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​Kwa timu hiyo mbovu ndo mnategemea Giggs afanye maajabu? Na yeye mtamfukuza tu karibuni kama Moyes.
"Boring football" ya DM hamna tena mkuu
Ryan alipoteuliwa tuu alifanya hivi:
- His first call upon being appointed was to former United boss Sir Alex Ferguson: "I wanted advice and I wanted to know just what to expect."
- Kwahiyo ule mziki kama wa Fergie utauona kuanzia kesho.
- Jitahidi uagalie mpira kesho utaamini maneno yangu
​Kwa timu hiyo mbovu ndo mnategemea Giggs afanye maajabu? Na yeye mtamfukuza tu karibuni kama Moyes.
mkifugwa sijui mtafukuza nae...!?
"Boring football" ya DM hamna tena mkuu
Ryan alipoteuliwa tuu alifanya hivi:
- His first call upon being appointed was to former United boss Sir Alex Ferguson: "I wanted advice and I wanted to know just what to expect."
- Kwahiyo ule mziki kama wa Fergie utauona kuanzia kesho.
- Jitahidi uagalie mpira kesho utaamini maneno yangu
Sasa sio kipindi cha kufukuza, ni kipindi cha kuleta/kuongeza vifaa
Kwa kuanzia na kocha ......... umeshamjua? {Kidokezo: kocha na wachezaji wanaokuja ni World class }
Nakubali mtaleta World Class kama Bebe muda si mrefu
​Kwa timu hiyo mbovu ndo mnategemea Giggs afanye maajabu? Na yeye mtamfukuza tu karibuni kama Moyes.
It's vital that Man Utd find a director of football
Posted by Gabriele Marcotti
Dear Joel and Avram (and if you're reading this, Malcolm, Linda, Edward, Darcie, Bryan and Kevin, too),
You guys are the Glazers. You own Manchester United and this is, no doubt, a trying time. You have just parted ways with your manager, David Moyes, and you need to find a successor. Take this as an open letter filled with unsolicited, but well-meaning, advice.
According to reports, you will make your decision with input from Sir Alex Ferguson, David Gill, Sir Bobby Charlton, Ryan Giggs and Ed Woodward, but I assume it's still ultimately your decision. So please consider the following.
How about, before picking a manager, you pick somebody above him?
Call it a director of football. Or general manager. Or head of football operations. Or executive executive. Heck, call him Barney, if you like. It really doesn't matter what you call it.
It does matter that you bring in somebody respected, intelligent and loyal. Ideally it would be someone who knows his way around agents and transfers and who understands budgets and balance sheets. Someone who is a diplomat, who can defuse internal tensions when needed or, if necessary, knock heads.
Someone who is as comfortable talking to Wayne Rooney, Shady Super Agent X (yep, you've probably figured out by now there are times when you need to get dirty), the supporters and the media.
Someone who has a clear vision and a philosophy of football you believe works, and who you trust to bring in a manager who shares it. But also someone humble enough to dispense with a new manager and admit his mistake if things don't work out.
It's vital that the Glazers get more than the next manager right; they need to hire a director of football also.
I know. In England, there is the cult of the manager and so much of the punditocracy view directors of football (or whatever title you choose) as something weird and foreign.
And sure, Sir Alex didn't need a director of football. But -- and you've probably figured this out by now -- Sir Alex was a freak, an outlier, an exception. Whatever manager you get, he won't be Sir Alex. Just because things worked a certain way for him doesn't mean they'll work the same for someone else.
The fact is, the era of the omnipotent, omniscient uber-manager who controls every aspect of the club is over. It's not just a foreign thing. Look at the clubs above you in the table. Tottenham Hotspur have one. So do Chelsea and Manchester City. Liverpool don't, but they have a "transfer committee" which does some of the same things. West Bromwich Albion have one, so do Crystal Palace.
What's that you say? Arsenal don't have one? No, but they had a guy in David Dein who essentially filled the role I'm talking about. He left the club in 2007. They haven't won anything since.
Directors of football (or their equivalents) exist in almost every sport everywhere in the world. And in football, they exist almost everywhere outside England. There's a reason for it.
Recruiting talent requires a different skill set from coaching talent. Once upon a time when clubs rarely acquired players from abroad, it wasn't a big deal. A manager would get to personally watch every player in the league at least twice a season. He could easily go and catch a few more games on off nights if needed. He had two or three trusted scouts or assistants who could fill in the gaps.
David Dein wasn't a Director of Football, per se, but his work fulfilled many of the same functions. Arsenal haven't won without him.
