Reivax_Villa

To be fair Barnsley have produced a few players over the past few years.

Holgate ,Stones ,Lindsay, Mawson.

They produce a lot of defenders.

Has anyone watched this video?

Brought up some interesting points.

There are sporting directors that we don’t know of that are have a deep analytical understanding of the game.

So a big name is not necessary as a replacement.

I don’t think that the Sporting Director market is similar to the Manager/Head Coach market in terms of big names.

We could bring in someone who is relatively unknown like Stuart Webber at Norwich or Max Eberl at Gladbach or maybe someone lower profile. 

The point is all the money in the world cannot get you the best Sporting Director because look at Man Utd.

This is going to be the more difficult appointment. You’re seeking for someone that can recruit players that can fit into a system that suits the clubs playing style for good value. Someone that is able to contribute heavy in finding replacement managers and coaches for the club and more. 

I have expressed my concerns with his appointment nearly two years ago. I wanted him to prove me wrong, sadly he didn’t.

On 16/10/2018 at 20:54, Reivax_Villa said:

I am not sold on this guy as I have mentioned many times in this thread but we shall see.

I am hoping that further appointments are made to help him fulfil his day to day work

Moving forward we should be looking for someone who is innovative and is able to build a team to support the manager and the club.

Unai Emery.

If there is a project in place and the money is right. He will take a one year rolling contract.

I feel that mistakes have been made from Purslow’s appointment of Suso to JT given an assistant coach apprenticeship.

I have had reservations about DS whilst he was at Brentford. The assistant manager appointed by their director ultimately improved Brentford in many ways and he is now about to lead them to the PL as their manager.

Dean Smith has not produced the results. He has made numerous poor decisions and he cannot apply the knowledge he speaks of in interviews.

Suso has not identified the right players and as a collective him and DS do not work. One if not both  need to be gone by this time next month latest.

As I said previously, we should look to Germany for a new manager and DOF. This summer we try to retain our core players and sell our high profile players and build on from there.

Who else saw the footage of DS & Purslow?

We tend to sign managers that are not use to having a transfer budget to recruit higher quality players, I.e Lambert, Sherwood, Di Matteo, Bruce and  now Smith.

The moment they are given a budget they make poor recruitment choices.

Would Dyche be any different?

Dyche works better without a budget.

Is that what we need?

The best coaches are in Germany and that’s where we should look.

Because we are so shit on the width he needs to stick to a diamond formation

McGinn needs to come off soon.

It doesn’t take a football genius to point out that Farke is a better manager than DS.

Norwich lack quality because they lack the financial and historical power that we have.

Farke has created a real footballing philosophy that sticks regardless of the opposition.

If he had better quality players Norwich would be secure in this league.

I personally don’t have enough faith in Purslow or Suso to find the right manager after this season.

We were linked with the likes of Henry ect.

We need a real tactician like a G Potter ect

It’s like we are waiting for the inevitable. Very talented player but he has not been used properly.

He will leave once we’re relegated as he should and hopefully the whole club can just move on and focus on bringing more academy talent.

If we get relegated we should look to change manager. Dean Smith at his time here has not shown growth in terms of tactics and style of play.

We may be in better shape in terms of FFP & rebuild. We could get £30m + for Grealish. Mings we could get £20m and that’s just two players.

Newcastle have better players that exposes Sheff United’s weakness on the width.

Our wide players are not as effective hence why we were unable to penetrates their defence on Wednesday.

Just now, hippo said:

We needed to beat them.

The way they played there were beatable.

They were.. but every team is beatable in this league bar two. 

Because Newcastle have beat Sheff United doesn’t mean we should have beat them. They have conceded 3 goals with ten men.

Styles and work rate wins matches not previous results against other teams.

Excited about the remaining games. It’s good to have some Premier League Football back.

I am optimistic because this is like a 2nd season. Just a mini tournament. The players should be better in terms of communication, understanding and tactics.

The excuse of gelling together is now void.

We now can really see what these players are made out of at this level bar Grealish, Mings & McGinn.

It’s a shame that even if Wesley & Heaton are fully fit when the season resumes, they will be ineligible due to the squad list. 

I can’t help but think that the Sha have produced some very good players from the academy. Redmond, Gray, Butland, Bellingham.

Local lads that could have come from our academy. We need to do better in that department.

On 09/10/2018 at 16:21, Reivax_Villa said:

Disappointed with this appointment..

I called it last year 

On 09/10/2018 at 23:48, Reivax_Villa said:

 

I will drop some links;

 

 

 

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/3277/la-liga/2017/01/06/31221842/valencia-have-bought-s-players?ICID=TP_HN_HP_RI_1_2

https://thesefootballtimes.co/2018/09/03/the-decline-of-real-zaragoza-a-club-once-lifting-trophies-amongst-laligas-elite/

 

http://www.marca.com/en/football/spanish-football/2017/02/07/5899e0e4268e3e49398b45f6.html