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Liverpool Academy director Alex Inglethorpe is set to stay at Kirkby rather than switch to a new role within Brendan Rodgers’ staff at Melwood.
The 43-year-old has been linked with a possible permanent move to Melwood following the departures of assistant manager Colin Pascoe and first team coach Mike Marsh on Friday.
But the ECHO understands that Inglethorpe is likely to stay at Kirkby where his work as a “developer” of talent is seen as key in bringing through first team players.
Rodgers was instrumental in bringing Inglethorpe to Liverpool in November 2012 following six years at Tottenham where he was part of developing the likes of Harry Kane, Ryan Mason and many others.
He was promoted to the director of the Academy last summer and continues to enjoy a close relationship with Rodgers.
However it is believed he is seen as been of most value to Liverpool and Rodgers in producing first team players for the Northern Irishman, a project which Inglethorpe himself believes is only just at its beginning and which he is keen to continue with.
Inglethorpe is highly regarded by the Liverpool owners and chairman Tom Werner spoke of his value to the club in the ECHO in February after FSG’s John Henry and Mike Gordon had paid a visit to Kirkby.
Werner said: “I think you know that we’ve made a significant investment in the Academy and I got a report from John and Mike Gordon.
“ I know they met with Alex Inglethorpe who I think is the right man to run the Academy.
“It’s very important obviously that Alex and Brendan and all of us are working together because the lifeblood of any club is its players.”
Inglethorpe had a playing career as an attacking midfielder at Watford, Barnet, Leyton Orient, Exeter City and Canvey Island but packed it in at 29 to concentrate on coaching where he started out as manager of non-league Leatherhead in 2001.
After Leatherhead, a spell as Leyton Orient’s youth coach followed and he took over as boss at Exeter City in 2004, securing a 0-0 draw at Old Trafford in the FA Cup.
In June 2006 he left Exeter to become youth team coach at Tottenham, turning down the chance to take over as manager of MK Dons.
Liverpool Academy director Alex Inglethorpe is set to stay at Kirkby rather than switch to a new role within Brendan Rodgers’ staff at Melwood.
The 43-year-old has been linked with a possible permanent move to Melwood following the departures of assistant manager Colin Pascoe and first team coach Mike Marsh on Friday.
But the ECHO understands that Inglethorpe is likely to stay at Kirkby where his work as a “developer” of talent is seen as key in bringing through first team players.
Rodgers was instrumental in bringing Inglethorpe to Liverpool in November 2012 following six years at Tottenham where he was part of developing the likes of Harry Kane, Ryan Mason and many others.
He was promoted to the director of the Academy last summer and continues to enjoy a close relationship with Rodgers.
However it is believed he is seen as been of most value to Liverpool and Rodgers in producing first team players for the Northern Irishman, a project which Inglethorpe himself believes is only just at its beginning and which he is keen to continue with.
Inglethorpe is highly regarded by the Liverpool owners and chairman Tom Werner spoke of his value to the club in the ECHO in February after FSG’s John Henry and Mike Gordon had paid a visit to Kirkby.
Werner said: “I think you know that we’ve made a significant investment in the Academy and I got a report from John and Mike Gordon.
“ I know they met with Alex Inglethorpe who I think is the right man to run the Academy.
“It’s very important obviously that Alex and Brendan and all of us are working together because the lifeblood of any club is its players.”
Inglethorpe had a playing career as an attacking midfielder at Watford, Barnet, Leyton Orient, Exeter City and Canvey Island but packed it in at 29 to concentrate on coaching where he started out as manager of non-league Leatherhead in 2001.
After Leatherhead, a spell as Leyton Orient’s youth coach followed and he took over as boss at Exeter City in 2004, securing a 0-0 draw at Old Trafford in the FA Cup.
In June 2006 he left Exeter to become youth team coach at Tottenham, turning down the chance to take over as manager of MK Dons.
Quite possibly. At the very least it has to be a way of making clear to him that he's on a final warning. If he cooperates with the changes and makes a success of things that way, great. If not, both sides know that Klopp will be available in a matter of months and possibly Ancelotti this time next year.
Good news.
Incidentally one side-effect of his not coming to Melwood will be to leave Rodgers very exposed indeed.