Initially, there were no agents, which meant you could negotiate directly with another manager and with the player himself. And once they came into the game it was no big deal, because it was the same, tight group of guys everybody knew.
The game has changed. Your club has armies of scouts in every corner of the globe. They can flag players, but somebody needs to come in, make an initial evaluation, figure out how much they're worth and how much they cost, and then, if they're worth pursuing, conduct a negotiation without getting fleeced. To do this, they need expertise, contacts and eyeballs. They need miles on the road watching players, talking to scouts and agents.
Do you really think the same guy who has to worry about his 25-man squad, playing twice a week and preparing for his opponents has the time, energy and -- above all -- aptitude to do all that?
Remember January when Moyes went off on his European tour, flying to Bordeaux, Cagliari and Moenchengladbach to "scout" players? Do you really think that was the best use of his time? What if somebody with the same gravitas as the manager, who could represent the club equally well and who could make such trips far more often, had been sent out on the road and the manager stayed home and focused on working with his players on the training pitch?
I know, I know. Sir Alex didn't need such a figure. Well, Sir Alex also had close relationships with key people he trusted. Relationships he built up in nearly three decades at the helm. He delegated plenty. And besides, he was Sir Alex. He was a one-off.
The fact is that most managers can't do it, so they get friendly agents to act as de facto directors of football. Or they mostly just sign guys they've worked with before. In both cases, they'll tell you that it's because they "trust" them. In both cases you don't need me to tell you that it's not a good idea. An agent acting as a director of football has an obvious conflict of interest. A manager who limits himself to guys he already knows isn't exploring the full range of possibilities.
AllsportIt's possible that Woodward and Moyes could have secured better transfer deals had they been working with a Director of Football.
Look at what occurred last summer. You had a manager preoccupied with a zillion different things and a chief executive (Woodward) who was brilliant at securing lucrative sponsorships but a novice when it came to transfers.
What happened? They were led down the garden path by folks who convinced them you could sign Thiago Alcantara and Cesc Fabregas. I dare say Sir Alex -- or a competent director of football type -- would have had a working BS meter that could have sniffed this out straight away.
When they did sign someone, it was Marouane Fellaini, a guy Moyes worked with before. And because of the prior dithering, you paid $6 million more than you should have.
In January, you broke your club transfer record to sign Juan Mata for $62 million. Great player, but could you have gotten him for less with Financial Fair Play around the corner, a World Cup coming up in a few months and the player clearly surplus to Chelsea's requirements? With a savvy director of football, I'd suggest that, yes, you could have.
(While we're at it, maybe with such a figure at the club, Nani wouldn't have somehow negotiated a five-year extension keeping him at Old Trafford until he turns 31. Five years for a guy who started just seven league games the previous season.)
The role is very popular (and standard) in Europe: take Bayern, who have reached unprecedented heights with Matthias Sammer as executive.
The punditocracy in England often claim that directors of football buy players a manager doesn't want and therefore interfere with his job. But a good director of football would be on the same wavelength with the manager because he would have had a hand in appointing him.
He would understand the profile of player the manager wants and present multiple options. Then they would choose together. As with all things, it's about getting the right guy for the job. A bad one won't help you -- but then neither will a bad manager -- while a good one will make a real, tangible difference.
But it's not just about transfers and managing contracts. It's also about having another public face to support the manager. Moyes looked increasingly lonely and undermined out there, with nobody from the club stepping in to lend support. Equally, today's papers are full of stories (anonymous and after the fact, obviously) of bust-ups and behind-the-scenes tension. You can say it was a case of nobody wanting to interfere with his work. You can say that Moyes didn't want help, he wanted to stamp his authority; having someone step in to mediate or back him up would have had the opposite effect. And you can say that Sir Alex never needed any such crutches.
Fine. But Moyes isn't Sir Alex. And guess what? Nor are any of the guys you've been linked with. What's more, guys like Pep Guardiola, Juergen Klopp, Carlo Ancelotti, Diego Simeone, Antonio Conte and Frank De Boer have only worked with a director of football. Stick them in the manager's seat without one, and you'll be throwing them in the deep end.
Louis van Gaal is a bit different. He was omnipotent at AZ Alkmaar, sure. But that was AZ Alkmaar. He had one at Bayern, Barcelona and Ajax.
A competent director of football would also be the perfect bridge between the first team and the academy. Again, what's the better use of your manager's time: working with his senior players or traipsing off to watch the U-21s and U-18s at every opportunity?
