braineclipse
Willie Hall
Combination of that, just how poor most of his big money signings had been and the lack of balance in the squad I believe.
Diamanti? Really?
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Franco Baldini
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Combination of that, just how poor most of his big money signings had been and the lack of balance in the squad I believe.
Diamanti? Really?
Please, please, PLEASE bring me a great playmaker Franco! [-o< I hope we back him with his own scouts, plenty of nifty young players coming through in Italy.
The new DOF at Sunderland is also one to watch, quite highly rated by Inter fans though I think he was barely there for a year.
The new DOF at Sunderland is also one to watch, quite highly rated by Inter fans though I think he was barely there for a year.
tommysvr
Justin Edinburgh
I'd forgotten that. Great to have an Aussie in there!
Craig_J
Eidur Gudjohnsen
To be fair Levy had already told Comolli that Juande Ramos was his last chance, as Comolli reccomended the departure of Jol and the hiring of him. We all know how that turned out!!
I'm pleased with this apointment. Baldini comes with a great reputation and hopefully he can help us sign a couple of big names. If he gets us one big name stirker it'll be more than wha we've had since Berbatov left and Keane went off to one of his top 100 boyhood clubs before being sent back a broken man.
Come on Franky Baldwin and Come on you Spurs!
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indianspur
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Diamanti??? fcuk that
Mosquito_Coasting
Jonathan Woodgate
Most exciting part of this for me is that he should want to show his worth this window which hopefully means we'll be busy in the market and maybe sign someone big.
Armchair Expert
Vedran Corluka
Or at least someone appropriate, who plays in a position we need.
Mumorn
Vic Buckingham
Used to play for West Ham..
Craig_J
Eidur Gudjohnsen
An attacking midfilder who plays for Bologna but you must remember him from 2009/ 2010 when he played for West Ham.
He's very medicore. I doubt we are after him (or at least I hope) but if we are I'd be very concerned if that was the type of player we were after. Wouldn't be an improvment at all and would actually be a back step on what we already have.
EDIT:
Sorry, started posting before I saw this.
Mumorn
Vic Buckingham
The 52-year-old was officially appointed as technical director on Wednesday morning as the north London club return to the continental structure that served them well in the past
For Tottenham's hierarchy, the appointment of a director of football is a necessary progression, an essential complement to the club's progressive, forward-thinking manager and the new, high-tech training centre. For the club's fans, the role is treated with a greater degree of scepticism and distrust, a return to the failed, continental experiment that was scrapped upon the arrival of Harry Redknapp in 2008.
When Juande Ramos was sacked following a run of just two points in eight games, director of football Damien Comolli was also ushered towards the exit door. Spurs failings were linked to the more European structure at the club, but, in reality, it was the club's impetus on signing young, promising players with high re-sale potential that had made them competitive in the first place.
It did not always work. Comolli, for example, seemed to rely too much on statistics to form an opinion, never assembled a balanced squad and too often bought highly-rated players even if they were not needed - the decision to buy David Bentley when fellow right winger Aaron Lennon was already at the club being a prime example.
BALDINI'S BEST BUYS
ROMA 1999-2005
WALTER SAMUEL
AGE: 22, COST: £14.8M
DANIELE DE ROSSI
AGE: 18, COST: FREE
GABRIEL BATISTUTA
AGE: 31, COST £23.5M
REAL MADRID 2006-2007
GONZALO HIGUAIN
AGE: 18, COST: £10.2M
MARCELO
AGE: 18, COST: £5.5M
RUUD VAN NISTELROOY
AGE: 30, COST: £12.7M
ROMA 2011-2013
ERIK LAMELA
AGE: 19, COST: £14.4M
PABLO OSVALDO
AGE: 25, COST: £13.3M
MARQUINHOS
AGE: 18, COST: £2.5M
But much of Spurs' success, starting from the work of Frank Arnesen – who recruiting a host of young British players, from Michael Dawson to Tom Huddlestone – is owed to the director of football structure. And that good work – buying potential for lower fees, developing them, and selling on for a much larger profit – is set to restart with the appointment of Franco Baldini.
Unlike former managers Martin Jol and Redknapp, current Spurs boss Andre Villas-Boas not only appreciates the role of the director of football, but deems it a fundamental part of his long-term vision at the club: “It is something that works. Since the first day, I told the club that it's somebody who is extremely important.”
