
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He’ll be gone. Loved Dazza but he’s not best in class.
Yup! Timings a bit odd but he's worked with Omar so it's a no brainer really
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12 months notice is totally unreasonable in any case. 3 months is the norm for an 'executive' position.
To allow him to start straight away. Similar to Ashworth. It’s within our interest to have him start ASAP. If we’ve offered 12 months salary (notice period) as compo, every day they delay, the more tempting it becomes.
We only need to bring in Robbie Slater now.
Neh Fletcher will stay I reckon, his role is a conduit from youth players to move up, and apparently does a good job. Could potentially be a change of job title on the horizon though.Yup! Timings a bit odd but he's worked with Omar so it's a no brainer really
People only care about loyalty when it's their club that suffers. Otherwise everyone is happy to poach staff and players from other clubs
Unfortunately it isnt, 3 months would go to "middle management" in most businesses of a reasonable size. 6 months notice is fairly standard and 12 months for a director is fairly normal where going to a competitor.
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I don't think he was really doing the role normally known as technical director so maybe he'll get a more fitting job description.
Hopefully the right structure is finally being put in place at United.
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Gotta get em all!
Ooh drama
It won’t actually be like this but does feel like everything we try to do is a lot harder than other clubs as it becomes big news and these clubs don’t want to be seen as weak. It’s annoying af.
Wouldn't be Manchester United with some drama. At least we are now getting people in who are actually qualified to do the job we are asking them to.
How many people in this world are loyal to their employers? If this lad was offered a (most likely) better paying post at a bigger institution, would he have turned it down? This is a job for these people. It's stupid to expect people to be 'loyal to the project'
I know what you mean Liverpool just get Edwards back and Richard Hughes from Brighton.
Sigh. Can people still not understand the role Fletcher does? He will be given a new title for the role so it doesn’t confuse those people
Bingo
18 year old aspiring football journalist vs Fabrizio Romano
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I wish I knew the difference as well
Looks a bit unfit. Will he play on the left like at Blackburn or be used on the right?
I wish I knew the difference as well
I didn't know if I was being silly or not but I genuinely don't know. Hopefully someone can help us out.
@Giggsy13 @Walters_19_MuFcI wish I knew the difference as well
In some clubs the roles are incredibly similar and synonymous. Ashworth however would have more say over who is bought and sold as usually a director of football deals with players in and out of the club more so than a technical director who in this role will likely be more about who is already in the building and dealing with staff more so than players (I think and am basing this of an average structure at other clubs).
So planning with the technical director if we lose player X what qualities are we missing so we can scout a replacement player Y etc.
A typical technical directors would be involved in the following:
- Performance at various levels (academy through to first team) including analysis
- Sports Science Depts (working closely)
- Talent ID
- Long term strategic planning related to football outcomes
Well yeah you can. As far as I'm aware they're unenforceable in practice. In my old job people would just feck off and we couldn't do anything about it. It was only two week's notice as well... Pricks
Agree it does, we've got 2 execs waiting to join and potentially having to wait a year for both, surely there's a better route to find the right people?! We're going to end up with a playing squad and no execs next season at this rate
As far as I understand, and I might be very wrong, a director of football oversees the playing department. They help identify transfers (or at some clubs in extreme circumstances may even have complete control over them), they negotiate transfers and player contracts. That kind of thing. They'll meet with scouts, the manager and CEO or owners.
Technical directors do the same for non-playing staff. Identifying changes needed to the scouting department, medical team, data analysis department, nutritionists, in some cases coaches. They'll meet with the chief scout, head physio, lead sports science guys etc as well talking things through with the manager and perhaps the Dof too to implement changes within all these non-playing departments. They're ultimately the boss of most of the non-playing staff.
In some cases you could even have a first team, reserve team and academy technical director all as separate jobs.
I think sometimes directors of football are also the boss of technical directors but don't quote me on that.
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Not sure where you worked but suspect it wasnt at the level of seniority of the role Wilcox would be doing, unfortunately it is enforceable.
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Yeah cos he'd get loads of loyalty if the club decided he wasn't up to the job. Loyalty only works one way apparently
We need him to play in midfield next season.
I doubt it.
A- ineos won't sack former players
B- fletcher did a decent job helping youth players to move in the first team
C- his twins seems to be quite decent players
It we go for under contract Alan Titchmarsh, what does he do with himself?
Well fair point, it obviously wasn't. It was only two weeks. So probably wasn't worth the effort and cost.
If we're will to compensate them with a year's pay they're hardly going to go legal on it, are they?