Director of Football

Should we have a DoF

  • Yes, we need an Architect

    Votes: 123 65.4%

  • No, just a Chief Scout thanks

    Votes: 58 30.9%

  • Give it Dunk

    Votes: 7 3.7%
  • Total voters
    188
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Encoder said:
But it's necessary. Very few top level managers actively scout players anymore and given the modern high turnover that the job entails there needs to be a level of long term thinking and strategy within the management structure.

However our implementation of it has been very poor and Brands was seemingly something of a dope. We are still stuck in the old mindset with too many cooks in the kitchen. Just hire an established DOF and let him do his job free from the likes of Moshiri and Kia and god knows who else.
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Reread a Athletic piece about the Sporting Director/Technical/Director of football - was really insightful - Comolli (regardless of opinion of him) and Ashworth make so much sense in it, and how it would fail at clubs (mainly down to dysfunction and culture).

If its ever to work here, and I think we need it - we need to sort that side of things out first, hopefully the "sporting review" indicates this for it to work.

Links on their twitter/o'keefe retweeted it for anyone with sub
 
zukai12_ said:
well that was a nice 10 minuets
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I'm not sure we would have 'Bach-ed' him in the transfer market

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chazzle_dazzle said:
Reread a Athletic piece about the Sporting Director/Technical/Director of football - was really insightful - Comolli (regardless of opinion of him) and Ashworth make so much sense in it, and how it would fail at clubs (mainly down to dysfunction and culture).

If its ever to work here, and I think we need it - we need to sort that side of things out first, hopefully the "sporting review" indicates this for it to work.

Links on their twitter/o'keefe retweeted it for anyone with sub
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Give it to Denise Barratt Baxendale, preferably with an explanation of why those men run around a field.
 
He took about 2 months to decide to leave Brighton for a pay rise with the richest club in the world. Hopefully he’s as indecisive in the transfer market.
 
Encoder said:
I agree that he probably wasn't allowed to do his job correctly but let's not forget the massive price tags paid, poor mentality players targeted and being unable to affect the long term strategy of the club in a meaningful way (regardless of roadblocks). He needed to go.
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Don't get me wrong don't disagree with him going I'd just like to know exactly who was actually doing the deals? Was he being stopped by moshiri were the prices agreed by someone else who knows.
 
Houghty19 said:
Don't get me wrong don't disagree with him going I'd just like to know exactly who was actually doing the deals? Was he being stopped by moshiri were the prices agreed by someone else who knows.
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If you believe the story Kirkbride wrote then he was doing his own deals and keeping within the budget, it's just that Moshiri was also doing stuff behind his back and over riding him and blowing the budget such as signing James so he could appease Carlo when Brands had said no for money reasons. Having said that some of his own deals were poor to say the least and I don't ever really think he understood what was required for a player to play in the PL.
 
Interesting for howe now ashworth has joined knowing asworth will eventually be given the job of getting a bigger name in. I wonder if Potter would be deemed that. They have done some decent work at brighton. Although i did see ashworth say in an interview it was the Chairman and not him that went for Potter.
Good luck to davey weir.
 
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