It's incredibly hard to know what FSG are aiming for. Without solid information my inclination is to assume a cynical plan. I guess they could bring in a wonderfully diplomatic figure who, very tactfully but effectively, can make Rodgers re-think his vision and revise it via certain specific details. That would be impressive. But it's surely more likely they'll bring in someone much more distinctive and potentially combative, and that's where I can't see it progressing rather than deteriorating. It isn't hard to sympathise emotionally during a match if someone says, for example, 'We need to get someone in who makes the defence play in a different way. Once we get the ball into midfield they can revert to playing the Rodgers way'. But in practice coaching isn't like that. It's not pieces of LEGO. Certainly in Rodgers' view it's an organic whole. And that's what FSG signed up to, for better or worse. Better to call it quits than fudge with Fudgie.
You just know Pako is going to be the next Liverpool manager..
Least he's won stuff
Has the club actually announced Pascoe going?
I think they're waiting for that fucking Pascoe dirge to finish, cos some of block 305 are still standing in the kop singing the last verse.
Did we.. ?? I thought that's was whilst he was still there...
If so I stand corrected....
That being said.. he is a decent coach..
In Israel though (no offence, Wizzy 😉). Even Rodgers is more experienced as a manager at top level. If Pako'd come back as coach I'd defo consider it, but I wouldn't want him in the manager's office.
LIVERPOOL: WITHOUT AUTHORITY BRENDAN RODGERS IS SUNK
by Roy Henderson // 4 June 2015 // 21 Comments
SO Brendan Rodgers remains the manager of Liverpool Football Club. We wish him well, and cross our fingers. But me? I think he’s sunk. Before he starts, I mean — he’s sunk. “Why?”, I hear you ask. Well, if a manager is going to lead, he has to have authority. And right now, I’m not sure he has it. Players, fans, media — does anyone feel confident in his mandate?
A manager must lead. And to lead, he needs the consent of those who are supposed to follow him. To do that at Liverpool, right now, after everything that’s just gone on, he needs authority. His authority must be beyond question. And there’s the rub. You see, on the day he walked through the door, the club sowed seeds of doubt that would ultimately germinate and undermine his authority. The seedlings continue to grow.
Authority is in the eye of the beholder — if we perceive it, he can achieve it. A clever man called Max Weber once theorised that there are three routes to that perception. So over to Max.
Route 1: Charismatic Authority
With ‘charismatic authority’, the leader has authority because the followers want him to lead them. Rodgers is a naturally likeable, charismatic man, and — whether consciously or not — he set about asserting this kind of authority the moment he came through the door, talking in rich metaphors, and even using pseudo religious language, for example saying about Lucas Leiva: “He’s one of the disciples I would say, he understands totally what we’re doing.” He spent part of his early career working closely with Jose Mourinho, and it’s clear he learned a few things in that respect. If it hadn’t been for Being Liverpool, there’s a chance the feel-good factor around him would have been near unanimous. His man management was good, the senior players liked him and bought into his methods (just Google for quotes from Suarez and Gerrard), and half way into the second season, the away fans really started getting behind him too — we all know the song. Those things are significant: they bolster a manager’s position.
Route 2: Rational-Legal Authority
Most football managers operate in this category. With ‘rational-legal authority’, the leader is backed by a ‘mandate’, bestowed by an accepted source of power that everyone accepts. That mandate might be based on fear, the grudging acceptance of a democratic outcome (give me a moment while I wipe the tear from my eye), or the collective preservation of interconnected vested interest (see Sepp Blatter for maybe the best example we’ve seen of this in recent times). With ‘rational-legal authority’, there are rules and routines that the followers all subscribe to, grudgingly or otherwise, and the leader leads in accordance with those rules.
Against that backdrop, a manager can expect at least a brief spell in charge: the people with the power appoint them, set out the rules and tell them what’s expected of them, and after a spell, if they haven’t delivered, the authority will eventually be withdrawn. The white hankies come out, the dreaded vote of confidence gets passed, fans start shouting at each other in the stands and on social media… we all know the pattern well enough by now.
So what was Brendan’s mandate? And what were the rules? Well, Rodgers came in with what seemed as clear a mandate as any Liverpool manager has had in recent times. The Chairman and Managing Director rolled out the reddest of red carpets, with a press conference talking of a new era of “attacking, relentless football”. This followed the most public of private pursuits in living memory, with rebukes for Dave Whelan, lattes with Martinez, and Rodgers supposedly rejecting the job three times before accepting. He wouldn’t work with a Director Of Football, you see.
