Pochettino & Baldini on different hymn sheets?
It is often amusing how the press report things, they need an angle to a story rather than simply providing the news and we have another example with Tottenham in yet another state of turmoil.
Current events demonstrate how important the role of Director of Football is and if you appoint the wrong individual how it can impact on a club. Firstly let's tackle the obvious answer that clubs don't need a Director of |Football or Technical Director. The role is here to stay in football so fans will have to 'get with the times'.
With a club playing twice a week the manager or head coach has to prepare for those games so how much time is actually left for scouting new players, for watching them personally and making assessments before purchase? Very little. Today clubs have a scouting team or use scouts to put forward names for the type of player the club is searching for.
A club provides a guideline of what it requires from a player and in the course of his work the scout identifies a player and reports back. The club will have full-time scouts and part-time scouts, with the part timers working for several clubs at once.
The director of football is in place to provide the head coach with more time to undertake his specialism, coaching and less time spent on administration. More and more Premier League clubs are moving in that direction now, we have stolen a march but as yet failed to make it work. The director of football liaises with the head coach so that the players brought in are players the head coach is happy with and agrees to.
It is essential therefore that they are both singing from the same hymn sheet. The coach is determining the style of play, thus the director of football must source players that suit that style and not just players who may increase in value, although those considerations must be borne in mind.
When a new coach is appointed he generally brings his own staff with him, he knows and trusts them and they know how he works, they are a team. The obvious extension of that is having a director of football as part of that team so a club employs the group together.
Are Pochettino and Baldini on the same hymn sheet? Pochettino was not Baldini's choice, Frank de Boer was, Levy wanted |Anchelotti and failing that Rafa Benitez while Joe Lewis wanted Pochettino.
Lewis/Pochettino vs Levy/Benitez vs Baldini/De Boer
Waving a managerial magic wand won't fix Tottenham
Posted on 15 May and thus far depressingly accurate.
The press now report that Franco Baldini is trying to save his job by trying to finalise the purchase of Jay Rodriguez, who Tottenham discussed in the summer but unsurprisingly given that he was injured, couldn't arrange a deal for. He has not played this season either yet but Pochettino knows him and wants him.
Spurs were always going to go back in for Rodriguez in January, just as we would for Hector Moreno after his broken leg. Neither of these are new deals and neither should be deals that save Baldini his job, if they are Pochettino choices rather than his. Baldini is merely trying to broker a deal, something a hundred other people could do equally as well. The art of a director of football is not the deal brokering but the scouting network and ours is poor, given the mentally weak players we have bought.
There have been many reports suggesting Daniel Levy will overhaul the scouting network of the club and have an internal inquiry into Franco Baldini's part into the failed purchases that have cost the club millions and transformed us from top four chasers to a club wondering where the next points will come from.
The Telegraph suggest Paul Mitchell will soon be appointed and will not be answerable to Franco Baldini. He is the Head of Recruitment at Southampton so if he is appointed, that would surely make Baldini's position untenable. Will Tottenham continue to pursue Monchi, the Sevilla director of football, he build the Spanish club to win the UEFA Europa League on a shoestring but would surly be doing the same job as Mitchell.
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Our appointments smack of flavour of the month, he has done well, we'll sign him and then wonder why they don't replicate that at Spurs. Having said that, from Day One I have been certain that Pochettino has been employed for the long haul, that Levy knows we have bought hyped mediocrity only interested in their pay packets. It is my belief that he knows there are going to be some painful times while we try to dispose of them and bring in fresh players to replace them.
With a stadium to finance that will no doubt be on a limited budget with purchases funded by player sales but the players are not worth what we paid for them, another reason why you don't just overpay for a player simply because you want them.
Italy is a slow league and Baldini is used to recruiting for a slow league, thus far recruiting for a faster higher quality league he has failed abysmally. Can he and Pochettino sort the mess out? Every player we have bought lacks pace, the one thing that frightens players in the Premier League is pace.
You are not going to change the league, it will always be played at pace, the crowd demand it, the worldwide audience demand it, it's why it's the most watched league in the world. TV companies buy the rights to show it because it is exciting, there are frequent changes of possession, frequent mistakes, frequent goal mouth action.
Building a side to retain possession is fine but they must be able to maintain it being pressed faster and more often than they will be in other leagues. They have to be able to think quick, make decisions quickly and that takes vision, so the players must be those with greater vision than the majority.
There are so many aspects to player recruitment yet we just seem to look at what skill he has, the skill he has that you can't see is far more important and until we appoint people who appreciate and can assess those elements we will continue to be the nearly men of the Premier League.
Franco Baldini has had enough transfer windows to prove his worth and has clearly failed to do so. If anyone departs it'll be he and not Pochettino going through the exit door. It may be early days to say whether the partnership is working but how many of the six summer purchases are actually playing in the first-team?
This may well be the last transfer window Baldini has at Tottenham so you hope he is motivated to make it a huge success. We live in hope rather than expectation.
Current events demonstrate how important the role of Director of Football is and if you appoint the wrong individual how it can impact on a club. Firstly let's tackle the obvious answer that clubs don't need a Director of |Football or Technical Director. The role is here to stay in football so fans will have to 'get with the times'.
