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I don't think having a Director of Football is the answer at all. I think the purpose of the Director of Football role is to protect clubs against bad managers and their bad purchases, and even minimise the need for a manager in the first place.
As businesses, clubs would much rather buy players based on data and systemic analysis of that data - something they can understand - than spend their money based on the knowledge and intuition of some expert they don't understand. The accountants want control. It's football by numbers and I hate it. I want to see teams that are built on managers' ideas and judgement, not the result of a spreadsheet formula. Who are the heroes of Spreadsheet Football? We've already seen there are plenty of villains. The more equipped and empowered incompetents are, the greater their potential to make a mess - and managers get the blame for those messes, which allows them to go on making them. What qualifies someone as a DOF in the first place? Have any of these guys played, coached or managed? It remains the case that the best teams have the best managers. Big clubs will always be in need of great managers. It's hard enough to find one of them even though their work, good or bad, is visible to all. It makes no sense to me to also need a great DOF who will not obstruct or undermine the manager, and whose merits are difficult to discern. That is to give oneself two problems to solve instead of one. Just get a good manager and back him. |
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A good director of football supports the manager. He puts in place a team of analysts, scouts etc that identify the type of player a manager needs.
For example, we currently need a seasoned striker to relieve Hoijland. But not someone who is going to be at the club for the next 8 years. The manager tells the DoF this and they identify targets with the analysts using the scouting software. They then narrow down a list and work through it with the manager. Top targets are then tracked closely by scouts whilst the DoF uses his connections to sound the players out. The list is narrowed to 2 or 3 and the DoF coordinates negotiations with some of the exec team. All of that needs a competent DoF. The days of Fergie giving Howard Kendell a call and sorting a transfer over a brew are long gone. The DoF should also have the vision of how we play as a team. So if the manger gets sacked, we're not left with a squad of misfits from the previous manager. He's oversees the evolution of the team and the manager is left to coach the team, focusing on improving performance and drilling tactics into his players. The game has become too big for someone to do it like Fergie used to. By the end of his time Fergie was probably more of a DoF than a manager. He rarely took training sessions etc... |
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