But there, lurking beneath the surface, lay the seeds of doubt: Liverpool told him there would be no Director of Football; but the reality would prove from the outset to be very different — it just turned out to be a Committee rather than a single person.
The second crucial aspect was acceptance on the part of those he was supposed to lead. That includes the fans. Did we, the fans, accept it? Rodgers’ appointment was set against the backdrop of an ignominious sacking for possibly the second most significant figure in the club’s history and, not only that — they did it after he’d won the club’s first trophy in six years.
It’s fair to say that some weren’t convinced, and it would barely have mattered who took the helm, let alone someone who had never won a trophy beyond the Football League Championship Play-Offs in his career. Being Liverpool compounded things — some set out into the new era with an agenda, and the “Brenton Rodgers” meme became a convenient stick to beat him with.
So Brendan’s mandate was relatively strong; but the seeds of doubt were sewn the day he took the job — all it took was a change in the weather for the seeds to germinate and take root.
Route 3: Traditional Authority
We won’t spend long on this one. With ‘traditional authority’, you see, the leader has authority because it’s become routine — no one questions — everyone just accepts it. Only a handful of managers in the history of the game have ever achieved that kind of security (for example, Shankly, Paisley and Ferguson) and even then, it all still relied on them continuing to meet expectations, or for them to massage them down to sustainable levels (for example, Clough and McLean). It’s doubtful any manager will get close to this again, albeit Wenger comes close.
So back to Brendan. In his early months in the job, he proved himself adept at bolstering his authority — taking potential challenges in his stride. He engineered Andy Carroll’s departure gracefully, and quickly shifted out players he didn’t see as fitting in with his style. His handling of Jamie Carragher’s final year at the club was exemplary — the player never having a bad word to say about the man, and when Luis Suarez agitated for a move, he proved himself firm and resolute, the player despatched to train with the reserves. Meanwhile, we all saw his handling of young players, albeit possibly in too much detail (again, thanks to Being Liverpool). The man could handle people, albeit sometimes in an overly touchy feely way.
Rodgers did as much as he feasibly could to bolster his authority. His relationship with the majority of the media was strong, and he demonstrated his charisma at every turn. And then, of course, 2013-14 happened. There were doubts, but from White Hart Lane on, performances on the park blew them away. Or so we thought. We’re fickle buggers, aren’t we?
You see, the doubts continued to grow. His stated mandate, unveiled amidst great fanfare, was as clear as mud. In fact, you might go as far as to say it was a tissue of lies. He had no Director of Football, that much was true; but still he found himself directed and fettered. A manager lives and dies by his work in the transfer market, it’s often said, but the summer of 2014 betrayed the fetters that the club had put in place — reasonable fetters had they been explicitly stated and agreed to at the outset, of course, but there was the rub — they’d never been explicitly agreed to.
And so season 2014-15 started, and we all know the story from there. Fast forward to Madrid… then Juan Mata… then Wembley… then The Britannia. Fast forward to two weeks of speculation, with deafening silence from the very men his perceived authority relies upon. Fast forward to coordinated briefings to newspapers on the ongoing pursuit of transfer targets (“You mean we’re signing players? Who’s making the decisions?”). Fast forward to a trip to Boston… or would the Bostonians come to Liverpool? Nobody really knew. And then they arrived, and the self same papers told us in unison that a plan had been written. Nobody knew who wrote it, or what was in it. Nobody knew the direction the club was going to take. But the manager ‘was safe’.
Ian Herbert went further, saying, “Rodgers has signed up to plans which have been laid for an improvement.” That hinted at the manager having passively agreed to a fundamental change in his mandate — the terms of his role. But nobody was told how it would work.
We’d seen talk of them explicitly imposing a Director of Football structure upon him, in direct contravention of the terms of his acceptance in 2012. So where does that leave Rodgers? Nobody really knows.
And there’s the rub. If they’re going to change the terms of his mandate, where does that leave our perception of his authority? Do we feel he’s in a position to lead the club forward? Raheem Sterling agitates for a move away, Balotelli continues with his naughtiness, and as things stand, it doesn’t look like Rodgers fancies half his squad in the first place. So how are the players supposed to see things? And by extension, how are we? Perception is everything, and the minute doubts come in, we have a problem.
The players, fans and media smell blood, and because of that, there is zero margin for error as we go into the new season.
It’s for that reason I think he’s sunk. Things will inevitably dip — and the minute that happens, the knives will come out in earnest this time. We don’t see Gordon and Werner doing a Silvio Berlusconi, do we? Berlusconi put the fear of God into the AC Milan players and told them — you do what he tells you or you’re out. Look what happened there — that’s a clear mandate.
