Just sitting on the sofa relaxing, catching up on a bit of not606, and I got thinking about all the changes going on at the R's. I know it's normal for a manager to bring his coaching team with him wherever he goes, but every football appointment made at this club since January has been a mark Hughes man. From coaching, to chief exec, scouting, youth development! We are supposed to be building for the long term, yet the manager only has a two year deal. What if things don't go to plan and we sack him, or he has such a successful season one of the big boys come calling? Every part of our club bar the finances are directly linked to MH. Has he got too much influence and power? If he goes in 1 or 2 years, will he take everyone with him? If so we could end up right back to square one, TF and AB needing to start a whole new recruitment drive, bringing others in to cope with someone else's footballing vision........ Or am I simply being too pessimistic, and should trust TF and AB to have provisions in place to cope with such a situation should It arise. Maybe I shouldn't think too much, or I'm simply going mad due to football deprivation.....
I don't really understand your post From my point of view the manager should be given the power to bring in who he wants Would you prefer to go back to the goons saying who we should bring in
No, good post. There do seem to be one hell of a lot of coaches of one sort of the other. But if MH left and took all his men, baggage and all, the new Manager would bring his lot, so I'm not so bothered by this.
That's a very real and fair point. We have quite a large staff and I think that each genuinely new position will be sanctioned by Amit or Tony and they'll appreciate the value of each man and what they do/bring. Should the worst happen and we end up without Hughes (from either side's doing) I'd suspect the close coaching staff to follow (Bowen, Eddie, Hitch) because each manager takes his favourites with them but believe the others would stay. A new manager would be appointed if they shared the vision and could work with what will be a very well structured set-up. You've got me slightly worried but not excessively.
What I'm basically saying is if everything on a footballing level from top to bottom is one persons(MH) vision as opposed to the vision of the club itself, what happens when that person isn't there anymore. TF says everything he's building is based on a long and prosperous future. And yet it's being built around a man with a 2 year contract. And let's be fair, take away sir Alex and arsene, what is the average life expectancy of a premiership manager these days? Who knows, maybe TF is looking at man utd and arsenal as his blueprint...
I just think that a new manager likes to bring in his own trusted staff anyway so not to bothered by it
