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It's run like a pub team.
Not unusual for the best players to be involved in a committee. It is unusual for two championship players to infiltrate the ranks, and one veteran has been. We deserve to finish in the bottom half, and we could
Players worthy of being in a players committee:
Kane
Davies
Skipp
Son
Bentancur
Perisic
Lloris in the last but he's gone in the summer
Kane
Davies
Skipp
Son
Bentancur
Perisic
Lloris in the last but he's gone in the summer
Perisic? F off, ditto Son.
Bollocks Hugo dived he'd have just stood there with a vacant look on his face.
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Because football at the pro level is a big industry and a first team squad can be quite big with tons of cultures and egos involved.
A manager is not going to be able to do anything. And the player council/committee is a informal thing that exists so that the players know that there are 3-4 people that can be the player's voices in relation to the board and other execs.
This exists in all pro clubs in some form.
Whether people rate Skippy or not , his passion for the football club is there for all to see . One of the only players who looked like he gave a shit on Sunday .
Wort that mean Winks would be on it if he was still at the club. It is rumoured him and Kane do not like each other?
I don’t really get why this surprises anyone. Our squad lacks characters and those four are the best of a bad bunch in terms of leadership. They are all experienced players who have often fronted up after bad results. I understand why they would be the ones who speak on behalf of the dressing room.
Really don't thing this is an issue (beyond the slightly wanky "Players' Committee" name).
As has been said before, there are such things at most clubs. Even our pissant pub cricket team has one (and yes, we ironically call ourselves "the Committee"). I'm on it, although I'm an awful long way from being a key player. It's just I've been around the longest and I'm not leaving Madrid anytime soon.
It's common to see in the Spanish media that the Madrid manager or Florentino Pérez has had a meeting with "the captains" - the three or four senior players who wear the armband. Typically they're the players that have been around the longest, it has nothing to do with their blood-and-guts motivational approach (a la Terry Butcher, Bryan Robson, John Terry et al), they're just the oldest and most respected within the squad.
That's all this is, the four in question are our version of los capitanes, they've all worn the armband, their voice must carry some weight in the dressing room, rightly or wrongly. You could argue that Ben Davies should have been there, maybe instead of PEH, but it's a minor quibble. It has absolutely nothing to do with their form, ability or anything else.
As has been said before, there are such things at most clubs. Even our pissant pub cricket team has one (and yes, we ironically call ourselves "the Committee"). I'm on it, although I'm an awful long way from being a key player. It's just I've been around the longest and I'm not leaving Madrid anytime soon.
It's common to see in the Spanish media that the Madrid manager or Florentino Pérez has had a meeting with "the captains" - the three or four senior players who wear the armband. Typically they're the players that have been around the longest, it has nothing to do with their blood-and-guts motivational approach (a la Terry Butcher, Bryan Robson, John Terry et al), they're just the oldest and most respected within the squad.
That's all this is, the four in question are our version of los capitanes, they've all worn the armband, their voice must carry some weight in the dressing room, rightly or wrongly. You could argue that Ben Davies should have been there, maybe instead of PEH, but it's a minor quibble. It has absolutely nothing to do with their form, ability or anything else.
More worrying for me is why they get the Chairman's ear when it comes to big decisions.
We knew from Danny Rose that players were going above the managers head and straight to the Chairman. Now we know there is a fucking committee set up to do exactly that.
Kane and Lloris have.
Hojberg spoke out against Conte's rant and Dier says almost nothing to the fans after his howlers cost us game after game.
Is this a committee, a discussion group, or a cabal? At my old workplace, where committees, sub-committees, panels, forums, workgroups, and Secret Illuminati Death Cults abounded, we defined "cabal" as "a discussion group to which you are not invited".
I suspect all clubs have them, doesn't help that ours contains players that should be sold though. But it is all deflection. It was chucked in the post by the club yesterday as they knew fans would focus on it.
Decent point.
Levy: The responsibility is mine.
Also Levy: Stellini is fired and oooh look is that a player committee over there? what are they doing.
Unfortunately I know how they operate too well.
This is why TFC is still the best out there! Even with all the toxicity on here at timesMy mate works at Hotspur Way and managed to get hold of a screen grab of the agenda for today's meeting...
