They are very competent. Invested c.15M to buy the club (which they paid back to themselves via a murky share dilution) and now sit on a 4BN ROI and put fuck all in since and have taken zero risk.
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This is way past the point of not rushing. You don't start planning a transfer window when the window opens.
Right now deals are getting done and prepared to finalize when the window opens. It's maybe the biggest window in the club's last 23 seasons and we don't have a DOF or manager.
At this point it's not about rushing, this is negligence.
What you've just said doesn't make any sense? We finished second a few years ago?
Hopefully we are making sure we are getting the right person, with the required due diligence done, and don’t end up in the situation again like we have right now.
Such an important role cannot be rushed and I very much doubt it’s being ignored either.
Such an important role cannot be rushed and I very much doubt it’s being ignored either.
They are taking their time..Lots of time remaining until the start of next season. Thats when we will appoint Nuno again.
Transfer Window opens in a month besides all that the club will know who to target, you don't need a DOF for that.
I keep saying that everything needs to be dictated by the club, not the DOF, not the manager so the club should be the ones who set the culture and philosophy and ought to be hiring the DOF and the manager and identifying players who ideally will fit within that culture and philosophy.
Chill out.
New DOF will work with the new manager to define the new strategy and direction for the squad.
None of that can happen until at least the DOF is in place and clubs that know their direction will. have started making deals already.
Like I said, deals don't start when the window opens.
Thinking that it won't effect the success of the next window to not have a clear direction by now is flat out cope. How many of our rivals don't know what direction their squad needs to take next season ?
No-one knows what Levy expects from a DOF anyway
Is it closing deals with agents, identifying players, working with data analysts, selling players, setting a football strategy? No-one knows
I got the impression Paratici was just a deal maker and Levy and that old hag Cullen and Collecot were the ones identifying the players
Is it closing deals with agents, identifying players, working with data analysts, selling players, setting a football strategy? No-one knows
I got the impression Paratici was just a deal maker and Levy and that old hag Cullen and Collecot were the ones identifying the players
Yes.... Yes of course, mate...
Taking their time cos there's no need to rush mate....Obviously
ST renewals deadline is in a month. There are plenty people, myself included, waiting to see what direction the club is going in before committing. If, indeed, we are heading in any direction whatsoever.
I know most will renew, but there might be enough people delaying or not renewing at all to be noticeable to the club.
That's not actually true, club's should have always have a philosophy before you bring staff in who align with that philosophy.
We still have loads of scouts, data analysts etc...who will be looking at different players, Ali Gold recently said in a video that he thinks the club has too many scouts and football people around that Paratici hired, that's not a bad thing.
A DOF is purely a head of department to oversee the structure of the football club so think of it like a director of a department, that doesn't mean the existing staff cannot work, they just have no-one to report to at the moment, as long as the club have a framework to work with which I expect they do as we've been linked to Maddison and Raya for example then these guys can work.
It's really not that deep.
Yeah this is fair and I suspect the club are aware of that, wouldn't surprise me that they have that deadline lined up for an announcement of both a DOF and a manager.
Wtf?
You think levy even fucking understands football? Seriously you actually think some fucking real estate investor with no previous interest in the game should dictate the club philosophy signings and play? Tell me how exactly that has worked out for you in the last few years. The wrong players followed by wrong managers, and such a lack of coherent football philosophy that even an oxford dean would struggle to write a book on it.
You are being facetious aren't you. A DoF should decide these things or the manager not some suit. Tell me I'm missing the offensive humour.
Read what I wrote again
I did! The DoF should bring in the players and managers to dictate the style on the pitch, never the board.
It's in the title. Director of Football! Of football!
When we changed from poch to Maureen then nuno then conte we utterly changed the philosophy with a set of players who utterly fail to fit into the style and the outcome has been horrendous for the club.
Right now we are in no man's land and all thanks to levy. Even he admits it, the problem is he is still making decisions. ..
Our philosophy has gone from not wanting Maddison under Conte and Paratici to wanting them now?
Who has decided that change in direction then?
FWIW, i doubt for a second we are actually in talks to spend 50m on any player until there is a strategy in place between the new DOF and head coach, with the existing staff we have.
That would be mental, even for Spurs.
Not really sure why you are defending this. really.
Liverpool don't have a DOF now, who's making the decisions over there at the moment? Who's looking at transfers? Do you not think they have football people at the club doing the ground work?
Every club have football people working behind the scenes, working every day on transfer targets, you don't need a DOF for that, in this instance we can still work on prospective targets without a DOF.
This is what many of you don't understand, you put so much emphasis on this DOF role, its hilarious, you think Levy is on his laptop like football manager picking the targets or something.
A DOF is a director of a football dept but the dept can and is still running by itself at the moment, we don't need to desperately get one in right now and it's certainly not negligent at this stage, people are hella emotional sometimes lol
This is such a weird post lol, what am I defending...I've just told you how the majority of football clubs operate
IMO our philosophy has gone from trying to appease a manager who wanted more control trying to sign his targets to looking to sign players who fit into a philosophy that the club set hence why we are hearing about m targets like Maddison and Raya, pretty obvious they want to sign more technical players.
Who said anything about being 'in talks' with Maddison?, there's interest there because he's a player the club would like to sign so there's an obvious strategy that the club are looking towards.
I don't think this is too difficult to grasp.
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So the manager we just had didn’t want a player and the previous DOF never did a deal for that player.
Now we are without a manager or DOF and suddenly we are interested in that same player to the point of spending 50m on them without knowing if the next DOF sees that being the direction or knowing if the new manager will want to play that player ?
But at the same time you are confident enough to say you are just lecturing me in how clubs work.
Ok