But no-one really knows exactly what a Director of Football does... / Until it's made clear exactly who sanctions the purchase and sale of specific players...
Whatever Levy may say, I suspect the power has now shifted and Comolli is basically Ramos' Chief Scout and Contract Negotiator.
Joeypedia :lol: seriously, your brain must be like....huge!
You really don't need a big brain. [...] It's just lazy journalism.
As BC and Joey have said, Comolli has to work within a framework dictated by Levy in order to maximise profits for ENIC shareholders. As far as I understand it, on the Continent a Sporting Director is given a budget and allowed to get on with the job, so the situation isn't the same. It's perfectly possible that both Comolli and Jol were in agreement that we needed an experienced CB and that Levy baulked at paying Distin £40k a week and told them to go away and think again. We may have had a similar scenario with Petrov. Fact is, we don't know.
As for £16.5m for Bent, no, it isn't. It's £15m plus £1.5m in possible add-ons. In addition, we've got him on the never-never. We paid £5m down and are paying the rest in two instalments.
ahhhhhhh. noted
thanks for clearing that up :lol:
Apparently if Ramos doesnt work out then Comolli goes.
I think the DOF and managers fates should for the most part be tied together
Levy has made the position abundantly clear. If anything goes wrong, it's not his fault.
As BC and Joey have said, Comolli has to work within a framework dictated by Levy in order to maximise profits for ENIC shareholders. As far as I understand it, on the Continent a Sporting Director is given a budget and allowed to get on with the job, so the situation isn't the same. It's perfectly possible that both Comolli and Jol were in agreement that we needed an experienced CB and that Levy baulked at paying Distin £40k a week and told them to go away and think again. We may have had a similar scenario with Petrov. Fact is, we don't know.
As for £16.5m for Bent, no, it isn't. It's £15m plus £1.5m in possible add-ons. In addition, we've got him on the never-never. We paid £5m down and are paying the rest in two instalments, so that's £10m gathering a fair chunk of interest. Subtract the £2m profit we made on Mido and whatever we get for Defoe, we aren't going to be shelling out that much in the end.
Has Torres looked like £25m' worth so far? And Henry's hardly been setting the world on fire at Barca.
In terms of the cost of Bent, £15 million is £15 million. Saying that we've sold Mido and might sell Defoe doesn't change anything. You might as well say that he cost £15 million but if we sold Keane, Berbatov, Lennon, King and Robinson we'd made £75 million.
No amount of talk changes the fact that we paid an absolutely ridiculous price for him. And comparing him to Torres is ridiculous. Torres has scored plenty of goals and Liverpool fans and neutrals alike think Benitez is nuts to ever leave him out of the starting team. Whereas Bent is rubbish so far. I'm not saying he'll never be a good player, but no way is he worth what we paid for him.
I think it is too easy, and an oversimplification to just say that our transfer policy is purely geared to make profits for shareholders. Of course profitavility is a strong element of the strategy, but shit football and poor results are not condusive to profitability, therefore, to a large extent, one goes hand in hand with the other. It is after all a truism that the regular CL sides are creaming vast amounts by being in the CL. The debate is what actually is Levy/ENIC's short/mid/long term strategy and does it concur with what we as football fans want or is it heavily biased towards their exit profitability.
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