But the relationship between director of football and head coach has been rocky at White Hart Lane in the past; Arnesen and Jacques Santini (who had a blink-and-you'll-miss-it stay at Spurs in 2004) had a confused and unworkable partnership according to the former – citing “a problem of where responsibility lay in the club, where we could never reach an agreement” - while Jol and Comolli's collaboration was permanently fraught, a marriage of convenience rather than compatibility.
Villas-Boas and Baldini, however, seem a much better fit for each other. The Italian had even looked to recruit the former Chelsea boss while at Roma to replace Luis Enrique, though Zdenek Zeman was appointed instead.
Baldini, it should be noted, comes to White Hart Lane with his reputation a little dented following an often torrid second spell at Roma, much like the Portuguese manager he will now be working with who himself had a Chelsea-shaped blemish on his own record prior to joining Spurs.
The 52-year-old's managerial appointments in the Italian capital were short-lived, first Enrique and then Zeman, while several signings failed to ignite. But, his role was diluted by the presence of Walter Sabatini, who had his own views on recruitment, while the club's Boston-based owners were not always the easiest to work with – it was they who pushed for the signing of American midfielder Michael Bradley.
But for Spurs' Portuguese boss, Baldini ticks every box he values. “The most important thing is the relationship with the person who bridges the gap between manager and board, and that he is able to be focused on the technical side of things. Someone who has experience of dressing rooms, represents the club, is able to link up with players, agents.”
Baldini, a journeyman player who represented nine different clubs during a 13-year career, has found greater success off the field than on it. In place of his football boots he now has a little black book overflowing with contacts and is a seasoned boardroom operator. He is fluent in English and built up an excellent relationship with Premier League clubs following a stint as No.2 to ex-England boss Fabio Capello.
Baldini can both navigate club politics and champion the needs of his manager, a trusted consigliere to chairman Daniel Levy, someone to oil the wheels of transfers, but also an ally to Villas-Boas that allows the young Portuguese to focus almost solely on training.
Not only has Baldini shown he understands the need to act swiftly and decisively in the transfer market in the past – unlike Levy, who's brinkmanship, stubbornness and hard-nosed negotiations have often hampered Tottenham – he also values the importance of buying youth and potential.
That approach had virtually died out under Redknapp, much to the detriment of the club's longevity. Of the 20 first team players the current QPR boss purchased during his spell at the club (who had an average age of 28.45), only seven are still there – three of those (Jermain Defoe, Brad Friedel and Scott Parker) have little long-term future.
A massive part of Baldini's role will be to build a squad and an infrastructure that can outlast the manager, while also finding value in a market where Tottenham are out-gunned financially by billionaire-backed behemoths.
Villas-Boas worked under one of the very best 'director generals' in the form of Antero Henrique at Porto and knows the value of a rich scouting set-up only too well. Under the watch of Henrique, the Primeira Liga holders have made a profit of around £342 million from player sales, with the likes of Anderson, Radamel Falcao, Hulk and James Rodriguez all sold at an astonishing profit.
“We can't compete at the level that others go for in terms of the big names that are around. We are in a different type of market, and we have to scout properly to get good names from around the world and the Premier League.”
Not only has Baldini proven to be excellent at recruiting young players (from an 18-year-old Daniele De Rossi during his first spell at Roma, to an 18-year-old Gonzalo Higuain at Real Madrid, to Erik Lamela and Marquinhos during a second stint in the Italian capital), the value-for-money South American market that Porto have profited so much from is one he knows extremely well.
He also teamed youthful foundations with a dash of experience. In 2000 he brought a then 31-year-old Gabriel Batistuta to Roma, and the Argentine's 20 goals fired the club to the Scudetto. In 2006 he signed the 30-year-old Ruud van Nistelrooy for Madrid, who lead the Liga scoring charts with 25 goals as los Blancos won their first title in three years. Should Spurs' approach for David Villa materialise, they will hope he is just as successful.
Baldini, one of the most highly-regarded directors of football in Europe, is a major coup for Tottenham and signals a new, more sustainable approach. But it is imperative that he strikes a balance between signing good players and the right players, between youth and experience, and between planning for 10 years in the future and remaining competitive in the here-and-now. If he can, Baldini might be the most important signing of Spurs' recent history.
For Tottenham's hierarchy, the appointment of a director of football is a necessary progression, an essential complement to the club's progressive, forward-thinking manager and the new, high-tech training centre. For the club's fans, the role is treated with a greater degree of scepticism and distrust, a return to the failed, continental experiment that was scrapped upon the arrival of Harry Redknapp in 2008.
