The Recruitment Question

I would have rather of seen a DoF come in before a manager/head coach, farcical this isn't the case it immediately devalues his role..

However, I'm kind of excited with the appointment of our manager, don't think it's going to be dull..

Would like to see Maloney as his number 2 and a mixture of players coming in from far and wide..

The job in hand is huge tho and leeway and patience are required with the new regime.

 

Mind we where linked that Juventus scout, Matteo Tongassi (not 100% what he’s called)
I wonder if we’ll look at someone like him now that Harkin is ruled out.

 

Maloney and Duff in as coaches would be a fantastic start.

 

We still have a few scouts and analysts in the club who will constantly be looking.

If Ange had been in contact over the last few weeks I’d assume the club will the scouts and analysts looking into players he has specified, maybe specific players or players that have certain attributes that suit his style.

It won’t be just a case of hey scouts just find us some players you think might be good enough.

 

This has been concerning me, too.

We really need a DoF now more than ever given this appointment. The fact Ange might pick players with minimal oversight could set us back really far. This rebuild needs a high % strike rate.

 

Can't see many dof sort of guys worth their salt coming in this late in the game and with a new manager just been announced.

It's all head over tail backwards *.

But something needs to happen.


There's a guy, jay lefevre who was one of the head scouts seemingly. There was a video posted somewhere on the forum a few weeks back as well.

My assumption is he is still at the club and is likely heading up the scouting/suggestions we are getting just now.

In the video awhile back, he talked about that he was getting more responsibility and was being allowed more staff for his department. Rightly so.

But what's happened since, lord knows as we have been very stale and quiet on that front.

He's a younger lad as well, doesn't mean he isn't good at his job, but he will surely be at the start of his career in terms of getting contacts and stuff, so who knows how far his reach stretches.


But he won't be the director of football or head recruitment guy, surely.
Someone else above him will need to be in the door to oversee it all properly.

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Peter lawwell could do it

 

Apparently Lennon has an eye for a player

 

Surely the manager and McKay will do their jobs, Ange will have targets, McKay will do the paperwork and negotiating. That system worked for over 100 years of football, the modern approach to needing a DoF is nonsense, a manager and the chairmen can do that quite easily in the early stage of recruitment. Which then allows time to get a DoF if that’s the way we want to go.

There is too much panic from some of the fans, we’ve literally just finished our season, yes too long without a manager but some of us are running about like it’s Armageddon.

 

I think the manager will get 75% of player sales

 

75 % rather than the usual 10 % ?Ange would hardly be that lucky

 

I expect we will pull in 30M or so in player sales.

Ideally we will spend all that on the re-build but i cant see us spend much more than 20m or slightly over that

 

I agree, I am slightly concerned. The new CEO, however good a businessman he may be, doesnt have connections in football - they were all with Lawwell.

On the point re Japanese players, I would agree, but if he plucks 3 or 4 of the best from there, it would be easier for them if they came over in a group. The 4 best players in the J League would start for us in our current state.

 

We should have had a DOF in already, there has been absolutely no need to drag it out this long.

It’s either because we put all our eggs in one basket like the Howe situation with Fergal or we never looked at one.

 

Wouldn't mind signing a couple of the names mentioned from Japan but not to be relied on to make an instant impact and go straight in the team let them settle a few months and if they turn out to be top players like naka they'll be starters or they could be the next koki mizunos

 

we are well on the way to £30m with £8 m (of the12) from the sale of frimprong,£3.5 from klimala,£1.5 from hendry .with ajer ,christie,eddy,bolingoli,bayo all still to sell ,id even try to get barky and ajeti out aswell we should be well beyond £30 m still cant see as big a percentage that you are hoping being spent

 

Suspect it will be in and around 40M, of which we will likely spend around half.
I reckon there lots of bargins to be had with loads of players being released for free in England, pick up a few from Japan.
Maybe something like 7M for a center half, similar for a forward and for a midfielder.