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Jezza
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Just been announced that Manchester United have sacked Jose Mourinho.
https://twitter.com/ManUtd/status/1074964051741032448 _________________ | 1902 | 1903 | 1910 | 1917 | 1919 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1935 | 1936 | 1953 | 1958 | 1990 | 2010 | 2023 |
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K
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Can Liverpool claim responsibility?
Or is it Pogba's fault? |
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Pies4shaw
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The timing’s quaint. Why sack him after they played the best team in the country, rather than after they’d been inept against other inept teams? |
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ronrat
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[quote="K"]Can Liverpool claim responsibility?
Or is it Pogba's fault?[/quote
My thoughts exactly. Never has been his fault. _________________ Annoying opposition supporters since 1967. |
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Jezza
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Man Utd director of football: Is Paul Mitchell the ideal candidate and how will role work?
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46618593
"What does a director of football do?
In appointing their first director of football, Manchester United will be following many other clubs who have done the same, including neighbours and Premier League champions Manchester City.
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But a head coach-director of football structure is more common among continental European clubs than in British ones, who tend to favour a manager that traditionally has covered both roles.
Directors of football look after all football operations in clubs, says Les Reed, who, as head of football development, worked with Mauricio Pochettino and Mitchell at Southampton.
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"That can be recruitment, which takes up most of your time, contract negotiation, player development, the development of all teams from the academy through to the first-team squad, and being responsible for the manager.
"A technical director is slightly different in that you might manage all the support departments but might not be involved in transfers or contract negotiation."
Effectively, they are in place to consider the medium to longer term and maintain a playing philosophy, while the manager or head coach deals with day-to-day operations."
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Jezza
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^ It's good to see.
Do you support a team, K? _________________ | 1902 | 1903 | 1910 | 1917 | 1919 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1935 | 1936 | 1953 | 1958 | 1990 | 2010 | 2023 | |
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K
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Err... posts crossed, and I just edited out the comment Jezza referred to... so I'd better put it back here.
Previously, I said:
"The Nick's EPL forum has burst into life, if only temporarily." |
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K
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Jezza wrote: | ... Do you support a team, K? |
The short answer is: in general, for foreign sports leagues, my policy is to try not to. |
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K
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"Man Utd's Ł19.6m pay-off to Mourinho & staff, announced today, would pay the wages of all the players, managerial team, coaches, and all other staff, footballing and otherwise, at an average League Two club. For eight years.
- 14 Feb 2019"
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K
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Manchester United and the Siren Song of the Quick Fix
Feb. 18, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/sports/manchester-united-solskjaer.html
"Where Mourinho had made a habit of criticizing his players in public, Solskjaer took care to praise every single one of them after a victory against Tottenham... Where Mourinho had scowled and sneered through public engagements, Solskjaer has the air of a man living a dream, good-natured and good-humored.
Where Mourinho complained endlessly about United’s transfer strategy, and the greater resources enjoyed by his putative rivals, Solskjaer seems to revel in working with players he regards as among the best in the world. Mourinho’s relationship with some had soured so much that his messages to the players were often transmitted through Kieran McKenna, the first-team coach; Solskjaer, a former United forward, has been giving his strikers tips on precise movements and types of finish.
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As satisfying (not to mention easy) as it would be to place all of United’s recent ills at Mourinho’s door, it would not be a reflection of reality. He was as much symptom as cause of United’s drift in recent years; his departure, and Solskjaer’s arrival, was a first step on the way back. It should not be confused with the end of the journey.
Last summer, United bowed to the overwhelming trend of the modern era and decided to appoint a technical director, someone to fill the role occupied by Txiki Begiristain at Manchester City and by Michael Edwards at Liverpool. Mourinho was against it, but Woodward’s mind was made up.
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The club has not yet internally decided what title the new appointment — if and when it is made — will hold, or what responsibilities the holder will have. ...
That lack of clarity is not ideal. United has been linked with a succession of high-profile names ... and it has widely been assumed that all would find the prospect of working at Old Trafford appealing. Without a clear, codified set of responsibilities, though, all are likely to be put off, according to several people who work in sports executive recruitment.
United has been hamstrung ever since the retirement of Alex Ferguson by precisely this lack of vision, this ignorance of destination. ...
That is not something Solskjaer can solve. ... But nor should his success allow United to gloss over it again, to fall into the comforting but corrosive belief that all of its problems can be solved by finding one great man to lead the team. Joy and confidence will take you only so far." |
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Football managers: What are their job interviews really like?
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/47640976
"Not all interviews are just a chat though. One manager described a particular post that demanded a four-part interview which took most of a day.
First, he had to describe how he would sell a move to the club in question to a potential new signing.
Then, he had to leave the room, return and give a half-time team talk to the panel, after being given a scenario beforehand - "We're 2-0 down at home and the striker is having a shocker..."
Thirdly - and perhaps most bizarrely - an actor entered the room playing the part of a parent of an academy player who was upset with the lack of game time he was receiving, with the candidate expected to be able to talk him round,
And as if that wasn't enough, the manager then had to plan and take an afternoon coaching session." |
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Jezza
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^ Not sure if he's the right appointment despite his good record so far.
I still think United would have been better off going for Pochettino from Spurs. _________________ | 1902 | 1903 | 1910 | 1917 | 1919 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1935 | 1936 | 1953 | 1958 | 1990 | 2010 | 2023 | |
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