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You could look at his time at Palace and say that he's the DOF that oversaw them rising to their peak, and winning the FA Cup which is a pretty impressive achievement for them, recruiting players we'd have loved to get here (Guehi, Wharton, Olise, Eze (booooo!)).
Acid test for me, if you shoved him into a barrel of tits, does he look like he'd come out sucking his own thumb, or something more exciting???
You could look at his time at Palace and say that he's the DOF that oversaw them rising to their peak, and winning the FA Cup which is a pretty impressive achievement for them, recruiting players we'd have loved to get here (Guehi, Wharton, Olise, Eze (booooo!)).
On the flipside, I'm not 100% certain his time overlapped with all of those signings, and even if it did then it's still not any guarantee that he's particularly responsible. We could bring him here and find that the secret to that success was just a decent scout in his team.
Either way, he can't be as useless as this twerp:
Is Rangnick available?
Even his one supposed strength is massively overstated. Data nerd to pick out young players, I'm sorry but that might have been useful 15 years ago or whatever, but in 2026 there are countless nerds on youtube filling you in on all of the promising young footballers across the globe.
Ah the concept of Ralf Rangnick, hipster catnip is back.
What appeals about Freedman is that as someone who played in the Premier League and managed at large English clubs, he profiles as someone who could bring some bigger-picture leadership to the football operation as a whole, and critically have the ability to speak publicly on that.