As it stands, Rodgers needs something similar, or we’ll be looking for another manager by Christmas.
http://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2015/06/liverpool-without-authority-brendan-rodgers-sunk/?wt=4
by Roy Henderson // 4 June 2015 // 21 Comments
SO Brendan Rodgers remains the manager of Liverpool Football Club. We wish him well, and cross our fingers. But me? I think he’s sunk. Before he starts, I mean — he’s sunk. “Why?”, I hear you ask. Well, if a manager is going to lead, he has to have authority. And right now, I’m not sure he has it. Players, fans, media — does anyone feel confident in his mandate?
A manager must lead. And to lead, he needs the consent of those who are supposed to follow him. To do that at Liverpool, right now, after everything that’s just gone on, he needs authority. His authority must be beyond question. And there’s the rub. You see, on the day he walked through the door, the club sowed seeds of doubt that would ultimately germinate and undermine his authority. The seedlings continue to grow.
Authority is in the eye of the beholder — if we perceive it, he can achieve it. A clever man called Max Weber once theorised that there are three routes to that perception. So over to Max.
Route 1: Charismatic Authority
With ‘charismatic authority’, the leader has authority because the followers want him to lead them. Rodgers is a naturally likeable, charismatic man, and — whether consciously or not — he set about asserting this kind of authority the moment he came through the door, talking in rich metaphors, and even using pseudo religious language, for example saying about Lucas Leiva: “He’s one of the disciples I would say, he understands totally what we’re doing.” He spent part of his early career working closely with Jose Mourinho, and it’s clear he learned a few things in that respect. If it hadn’t been for Being Liverpool, there’s a chance the feel-good factor around him would have been near unanimous. His man management was good, the senior players liked him and bought into his methods (just Google for quotes from Suarez and Gerrard), and half way into the second season, the away fans really started getting behind him too — we all know the song. Those things are significant: they bolster a manager’s position.
Route 2: Rational-Legal Authority
Most football managers operate in this category. With ‘rational-legal authority’, the leader is backed by a ‘mandate’, bestowed by an accepted source of power that everyone accepts. That mandate might be based on fear, the grudging acceptance of a democratic outcome (give me a moment while I wipe the tear from my eye), or the collective preservation of interconnected vested interest (see Sepp Blatter for maybe the best example we’ve seen of this in recent times). With ‘rational-legal authority’, there are rules and routines that the followers all subscribe to, grudgingly or otherwise, and the leader leads in accordance with those rules.
Against that backdrop, a manager can expect at least a brief spell in charge: the people with the power appoint them, set out the rules and tell them what’s expected of them, and after a spell, if they haven’t delivered, the authority will eventually be withdrawn. The white hankies come out, the dreaded vote of confidence gets passed, fans start shouting at each other in the stands and on social media… we all know the pattern well enough by now.
So what was Brendan’s mandate? And what were the rules? Well, Rodgers came in with what seemed as clear a mandate as any Liverpool manager has had in recent times. The Chairman and Managing Director rolled out the reddest of red carpets, with a press conference talking of a new era of “attacking, relentless football”. This followed the most public of private pursuits in living memory, with rebukes for Dave Whelan, lattes with Martinez, and Rodgers supposedly rejecting the job three times before accepting. He wouldn’t work with a Director Of Football, you see.
But there, lurking beneath the surface, lay the seeds of doubt: Liverpool told him there would be no Director of Football; but the reality would prove from the outset to be very different — it just turned out to be a Committee rather than a single person.
The second crucial aspect was acceptance on the part of those he was supposed to lead. That includes the fans. Did we, the fans, accept it? Rodgers’ appointment was set against the backdrop of an ignominious sacking for possibly the second most significant figure in the club’s history and, not only that — they did it after he’d won the club’s first trophy in six years.
It’s fair to say that some weren’t convinced, and it would barely have mattered who took the helm, let alone someone who had never won a trophy beyond the Football League Championship Play-Offs in his career. Being Liverpool compounded things — some set out into the new era with an agenda, and the “Brenton Rodgers” meme became a convenient stick to beat him with.
So Brendan’s mandate was relatively strong; but the seeds of doubt were sewn the day he took the job — all it took was a change in the weather for the seeds to germinate and take root.
