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Director of Football Operations Replacement Thread


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Ex Saint though.

 

Beattie? Pahars?

 

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Strachan? Niemi? (Might as well get another keeper in...)

 

 

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Maybe they've enticed Lawrie Mac out of retirement..........this club is presently a mess, this is a vital appointment that needs to repair a lot of damage. Let's hope he's been doing his homework, the transfer window opens in 6 weeks, we need to see a fair bit of movement in and out to turn this around.

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Lots of Steve Walsh articles in the Athletic at the moment and today's one states he does recruitment for clubs and is back in Leicester temporarily.

 

Could mean nothing but I need straws to grasp.

 

Not an ex-Saint though I don't think

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Would presumably mean going back to nurturing talent a la Shaw et al generation so long-term view. Probably the right way forward and possibly recognition that this season is gone. Still, positive if it is him I reckon

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The only thing it says a non player, Matt Crocker was a professional football player when he was younger

 

Did he play for Saints though? I took from Tommi's post that the person in question was not an ex-Saints player, not a non-player completely.

 

I imagine there are very few people working in the technical side of professional football who never played the game themselves.

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This guy’s irrelevant though. We’re still gonna be rubbish, we still have championship standard players, all bar a few, we still don’t have any money and we’re still likely to go down.

 

Happy Monday everyone

 

So you don’t think this is a start of changing that?

What do you suggest? Who in the current set up is qualified to improve things and sign better players?

 

 

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Ron, I agree with you.

 

What blows my trumpet is how they’ve arrogantly continued with this farce of a set up in the “hope” that everything will turn out fine. It’s too late now.

 

The majority of the 1st team are highly likely to be looking for the exit and us muppets end up taking it up the wrongun again.

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Crocker a great shout. Was linked with the FA Technical Director role before Reed got it. Knows our setup and also knows all the England youth players very well.

 

I remember in Wallace's article he mentioned Saints wanting something similar to Brighton with Dan Ashworth - and this would be very similar.

 

Dave Jones was also mentioned previously and could fit the ex Saints clue, but I don't see how he really qualifies for that role. Nigel Pearson another who came to mind, but I really hope not.

 

Personally hope we go with the type of thing that usually works for us, i.e a Crocker type, rather than picking an ex Manager who "goes upstairs" because they need some cash and can't get a managerial role.

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Crocker isn’t a bad shout but I’d like someone with relevant experience in the transfer market, preferably across Europe, not just the academy and developing homegrown talent.

 

Aren't Football operations director AND “player trading expert” 2 separate roles?

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Aren't Football operations director AND “player trading expert” 2 separate roles?

 

Not sure. I assumed the role is director of football - in which case there will be people working under him, specialising in the academy/youth and transfers/recruitment but ideally you’d want the DoF to have relevant knowledge and experience of both.

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I can't see any of this being the magical fix to keep us up this season, hope I'm wrong.

 

I think that all depends on whether or not the new man brings in a decent new coaching team with him. If so then it could make a big difference to our chances of staying up.

 

A lot of our problems this season seem to stem from basic errors which could be vastly improved by better coaching IMO. Things like defending corners and FKs, taking decent throw-ins etc...

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