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Nicky Butt promoted to Head of First Team Development
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Sounds a good move. Nicky knows all about our youngsters and can give Ole a proper guidance on who is good enough to play for this club.
And given the talent coming through at the moment he seems to have done a good job at the academy
He done a great job with the academy.
What does it mean?
He is a bridge between the academy and the first team - he will help lead and develop the players who come through and report his findings to the first team management.
Surely he must have been doing that anyway?
I would like to see the list of responsibilities he has, sounds like a bit of a waste of his talents off the top. I mean, do we really need a guy that sits there just to tell OGS that "we have this Greenwood guy I think is pretty good". Not having a go, just wonder what this job looks like on a day to day basis.
Is this a new role or was someone else doing this before?
Is this just a cop out so we don’t employ a ‘director of football’?
He's head of 1st team development. Not reserve team development.
A new role from what I can tell. Nick Cox has been made Head of the Academy, which is what Butt did before this promotion.
Anyone have a job spec on this? What the r&r of the new role will be?
Wasn't he suspended for doing something dumb a few months ago or am I just imagining that?
Rumours he hit his wife or something, all went a bit quiet on that front.
Full PR from manutd.com
Arrested for domestic assault back in April, been no word since.
Domestic violence i believe. But case must have been dropped hence this announcement.
He got arrested, never heard anything on getting suspended though.
What exactly is this “Technical board on wider football leadership” that Simon Stone is alluding too? Is it an already present entity? A new entity?
It makes it sound like it’s a DoF/technical director committee, which sounds promising. He’d be the link between the academy and the first team.
Cox and Butt running the academy, and fannies running the club.
It makes it sound like it’s a DoF/technical director committee, which sounds promising. He’d be the link between the academy and the first team.
Cox and Butt running the academy, and fannies running the club.
This is us planning for the future. For whatever reason Ole doesn’t work out and I pray to god he does work out for us. I think Butty will be our future manager. I don’t want it to happen as I love Ole but I feel he will be next in line to take it. Just an opinion.
I feel the work he has done with the kids has been fantastic. I know he has little experience but so what. Again, just an opinion.
I feel the work he has done with the kids has been fantastic. I know he has little experience but so what. Again, just an opinion.
Pay rise
Why is he reporting directly to OGS? Ideally he should be reporting to a sporting director.
Ideally yes but the issue is we don't have one and that is why everyone in this club reports to Woodward.
I can't see that at all. If Ole doesn't work out, even as idiotic as some of are decisions have been, I dont think anyone is going to say "hey, what about this guy who knows the club but has never proven themselves as a manager." The next manager after Ole would have to have a relevant CV.
This looks like a good move. Nicky knows the academy inside out and he can facilitate young players direct path to the first team with this new role. Our academy just became even more marketable.
Sounds like a complete cop out to me.
Haha! good point.
I don't understand this. Butt has done a fantastic job at rebuilding our academy it's a well deserved promotion if you ask me.
Butt's had about 15 games as a manager, just leave him behind the scenes where he's doing good work.
Head of first team development sounds to me like the role of a football director. Surely he’s not just been given this title to help guide the academy players in to the 1st team as that seems like a pointless position.
If it’s developing the first team then surely that would mean looking at improving the first team with outside purchases as well as bringing through what we have.
If it’s developing the first team then surely that would mean looking at improving the first team with outside purchases as well as bringing through what we have.
Of course it is. Only a few thinking about sporting director blah blah zzzzzx
Kind of sounds like the job Sebastian Kehl is doing at Dortmund.
Don't get it.
We had two roles... the academy (Butt) and the first team (Ole). Presumably they talked to each other?
Now we seem to have three?
Missing something?
We had two roles... the academy (Butt) and the first team (Ole). Presumably they talked to each other?
Now we seem to have three?
Missing something?
I reckon this role will be a lot wider that what we're currently imagining. Bringing the youngsters through should hopefully just be 1 part of his job description, since his new title implies he has to "develop the first team". To me, that means looking after the overall evolution of the first team, whether it be by facilitating a pathway for the academy players or by sounding out external players that fit the new blueprint we've got going now. Can only hope something like this brings a consistency in style to the team.
I think that’s a great shout. It’s what I thought initially.
It’s what Paul Mitchell at RB does yet everyone seems to think he’s the answer
Butt’s role at the academy was overseeing that operation. This is surely a wider role;bringing in players into the 1st team either from the academy or outside
Makes sense as he will know the players coming through now like Greenwood and Chong and should give Ole good assistance with the first team duties.