With a director of football at the top, you can create a situation where the guys running the academy and the manager share the same philosophy, because it's also your philosophy. You can fully exploit what ought to be one of your club's biggest assets (and historically has been) by ensuring that the academy produces the types of players the manager wants. And if you get it right, that's exactly what will happen because the director of football, academy director and manager will all have the same footballing philosophy.
The Glazers can't afford to let Man United's brand value slip or stumble.
Great clubs are about continuity and patience. I know you guys like that, too. You don't enjoy controversy and instability -- not in your companies, not in your sports teams. Instability affects the bottom line, right?
But in fact, that's another reason to have a director of football. Managers come and go, even if theyre successful. (Again, forget Sir Alex, hes an outlier.) And when they go, if they're powerful and ruthless enough, they cherry-pick the best of the scouting, medical and coaching staff and take them with them.
If you want continuity, if you want guys wedded to the Manchester United way who will stay loyal, you need to have somebody else in there. Somebody who won't bolt for more money or a "new challenge" or whatever other excuse is offered up. Directors of football tend to stay in one place. They take a long-term view. With a director of football, if you change managers, you don't have to rip up the blueprint and start from scratch.
You want names? I can't give them to you. That's something you need to decide. I mean, ideally, Sir Alex would take the gig. There would be nobody better than him, and having Sir Alex in a proper, hands-on role would be fantastic.
But the man is 72 and, unless he tells us differently, he's out of the running. So you would need to look elsewhere. But the right man is out there. And he ought to be the first building block of the post-Moyes United.
Otherwise, particularly if you go for one of the foreign coaches you're linked with (but even if you go with a domestic option), you could pay a hefty price. And you won't be exploiting your club's full potential.
Good luck and Godspeed,
Gabriele
Ameongea kitu kizuri sana it make sense to be honest ila kwa upande mwingne nahs hyo role anayoizungumzia imekuwa filled na ed woodward
My goodness me...according to the Guardian Sport (UK), Wenger has given his words that he will sign a new contract with Arsenal.
#Kimewaganda
Ameongea kitu kizuri sana it make sense to be honest ila kwa upande mwingne nahs hyo role anayoizungumzia imekuwa filled na ed woodward
Kama umeanza kufuatilia soka kwa muda mrefu utakuwa unajua jinsi gani hicho cheo kinavyoleta mushkari katika kila timu zinazokuwa nacho. Makocha/managers wengi wameshaachia ngazi sababu ya kuwepo kwa Director of football. Sababu kubwa ni kuwa power ya makocha inakuwa imelimitiwa hasa linapokuja swala la usajili pia badala ya kocha kuripoti direct kwa chairmen, vice chairmen au owner ataripoti kwa director of football. Juzi juzi Newcastle walimleta Joe Kinnear awe Director of Football akaondoka baada ya kutoelewana na Pardew pia kwa kufanya kazi mbovu. Anyway,Man United wakileta director of Football itazidi kuwa vizuri kwa timu nyingine.
Wenger is the best. In Wenger we may trust. Naona kila mtu anawatolea nje Pep, Ancelotti, Simeone, Klopp, Blanc, Vaagal, Mourinho wote hawataki kuja katika new to be MH370 yenu. Badala ya kufundisha soka, Giggs atawafundisha kuwa wachezaji kuwa ma-playa if catch the drift.
Sure. He is the best in failing.
Cheki sasa, Giggsy anasimamia mechi nne zilizobaki, watu mnaanza kuweweseka. Duh! Wakaanga sumu bana!
Kama umeanza kufuatilia soka kwa muda mrefu utakuwa unajua jinsi gani hicho cheo kinavyoleta mushkari katika kila timu zinazokuwa nacho. Makocha/managers wengi wameshaachia ngazi sababu ya kuwepo kwa Director of football. Sababu kubwa ni kuwa power ya makocha inakuwa imelimitiwa hasa linapokuja swala la usajili pia badala ya kocha kuripoti direct kwa chairmen, vice chairmen au owner ataripoti kwa director of football. Juzi juzi Newcastle walimleta Joe Kinnear awe Director of Football akaondoka baada ya kutoelewana na Pardew pia kwa kufanya kazi mbovu. Anyway,Man United wakileta director of Football itazidi kuwa vizuri kwa timu nyingine.
Nakubali mtaleta World Class kama Bebe muda si mrefu
Everton walikuwa ugenini arifu....sasa mkiwa nafasi ya nne (kama kawaida yenu), ndiyo kiashiria cha kusema Professor Doctor Economist Manager French Arsene Wenger atastahili kupewa mkataba mupya?