If it's good enough for Real Madrid and PSG and I assume they had good results from the process then maybe we are on the right path.
Me too no problem with this. Think of the furore if we had just promoted Ramsey to the position or just got club old boy Steve Gallen from Charlton Another sign the owners still care...and are still in for the long run.
Easy to say retrospectively. But we thought we had a real chance first with Warburton then Beale. We lost the gamble...now we need to regroup and reset again
At ease people, if our management happen to find a player that might meet our standard & dollar value, we now have to send an email request over to America, hope they're not drinking too many latte's and can find the time to make a judgement of the prospective player, before he gets picked up by another club, cause it will take a wet week to make things happen. ( see Hammersmith post on, 'Big News Coming ' thread )
Why? How often do we recruit a Director of Football? It would be mad to retain the in house capability for this once every few years (hopefully) process. And I’d prefer this to leaving it to Lee Hoos or Chris ‘I contribute nothing’ Ramsey. It also saves us the embarrassment of being knocked back to our faces.
I like that we’ve stepped away and taken an external view on who might fit in for the role and who might be available for interview. Recognising your limitations and utilising outside help is a strong move in my book, so I will be very interested to see who comes into the role and what their role and strategy will encompass (has to be about the club and it’s pathway, not about GA though). Good to see everyone behind it
Yep, I'm not pretending it was obvious at the time, but I do think the penny should have dropped for everyone now. We need to sell players when we get bids, and our valuations as fans are completely bias and often totally out of kilter from reality.
Yeah, you're probably right, but I've had painful experience in the past of American consultancy firms being brought in to advise companies I've worked for. They've sent in numerous people, who've spent several weeks 'understanding the business' before finally coming up with a 'solution' that should have been blindingly obvious in the first place.
We can't moan that they keep recruiting crap and then moan that they are looking at different ways of recruiting. "He used to work here" isn't necessarily the best recruitment policy.
Must admit I view next season with a fair bit of trepidation.we haven't got much of a squad quality wise and are off loading our better assets. The DOF role will have to be spot on, finding some decent players on a shoestring,and I'd imagine any half decent DOFs would have the sense to avoid our basket case of a club who will have next to nothing to spend. On a happier note were 4/1 to be relegated,and if the bookies have it right we will just sneak out of the drop
I’ve had the same experience, but this is a bit different. All they do is give us a list of names (who are hopefully actually available and willing) and take us through a selection and offer process. All things which I just don’t believe we have any competence in. And with the added bonus that, if the poor sap who gets the job turns out to be crap, we can blame the consultants, which is the true value of any consultancy delivered project (and they know it).
Cheers Dave. Do good players actually have a whole season of poor form? Of course not. And his form had been poor since AFCON the year before.
He no longer wanted to play for us. The edge had gone of his game to be honest. Far too many mistakes in last 18 months. But need a replacement that probably isn't Archer
What bothers me most about this is that he has gone to Middlesborough. A club we need to be competing with for a top six place. If you compare the two teams. Middlesborough have a manager with Premier League credentials, we have Gareth Ainsworth. They have a policy of not buying outfield players over the age of 26, we are trying to resign Chris Martin 34 and Asmir Begovich 36. They are not phased by paying £2M for a decent Championship player, we are looking at free transfers from Leagues 1 & 2. You just know also that their loanees this season will be significantly better than ours. We are so far away from being able to compete even with other long term Championship clubs let alone the likes of teams coming down from the Premier with their massive parachute payments. Unless we get bought by a serious investor our future looks pretty bleak and with what we have to offer in terms of facilities, status, following and potential who in their right minds would be interested?
That serious investor would also need to be either a crook or a magician, or both, to overcome FFP. That is the real villain of the piece.
