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Damien Comolli thoughts....?

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Brizespur

Hey guys first time posting here so please be gentle.
So I watched that film "moneyball" tonight and after reading a little about this Billy Beane fella I discovered that he is close friends with our ex director of football. This got me thinking was he so bad after all? I know he used to get quite a bit of stick from some fans but, when you look at his buys there was quite a few good ones in their luka,bale,berbatov,BAE just off the top of my head. Anyway Just wanted to know what you guys think of him and his aquisitions!

cheers for taking the time to read this

COYS
 
Yes, he is that bad.
He bought bright prospects for the future. Which would be great except he had been expressly told "don't buy bright prospects for the future, buy people who can play and win now".

It's like if I turned in a sonnet about rainbows at work instead of a press release. It could be the best sonnet in the world but I would still be terrible at my job.
 
I don't think he was very good actually. You tend to look back and say "yeah but he bought Bale, Luka etc...", but they were very well known players. Everyone was after them, and I don't think he would have been the one to have made the key difference. He did get BAE, who after about three years of settling came good, so fair play there, but otherwise a lot of the signings made were the right players but at the wrong time, which completely f*cked the managers.

He also paid a kings ransom for the likes of Hutton, Gomes (who's quite good, but lets face it is likely to leave for about £2m having been replaced by a 40 year old on a free), Bentley, Bent, Dos Santos, Pavlyuchenko etc., who's collective re-sale value will be pretty bloody low.

What I did like was the fact that there was someone genuinely looking, as a day job, at a host of good young players, and that's something we should be doing, but I don't think Commolli's the guy.

Look at what he's doing at Liverpool FFS - Carroll, Downing and Henderson for £75m. In anyone's book that is totally retarded
 
comolli was/is very involved in the suarez debacle, tells you all you need to know about him. and as ron burgundy says £75million for 3 mid table players ? yeah, ok.
 
Fair points he did by Bentley the clown aswell as a few other average players. but I think if you looked at his signings (for spurs) now and judged against market value I think he would probly have us up by a few million.
:berba 10mil - 30
:modric 16mil - 40 +
:bale 10mil - 40 +
:BAE 2mil - 15

By the way I'm not in anyway suggesting he is some kind of messiah but... seeming we don't have a sugar daddy like city or chavski we do need to run the club in a financially savy way.
 
Brizespur said:
Fair points he did by Bentley the clown aswell as a few other average players. but I think if you looked at his signings (for spurs) now and judged against market value I think he would probly have us up by a few million.
:berba 10mil - 30
:modric 16mil - 40 +
:bale 10mil - 40 +
:BAE 2mil - 15

By the way I'm not in anyway suggesting he is some kind of messiah but... seeming we don't have a sugar daddy like city or chavski we do need to run the club in a financially savy way.
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You see, it's not that I disagree with cost increases there, but I actually think his successful purchases were nothing special, BAE aside. What I mean is, they weren't examples of 'spotting' a player that few others had seen.

Berba - said when he joined that he came to use because we'd been trailing him for a long time, a lot longer in fact than Commolli had been on board. It was Jol and Arnesen who targeted him initially

Modric - at the time he wasn't quite good enough for a top 4 team, and it was down to us and Newcastle. Now don't get me wrong, we did go for him and he deserves some credit for that, but it's not as if no one knew about him.

Bale - same with Modric. Worth noting that Jol also claims that he chased him for a while.

The thing with Commolli is he went for a lot of popularly 'rated' players. For this reason, we ended some good ones, and some not so good e.g. Bentley and, after a reasonable Euros, Pav). So the fact that some turned out well would be expected. On balance I don't think he uses money well, you only have to look at Liverpool to see that. In fact, the 'some good, some bad' pattern is still very clearly in action, as for every Suarez, there's a Carroll and a Downing.

While it's refreshing that he's prepared to put his nuts on the line and spend big on a player (perhaps something we don't otherwise do often enough), I reckon that all things considered there are a massive number of managers and DoFs who use their money way, way better than he does.

Also, he has the luxurious position on being able to blame a manager if certain signings don't turn out well. He can use the "well he's not getting the best out of him, he's brilliant, honest" type approach. I'd imagine this is helpful when splashing a shed load of cash.
 
Levy basically acts how Comolli should have back when it was the DoF system. Harry tells him what he wants, Levy says which of the targets are viable to sign. Sometimes Levy finds a player outside of the process (i.e. Rafa). And if you read between the lines, sometimes they disagree with the targets (i.e. Parker).

When so much money is potentially involved, its never going to be a holding hands skipping through the park together relationship.

Comolli though took it all too far because he was DoF. He wanted someone else in as manager when Jol was at the helm.
 
People talk about his successful signings a lot, but his job was to bring talented players in and I feel he did well enough, basically. Some signings turned out to be great and some shit. So he can't be praised too highly. The fact is, as has been noted already in this thread, he doesn't spot unknown talent, he'd never have found a Hernandes for example.

He has royally screwed up at the dippers, which is great.
 
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