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Director of Football incoming...

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  1. Ullofaman

    Ullofaman Well-Known Member

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    Hopefully, it's Joe Kinnear - bags of experience as a DoF. We will definitely stay in the Championship for just one season with Joe in place and then it will be on to League One.
     
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  2. Fez

    Fez Well-Known Member

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    I understand your point, but I believe it is innocently contrived.

    DoF has a job to do and the manager (head coach?) has his - or hers. We have an international league (top two tiers) and there are Pros and Cons.
     
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  3. dennisboothstash

    dennisboothstash Well-Known Member

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    It was an (attempted) joke about Ehabs footballing philosophy quote!
     
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  4. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator
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    Just pray it's not that Darren tosser, who Ehab brought in and Bruce kicked out, he's currently unemployed.
     
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  5. GLP

    GLP Well-Known Member

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    <laugh><laugh><laugh>
     
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  6. GLP

    GLP Well-Known Member

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    I got it. I'm still keen to understand this footballing philosophy.

    I think you can officially 'Whoosh' OLM.
     
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    GLP, Jun 5, 2017
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  7. dennisboothstash

    dennisboothstash Well-Known Member

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    Ha
    That was my initial thought!
     
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  8. Leon T Trout AFC

    Leon T Trout AFC Well-Known Member

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    Forgot about him - bound to be him.
     
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    Is this Silva's doing? Didn't he meet with them to tell them the direction they need to be going in?
     
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  10. GLP

    GLP Well-Known Member

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    Darren Robinson?
     
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  11. Elliot139

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    One interesting thing, could be purely coincidental. But the one name which had seriously been mentioned in terms of DoF is Steve McClaren. It makes sense to have him in a non coaching role. But the only realistic transfer target we were seemingly linked with was Danish, Fenerbache Centre Back, Simon Kjær.
    In 2010 Simon Kjær signed for Wolfsburg who were manager by Steve McClaren. As I said, it may well be purely coincidental, but it may not.
     
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  12. WSTiger

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    Thinking it might be him!
     
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  13. TONY_WARNERS_FACE.

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    Oh good. These always work.
     
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  14. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator
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    Apparently, we've offered someone the job of Director of Football, no news yet on who it is, or whether they've accepted it.
     
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  15. GLP

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    McClaren, Robinson or Duffen I reckon.
     
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    If that was the shortlist, we better start praying for McClaren.
     
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    :emoticon-0107-sweat

    Christ on a bike.

    Only McLaren would be even close to being acceptable.

    I still think it'l be someone left field.
     
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    Agree, has to be a football man who knows how to get deals done and not **** about like Ehab.
     
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    Thing is, the way Ehab works, everything going through him, you can't buy a new box of staples without running it past him, how can this work? I mean it's unclear what the DoF role will be, but if it is to sort out transfers with other clubs, I just can't see how Ehab will be kept away entirely and won't be pulling his usual stunts where the price changes last minute and we lose out on the player.

    The other possibility is that he's the one picking the players, which is always a bad idea because the person responsible for the team's performance should always be the guy picking the players to sign.
     
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    It seems he'll be in charge of negotiating the deals and signing the players that Slutsky picks out. As with any club, the owners will sign off on any deal though.
     
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