We Need A Dof, We Need A Zorc
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It's a bit like an Arn, but less mentally ill
Doesn't Comolli claim responsibility for Suarez?
Right. Does he also claim responsibility for Downing, Adam and Andy Carroll?
They have had a strategy but they haven't implemented it. It involved appointing Klopp and bringing a DOF in, but Klopp wasn't available and the guy they saw as the next best thing, Rodgers, wouldn't work with a DOF. Now they've got the manager they wanted all along, perhaps the rest will follow.
I guess if I was one of the club's scouts I might be more hopeful about finding unknown gems - in fact, I damn well hope I would! - but as a punter I doubt Klopp or anyone else can improve this club greatly unless we get the financial backing to go out and get a genuinely top class keeper, centre back, centre midfielder and striker. You'd need to pay what the market demands and bring in a new spine for the team. But FSG won't do that. That's why Guardiola and others wouldn't touch us with a bargepole. They know they'd be stuck dealing with dullards who'll make them look all-too-vulnerable. It's astonishing we got Klopp, but we're wasting his time unless we back him - and not in the 'we take all summer to land one second-choice target' but backing him big time. It doesn't need a DoF, or anyone else new. It needs a massive injection of capital, because that's what this non-sport requires these days. It's F1 without the cars.
You should know it doesn't work that way, much like when women highlight that time you're in the wrong, all the times you've been right slips their memory.
... Or we could just do a Leicester
Which is what? Spend ten years out of the Premiership, get promoted, almost get relegated again, sack the manager and take a massive gamble on an old Italian mediocrity and hope a load of middling to good players have the greatest season of their entire careers?
Im not sure about that, all the way through they have been inconsistent. They hired a DoF as first act of business to oversee football matters then binned Hodgson and brought Kenny in on a caretaker contract to buy them time to recruit the right manager. By summer they didnt have a candidate in place and Kennys popularity forced their hand even though he was never part of the long term plan. Kenny and Comolli signed a load of shite players and about 12 months later the DoF was sacked. They then decided to implement the original plan of a young coach and an experienced DoF but appointed a manager who made it clear he would not work under that structure, so they binned it and brought in the abomination that is the transfer committee. So now that they have their ideal candidate a guy willing to work under a DoF they dont have one in place and there is apparently no movement to appoint one.
I may be overly cynical here but I think they really dont know what theyre doing and they are making it up as they go along, there has clearly never been anything approaching a long term strategy in place 6 years after they took over.
Are you an ostrich?
I don't know what you're talking about.
It's that thing Nigel Pearson did
Anyways, Leicester will finish second and miss out like we did, I wasn't being too serious in suggesting we emulate them, like how everyone was jealous of Southampton a couple of seasons ago
More or less like it look like.
The first year or so David Dean helped them. After that they decided to that work themselves.
According to Commoli he wanted to get Mata but King Kenny wanted downing instead.
Was Comolli told to sign Carroll though.
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What's the basis for this then? Is it speculative, or is there a genuine source claiming that Klopp was FSG's man from the start?
There is an alternative to this viewpoint - FSG may actually be perfectly happy with the results they've had from the committee. I'll let you decide which of the two is worse.
Someone quoted from an article on here saying so some time ago. I'll see if I can find it.
Sounds about as likely to succeed as whatever our current plan is.
Interesting. I do remember seeing something about an approach in 2012, but that would put it at or around the closing out of Kenny's second stint.
I should add that I've not come across anything that backs that approach claim up.
Yes he does. Unlike some who deny responsibility for duds.
I had considered that, and Im not ruling it out. When we were shit under Hicks & Gilette it was clearly because they were asset stripping the club and had no real interest in on the field success. With FSG it appears they are at least trying, the fact that we are still comically inept suggests they are either clueless or keeping the lights on until they can sell at a profit.
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