What's the protocol if the guy you bring in to get the ship home safely, instead starts sinking the ship as Rangnick seems to be doing?
apologies for the delay. I had run out of posts.
I have never heard of that happening in the US Navy. Those guys get selected because they are already proven experts at their job. But that doesn’t really apply here. A lot more football managers get relieved than Navy ship captains.
Also, I know it’s tough to adjust, and perception is different for all of us, but I wouldn’t call our ship sinking. We have a leak and despite all the angst, we are only 3 points back. I know it’s probably out of reach now, but no matter you can’t really claim that it’s as bad as a ship sinking. People drown and such. Maybe it would be more appropriate if we were facing relegation. Sure, people drowning and relegation are close to the same thing.
I don’t think people understand the situation correctly. Still, a lot of people feel, as one guy put it yesterday, “it’s like blaming the babysitter for your kids behavior.”
I see many are dismayed at the personnel selection especially with McQuire. Although this situation is special, I think there is a very specific reason for it.
Dont mind me if I get a few details fuzzy. I’m still a bit new to football. Ownership has a huge problem. They created it themselves or at least helped to. They have a way underperforming team and a HUGELY bloated payroll. I’m assuming since they have been creating this for years, they realize they made it so they probably don’t know how to unmake it. They don’t have the experience so they bring in a guy. A guy to critique, catalog and document, and try to identify what the next step should be.
So here is RR. Very direct German. I know that’s rare.
One of the biggest problems appears to be that the guy they just paid $81 million (is that number right? And is it dollars or pounds?). Well that guy isn’t looking good at all and to make it way worse, we made him team Captain. And I’m thinking, but not truly sure, that making the National Team for the World Cup is a big deal.
Now if he gets benched here for poor play, they would need to strip him of the band also. And with both of those things in mind, I’m guess that his status with the National Team might be questioned.
The big problem for the interim manager becomes, how does he make his bosses actually believe that they made an $81 million dollar mistake and if they do something about it’s going to be very hard and have far broader consequences. I tend to want to get these things right. So if I’m a nerd of a German, I know that I have two choices. I can bench him as soon as I realized how dire the situation is, and then hear for the rest of the year what an IDIOT I am for benching one of our stars and team captain and National team member. And I don’t think that my bosses are going to appreciate my decision. Myself, I don’t think I want to do that. I don’t want to tell everyone up the chain that they aren’t very smart and they have to eat 81 million dollars. Or is it pounds?
So if I’m Ralf I would figure I am stuck. I GOT to play him. I got to play him A LOT. I have to play him until it becomes a household fact that our star isn’t cutting it. I need the top pundits telling my bosses they are idiots before I am going to. And I am going to have the highlight reels and statistics to back it all up. The very best statistics!
If you don’t do this and you went with plan A, MCQuire will be here next year and you won’t.
The more the money, the bigger the rep and the longer the contract….
The more you need to show everyone how right you are. You give most of all of them enough rope to hang themselves.
If you want to fix the problem, you have to change the culture from ownership down. It’s hard to blame ownership but we do anyway. But when you realize that they kind of did their job. They supplied HUGE amounts of money. The other problem is way worse. Cheap ownership just trying to make a buck is a much more difficult problem to solve. It takes generations. They just didn’t spend smartly and that could be on them also.
I think ownership’s main difficulty is they CAN’T make this mistake again. They need to know what’s going on inside that dressing room, and exactly where the problems are out on the pitch.
I have no real thoughts on that.
But they need to get this right or they are going to be cutting the wrong guys and rewarding the wrong guys and making the problems much worse and years longer to fix. Hard workers don’t like getting blamed for a problem that isn’t theirs. It’s kind of a big de-motivator, we might have some of that going on right now.
It is going to be very interesting to watch how they go about it.