When Juande Ramos was sacked following a run of just two points in eight games, director of football Damien Comolli was also ushered towards the exit door. Spurs failings were linked to the more European structure at the club, but, in reality, it was the club's impetus on signing young, promising players with high re-sale potential that had made them competitive in the first place.
It did not always work. Comolli, for example, seemed to rely too much on statistics to form an opinion, never assembled a balanced squad and too often bought highly-rated players even if they were not needed - the decision to buy David Bentley when fellow right winger Aaron Lennon was already at the club being a prime example.
BALDINI'S BEST BUYS
ROMA 1999-2005
WALTER SAMUEL
AGE: 22, COST: £14.8M
DANIELE DE ROSSI
AGE: 18, COST: FREE
GABRIEL BATISTUTA
AGE: 31, COST £23.5M
REAL MADRID 2006-2007
GONZALO HIGUAIN
AGE: 18, COST: £10.2M
MARCELO
AGE: 18, COST: £5.5M
RUUD VAN NISTELROOY
AGE: 30, COST: £12.7M
ROMA 2011-2013
ERIK LAMELA
AGE: 19, COST: £14.4M
PABLO OSVALDO
AGE: 25, COST: £13.3M
MARQUINHOS
AGE: 18, COST: £2.5M
But much of Spurs' success, starting from the work of Frank Arnesen – who recruiting a host of young British players, from Michael Dawson to Tom Huddlestone – is owed to the director of football structure. And that good work – buying potential for lower fees, developing them, and selling on for a much larger profit – is set to restart with the appointment of Franco Baldini.
Unlike former managers Martin Jol and Redknapp, current Spurs boss Andre Villas-Boas not only appreciates the role of the director of football, but deems it a fundamental part of his long-term vision at the club: “It is something that works. Since the first day, I told the club that it's somebody who is extremely important.”
But the relationship between director of football and head coach has been rocky at White Hart Lane in the past; Arnesen and Jacques Santini (who had a blink-and-you'll-miss-it stay at Spurs in 2004) had a confused and unworkable partnership according to the former – citing “a problem of where responsibility lay in the club, where we could never reach an agreement” - while Jol and Comolli's collaboration was permanently fraught, a marriage of convenience rather than compatibility.
Villas-Boas and Baldini, however, seem a much better fit for each other. The Italian had even looked to recruit the former Chelsea boss while at Roma to replace Luis Enrique, though Zdenek Zeman was appointed instead.
Baldini, it should be noted, comes to White Hart Lane with his reputation a little dented following an often torrid second spell at Roma, much like the Portuguese manager he will now be working with who himself had a Chelsea-shaped blemish on his own record prior to joining Spurs.
The 52-year-old's managerial appointments in the Italian capital were short-lived, first Enrique and then Zeman, while several signings failed to ignite. But, his role was diluted by the presence of Walter Sabatini, who had his own views on recruitment, while the club's Boston-based owners were not always the easiest to work with – it was they who pushed for the signing of American midfielder Michael Bradley.
But for Spurs' Portuguese boss, Baldini ticks every box he values. “The most important thing is the relationship with the person who bridges the gap between manager and board, and that he is able to be focused on the technical side of things. Someone who has experience of dressing rooms, represents the club, is able to link up with players, agents.”
Baldini, a journeyman player who represented nine different clubs during a 13-year career, has found greater success off the field than on it. In place of his football boots he now has a little black book overflowing with contacts and is a seasoned boardroom operator. He is fluent in English and built up an excellent relationship with Premier League clubs following a stint as No.2 to ex-England boss Fabio Capello.
Baldini can both navigate club politics and champion the needs of his manager, a trusted consigliere to chairman Daniel Levy, someone to oil the wheels of transfers, but also an ally to Villas-Boas that allows the young Portuguese to focus almost solely on training.
Not only has Baldini shown he understands the need to act swiftly and decisively in the transfer market in the past – unlike Levy, who's brinkmanship, stubbornness and hard-nosed negotiations have often hampered Tottenham – he also values the importance of buying youth and potential.
That approach had virtually died out under Redknapp, much to the detriment of the club's longevity. Of the 20 first team players the current QPR boss purchased during his spell at the club (who had an average age of 28.45), only seven are still there – three of those (Jermain Defoe, Brad Friedel and Scott Parker) have little long-term future.
A massive part of Baldini's role will be to build a squad and an infrastructure that can outlast the manager, while also finding value in a market where Tottenham are out-gunned financially by billionaire-backed behemoths.
