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Management Johan Lange - Technical Director

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He is a technical director not the DoF. We are asking Lange to complete deals in our structure that is going to be Levy not Lange. If you want a politician and deal maker you need Paratici back as DoF. They aren’t the same roles.

Lange might be good or not but if it’s deals that are the problem I am not sure he is the man to blame.
 
Does anyone actually know for a fact that Lange is on holiday? Or is it a piss take that’s taken on arms and legs?
Just the uber to the airport thing after the Burnley match last weekend.

Apparently was going home to Copenhagen, but it must have been a short holiday, because he was photographed with Levy and Vinai in Manchester on Saturday for the City match tbf.

Don’t think there’s anything in it
 
Just the uber to the airport thing after the Burnley match last weekend.

Apparently was going home to Copenhagen, but it must have been a short holiday, because he was photographed with Levy and Vinai in Manchester on Saturday for the City match tbf.

Don’t think there’s anything in it
Ok, so he’s not on a sunbed in Dubai then? Fair enough. It would be stupid, no matter his involvement in the window, to be on holiday right now.
 
He is a technical director not the DoF. We are asking Lange to complete deals in our structure that is going to be Levy not Lange. If you want a politician and deal maker you need Paratici back as DoF. They aren’t the same roles.

Lange might be good or not but if it’s deals that are the problem I am not sure he is the man to blame.
Yeah this. Think he’s mainly in charge of identifying young talent to buy. Don’t think he has that much to do with negotiating deals.
 
Lads don't fall for it again, it doesn't matter who is in that role. If they aren't backed then no one can achieve anything in it just like none of them have in the past 20 years.
Its Levy's fault and no one elses
 
He is a technical director not the DoF. We are asking Lange to complete deals in our structure that is going to be Levy not Lange. If you want a politician and deal maker you need Paratici back as DoF. They aren’t the same roles.

Lange might be good or not but if it’s deals that are the problem I am not sure he is the man to blame.
Airfixx Airfixx Similar to what you said about Paratici being the deal maker for a while. Bring him back
 
Airfixx Airfixx Similar to what you said about Paratici being the deal maker for a while. Bring him back

In multiple threads (no doubt including this one) I can be found saying I want a structure that entails a 'Parattici' (trad DOF/vision & deal-making guy) and a 'Lange' (data boffin head of scouting nerd that still has practical experience of old school methods); whilst Levy pisses about with brand synergys, THFC plc investments and all that bollocks.

Our exchange earlier was simply me being insistent that ENIC (and/or Levy) being "zero" influence, silent owners is completely unrealistic.... It is.
 
Who over promoted him?? It is all on Levy, don't get sucked into blaming anyone else. Until he's out of our club we could put anyone you can think of in a sporting/football director role and it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference

Except.... Having more effective people working under Levy in these roles vs the obvious gimps (eg Hitchens) evidently HAS yielded positive results.

Arnesen, Connoli, Parattici

The uncomfortable part however is that the seeds of Poch's fabled team were sewn in large part by Levy, McDermott, Sherwood, Pleat & such (i.e. Hugo, Vert, Dembele, Walker, Rose, Dele + Kane, Mason, Bentaleb, Winks, Carrol. Pritchard etc etc........ A wave of academy products that netted us over 100m when that was still a fuck tonne of dosh.... Long before we got another 100m from Bayern).
 
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