I feel nervous but excited if we’re actually doing this. I hope it works as I really want it to work.
Back in November, I thought that appointing Ralf as interim was the best choice in the long run, and ETH would be the best choice for the permanent role, so I’m glad that so many people here share similar sentiments and so do the club by these latest developments.
It would be interesting if any further developments happen at board level since I think ETH will need a good support system from the club. We can’t cram him into a Ferguson shaped hole. Ralf may just be a consultant for us and pull double duty with Austria, and the consultancy role really was just that. We could hire Paul Mitchell who’d take on a role at the club and do the job that some people thought Ralf would have been (i.e a technical director), since Ralf is like 65 now and may not want the day to day gig especially seeing how he’s been doing it for 40 years at this point. Mitchell or even Murtough could be reading off the same hymn sheets as Ralf anyway, so we don’t need Ralf every hour of every day. We just need him to give some insights.