Villas-Boas worked under one of the very best 'director generals' in the form of Antero Henrique at Porto and knows the value of a rich scouting set-up only too well. Under the watch of Henrique, the Primeira Liga holders have made a profit of around £342 million from player sales, with the likes of Anderson, Radamel Falcao, Hulk and James Rodriguez all sold at an astonishing profit.
“We can't compete at the level that others go for in terms of the big names that are around. We are in a different type of market, and we have to scout properly to get good names from around the world and the Premier League.”
Not only has Baldini proven to be excellent at recruiting young players (from an 18-year-old Daniele De Rossi during his first spell at Roma, to an 18-year-old Gonzalo Higuain at Real Madrid, to Erik Lamela and Marquinhos during a second stint in the Italian capital), the value-for-money South American market that Porto have profited so much from is one he knows extremely well.
He also teamed youthful foundations with a dash of experience. In 2000 he brought a then 31-year-old Gabriel Batistuta to Roma, and the Argentine's 20 goals fired the club to the Scudetto. In 2006 he signed the 30-year-old Ruud van Nistelrooy for Madrid, who lead the Liga scoring charts with 25 goals as los Blancos won their first title in three years. Should Spurs' approach for David Villa materialise, they will hope he is just as successful.
Baldini, one of the most highly-regarded directors of football in Europe, is a major coup for Tottenham and signals a new, more sustainable approach. But it is imperative that he strikes a balance between signing good players and the right players, between youth and experience, and between planning for 10 years in the future and remaining competitive in the here-and-now. If he can, Baldini might be the most important signing of Spurs' recent history.
FRANCO BALDINI turned down a late chance to be reunited with Fabio Capello to take the job as Tottenham’s technical director.
Former England boss Capello, currently coaching Russia, is set to be appointed new boss of Paris St-Germain.
But Baldini, 52, who had been in talks with Spurs for around a month, stayed loyal to White Hart Lane boss Andre Villas-Boas, who was desperate to land the Italian.
Baldini was No.2 to Capello during his four-year spell as England chief. Yesterday Baldini, who quit his job at Roma recently, was confirmed in his new role at Spurs.
“Even though I had not signed anything, I wanted to respect what we had in place,” said Baldini when asked whether he might have been tempted to work with Capello again.
Baldini, who tried to tempt Villas-Boas to Roma in 2011 before he became Chelsea boss, will take charge of Spurs’ scouting and recruitment.
Villas-Boas is used to working in the European-style structure, having done so at Porto.
Chairman Daniel Levy is a big fan of the technical director-head coach model.
He previously employed Frank Arnesen and Damien Comolli in the role at Spurs.
Baldini said: “I am going to work with Tim Sherwood and matters relating to the youth academy and, of course, I am going to work closely with Andre to try to build the best team that we can.”
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/321473/EXCLUSIVE-Franco-Baldini-said-no-to-Fabio-Capello/
Former England boss Capello, currently coaching Russia, is set to be appointed new boss of Paris St-Germain.
But Baldini, 52, who had been in talks with Spurs for around a month, stayed loyal to White Hart Lane boss Andre Villas-Boas, who was desperate to land the Italian.
Baldini was No.2 to Capello during his four-year spell as England chief. Yesterday Baldini, who quit his job at Roma recently, was confirmed in his new role at Spurs.
“Even though I had not signed anything, I wanted to respect what we had in place,” said Baldini when asked whether he might have been tempted to work with Capello again.
Baldini, who tried to tempt Villas-Boas to Roma in 2011 before he became Chelsea boss, will take charge of Spurs’ scouting and recruitment.
Villas-Boas is used to working in the European-style structure, having done so at Porto.
Chairman Daniel Levy is a big fan of the technical director-head coach model.
He previously employed Frank Arnesen and Damien Comolli in the role at Spurs.
Baldini said: “I am going to work with Tim Sherwood and matters relating to the youth academy and, of course, I am going to work closely with Andre to try to build the best team that we can.”
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/321473/EXCLUSIVE-Franco-Baldini-said-no-to-Fabio-Capello/
Rorschach
Sonny Walters
The contrast between this appointment and Kinnear up at Saudi Sportswashing Machine couldn't be more stark. We really have got our act together compared to that circus.
I think we should be sniffing around a few of Saudi Sportswashing Machine's better players as the discontentment grows.
I quite like the look of that Kebab lad.