I don't think it's Danny. The player in the article says he wants someone to challenge him for the starting spot. We won 13 out of our last 15 league matches with Davies starting. Why would we be after a player to challenge Rose when we already have a perfectly capable backup? And why would Rose expect us to be after someone at his spot?
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Transfers Summer 2017 transfer window or, waiting for Godot
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Don't players have to get permission from the club to speak to journos?
Genuine question, as I thought they would have to?
Genuine question, as I thought they would have to?
One, the chairman is the man that has built everything.
Two, I honestly don't think it is Levy's fault. Transfers are difficult to get right, extremely difficult. We have previously moved quickly and successfully for our targets when operating the Director of Football model. Under Comolli we bought Berbatov, Zakora, then the summer after Bent, Bale, Kaboul, Boateng then Woodgate and Hutton in Jan etc and the summer after Bentley, Dos Santos, blah blah blah. When Redknapp didn't want to work under a DOF then transfer business slowed down considerably. Because Levy had to work on the deals himself with the finance guys. That is not a good system for getting stuff done quickly and easily.
Yet Redknapp was backed in his desire not to work under a Sporting Director while it was also clear that Comolli clashed with both Jol and Ramos and bought players they didn't really want.
Under AVB we didn't have one in place and if we had first season we may have got him Moutinho who he clearly wanted to build his team around but nevertheless we had a few good signings that summer early doors and had a good season. Then we went back to a DOF and saw a return to early doors transfers and successful large value complex transfers in Soldado and Lamela.
But again it's apparent that the DOF model has its limitations and AVB did not want some or all of these players and couldn't make them work.
The other thing is that I see a club like Man City operate with a DOF and always make high value early signings but their team cohesion and consistency over the last few seasons has been laughable they really have looked a collection of individuals rather than a team and so this is the limitations of having transfers controlled by a different person than the guy designing the tactics and coaching the players.
We have decided to back Poch like Redknapp we swapped his role from Head Coach to Manager and he calls the shots on transfers but it has seemed to result in some slower transfer business and some poorer transfers.
He is also by all accounts much more inclined to enjoy coaching youth players or existing players to improve rather than just sanction a large transfer.
Finally, our model has always been based on the Ajax/Dortmund model in that we identify youth like Rose, buy them early for peanuts then develop them into talents then sell for a large sum and reinvest. Ever since Levy travelled round Europe looking at the way clubs are run on the continent and came back with Frank Arnesen and Martin Jol that is our model.
We are set up to sell players and reinvest and we cannot compete in fees and wages with Man U, Man City, Woolwich, Chelsea and Liverpool. That's just a fact.
So we aren't going to destroy what we have built, what we have built is a model and infrastructure and club that despite several turnovers of manager, directors of football and the selling of some star. Players has consistently punched above its weight and improved from a club that finished 10th and below to a club that finished 7th to 5th and then the last few seasons a club that finished top 4 and challenges for the title.
None of that will happen
May be its been translated, why are you doing this?
Selling Rose would actually be an unforgiveable action, I don't think I would ever find that acceptable. He is by far the best LB in the league and I think he is probably the best in the world but people haven't realised it yet cause he got injured just when people were starting to think consider that question. I doubt he's going though, it's just BS.
Do you think we're going to keep a player who publicly criticised the clubs ambition? I would love to be proved wrong here, but I think he's as good as gone. On the books of the same agency as Walker by the way.
As much as I'd love that - that doesn't solve anyones problems. We'd need to replace him and the money to do it.
Eight-hundred-and-seventy-one pages. No signings.
I'm starting to feel a bit agitated about that.
I'm starting to feel a bit agitated about that.
There is no substance in anything as far as we know.
They do this to get clicks and sell papers.
Doing what?
Would be weird for Rose to demand competition for his place when we lost one game in 3 months with Davies playing
Maybe we will hit 900 before the day is through, fair play.
Its gone from tongue in cheek to pretty amusing to hilarious and now I'm getting pissed off. Seriously we have really put ourselves under the cosh with all this slow play
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