I'd take him back if it meant keeping Winks out of the team.
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I'd take him back if it meant keeping Winks out of the team.
There's a whole lot of confirmation bias in your post. Hitchens is just an easy target.
You post stars by defining Hitchens as Chief Scout...... In which case, no it wasn't his job to negotiate loans and contracts.
Since McDermot wound his time down, we've experienced a fair amount of churn at every level......
Academy 'director' (Misc. upheaval.)
U23s manager (Timmy, Ledley, Mason.... Other)
Senior manager (Timmy, Poch, Jose, Mason, Nuno, Conte)
Recruitment/scouting crew (Cast of many inc. Hitchens)
Senior manager (Both Poch & Jose were calling the shots re: loans).
DOF / head of recruitment (Levy, Mitchel, Hitchens, Fab, Poch had deep influence until he left.)
Even though he proved pretty shabby on the whole; truth is he only had majority DOF-clout for a couple of years.
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Woodgate was an excellent player.......
Still... Thanks for the another reminder not to take you seriously.
Agent fees and quiet sweeteners included, Haaland costs £150m odd I suspect (Free Mansions for Agent and Dad etc etc etc). £51m yeah, OK!
I'll get it back on track.....
Q. It's the last day of earth and everyone's ordering curry for the final feast......
What's your order?
27 is closer to 30 than to 20.
I don’t know what his title was … but my opinion remains he was exceptionally bad at his job.
And I think youve missed point slightly …. I’m not making him fully culpable for all our woes…. I’ve mentioned what I considered a vacuum where no one was taking responsibility rendering us listless in numerous aspects.
An experienced dof has come in and identified that, everything about the club appears to be operating on a different level …. And incidentally hitchen is also no longer with us.
With him gone and a recognisable structure in place I think we’ll benefit even greater moving forward
Point being he had various jobs during his time..... For much of which he wasn't responsible for the things you suggested.
We lacked a trickle-down vision and (as per convo context) a stability and visible pathway that youth players could put faith in.
In modern football, you risk that when you don't have a fully fledged DOF in place; even if some of the component staff are good at what they do. I think if you're looking for a figure-head for blame then Levy would be the most appropriate starting point.
Hitchens didn't fuck the academy up.
What I’m saying is that he is too old for Real Madrid splash big on a player like him.Nearly right is still wrong.
(Last post was just a joke, my dude....)
If they genuinely do rate him then they could easily get 5/6 years out of him.....
All the price-tags are just fan-chatter.... Who knows what they'd value him at.
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No I know he didn’t …. If you read the first paragraph I actually exonerate him from much of the blame, whilst still considering him poor at what he was charged with.
However someone with more about them might have been able to take the reigns and do something akin to what paratici has done.
He didn’t have talent, character or experience to achieve this.
Then next to him seemed to be no one of note with mistakes made and little accountability and we lost considerable ground
Hopefully with the new structure that’s the end of these underperforming departments
They were both brilliant in that cup final win in 2008. If they both wern't injury prone, we would have been a lot more consistent in that era.
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I thought that's where the thread of this convo tracks back to; the suggestion that Hitchens is to blame for a lot of acad. lads leaving, crap loan strategy etc.. If not, my bad.
He's never had the clout that Fab has been given.
Indeed......
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That’s valid …. But certain characters can step up…. Think it’s fair to say he wasn’t of that calibre
There were a "million" ENIC threads (most of them about wanting ENIC out) , so none of them would fit this headline so I simply posted it here
What the hell is this Gibbs-White transfer about?
Is he that good? Or is it some accounting hustle??
There were a "million" ENIC threads (most of them about wanting ENIC out) , so none of them would fit this headline so I simply posted it here
Ugly........
And why is she looking at his dick with such thirst?
I think it's sex'd up reporting where certain media won't let go of the big figure even though it's since been revealed that it comprises about 20m of conditional add-ons.