No but you can see the analogy - the concept is one of cross fertilising skills between sports. SCW's mistake is he thought it was about him. He thought we were buying into his personal leadership qualities rather than simply his experience with techniques that worked for sportsmen generally. That said, he wasn't all bad - he did help introduce Prozone at the club - a huge step forward for football clubs.
Yes but Redknapp then neglected the system when he arrived. Woodward reiterated its importance and wanted to develop statistical and other forms of analysis further... but Harry didn't like it. It'll never catch on...
Is it possible that Lenhart is simply working as an agent on the contracts between Katharina and our new directors?
It looks like Josef Lenhart works for a Sporteo Int sports management AG. They deal with Sports Management and Marketing. Which covers Sponsorship, Media and Mentoring from quickly looking at there site.
I am. The Swiss national team isn't exactly highly-regarded, and neither is the German league. He coached one season in the NHL, finishing 12th out of 15 teams in the Western Conference (admittedly, the Oilers were never expected to be good), after which he was dumped.
He only played in the German hockey league (as you say, not exactly highly-regarded), so anyone who can come from that background and end up coaching in the NHL, and subsequently working for the Canadian winter olympics team, has done pretty well as far as I'm concerned.
Pack the club with enough Germans and hopefully the ticket prices will be on a similar level to the German League!
He's a pretty middling coach in the grand scheme...he rose from being a middling Canadian hockey player to a coach of a middling international team, culminating in a season as a shock hire for a desperate NHL franchise that then fired him a year later. This seems like packing management with people that Liebherr trusts, rather than people that actually belong in management of a Premier League football club.
Okay, but he wasn't very good. He only got a year with the Oilers, and they're terrible. It's a reasonable career progression for him, sure, from obscure player to (short term, failing) NHL coach, but not exactly one to inspire much confidence in his ability to transfer to a sport he's never played before. At least Woodward won the world cup.
Nothing to suggest he's taken on anything more than an advisory role. I'm completely comfortable with that.
I say we hold fire and wait for the statement confirming the make-up of the board who will be running the club.
I was only joking but it appears this might actually have happened. http://www.sportsdirectnews.com/pre...pton-director-axed-24-hours-after-joining.php wtfigo
