At the same time, it’s harder than ever to just ”buy quality”. Clubs are much better at resisting nowadays and putting ridiculous price tags on their stars with no genuine intention to sell. Madrid is facing the same problem. They can’t just go out and buy 4-5 Galacticos anymore.
Excellent post.
Like I said, you're just making the assumption he's in charge of player recruitment because he is an easy scapegoat. Most of the current squad was recruited by the last 3 managers.
What about when Liverpool had Damien Comolli? Why does everyone ignore DOFs who ended up failing?
You're just proving my point which is if you hire three different managers with completely different philosophies such as Moyes, LVG and Mourinho you'll end up with a completely unbalanced squad. The recruitment should be done on behalf of the club, and Moyes, LVG, Mourinho, the next manager should work with the players at the club, and should be kept away from recruitment. That way when you fire LVG or Mourinho, you don't have to fire all the deadwood squad that's no longer required by the next man in charge.
It's not about ensuring success it's about ensuring continuity. So that when a manager leaves after 2/3 years you don't need to rebuild the squad each time. Which is what we've done with Moyes, LVG and Mourhino.
It isn't semantics. It's a question of pecking order: if you have a Chief Scout then likely they will report to the manager, but definitely not the other way around. If you have a DoF then things become more murky and complicated. And if the manager is subordinate to the DoF then the manager has less free rein and the potential for conflict increases a lot.
You think Liverpool, City don't have full confidence in Klopp and Pep? Having or not having final say on transfers has nothing to do with board's confidence in coach.
No transfers ever worked like that, using this logic no player is a long term target of the big clubs.
It depends on the formal nature of the relationship between the DoF and the manager. Is Klopp formally subordinate to their Dof? Is Pep? I doubt it.
I was replying to this part. Having or not having full say on transfers has nothing to do with confidence on coach. Only in England (majorly) that manager is so involved in transfers. In most big clubs they are first team coaches and have designated team (who obviously works with manager/first team coach) for signing players.
It is extremely naive to think payments like this or arrangements like this don't happen. Zeki Fryers from United to Spurs happened in a similar way.
And how did that end up for Fryers? Exactly the reason why players don't want to risk it. Their progression is never linear, there was a decent chance Sancho would have flopped or got a career ending injury, why would player want to sign a short term contract when he hasn't even made his name in senior football?
Glazers aren’t spending anymore. Maybe £30m manolas and that’s it. Not after recent year outlays. They”ll wait see how the kids turn out.It’s a bit absurd to moan about the lack of Summer transfers in March to be honest.
1) We don't know we are struggling to attract the players we need. People are quick to point to players as failures but I repeat, many were happy with most of the signings at the time. We have demonstrated with our recent upturn in performance the perhaps it was the managers that were the issue rather than the signings.
This is exactly the set-up at Spurs, where the 'designated team' consists of Levy, Pochettino and John McDermott (Academy Head), drawing on reports from our Head Scout.
Lets live in hope!
Exactly, this point. Mourinho's most successful season in charge for example has been when Marco Branca delivered Milito, Eto'o, Sneijder, Motta, Lucio and Pandev to the team. This idea that the manager should coach, run tactics, organize transfers, talk to agents, negotiate fees etc is outdated and doesn't really happen in modern clubs.
Yeah, we need to find balance and proper DoF who works with coach rather than acting all like dictator and trying to be the star of the show. We need someone like the guy at Liverpool who barely makes news but drives the team really well.
I'm not arguing about the structure. Different clubs prefer different structure and most of them are successful with their methods. I was talking about having final say has nothing to do with confidence of the board on the coach.
That's a Jose target that Ed refused to buy, replace him with Varane.
Yeah we do no transfer work before. All the people we employ for that just sit idly waiting until the windows open to begin work.
Not really - they either agreed deals during the January window with players that are going to be out of contract in the summer, or they bought players in that window and loaned them back to the selling club. Those are both things we could have done if we'd wanted to. Our windows, like everyone else's conform to the FIFA requirement of 12 weeks pre season and 4 weeks mid season. We, like Italy, have chosen to end ours before the first game (which happens to be earlier than anybody else), but it's still the standard 12 weeks.
Too idiotic a response to even give you a proper answer. Need a person with a few brain cells to understand.
It would be sheer madness to not appoint a DOF this summer.To keep repeating the same mistake over and over again is just sheer madness....
I agree. But mark my words, it won't happen. Woodward enjoys the power dynamic too much.
I reckon Solskjaer might be against a DOF too.
There's plenty of clubs that don't have a DoF and run smoothly, is it as big of a necessity as what everyone claims?
I don't have a strong opinion either way. United were fine without one while Ferguson was in charge but maybe it's worth exploring given their struggles since Ferguson retired.
How long have Barca been operating with a Dof? I know City took one of the previous ones..
, maybe those same people should research the typical role they occupy.When Ed Woodward is the man calling shots, the answer is clearly yes. If we simply backed our managers then it would be less of a problem, but until now that's not been the case.
