https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/foot...anchester-city-david-moyes-director-football/ Oh joy We had a good tfer window last Jan without a DoF, so why are we in such a hurry to get a new one? Is it a valued role or another layer of bureaucracy?
One of the images in the link "Sunderland chairman Ellis Short will have sanctioned the appointment" NO.... Really - the owner and chairman of the club will have sanctioned a move for a senior executive figure? Well I never! (It is the sun though!) I have no problem with it as long as it doesn't interfere with Moyes running of the football side of things (didn't he work with a DoF at Everton @Tobes ?)
From the Club: Sunderland AFC is to welcome Simon Wilson to the club as chief football officer. Wilson will join the Black Cats on January 1st, 2017, after 10 years at Manchester City. The new role will support chief executive Martin Bain and manager David Moyes to create and drive a cohesive approach to all areas of the club’s football operations. During his time at Manchester City, Wilson held the position of director of football services, working across the City Group family of clubs. Prior to this, he spent four years at Southampton FC. Sunderland AFC chief executive Martin Bain said: “In Simon, we are bringing someone to the club who has highly impressive track record of putting the building blocks in place in order to give clubs the best chance of achieving success. “Harnessing his knowledge and experience in developing effective football infrastructures at the highest level, will give us a great platform from which to re-define our approach to the fundamental areas of the club such as scouting, recruitment, medical services, player pathways and youth development. “Simon will play an important part in driving our re-building process, and helping us to achieve our aim of making the football club stronger in the future." Speaking about his new role, Wilson said: “I am excited by the opportunity to join a club that is embarking on a journey of development and improvement. My role will be to ensure that we have the best practices, systems and people in place in order to give the club the best platform to achieve its goals. “There is a great team of people at the club and I want to galvanise the good work that I know is already being done, in order to ensure that we are doing everything we can to support the manager and chief executive in their aim of building a better football club. “I worked with David Moyes many years ago at Preston, he is a highly experienced and respected manager and I am looking forward to linking up with him again, and working with the chief executive, both of whom share a common vison on how to take the club forward so we can give the fans and everyone associated with Sunderland a club and a team to be proud of”. _____________________________________ So, at no point have SAFC used the term Director of Football - and, looking at the role, it's nothing like what has been done in the past with the DoF Basically the sun making up bullshit
The (southern based ) media digging at us again - chief football officer with a track record in the British game - so easy for the cynics and the mischief making media to call a DOF leading us to another failure. KTF and trust in our club - if some fans can't we are in trouble - onwards
This bloke is incredibly well thought of if it's the chap I'm thinking of. Hopefully this just helps Moyes get what he wants. The DoF model can work incredibly well if done correctly. Time will tell. Ellis sticking to what he believes in... No problem with that at all. Everyone's a failure until they're a success.
Congerton did will with what he was given. If the new guy is backed correctly he and Bain will more than likely work. Will Ellis give him what the needs though? Not convinced.
Having read article seems other changes include Ged McNamee moving on - only heard good things about him with our young guns - hope the youth set up improves now
This might suggest that we're actually going to buy some players in January. Maybe. Possibly. Probably not.
Just seems an odd appointment if we're not actually going to be buying anyone, a month before the window opens too.
Plenty rich enough mate. Interested? that`s another matter. Having said that I`m starting to wonder about these latest changes. Big turnaround going on.
Looks more like a Managerial and Operational position to me. The blurb in Marcus's post above doesn't appear to specifically stated anything about it being Recruitment-focussed, only that it forms one element of his remit.
I'm just a little too jaded about things at the club at the minute. There are promising signs of change on the pitch but I don't know enough about what's going on behind the scenes at the minute. Every new press release when a new guy starts, talks about putting great things into place for the future. When's this brave new world supposed to arrive?
Just thinking about the recent changes. CEO - Gone. Knew nothing about football, replaced by one who does. Ryan Sachs - Gone. Knew nothing about anything seems like. Ged McNamee - Gone and his little empire dismantled. Gary Hutchinson - Commercial Director (aka concert chairman) gone according to rumour though I can`t find any concrete evidence. Kevin Ball - Gone. Somewhere. This new lad in. Moyes seems keen and it doesn`t sound much like a DoF from what I`ve read. There`s a fair bit of rearranging going on. edit: Bracewell next out please.
