Pochettino & Baldini
It is amusing hearing newspapers claim Mauricio Pochettino has been handed the final say on transfer because that's a newspaper invention.
Nothing has changed at Tottenham, the process for transfers is the same, the manager/head coach has always had the say on transfers, if a manager doesn't agree to a player he isn't signed. All players that have been signed are agreed by the manager/head coach, if a player is offered to Tottenham in the wau Rafael van der Vaart was, then Daniel Levy rings the manager and asks if he wants him, if he says no the player isn't signed.
It's a complete fallacy that a manager has a load of players signed for him that he didn't want, he simply may not have got his first choice that is all, which is the same at every club in the world.
Paul Mitchell finds and analyses the players to Pochettino's specifications. Pochettino says yes or no, they are prioritised and valued then transfer negotiations start, which Pochettino does not conduct. If agreement can be reached we sign the player, if it can't we intensify the already commenced negotiations with the next on the list.
The players on the list and all sounded out via their agents so the club have fall back options. That's as it has always been, the belief that Franco Baldini just goes out and sources players on his own is nonsense, Tottenham use statistics. If Baldini puts the name of a player forward, then they are analysed statistically against set algorithms and if the player matches up is put to the manager/head coach who says yes or no again.
All that has changed is that Tottenham are using a different team to determine which players to buy. The old guard wwere failing, we have new people sourcing players, still using the same statistics but hopefully evaluating them in a more suitable way to bring success to the club.
Baldini has never simply gone out decided on a player, convinced everyone he should be bought and bought him against the managers wishes. Newspapers have been writing that rubbish for two years and for two years the newspapers have decided that Baldini is on thin ice that his time is up at Tottenham and he'll be sacked. They have been saying he will be sacked for 2 years, he is still at Tottenham, that alone indicates they are talking rubbish.
His role oversees many things, he has been transforming the running off the club off the field and bringing it to a high quality level. He has had an input into diet, fitness, facilities for instance and it was he who wanted Paul Mitchell at the club. The media even tried to portray that as Mitchell coming in to take over from Baldini, getting it totally wrong again. It is Baldini who has assisted in overhauling how we source players, he continues to have off the record private chats to establish whether or not we may be able to get any of the targets on our list.
If you thing of the role as a managing director role then you'd be nearer the mark, throwing in the word football seems to confuse everyone, you could just call him director of sport. The overhaul of the football side at Tottenham was part of his role.
While other websites just follow what the media tells them I prefer to look at things objectively, asess them muself and come to my own conclusions. Newspapers exist to tell the public what their opinion is, the public then simply adopt what the media tells them as their own opinion, as if they have decided that themselves. That's how media works.
A director of football has a bust time ahead of him in the next few years, further improvements to the training facility, a new stadium and the changes that causes, off the field their is a lot for him to keep an eye on and ensure we continue to provide the best for the players. it is the head coaches job to get the team to perform, not the director of football's.
I wrote a series some 18 months ago and one of the aspects of that was the Japanese Kaisen approach to improvement. It's the same approach the England rugby union team used to win the world cup, the same the British cycling team used, the British Olympic team used, the Sky pro cycling team use.
You look at every single tiny little detail and how how you can improve it, some you can, some you can't. You implement all those tiny little improvements, both on and off the field and in every aspect of the running of the club.
The club have been making improvements off the field and Franco Baldini has played a big part in that. You don't have success and then create the environment for success, you create the environment first and success follows. Franco Baldini's role has been to create that environment.
Nothing has changed at Tottenham, the process for transfers is the same, the manager/head coach has always had the say on transfers, if a manager doesn't agree to a player he isn't signed. All players that have been signed are agreed by the manager/head coach, if a player is offered to Tottenham in the wau Rafael van der Vaart was, then Daniel Levy rings the manager and asks if he wants him, if he says no the player isn't signed.
It's a complete fallacy that a manager has a load of players signed for him that he didn't want, he simply may not have got his first choice that is all, which is the same at every club in the world.
Paul Mitchell finds and analyses the players to Pochettino's specifications. Pochettino says yes or no, they are prioritised and valued then transfer negotiations start, which Pochettino does not conduct. If agreement can be reached we sign the player, if it can't we intensify the already commenced negotiations with the next on the list.
The players on the list and all sounded out via their agents so the club have fall back options. That's as it has always been, the belief that Franco Baldini just goes out and sources players on his own is nonsense, Tottenham use statistics. If Baldini puts the name of a player forward, then they are analysed statistically against set algorithms and if the player matches up is put to the manager/head coach who says yes or no again.
All that has changed is that Tottenham are using a different team to determine which players to buy. The old guard wwere failing, we have new people sourcing players, still using the same statistics but hopefully evaluating them in a more suitable way to bring success to the club.
Baldini has never simply gone out decided on a player, convinced everyone he should be bought and bought him against the managers wishes. Newspapers have been writing that rubbish for two years and for two years the newspapers have decided that Baldini is on thin ice that his time is up at Tottenham and he'll be sacked. They have been saying he will be sacked for 2 years, he is still at Tottenham, that alone indicates they are talking rubbish.
His role oversees many things, he has been transforming the running off the club off the field and bringing it to a high quality level. He has had an input into diet, fitness, facilities for instance and it was he who wanted Paul Mitchell at the club. The media even tried to portray that as Mitchell coming in to take over from Baldini, getting it totally wrong again. It is Baldini who has assisted in overhauling how we source players, he continues to have off the record private chats to establish whether or not we may be able to get any of the targets on our list.
If you thing of the role as a managing director role then you'd be nearer the mark, throwing in the word football seems to confuse everyone, you could just call him director of sport. The overhaul of the football side at Tottenham was part of his role.
While other websites just follow what the media tells them I prefer to look at things objectively, asess them muself and come to my own conclusions. Newspapers exist to tell the public what their opinion is, the public then simply adopt what the media tells them as their own opinion, as if they have decided that themselves. That's how media works.
A director of football has a bust time ahead of him in the next few years, further improvements to the training facility, a new stadium and the changes that causes, off the field their is a lot for him to keep an eye on and ensure we continue to provide the best for the players. it is the head coaches job to get the team to perform, not the director of football's.
I wrote a series some 18 months ago and one of the aspects of that was the Japanese Kaisen approach to improvement. It's the same approach the England rugby union team used to win the world cup, the same the British cycling team used, the British Olympic team used, the Sky pro cycling team use.
You look at every single tiny little detail and how how you can improve it, some you can, some you can't. You implement all those tiny little improvements, both on and off the field and in every aspect of the running of the club.
The club have been making improvements off the field and Franco Baldini has played a big part in that. You don't have success and then create the environment for success, you create the environment first and success follows. Franco Baldini's role has been to create that environment.
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