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Franco Baldini

Jurgen the German said:
So why has he been released then if he was doing such a great job?

I know by what I've seen over the past couple of years; Paulinho, Stambouli, Soldado, Fazio, Capoue, Chiriches.
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Maybe Capello has asked him to join him for his next venture (a soon TBC international team)?

Maybe Levy wants more of a CEO than a DoF now the scouting infrastructure has been fixed and the stadium build is the new priority area?

Maybe Baldini wants to leave England after nearly a decade here and spend more time with his grandkids?

Lots of possible reasons.


You can also balance Paulinho, Stambouli, Soldado, Fazio, Capoue, Chiriches with Dier, Davies, Wimmer, Alder, Eriksen, Alli, Chadli, Son, Njie. In fact a 50% strike rate is well above average in the transfer game.

The fact that his later signings were better than his initial ones attests to his work of overhauling the scouting and analysis department
 
It was reported he had no involvement with in comings this summer and was tasked with selling players, iirc
 
Gutter Boy said:
Maybe Capello has asked him to join him for his next venture (a soon TBC international team)?

Maybe Levy wants more of a CEO than a DoF now the scouting infrastructure has been fixed and the stadium build is the new priority area?

Maybe Baldini wants to leave England after nearly a decade here and spend more time with his grandkids?

Lots of possible reasons.


You can also balance Paulinho, Stambouli, Soldado, Fazio, Capoue, Chiriches with Dier, Davies, Wimmer, Alder, Eriksen, Alli, Chadli, Son, Njie. In fact a 50% strike rate is well above average in the transfer game.

The fact that his later signings were better than his initial ones attests to his work of overhauling the scouting and analysis department
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To early to say that for the ones in bold IMO.
 
milo said:
If we assume that Bale was already half way out the door when he arrived, I think that Baldini leaves the club with a stronger squad than we had when he joined.
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The team was at the end of a cycle (most teams go through 4-5 year S-curve cycles). King, van der Vaart and Modric had all recently left too, and a lot of our players were ageing.

We're now at the start of the cycle, and have completely rejuvenated our squad with a zero net spend.

I think like Comolli before him, most of Baldini's work will come to fruition 2-3 years after he's left the club (when his signings start to peak).
 
milo said:
If we assume that Bale was already half way out the door when he arrived, I think that Baldini leaves the club with a stronger squad than we had when he joined.
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And at what must be close to zero net spend.
 
Criticise who you want, just expect to provide some logic/reasoning/evidence if pulled up on it :)
 
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