With a club playing twice a week the manager or head coach has to prepare for those games so how much time is actually left for scouting new players, for watching them personally and making assessments before purchase? Very little. Today clubs have a scouting team or use scouts to put forward names for the type of player the club is searching for.
A club provides a guideline of what it requires from a player and in the course of his work the scout identifies a player and reports back. The club will have full-time scouts and part-time scouts, with the part timers working for several clubs at once.
The director of football is in place to provide the head coach with more time to undertake his specialism, coaching and less time spent on administration. More and more Premier League clubs are moving in that direction now, we have stolen a march but as yet failed to make it work. The director of football liaises with the head coach so that the players brought in are players the head coach is happy with and agrees to.
It is essential therefore that they are both singing from the same hymn sheet. The coach is determining the style of play, thus the director of football must source players that suit that style and not just players who may increase in value, although those considerations must be borne in mind.
When a new coach is appointed he generally brings his own staff with him, he knows and trusts them and they know how he works, they are a team. The obvious extension of that is having a director of football as part of that team so a club employs the group together.
Are Pochettino and Baldini on the same hymn sheet? Pochettino was not Baldini's choice, Frank de Boer was, Levy wanted |Anchelotti and failing that Rafa Benitez while Joe Lewis wanted Pochettino.
Lewis/Pochettino vs Levy/Benitez vs Baldini/De Boer
Waving a managerial magic wand won't fix Tottenham
Posted on 15 May and thus far depressingly accurate.
The press now report that Franco Baldini is trying to save his job by trying to finalise the purchase of Jay Rodriguez, who Tottenham discussed in the summer but unsurprisingly given that he was injured, couldn't arrange a deal for. He has not played this season either yet but Pochettino knows him and wants him.
Spurs were always going to go back in for Rodriguez in January, just as we would for Hector Moreno after his broken leg. Neither of these are new deals and neither should be deals that save Baldini his job, if they are Pochettino choices rather than his. Baldini is merely trying to broker a deal, something a hundred other people could do equally as well. The art of a director of football is not the deal brokering but the scouting network and ours is poor, given the mentally weak players we have bought.
There have been many reports suggesting Daniel Levy will overhaul the scouting network of the club and have an internal inquiry into Franco Baldini's part into the failed purchases that have cost the club millions and transformed us from top four chasers to a club wondering where the next points will come from.
The Telegraph suggest Paul Mitchell will soon be appointed and will not be answerable to Franco Baldini. He is the Head of Recruitment at Southampton so if he is appointed, that would surely make Baldini's position untenable. Will Tottenham continue to pursue Monchi, the Sevilla director of football, he build the Spanish club to win the UEFA Europa League on a shoestring but would surly be doing the same job as Mitchell.
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It's difficult for Pochettino
Former manager Gerry Francis thinks Pochettino has been put in a rather difficult position with a group of players unsuited to the system he wants to play, but why are they?
Spurs identity left with Dawson
It was obvious at the time and now we see the result, a team with no feeling for the club, no hearty, no sole, just a bunch of short-term money mercenaries.
More deadwood than a forest
We have a host of players who don't look to have the desire to take the club forward and summer purchases who aren't even good enough to get into a failing team.
Dembele's depressing Decision
It is a worry that Dembele doesn't even know why he isn't being picked but more of a worry that he doesn't know what the problems are. There is no hope of resolving issues he can't even see.
Players like to hide when the going gets tough admits Adebayor
This article discusses what Adebayor said and shows why he is way off the mark, why he is demonstrating the opposite of what Tottenham actually need from a vice-captain.
Our appointments smack of flavour of the month, he has done well, we'll sign him and then wonder why they don't replicate that at Spurs. Having said that, from Day One I have been certain that Pochettino has been employed for the long haul, that Levy knows we have bought hyped mediocrity only interested in their pay packets. It is my belief that he knows there are going to be some painful times while we try to dispose of them and bring in fresh players to replace them.
With a stadium to finance that will no doubt be on a limited budget with purchases funded by player sales but the players are not worth what we paid for them, another reason why you don't just overpay for a player simply because you want them.
Italy is a slow league and Baldini is used to recruiting for a slow league, thus far recruiting for a faster higher quality league he has failed abysmally. Can he and Pochettino sort the mess out? Every player we have bought lacks pace, the one thing that frightens players in the Premier League is pace.
You are not going to change the league, it will always be played at pace, the crowd demand it, the worldwide audience demand it, it's why it's the most watched league in the world. TV companies buy the rights to show it because it is exciting, there are frequent changes of possession, frequent mistakes, frequent goal mouth action.
Building a side to retain possession is fine but they must be able to maintain it being pressed faster and more often than they will be in other leagues. They have to be able to think quick, make decisions quickly and that takes vision, so the players must be those with greater vision than the majority.
There are so many aspects to player recruitment yet we just seem to look at what skill he has, the skill he has that you can't see is far more important and until we appoint people who appreciate and can assess those elements we will continue to be the nearly men of the Premier League.
Franco Baldini has had enough transfer windows to prove his worth and has clearly failed to do so. If anyone departs it'll be he and not Pochettino going through the exit door. It may be early days to say whether the partnership is working but how many of the six summer purchases are actually playing in the first-team?
This may well be the last transfer window Baldini has at Tottenham so you hope he is motivated to make it a huge success. We live in hope rather than expectation.
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