Good afternoon to you.
Good game, good game last night. Nothing to do with supporting England rather I think we’re getting to see what an excellent coach Roy Hodgson is. The Carrol goal and indeed his entire shift will have left most Bindippers feeling all squidgy inside.
Elsewhere, Levy & Co has beaten the Queen’s Hoours List to the press and awarded the Royal Order Of The Tin Tack to Bondy, Joe and Clive.
This prompts such immediate thoughts such as why is Sir Les still here and what did Clive do to get himself wrapped up in the Madness Of King Arry?
The short answer is ‘we’re unlikely to ever know’, but on Allen it’s a concern as he’s been a part of the Club for so very long. Therein is a possibilty; Hughton survived so many exiting managers but as BMG’s official sidekick it he was always lined up to share any rewards or recriminations. Alas and farewell then Clive our little Lilywhite Icarus, he who flew too close to the Sun …columnist.
Tim Sherwood survived and I’m now wondering if there is a coldness about him which is to be respected. I didn’t like him talking about Spurs in the third person, nor I didn’t warm to a rake of negative comments he made about us when he was a pundit on Setanta. Maybe I got it wrong. Maybe …he’s just very professional.
My last thought for the day is on Levy & Co. and the issue of a Director Of Football.
As those reading my top of the range drivel for more than a fortnight will know, I am a fan of our chairman. I’ve no time for the hair-brained pseudo communist claptrap about him only being in it for a fast buck. After eleven years at it he’s either a rubbish asset stripper or he and ENIC will only sell at a figure so vast that no Tottenham fan in the world could complain.
It was suggested almost minutes after the demise of Arry that a return of Damien Comolli was on the cards. And my only response to this was, ‘why?’
His salary when he was with us last time was mooted to only be a million pounds per annum which in the crazy kaleidoscopic world of football finances doesn’t amount to a hill of beans – my point being how a vital a cog in the machine was he thought to actually be?
What did Comolli actually do that anyone with a half decent grasp of football couldn’t? I acknowledge he’s not responsible for how players are coached after they sign, but the chap appeared to point and shoot at players like sports desks do, based upon form and contract lengths; that sort of thing.
We’ve watched Levy & Co. increasingly take up the reigns in this wing of the business and I have to question the value in them hiring a middle man again. We don’t need agents ‘cosying up’ to managers filling their heads with spiel and their pockets with brown envelopes.
We need a Chairman who will barter like a hostage negotiator and ultimately have the strength to say, ‘Not for us today, but thank you very much for the coffee.’ And I think we have one of those.
i think sherwood as director of football would be on the basis that indeed levy will have a reasonably tight grip on the reigns but wants someone he trusts to do the groundwork of coordinationg the scouts and identifying shortlists with the manager. then levy negotiates. i do not think levy would be capable of letting go of that piece.
i wd be happy with avb i have decided. has passion and drive. chelsea experience is irrelevant, he was brought in to revamp the team but then not supported the second the old buggers kicked up a fuss when they fely threatened, typical weak behaviour by a weak management, from the oligarch down thro his lackeys. terry might have damaged chelsea for the next several years as there is no way di matteo is going to take on him and lampard et al and clear them out. for me, well i think of clough at leeds and remember that he had a nice career thereafter, altho i would like more than just two european champions titles please!!
You are a massive Tit Hokspur and will never get to view my beauties you sexist pig dog
you are a man
He means his balls…….
Horny Helen, I have no objection in you coming on here (ooh err) doing a bit of blue for the dads, but many of us remember when I revealed you to be a bloke at some local gov office in Scotland and you blew a fuse ranting about the Data protection act or similar :ermm:
Every time we have a DOF it results in a nightmare. Pleat and Comolli set us back years, by continuously under mining the then manager. Cant believe people are serious about comolli returning, Christ look at what he did to the Scousers £120 million to get mid table.
I don’t really agree. The bulk of the team we have now are Arnesen / Comolli recruitments. Compared to what we have added since the DOF role was scrapped, the only players in the first team are Parker / Friedel / Gallas who are all old-timers and VDV (who soon will be) and Walker, who seems to be a signing from the remnants of that era (the joint buy of the two young Kyle’s was quite a Comolli-esque purchase). So I wouldn’t say they set us back years, in fact I’d say if it wasn’t for them I’m not sure we would have gotten this far and no idea what kind of squad we would have.
Of course the purchases of Lennon and Huddlestone under Pleat were massive mistakes, blimey, what a waste of 2m
Ooops-meant Arneson
I believe that in today’s football a DoF or GD (like in Milan and other clubs) is necessary because of the complexity and the diversity of the issues concerning a football club. What’s most important is that such a person should be the proper one. Someone who has CERTAIN skills and qualities as well the necessary insight, experience and above all the necessary mental capacity and world football knowledge. So we never should refer to persons like Comolli.
A DoF should normally run the club and would be responsible for all issues relating to the squad and the technical staff. The owner/chairman should be responsible for the finances of the club and would set up the directions that the club and the Dof should follow as well the targets of the club.
The DoF should supervise the manager and could intervene if things aren’t going well on the field or in the dressing room. Then we could avoid situations like giving away a significant lead or not addressing in time obvious shortcomings of the team.
The manager proposes the positions of the squad that need to be strengthened and the players who should replaced and the DoF finds proper, effective and affordable players in the frame of the club’s budget and salary limitations and sees to off load in the most profitable way those players who are surplus or dead wood.
The DoF proposes to the board those managers he thinks that they can serve better the club.
I too am a Levy fan but he has brought us to a fork in the road. Choose the right path and he could do a Man City, swapping the limited Sparky for a title winner. The other path leads to Villa-like obscurity, all stars gone and some nonentity in charge who thinks not being relegated is the same as success. Question is Dan, do you feel lucky?