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When digging for information on various club models DoF's, along with the Friedkin's more nuanced history with Roma, a telling fact appeared. Sunderland's newly appointed Director of Football, who built a team almost overnight that surpassed us in literal months, was built by Florent Ghisolfi who was let go by Roma last June. Ghisolfi had had a short spell at the club, I would assume the appointment of Gasperini led to his downfall. Ghisolfi a month later was Sunderland's head which means their signings came within months of him having the job. Now Sunderland sit on their way to Europe with young talents all across the squad.
I think this is all very telling and concerning for multiple reasons for us. I am doing some armchair psychology but Ghisolfi, a young DoF was met with an emboldened personality like Gasperini. The parallels with Gasperini and Moyes I think are obvious, despite one of those managers being much better than the other. They are bold, harsh personality led managers who kind of dictate their approach and agenda, and the club follows suit. This IMO is also true with the Friedkins ex Roma hires in Mourinho, even De Rossi and Ranieri.
If you take that profile as non negotiable profile, I think Gasperini was a interesting if not good hire by Roma. If this was a casualty the Friedkins had to make to get him, there is an argument it was reasonable. I think though Gasperini is also a hire kind of staving off the need for modernity in Roma's structure. They recently poached Tony D'Amico from Atalanta as Director of Football, clearly someone with pedigree in his own right and a history with Gasperini. Maybe they have arrived at a good structure despite not the best process.
Everton looks very similar in lots of ways to how Roma is now set up albeit the budget version. Moyes came in, had ties to Kinnear who came in shortly after. The difference is Kinnear has not uncovered global talents like Atalanta has. And Moyes is half the coach Gasperini is. So a similar old fashioned approach kind of falls apart if you don't have excellent talents that supersede that process at the core.
What I worry for us is that evidence of a modern model was likely present with Ghisolfi at Roma, later demonstrated at Sunderland, and yet the Friedkins comfortably rejected it. One way or the other the Friedkins either question Sunderlands model as a pathway, or questioned Ghisolfi's legitimacy in achieving it. Sunderland's success shows that both those calculations I would argue were and are wrong.
In all this noise around Moyes, I think all this is relevant, because he isn't just a manager, he is the gravitational pull to which the club makes decisions. That isnt that dissimilar of Roma with Gasperini. And if the only way for us to have success is to get a Gasperini I think thats very unlikely or filled with a lot of possible pitfalls that mirror of lot of Moshiri's mistakes in over emboldening managers.
The Friedkins would be wise to take some notes on Ghisolfi's success and what was I think an oversight on their part. Personally I think Sunderland seems more replicable than Roma's approach. Regardless Moyes, Kinnear and the manager recruitment model currently isn't really checking the box in either.
I think this is all very telling and concerning for multiple reasons for us. I am doing some armchair psychology but Ghisolfi, a young DoF was met with an emboldened personality like Gasperini. The parallels with Gasperini and Moyes I think are obvious, despite one of those managers being much better than the other. They are bold, harsh personality led managers who kind of dictate their approach and agenda, and the club follows suit. This IMO is also true with the Friedkins ex Roma hires in Mourinho, even De Rossi and Ranieri.
If you take that profile as non negotiable profile, I think Gasperini was a interesting if not good hire by Roma. If this was a casualty the Friedkins had to make to get him, there is an argument it was reasonable. I think though Gasperini is also a hire kind of staving off the need for modernity in Roma's structure. They recently poached Tony D'Amico from Atalanta as Director of Football, clearly someone with pedigree in his own right and a history with Gasperini. Maybe they have arrived at a good structure despite not the best process.
Everton looks very similar in lots of ways to how Roma is now set up albeit the budget version. Moyes came in, had ties to Kinnear who came in shortly after. The difference is Kinnear has not uncovered global talents like Atalanta has. And Moyes is half the coach Gasperini is. So a similar old fashioned approach kind of falls apart if you don't have excellent talents that supersede that process at the core.
What I worry for us is that evidence of a modern model was likely present with Ghisolfi at Roma, later demonstrated at Sunderland, and yet the Friedkins comfortably rejected it. One way or the other the Friedkins either question Sunderlands model as a pathway, or questioned Ghisolfi's legitimacy in achieving it. Sunderland's success shows that both those calculations I would argue were and are wrong.
In all this noise around Moyes, I think all this is relevant, because he isn't just a manager, he is the gravitational pull to which the club makes decisions. That isnt that dissimilar of Roma with Gasperini. And if the only way for us to have success is to get a Gasperini I think thats very unlikely or filled with a lot of possible pitfalls that mirror of lot of Moshiri's mistakes in over emboldening managers.
The Friedkins would be wise to take some notes on Ghisolfi's success and what was I think an oversight on their part. Personally I think Sunderland seems more replicable than Roma's approach. Regardless Moyes, Kinnear and the manager recruitment model currently isn't really checking the box in either.
