GM K
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Different paths, same result in terms of losing the dressing room and from there on there's only one possible outcome.
Imo you fail to present any sort of logic, you claim that we need to make the manager more important than any super star player, or that we hire a director of football to tuck in between the board and the team/manager. The manager is already more important, always has been, nothing has changed. How is the latter going to change anything in terms of power struggles anyway ? You present a solution to a make-belief situation (player power > manager power) and your solution won't change anything. In isolated situations, manager vs super star player, the manager will always win. If the case is bigger, like in Mourinho's situation where the manager has lost the players in the dressing room, the manager will always lose. Director of football or no director of football, doesn't matter, you'll never find anyone willing to sack off the majority of the squad because the manager has managed to fall out with the team.
There's no fundamental flaws in our current structure, there's nothing that makes it more or less likely that a manager will fail compared to a club that uses a DoF. Real Madrid had a DoF, Mourinho fell out with him and had him booted out, then he fell out with the rest of the Real Madrid squad, even Cristiano Ronaldo loathes him. The reasons for me wanting a director of football is because i think it's a better way going forward, but it has absolutely feck all to do with power struggles, if anything you just add an extra potential issue.
So basically we are fine the way we are and just need to hire Ole or Poch or Zidane then?
Okay, let's see how that will go in another three seasons. Believe me, if it goes well, I will be more than happy.
Curious though, why are we then looking for a DoF if we don't need one?