Never understood a board buying players the manager hasn't asked for. If the manager isn't making those decisions then wtf are we paying him.for? I know there are some managers who would have demands that the.club couldn't fulfil but in this case, they should listen otherwise why pay him so much money?
Coaching?
Tactics?
Strategy?
Man management/motivation?
Team selection?
Match-day (team talks, substitutions and in-game management)?
Press duties?
etc.
etc.
Guardiola:
“I never buy the players. I never sell the players. It is not my money. It is the club's. The hierarchy is so important. They know the type of players and the way we want to play."
The Man City boss is out of contract at the end of the season and the club's fans are facing up to the prospect that he could walk away from the Etihad sooner rather than later
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Not too sperate from this is Klopp's own admission that he in-fact didn't want to sign Salah and them doing so was down to their recruitment team.
In the same vein; last season we hired a DOF and our recruitment has taken a turn for the better.
In the modern game managers don't have the time to be scouts. However, none of this is to say that in a modern structure, the manager doesn't still have influence.
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Spence was scouted and signed on the basis that our DOF deemed him to fit the bill of the kind of WB we required; not cos Levy and "the accountants" thought it would be a money-spinner.
Ali Gold: "it was Fabio Paratici who drove Tottenham’s pursuit of Spence, having watched the right-back closely during his loan spell at Nottingham Forest last season."
Football London’s Alasdair Gold has revealed that Djed Spence was identified by Tottenham as a player tailor-made for Antonio Conte’s system and the club would...
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Conte: "The club wanted to do it..... I said ‘OK,"
Tottenham manager Antonio Conte has admitted Djed Spence was a ‘club’ signing rather than his own. Spurs’ busy summer continued as they made their sixth deal of the window earlier…
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Isn't that where scouting.comes from? Where's our scouts unearthing a lower league gem such as Andy Robertson?
Andy Robertson was signed from Hull the season they got relegated from the EPL.... He wasn't plucked from the "lower leagues".
Around the same time we signed Trippier from Burnley; who fits the exact same mold as Robertson.
There never seems to be any sign of that shit happening.
On the contrary; in recent seasons we've signed 2 'hot' young FBs from the champo.
This summer, we also just signed another young, highly rated LB from Italy; not unlike we did for Jose 2 years ago......
More broadly, we've also signed Gil & Sarr, but whenever we make such signings we get the same dweebs spinning the same conspiracy theories about them being unwanted Levy signings with no other consideration beyond selling them on for a profit.
Coming back to your orignal question about why managers don't exclusively drive the recrtuiment process? ......If you want undiscovered rough diamonds (something you've just bemoaned us not doing), then you can't realistically expect the manager to be the one to unearth them.
