You forget interim manager!
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He got Conte so glad he is going.
I think he had an eye for talent and was obviously willing to cheat to win, but security should be clearing his office and anyone he's brought in's this very minute.
What's he done?
"Would your life be significantly better?" is a typically sweaty and desperate dodge from a troll who has no ground to stand on in this argument.
The sentence for Paratici came down on January 20th, in the throes of the transfer window, demanding an immediate decision on whether he could continue literally doing the day-to-day of his job. We either had a DOF in that moment or not.
That should have been communicated to the club's fans. Not rocket science.
It's one incident of many revealing the naked, burning contempt club leadership has for the football public including its own fans, which makes supporting Spurs more exhausting and thankless than the on-field results already do.
The club needs a human face empowered to provide us some sort of candor.
In 2011, Stellini joined Antonio Conte's coaching team at Juventus, and passed the category 2 coaching exam.[5][6] However, in 2012 Stellini was suspended for two and a half years by the FIGC following allegations of match fixing. He subsequently resigned from his post as technical assistant at Juventus.[7]
Cristian Stellini - Wikipedia
corrupt fc
Giving a manager power and influence over the recruitment operation is one thing, going out of fashion as you say but still a viable way to handle things.
But scouting, recruitment and transfer business itself now requires a large team of people with a variety of different expertise that a manager won't have, and a manager cannot do their own job properly if they have to contribute to or even be the primary leader of that staff. That department needs its own leader with a significant degree of influence and day-to-day autonomy, even if they are ultimately given the remit to focus on serving the manager's tactical needs and desires.
Wheeler-dealer was dead ten years ago.
Do you think we’re a banter club?
Your problem is you believe the club owes you an explanation for everything. They don't, and will never operate in that fashion. And this isn't even one of those "modern football is ruined" things - clubs have never communicated routinely with supporters beyond superficial squad info.
Doing so would accomplish precisely nothing. There's no positive that could come from it surely, at best you open yourself up for a host of questions that only put you in a stickier situation. At worst, you turn a minor issue into a crisis.
I'd say Spurs do have experienced and knowledgeable PR staff, which is why they don't report every littler matter to you and I.
It’s just funny that you post the exact same stuff every day. We know how you feel.Sorry. I'll try again.
Another masterclass from Don Levy. We're so blessed to have these owners.
Our rivals must be writhing in envy.
Daniel Levy. You the Man.
23 more years please. Statue for Levy.
*searches for appropriate gif .
Hey. Look at me guys. Proper fan
Yeah but Levy was between a rock and a hard place...
Option A - Keep the crook away from the limelight, but Levy has to face the music himself...
Or
Option B - Make a joke out of the club, but Levy gets to put his patsy out in front of the camera, unshaven and unkempt, filming himself on his i-phone from a hotel room that whiffs of stale pizza and staler farts...
Yes, correct, that is my problem.
I honestly wouldn't touch him with a barge poll. Nowhere near good enough at the elite level of Football Administration.
To have played attacking football as a player doesn't translate that you can achieve this as a coach/manager or then DoF. He managerial record I don't think would even get West Ham excited at the possibility of recruiting him. He never strikes me as a man who lives or breathes football every day of the week, more of one that knows he might pick up a nice little earner for a few months somewhere.
I want a DoF that's demonstrated they have a plan. That they know how to build an environment that delivers that plan. That at all costs the plan underpins the philosophy the club have chosen, that the entire club is behind, even the toilet cleaners scrub the blogs in a 4-3-3 formation.
Sherwood weighing in on TS right now.
I didn't say remove the entire scouting team did I?
I said remove the Director of football.
What's wheeler-dealer got to do with it? Colourful language trying to evoke an antiquated manager like Redknapp to beef up your argument, but nothing to do with what I'm saying.
I just don't think Director of football works, I was always told that the reason behind a director of football was to retain a footballing identity, that way managers may come and go but the identity remains.
But we sack Directors of football almost as frequently as we sack managers.
And truthfully I don't see a footballing identity at the club.
I see a bunch of band aid fixes.
I don't think you would disagree that Paratici needs to go?
Also the manager doesn't coach the team exclusivley either does he? If you watch our training videos for example most of the sessions were taken by Conte's staff.
So I don't buy the argument that the manager doesn't have time to identify targets with the help of the scouting network of course.
Another good argument for removing the DoF is that you don't end up with the embarrassing "club signings" where the manager/head coach whatever you want to call him, doesn't want to even play the signings. See Spence, Bissoma et al.
DoF always felt like a needless modernisation for the sake of copying the continent.
I can remember Frank Karsten being poached by Chelsea, Comolli. There's been a string of them, Right up to that bald twat we had before Paratici whose name thankfully eludes me, but did awful awful transfer business.
It's only worked for us once and that was Paul Mitchell and I don't even remember if he was officially DoF.
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It may lighten the mood a little to know that one of the senior Prosecuting team leading the case against Juventus has been thrown off the case.
A video came to light from about 2 years ago where he declared his support of another Serie A team and that he hated Juventus.
Its pretty standard to expect all members of a prosecuting team to know they had to step aside if they had conflicts preventing them being seen to be independent.
Apparently all the prosecuting team and judge were very embarrassed to have that come up half way through the trial. Especially with the prosecuting team having made a big thing that the Juventus directors should have known that they were doing wrong.
Et tu Brutus and all that.
A video came to light from about 2 years ago where he declared his support of another Serie A team and that he hated Juventus.
Its pretty standard to expect all members of a prosecuting team to know they had to step aside if they had conflicts preventing them being seen to be independent.
Apparently all the prosecuting team and judge were very embarrassed to have that come up half way through the trial. Especially with the prosecuting team having made a big thing that the Juventus directors should have known that they were doing wrong.
Et tu Brutus and all that.