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Dan Ashworth - Newcastle DoF currently tending to his garden
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More like they want to be Brighton.
Midtable ?
I bet every DOF will have the same list of players and their attributes, its not the list its what you do with list and calculate if the player is right for you. This is where the Algorithms come in to play and hiw Star Lizard use it for Brighton. This works for them as we are shopping in a completly different pond to you. We are looking a youngsters to develope then sell on for a big fee.
What are your new owners going to look for, instant Success or a few years of stability, a few trophies and being possible City challengers, signing some unknown kids for the future then becoming seriouse PL contenders.
Top 6 contender.
Dont know what it is with them, give them gold and they will manage to turn that to rust.
I'd like to invest everything I own into the making of this film please, with one caveat - LVG has to be involved. I don't care how, just get him in.
And we go again!
Reckon its more to do on transfers strategies, they way they plan on building the team, what the next 5 years look like and probably transfer targets as well, he must know in and out every player Newcastle has its eye on, not just the primary but secondary and tertiary targets as well, not to mention an idea on what kind of budget would Newcastle be operating on in the future.
That’s a whole lot of state secrets in the hand of a competitor.
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It'll be a big testament of this guy's ability if he can find a better right winger than Anthony
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"So, the bottom line seems to be this: “a couple” is typically interpreted with some precision to mean “two.”
There seems to be a feeling that this will pick up pace next week. Without doubt the biggest obstacle is likely to be agreeing compensation figure
Maybe he knows the receipe for newkie brown
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From Google.
"So, the bottom line seems to be this: “a couple” is typically interpreted with some precision to mean “two.”
Is a couple 3 or 4?
A couple most strictly means two, but it's often used casually to mean much the same thing as a few, which commonly means around two, three, or four.
Again, no need to be pedantic.
I like the idea of the saudi's casually bragging to a football director they killed a man.
Think of it as an incentive.
The way he was talking I kind of get the impression Howe has the power in the club.
Yeah if an average fan with WiFi at home knows about young players in Brazil/Argentina then a professional DOF or any scout at PL level certainly does and knows a lot more than we can imagine, with contacts to the said players etc. The usefulness of a DOF lies in creating an environment where good scouting results into actual signings and the impact of those signings is felt on the pitch and financially.
I don't doubt that the scouts we had knew about the players, we were in for Caicedo, but they didn't have anyone powerful enough to push th boat out for those signings and we also didn't, still don't, have the environment where such young lads can grow and thrive, see Hanibal and Amad.
To build a team you can't and shouldn't be looking at £100m signings. It should be a balance between the Mainoos/Rashfords, the Brunos, the Eriksens and the Malacias. You should be able to get starters or contenders for 10m, your academy should be producing potential starts often enough and your big signings should work. We spent over 150m on Antony and Sancho but not even one of them has delivered an anything to a remotely acceptable standard.
It's both the internal environment as in how geared is it towards supporting young players settling in a new environment and growing into adulthood and the talent identification processes. I wouldn't, for example, trust a manager's view on a player over a full time scout. Throughout the season the manager is focused on first team results and maintaining squad harmony, how then does he get the time to go into detail about a player in Germany?
Basically his challenge is to improve our value for money rating at first team level. If we are to have the biggest wage bill in English football it should also translate into football achievements.
Secret #1: spend money, theyre plentiful and we dont need it as much as we need football
#2: sign cnuts
#3: employ a manager who will bring the cnuts out of the cnuts
#4: time wasting is our philosophy
It does indeed make it clear why Ashworth would want out.
Be interesting to see if he's in the directors box today. I've just put their game on to see.
They just showed him in the stands.
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Dan Ashworth is only DoF by name at Newcastle. The power when it comes to recruitment decisions lies with Eddie Howe and his nephew, who is the club's technical scout and is said to have the final say on who is signed. It's why I believe it's extremely important for a DoF to be in-sync with the manager/head coach or things will get messy.
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From the link above: "Ashworth has never been admitted to Howe’s inner circle. The former Norwich apprentice has not established the closeness with Howe he experienced with, among others, Gareth Southgate at the FA, West Brom’s Tony Mowbray and Brighton’s Graham Potter."
"It is a misnomer to regard him primarily as some sort of super talent-identifier. Certainly at Newcastle, Howe, whose nephew Andy Howe is head of technical scouting, has the last word on transfers and Ashworth’s role has been to handle the latter stages of negotiations and ensure deals are completed."
Clearly has no idea
A £60m transfer for a sporting director. Okay, Samuel.
Or you know, invite him to the local Turkish embassy. fecking plonkers.
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Not surprised to see this clown flapping his gums. I see he’s crawled out of City’s arse for 5 minutes to suck up to Newcastle’s regime.
Imagine this angry fat twat bashing away at his typewriter churning out that shite.
He’s incredibly bitter towards all things Utd. Absolute hack.
How has he been paid to write that? What an idiot.
His dad should’ve jizzed into a sock.
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His son is employed by Manchester City
That is literally all you need to know about it. Ignore
Gordon was getting slated for his performances that season. Bruno Guimares and others were from before Ashworths time there.
He hates FFP, he sees it as the historically big clubs here and in Europe trying to suppress the ambitions of plucky underdogs like Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Roman Abramovich so they can have it all their own way, and therefore roots for the likes of Newcastle, City and Chelsea to stick it to clubs like United whenever they can. Including by somehow asking for £60m for a director of football whose influence is apparently somewhat limited at Newcastle.
He has a point that it's probably unfair that we've managed to remain a top 6/7 club for the last decade despite being completely incompetent, the reality is a club that has got so many things wrong should face bigger jeopardy than maybe finishing 8th or 9th one year, but his solution of just letting nation states or oligarchs do whatever they like to shake up the status-quo is insane and would only make things less competitive.
Isn't he a West Ham fan. That would make anybody bitter.