Johannes Spors

[Mboto Gorge]

2 minutes ago, saintant said:

His role is to sign players that SR may make a profit on. He's not there to build a side that could mount a promotion challenge. It's all about turning a profit.

The only thing this bloke is turning currently, is my stomach. 

[aintforever]

Face it, this guy’s a complete fraud. We can change managers, sorry head coaches, until the cows come home it won’t make any difference as long as this idiot and those above him are still pulling the strings.

[pimpin4rizeal]

1 hour ago, Mboto Gorge said:

Let’s be honest, he’s made some reasonable signings of a couple of skill full wide men  and a handy CM, but other than that, he’s signed a raw CB who wasn’t what we needed at this particular time - we needed an experienced leader shithouse at the back to organise and take control, and he’s signed an absolutely horrific striker, the worst in the clubs history when all things considered, when there was a huge priority for this part of the recruitment to be successful, which wasn’t actually hard given our budget and the standard of the league. Yet he somehow fucked that up big time. He’s also wasted time signing a ridiculous 3rd choice keeper and putting no pressure on our already terrible first choice keeper, and has only recently attempted to sort this, halfway through the season once our terrible first choice keeper has shown himself to be - terrible.
 

He’s also presided over the biggest cluster fuck of 2 managerial appointments, even by Sport Republics standards. Combine that with his cowardly behaviour and only wanting to speak when things are going well, and I’ve come to the conclusion that he’s another egotistical and clueless loser who thinks he’s a lot better and cleverer than he actually is. Another utterly loathsome character to add to the list that are running this club

Yeah to be honest I think he did a good job  with the fernandes and dibling money we brought in scienza fellows azaz and  jander who are all decent signings and tbh between that bunch probably offer more then Tyler and fernandes Would have . but we still failed in the priority positions with the gk and striker situations it’s actually scandalous that after four seasons we are still using bazunu as first choice keeper it’s been blatantly obvious he’s shit since at least last championship campaign 

the managerial choices if fully on him also both look terrible but it still feels like there’s some previous sports republic influence here I’m not fully confident everything is down to spors

[Badger]

23 hours ago, Miltonaggro said:

Paul Tisdale sacked as DOFO at Celtic today. Would probably trust him to do a much better and engaged job at SFC than Spors. 

Interesting that you mention Tisdale as  when it was first announced (Dec 23/Jan 24 was it?) that we’d be appointing a new DoF I wondered if he’d be a good fit. By reputation he did a great job at Exeter involved in both the football * and business side of the club.

Obviously Saints would be a massive step up, but I’d certainly reached a stage where I’d be happy with someone grounded who might stay around and build things. This seemed a better option than some fucker with their head in the clouds with a “philosophy” on the game, dreaming of Champions League, but not cutting it in the Championship.

I wasn’t initially aware at the time that he’d gone to Celtic but having read about his time there I wouldn’t be so keen a year on. This was the bloke widely credited with appointing Nancy, their worst manager ever ( and overseeing a dismal transfer window there). 
 

*Also worth remembering that his success at Exeter was working with a DoF in Steve Perryman ( but he was a former player, and not a spreadsheet nerd) 

Edited yesterday at 20:07 by Badger

[SuperSAINT]

1 minute ago, Badger said:

Interesting that you mention Tisdale as  when it was first announced (Dec 23/Jan 24 was it?) that we’d be appointing a new DoF I wondered if he’d be a good fit. By reputation he did a great job at Exeter involved in both the football and business side of the club.

Obviously Saints would be a massive step up, but I’d certainly reached a stage where I’d be happy with someone grounded who might stay around and build things. This seemed a better option than some fucker with their head in the clouds with a “philosophy” on the game, dreaming of Champions League, but not cutting it in the Championship.

I wasn’t initially aware at the time that he’d gone to Celtic but having read about his time there I wouldn’t be so keen a year on. This was the bloke widely credited with appointing Nancy, their worst manager ever ( and overseeing a dismal transfer window there). 

Big fan of his Exeter stint and I had no clue he was at Celtic. 

Chris Sutton said the Celtic fans called him Dr Do-little. 

[Badger]

1 minute ago, SuperSAINT said:

Big fan of his Exeter stint and I had no clue he was at Celtic. 

Chris Sutton said the Celtic fans called him Dr Do-little. 

He described himself as a ‘football doctor’ when he went there, although little sign of any achievement in his time there.

I had a look at a Celtic forum a few weeks ago, and there were several criticisms. Poor transfer activity where he was supposed to be identifying targets ( although this might be outside of his control), but also lack of any communication and any interviews to explain what the club were doing. Sound familiar?? 

[Badger]

Final comment on Tisdale, taken from a BBC article by Tom English (who was equally damning of Russell Martin, good read):

 

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Nancy's appointment was one of the greatest blunders Celtic have made in their history. A relative rookie on a bad run with Columbus Crew - they finished seventh in Major League Soccer - it was a punt based on little more than the hipster vibes of Paul Tisdale, the now former head of football operations.

Tisdale didn't open his mouth to fans or media in his brief time in a powerful position at Celtic Park, but he did a whole lot of damage. If Nancy ranks extremely highly in the club's most calamitous calls then Tisdale is on a par or, perhaps even, slightly ahead of him given that it was the self-styled 'Doctor Football' who championed Nancy to the club's board.

 

 

[bugenhagen]

8 minutes ago, Badger said:

Final comment on Tisdale, taken from a BBC article by Tom English (who was equally damning of Russell Martin, good read):

Nancy's appointment was one of the greatest blunders Celtic have made in their history. A relative rookie on a bad run with Columbus Crew - they finished seventh in Major League Soccer - it was a punt based on little more than the hipster vibes of Paul Tisdale, the now former head of football operations.

Tisdale didn't open his mouth to fans or media in his brief time in a powerful position at Celtic Park, but he did a whole lot of damage. If Nancy ranks extremely highly in the club's most calamitous calls then Tisdale is on a par or, perhaps even, slightly ahead of him given that it was the self-styled 'Doctor Football' who championed Nancy to the club's board.

 

 

He might be a better fit than I first thought...

We do love us some hipster vibes here at Southampton SR!

[SuperSAINT]

1 hour ago, Badger said:

He described himself as a ‘football doctor’ when he went there, although little sign of any achievement in his time there.

Shoud’ve prescribed something more effective than Nancy.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

3 hours ago, bugenhagen said:

He might be a better fit than I first thought...

We do love us some hipster vibes here at Southampton SR!

We do. We love a project signing of a sacked manager too, so Tisdale could bring Nancy with him, if Tonda's trajectory continues.

More 3 at the back. At least Celtic started creating lots of chances. Probably go the same way as Champ opponents cut off the spaces.

As for.Celtic:

Massive fan base, that doesn't translate into either European money through Champions League runs or from TV money.

So, they need to get a lot of their transfers spot on, with a limited budget (Rangers just tried a wholesale squad overhaul for 40 million)

We were able to use them as a farm club for a while, which shows the daft financial imbalance.

They are having to save pennies to pay out for their connections to the boy's club, and the abuses there.