His peers being, who, the lookouts on the Titanic? Because he certainly doesn't belong with other Directors of Football worthy of the name, imo.
And I would disagree anyway. I suspect a proper DoF sees every window as an opportunity to shape the squad, add something new, keep the team going, ship out deadwood, keep the squad in flux so no one gets comfortable.The ones who dislike January are the chairmen, since they have to pay more to get players over the line. Well, the chairmen like Levy, anyway.
If the DoF is echoing the chairman...*our* chairman's position of not liking January because it doesn't have 550,000 weeks in it to haggle 25p off the fee, I don't think he's doing his job properly.
That's your opinion on who has come good etc. And no club gets all their transfers right, it's about 50/50.Here's a list of our "major" signings since 2015, for instance. I'll put the ones that have actually come good in bold, and acceptable ones in italics:
Yedlin
Wimmer
Trippier
N'Jie
Son
Alderweireld
N'Koudou
Wanyama
Janssen
Sissoko
Foyth
Gazzaniga
Llorente
Aurier
Moura
Sanchez
Gedson
Clarke
Lo Celso
Sessegnon
Bergwijn
Ndombele
Bale
Vinicius
Rodon
Højbjerg
Doherty
Reguilon
There's still time for a few of these to come good, of course - but we need a system to accommodate them. So many of these have had 2+ seasons, yet they just don't seem integrated in the squad. Why did we sign Vinicius as a backup striker if we weren't prepared to pay up for him? Seems like it was just a punt all along - so why even bother? Why didn't we use a young striker in his stead? Just the odd example - but the list is littered with weird signings.
So a scripted line said for the cameras in a documentary is what you base your opinion of him on??? That really is grasping at straws.Instead of all these imaginary scenarios of him being a frustrated superscout with a folder of great players in his desk, I prefer to think about what he actually said, on camera, attributable to him, directly. Said to the tealady for some reason.
'I hate January'.
For a man whose job revolves around four months - January, June, July, August - to declare that he hates doing his job for 25% of the time he's supposed to actually do it is just ass-kissing Levy to a degree I can barely fathom.
Bad enough he buys dud after dud. That he's a Levy mini-me who also kisses up to the boss is just proof of him being an incompetent promoted well beyond his actual ability.
Exactly.So much taken from a line said on a puff piece documentary
So much taken from a line said on a puff piece documentary
Spot on. And a comment he made that I think, if interpreted with any good will is actually a very good comment.It does my head in that people judge him so harshly on that documentary and on that line in particular. Shows all that's wrong with public debate. Condemn a man based on nothing more than a throwaway line with no context.
I've no real idea how good or otherwise Hitchen is because I don't know his exact brief. I suspect most people condemning him know about as much as me.
so if a new dof comes hitchen goes?
twitter with rumours of new dof and players unhappy that he might go
https://twitter.com/thespursweb?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
Unhappy as that means they may actually be sold or have to compete with better players??so if a new dof comes hitchen goes?
twitter with rumours of new dof and players unhappy that he might go
https://twitter.com/thespursweb?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
Unhappy as that means they may actually be sold or have to compete with better players??