Dalglish - Pochettino & Baldini combination is working

Kenny Dalglish sees no problem with the technical director or director of football role at clubs, it's the way most clubs are going and managers have to,not just get used to it but find a way of making it work.

Dalglish - Pochettino & Baldini is working


Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville discussed it and Carragher suggested that they should be a unit, you employ them together, you sack them together so the club always get the type of player the manager wants. Quite frankly any director of football should be capable of listening to a manager and taking on board the type of player he is looking for before bringing him names for approval.

To suggest the director of football just goes out and gets the players he wants and doesn't talk to the manager is laughable, yet some seem to think that's what happens and want to apportion blame accordingly. Liverpool legend Dalglish sees no problem with the system, after all it gives the manager more time to work with the team.

"It’s a system that is much maligned, but Pochettino has an advantage above many of the managers in the Premier League, in that he came from Spain and a situation working with a technical director. He understands how it works... and how to make it work for him. 
"That’s the key. 
"There’s nothing wrong with having a technical director if you can find a way of making it work with the manager, and I suspect that’s what happened at White Hart Lane – Pochettino addressed that before he went in."

All you need is clearly defined roles and plenty of communication. At Tottenham Paul Mitchell does the analysis and arranges scouting, Baldini puts his suggestions in from his contacts in the game and with Pochettino players are agreed or rejected then placed in order for Baldini to see what deals can be done within the constraints of Tottenham's finances.

We have had our splash the cash period, now it's the value for money and player development time.

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