Route 3: Traditional Authority
We won’t spend long on this one. With ‘traditional authority’, you see, the leader has authority because it’s become routine — no one questions — everyone just accepts it. Only a handful of managers in the history of the game have ever achieved that kind of security (for example, Shankly, Paisley and Ferguson) and even then, it all still relied on them continuing to meet expectations, or for them to massage them down to sustainable levels (for example, Clough and McLean). It’s doubtful any manager will get close to this again, albeit Wenger comes close.
So back to Brendan. In his early months in the job, he proved himself adept at bolstering his authority — taking potential challenges in his stride. He engineered Andy Carroll’s departure gracefully, and quickly shifted out players he didn’t see as fitting in with his style. His handling of Jamie Carragher’s final year at the club was exemplary — the player never having a bad word to say about the man, and when Luis Suarez agitated for a move, he proved himself firm and resolute, the player despatched to train with the reserves. Meanwhile, we all saw his handling of young players, albeit possibly in too much detail (again, thanks to Being Liverpool). The man could handle people, albeit sometimes in an overly touchy feely way.
Rodgers did as much as he feasibly could to bolster his authority. His relationship with the majority of the media was strong, and he demonstrated his charisma at every turn. And then, of course, 2013-14 happened. There were doubts, but from White Hart Lane on, performances on the park blew them away. Or so we thought. We’re fickle buggers, aren’t we?
You see, the doubts continued to grow. His stated mandate, unveiled amidst great fanfare, was as clear as mud. In fact, you might go as far as to say it was a tissue of lies. He had no Director of Football, that much was true; but still he found himself directed and fettered. A manager lives and dies by his work in the transfer market, it’s often said, but the summer of 2014 betrayed the fetters that the club had put in place — reasonable fetters had they been explicitly stated and agreed to at the outset, of course, but there was the rub — they’d never been explicitly agreed to.
And so season 2014-15 started, and we all know the story from there. Fast forward to Madrid… then Juan Mata… then Wembley… then The Britannia. Fast forward to two weeks of speculation, with deafening silence from the very men his perceived authority relies upon. Fast forward to coordinated briefings to newspapers on the ongoing pursuit of transfer targets (“You mean we’re signing players? Who’s making the decisions?”). Fast forward to a trip to Boston… or would the Bostonians come to Liverpool? Nobody really knew. And then they arrived, and the self same papers told us in unison that a plan had been written. Nobody knew who wrote it, or what was in it. Nobody knew the direction the club was going to take. But the manager ‘was safe’.
Ian Herbert went further, saying, “Rodgers has signed up to plans which have been laid for an improvement.” That hinted at the manager having passively agreed to a fundamental change in his mandate — the terms of his role. But nobody was told how it would work.
We’d seen talk of them explicitly imposing a Director of Football structure upon him, in direct contravention of the terms of his acceptance in 2012. So where does that leave Rodgers? Nobody really knows.
And there’s the rub. If they’re going to change the terms of his mandate, where does that leave our perception of his authority? Do we feel he’s in a position to lead the club forward? Raheem Sterling agitates for a move away, Balotelli continues with his naughtiness, and as things stand, it doesn’t look like Rodgers fancies half his squad in the first place. So how are the players supposed to see things? And by extension, how are we? Perception is everything, and the minute doubts come in, we have a problem.
The players, fans and media smell blood, and because of that, there is zero margin for error as we go into the new season.
It’s for that reason I think he’s sunk. Things will inevitably dip — and the minute that happens, the knives will come out in earnest this time. We don’t see Gordon and Werner doing a Silvio Berlusconi, do we? Berlusconi put the fear of God into the AC Milan players and told them — you do what he tells you or you’re out. Look what happened there — that’s a clear mandate.
As it stands, Rodgers needs something similar, or we’ll be looking for another manager by Christmas.
http://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2015/06/liverpool-without-authority-brendan-rodgers-sunk/?wt=4
I'm exhausted just scrolling through that
From Guardian:
Sami Hyypia has declared his interest in joining Brendan Rodgers’ coaching staff at Liverpool following the departures of Colin Pascoe and Mike Marsh.
Hyypia has been linked with a possible return to Anfield after Fenway Sports Group last week parted company with the assistant manager Pascoe, a long-time confidante of Rodgers, and the first-team coach, Marsh, having conducted a review into the team’s poor Premier League campaign.
