Your thoughts on ... Comolli exit imminent as Spurs change direction

[MattyP]

Think our very own robofan dismissed any talk of an imminent stadium announcement.

http://www.spurscommunity.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=1090312&postcount=187

On the basis that that part of the story looks like bullshit, my take is that the imminent Comolli sacking probably is as well.

 

[robofan]

mg: it not me daniel, i never told them :grin: :hump:

 

[ackie]

IF DC goes, are we now gonna replace him or do we go back and be like the normal premiership club with the manager in charge?
If we go for option 1 then it'll probably be Monchi.
Option 2 - Does JR have the know how of being a manager in charge of all team affairs and transfers?

 

[DoublePivot]

IF DC goes, are we now gonna replace him or do we go back and be like the normal premiership club with the manager in charge?
If we go for option 1 then it'll probably be Monchi.
Option 2 - Does JR have the know how of being a manager in charge of all team affairs and transfers?

Not sure of the answer, but I don't think it would be Monchi as he and Ramos were rumored to not get on

 

[Spursking]

I do not want us to sack Comolli, because I do not think it is his fault. I think we have to give him more flexibility to buy players, because he is the man who knows about talents and good players! He always have to get the go-ahead from others. He should make the decisions if he is going to have this role! He he needs to get the approval to buy, it is better not to have him there.

He is the man, and he should work with what he is good at.

I believe if he had the decision himself only, he had bought more players from the French league!

 

[DoublePivot]

You make a good point SK. We need more Zokora's, BAE's, Taraabt's and Kaboul's

 

[Bus-Conductor]

Time for a long, deep breath:

The problem is that most of the press/ex-pros complex (soething similar to the American Military/Industrial Complex so beloved of conspiracy theorists, but far more sinister and insidious) is that they have been determined that the 'foreign' DOF sysytem (which would require them changing their ingrained outlooks) would fail from the start.

The facts are: from the (proper) inception of the DOF system (I discount the PleatMeister years, as he never got over the fact that he believed he should be coach - but for his kerb-crawling antics, and was a disruptive influence), three years ago, the team has finsihed 5th twice, and won the CC, qualifying for Europe in each successive year. This compares very favourably with what went before, all the way back to 1991. The club fell seriously behind round about this time, if not before, largely as a process of failure breeds failure with the inception of the Premiership and the Champions League. The successful clubs got richer - us failures got poorer. Everything the club(s) have done since have been efforts to restore some kinda parity. After the CC victory, who was making quotes, sending messages to various places, or even stating, in the pub over a pint, that Dan Comolli was a genius - no-one. If we change nothing now, recover in the league and win the UEFA (for instance, thus qualifying for Europe AGAIN) who will be saying it - no-one. But now that there are problems...

What I find most amusing (in a :bang: sense, not in a :rofl: sense), is that all of the pundits repeatedly state that 'these are good players' and then shift the blame away from Ramos, and onto Comolli, as he is not doing his job by finding good players - WTF isn't that oxymoronic, or summit. He is also blamed for the 'Berbatov-Gate' fiasco, for not bringing in a replacement before selling the BULGER. But wait a minute, Fergie offered a derisory 20 million, and didn't up his offer, and didn't up it until transfer deadline day, clearly hoping that the BULGERs sulky antics would force the sale at that dersiory price. Clearly the board could not have known until he did this that he would do this, and they were, obviously, desperatly hoping he would stay (no matter how improbable this idea clearly is now). So, what were they supposed to do - buy a replacement (and, remember, Pav. had already been bought), and then have the BULGER at the club anyway - when the situation with Defoe came to a head as having four strikers just wasn't working. For that situation, blame Fergie and the BULGER, not Comolli and the board. Or should they have allowed themselves to be bullied by fergie and the BULGER, and sell him for the 20 million - yeah right. I'm sure all of the Comolli slaters would have ripped into him for being outmanouvred by Fergie instead. It is then said that we don't have enough strikers and that is Comolli's fault, but, wait a minute - Keaen, Berbatov, Bent = Bent, Pav., CampB*ll = 3 strikers. I thing he made the best of a very bad situation, that was largely created by Fergie and the Bulger (I don't however think it is ideal).

Then there is the Arshavin thang. Zenit name a price. Spurs match it. Zenit up the asking price. Spurs match it. Zenit say it is too late to do a deal anyway - even though deals go through later. When put in these stark terms, it seems to me that the primary culprits are Zenit for playing silly beggars.

I don't like Dan Comolli much, but I do see the sense in the DOF system, and prior to this disastrous start I believe the stats show something better than what went before. So it is strange to me, as someone who doesn't actually like the man, that the media has such a bee in their collective bonnets about him - other than, as I said, that it is a Johnny Foreigner idea, that just must fail - when the facts suggest they should be looking elsewhere for actual, verifyable, causes and consequences, rather than playing the scapegoat game, 'cos it is easier - but theere again why should it come as any surprise that the media should behave in this way:shrug:

Somewhere in there there is alot of sense. I actually don't mind Comolli, never had a problem with him. Think he probably fucked uo in not making sure we had a decentish quality striker as back up if Arshavin didn't arrive (or even as well as) and also think Bent for 16mil is the worst bit of business ever. But other than that he's been responsible for some absoloutely cracking signings and whether he stays or goes I wholeheartedly support the DOF system. For me it is the only way forward in the modern game. And you are quite right about the zenophobic reaction to it, which in most cases is what it is.

PS
Where have you been lately SP, seems like ages since you were around.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

You make a good point SK. We need more Zokora's, BAE's, Taraabt's and Kaboul's

more Berbatov's, Malbranques, Gomes's, Hutton's, Woodgate's, Modric's, Dos Santos's, Corluka's, Pavlyuchenko's, Bale's, Bentley's (hmm 50/50 there) though eh ?

 

[DoublePivot]

more Berbatov's, Malbranques, Gomes's, Hutton's, Woodgate's, Modric's, Dos Santos's, Corluka's, Pavlyuchenko's, Bale's, Bentley's (hmm 50/50 there) though eh ?

That wasn't really the flipping point though was it B-C. SK said more from the French league and not one of those listed is from Ligue Un.

You can find plenty of other posts by me to defend the honor of Wenger-lite. I hate that french **** with a passion, and I hope his balls fall off. But that post wasn't the one to go after.