‘When you interview a manager or a potential candidate you put the culture of your club, what you’re about, on the table straight away. 'We made it clear to him we couldn’t afford to buy stars, we wanted to make them. We couldn’t compete with Chelsea or Manchester United like that. He said, “No problem, I’m good at that”. 'He mentioned he was the coach of Barcelona B. Then as soon as he came in, he said, “I want Samuel Eto’o and David Villa”. He wasn’t interested in young players at all.’
Comolli says Ramos was out of touch with the Barclays Premier League and did not listen to advice from chairman Daniel Levy and the board to adapt his style of management from Spain. ‘One thing that worried me straight away after we appointed him from Sevilla was something their sporting director Monchi told me,’ said Comolli, 41. ‘He was a friend of mine, so I rang and apologised for taking their manager halfway through the season. 'He said that the coach from their reserve team was probably better than Ramos and that we’d soon find out he’s not the reason for the club’s success.’ But within four months of taking over from Martin Jol, Ramos won the Carling Cup, the club’s first trophy since 1999. ‘We thought we were on to something good,’ said Comolli. But behind the scenes the situation was turning into a nightmare.
Yeah Ramos was a fool. Even if we had the money to afford both players, they'd have never joined Spurs in their prime. We even got rejected by Villa this summer
Given his career has seen him go from Sevilla to AEK Athens to Al Rayyan, his career trajectory that doesn't inspire confidence.
But some guy said he was better than Ramos! C'mon, lets do this! It makes about as much sense as most of our other managerial appointments
Freund scored nine goals in his career Jiminez scored one At this rate, we'd be better off with Soldado as striker's coach!
we should just get Gomes to tell Soldado that if he doesn't score in the next match then he's gonna sleep with his wife
The funny thing is that Ramos got it perfectly wrong--not for the first time, some might say. The problem in football isn't clubs that want to make money (the great majority of them), it's the handful of clubs that don't have to worry about making money and can just buy trophies.