The 41-year-old Finn has not received an approach from Liverpool’s owners and is looking for a route back into management after resigning from Brighton & Hove Albion in December. But he admits the lure of Anfield, where the former international enjoyed huge success and popularity during a 10-year stay on Merseyside, would be impossible to ignore in any coaching capacity.
“It would be great to work for a club which I love,” said Hyypia, who left Liverpool for Bayer Leverkusen in 2009. “I would definitely be interested if Liverpool think I could help them. I have great memories of my time at the club.
“My rise in management was rapid and I have been thinking a lot about things while I have been out. If there were no interesting opportunities as a manager, then I would be ready to be an assistant. That sort of role would give me a lot of experience. It wouldn’t be a problem for me. I feel ready to go into football again. You look at yourself and I am enthusiastic about getting back into the game.”
Hyypia coached both the Finland national team and Leverkusen prior to taking charge at the BayArena in April 2012, initially in partnership with Sascha Lewandowski before assuming control for the 2013-14 season. He was sacked by Leverkusen in April 2014 and joined Brighton last summer, only to submit his resignation after just 26 matches.
Sami Hyypia has declared his interest in joining Brendan Rodgers’ coaching staff at Liverpool following the departures of Colin Pascoe and Mike Marsh.
Hyypia has been linked with a possible return to Anfield after Fenway Sports Group last week parted company with the assistant manager Pascoe, a long-time confidante of Rodgers, and the first-team coach, Marsh, having conducted a review into the team’s poor Premier League campaign.
The 41-year-old Finn has not received an approach from Liverpool’s owners and is looking for a route back into management after resigning from Brighton & Hove Albion in December. But he admits the lure of Anfield, where the former international enjoyed huge success and popularity during a 10-year stay on Merseyside, would be impossible to ignore in any coaching capacity.
“It would be great to work for a club which I love,” said Hyypia, who left Liverpool for Bayer Leverkusen in 2009. “I would definitely be interested if Liverpool think I could help them. I have great memories of my time at the club.
“My rise in management was rapid and I have been thinking a lot about things while I have been out. If there were no interesting opportunities as a manager, then I would be ready to be an assistant. That sort of role would give me a lot of experience. It wouldn’t be a problem for me. I feel ready to go into football again. You look at yourself and I am enthusiastic about getting back into the game.”
Hyypia coached both the Finland national team and Leverkusen prior to taking charge at the BayArena in April 2012, initially in partnership with Sascha Lewandowski before assuming control for the 2013-14 season. He was sacked by Leverkusen in April 2014 and joined Brighton last summer, only to submit his resignation after just 26 matches.
We will end up with someone like Kevin Bond or Glen Roeder or we will send a letter to Peado Pascoe saying 'only joking'.. April fool..
Pako would be amazing.
On another note, not sure how a specialist is coming in is exactly going to work. I mean, defensive systems involve the entire team, from front to back (At least they should). So a defensive specialist comes in, sorts out the organisation of the side. What exactly does that leave Rodgers to do? Our glorified PR man and interview giver?
On another note, not sure how a specialist is coming in is exactly going to work. I mean, defensive systems involve the entire team, from front to back (At least they should). So a defensive specialist comes in, sorts out the organisation of the side. What exactly does that leave Rodgers to do? Our glorified PR man and interview giver?
I agree that Rodgers sees the system as a whole, with fluid movement joining defence, midfield and attack. It does indeed seem as though a coach purely for the defence would perhaps not work. Someone to at least give him a hand with set pieces would be good though. Just tell him to stop giving Joe Allen the tallest player to mark at corners. Stuff like that.
We should just get both Sami and Pako in. 2 out, 2 in.
I really want Pako back and Sami is more of a romantic ideal rather than pragmatism as I've no idea how good a coach he is.
We should still get a Director of Football though, as if we're going to undermine Rodgers by bringing in new coaches, we might as well go the whole hog. Plus, what happens if Rodgers leaves - does it then leave Pako and Sami exposed when the new guy comes in and is demanding to bring his trusted advisors?
I really want Pako back and Sami is more of a romantic ideal rather than pragmatism as I've no idea how good a coach he is.
We should still get a Director of Football though, as if we're going to undermine Rodgers by bringing in new coaches, we might as well go the whole hog. Plus, what happens if Rodgers leaves - does it then leave Pako and Sami exposed when the new guy comes in and is demanding to bring his trusted advisors?
Because we are useless at this sort of thing..
Pako and Hyppia would be my choice though, if that's who we are looking at..
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