parklane1
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I am sure you are not as thick as some of your replies .
Levy to take a step back. Tottenham restructuring.
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I am sure you are not as thick as some of your replies .
0-Tibsy-0
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I agree, I really don't know what his job encompasses or how much of an input he has into the transfer process from identifying to signing. It's why I struggle to see where all the abuse comes from, I guess people have assumed what his role is and therefore blame him for our shortcomings.
Blackcanary
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I was under the assumption that his role was to grease palms, hammer out deals and basically not be Levy. I still don't know whether he's instrumental in player targeting?
SteveH
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Damned by very faint praise!
Spurs Lodge Kittens
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I was desperate for us to get Baldini - thought he would get in all these great players. However, it does appear he has simply gone after nearly all the same targets Roma had and still have - and was able to secure them cos of our extra budget.
My dad has been telling me for the past six months - "we need to get rid of this Franco Pannini character" "what does he do" - and I'd kept trying to defend him, but I think my dad's right. He doesn't get caught up in agendas and just says what he sees (even if he gets their names wrong)
My dad has been telling me for the past six months - "we need to get rid of this Franco Pannini character" "what does he do" - and I'd kept trying to defend him, but I think my dad's right. He doesn't get caught up in agendas and just says what he sees (even if he gets their names wrong)
mpickard2087
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If we are binning Baldini then I hope they hurry up and get on with it. He's already been here 18 months too long.
Spurs_Bear
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When I said 'pointless' signing, I meant just that, what was the actual point of employing him?
Spurs_Bear
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Do you seriously believe that Levy hands over any financial reigns to anyone? I cant see it. Too much of a control freak.
Trix
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He isn't really. Although he did have an influence in both the Lamela and Vlad purchases. Worth remembering he is not a Director of Football, he is employed as a technical director and there is a difference.
Forgetting what I have heard on the subject.....Why wait until the window is upon us to get rid of someone who was supposedly doing the purchasing?
mpickard2087
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Which I take to mean he is in charge of running the football side of the operation and everything that goes with it? And not just for player purchases.
Even worse then.
Trix
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I don't have the exact job description for what he does with us but this is an article denoting what Norwich wanted in a technical director......http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27590933
The club are keen to emphasise that the technical director role will be different to that of a director of football, a position which usually involves overseeing the signing of players.
Instead Adams, a former Norwich player and youth-team coach, will be given full control over transfers in the Championship next season.
And there will be a football management board in place, which will include McNally, the technical director and a director of recruitment, who is also yet to be appointed.
"The technical director will deal with all the things important for preparing players, but will allow the manager to concentrate on the coaching of the first team," said McNally.
"The manager will still have final say over players in and players out.
"The technical director will look after a whole host of things. It will include, and this is by no means a comprehensive list: the academy, the training ground, the infrastructure, medical, physiotherapy, conditioning, fitness, nutrition, hydration, rest, well being, behavioural standards."
Seems to me if Baldini's role is even remotely similar(and I believe it to be) then surely we have to look at other aspects of what is happening behind the scenes aswell.
Considering every season we usually have an injury list that reads like War and Peace, I'd say something has certainly changed in that respect. The Academy is in the best shape it has ever been, and the infrastructure is being addressed by bringing back Bloomfield and Mitchell coming in. Seems very easy, and also very harsh for fans to just blame Baldini for this and that, even though they in reality have no idea what his role actually entails.
Yes he has a part to play in transfers and incomings, but nowhere near the ultimate responsibility many fans seem to think he has of deciding who we buy and who we sell.
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