Because the director knows the transfer budget, leaving Levy to focus on what he does best- expanding the commercial income of the club.
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Shows how much Spurs are on my mind. One of my WhatsApp group was talking about a press conference at 4pm, I immediately thought that it would be Daniel announcing Campos, not Boris re further restrictions
Our biggest and most important signing has to be a director of football.
We dont just need 3 or 4 players. We need about 12. We simply have no depth.
We also cant keep shelling out 50m a player. We need to find these people before they become too expensive.
We dont just need 3 or 4 players. We need about 12. We simply have no depth.
We also cant keep shelling out 50m a player. We need to find these people before they become too expensive.
A Sporting Director can be the continuity. You can sack a manager but with a top Sporting Director who understands football from scouting to the philosophy he can be the one to take charge implementing the scouting, the style, the recruitment.
So if the manager is sacked or leaves you don’t have to replace the whole squad, if you have players that suit the style you can bring in another coach.
It is the football vision of the club and that shouldn’t be Levy who is a brilliant businessman but not a football visionary.
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100% agree. The next signing has to be a DOF. And sort the scouting network out. Then buy players.
Says the bloke who used Chelsea as an example of academy excellence even though they got a ban for the way they run/ran it?!? :mourfacepalm:
Easily. I’ve been banging this drum since Mitchell left.
Failure to sign a striker and defensive midfielder in January fucked us as much as the Kane and son injuries. Someone in charge of transfers WITH A PLAN would have had those players identified and worked on. We did nothing but middle through not addressing the problem positions.
Because a DOF works 100% with player recruitment and player sales. A DOF leads the scouting team, complies reports that then go to the manager (Mourinho) and he can pick from that. Or Jose can suggest a player for the DOF to look at and he gets report from the DOF on if he fits the clubs model, style of play and such. He then goes and negotiates a potential deal if we want the player.
The key point being putting someone in charge of player recruitment, sales and ensuring that youth players move into first team football (either with us or on loan) that can have that as their job/focus area. Instead of the current setup where Levy does this in between all his other duties.
Levy gets to focus on his strength (being a business man)
Jose gets to focus on training and developing the team.
The Sporting Director takes care of ins and outs from the first team.
Successful clubs with the president/chairman in charge of recruitment are very rare (Basically Real Madrid and Lyon).
It's only a short piece, but sums up why some of us really would love to have seen him brought in as our DOF:
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The Three Cs - The Coaches' Voice
Ralf Rangnick on the philosophy he used to build success at RB Leipzig and Red Bull Salzburg, and why he and Jürgen Klopp get on so well
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CHELSEA?????????
They got a transfer ban for the way they ran their academy.
Agree with your general point though.
According to Transfermarkt our scouting department consists of 3 people. One of which is the head of our academy.
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Steve Hitchen, our suppossed head scout is not even listed. So it might be a bit out of date tbf.
I assume that we also use external scouts/freelancers as well. And stats companies like OptaJoe also do scouting for various clubs so we probably have a deal with one of those.
A lot of modern scouting is connections. And sporting directors often have more of those in the relevant field than chairmen.
We still had the same scouts lead by Steve Hitchen and head of youth John McDermott.
Poch had the final say on players but it was up to Levy to get the deal done. It was a round table with Hitchen, Poch, and Levy. That we got Jack Clarke in...and then out on loan probably says a bit about how well that ran.
A DOF would help things providing it was the right person. But to be fair there are so many metrics involved and with the prices attached it is a much wider team activity.
What is a complete crock of shit (for whatever reason) is that with all the hundreds of strikers out there in the world we haven't managed to track down a single one in how many windows now? Shirley a DOF would be planning out the next three windows in advance.
Trevor Birch appointed Tottenham's director of football operations
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I always find it hard to put that aside. If only we would know that it works, because it would piss off the Gooners.
If there are other alternatives, I'd rather have someone who is Gooner-free.