Paul Scholes, so quiet during his playing career, has let rip in his retirement and become an outspoken pundit on the game. Much of his ire has been so far directed towards the malaise at Manchester Untied. But Scholes has now turned his attention towards what he sees as inefficiency at Tottenham.
The old debate about the director of football raises its head once again with the issues at Tottenham, where signing players seems to be a shared responsibility between the manager and the technical director, Franco Baldini.
My view is that the signing of players should be a simple process. The chief scout identifies them, the manager decides who he wants and the chief executive is dispatched to do the deal. If the chief executive cannot sign the players then he is in the wrong job. It really is as simple as that.
It makes a lot of sense to us. If a director of football is so necessary then how come so many of the most successful clubs don’t have one? And how come, with one, Tottenham are making so little progress in the market and on the pitch?
We imagine directors of football travelling around Europe having pseudo meetings and spending way too much in restaurants. Tottenham’s transfer policy has been all over the shop in the last couple of years and surely the director of football has to be, at least in part, culpable? But the buck seems, more often than not, to stop with the manager instead.
Tottenham fans: is Scholes off his chops or are Spurs wasting time and money with their current set up?
PluckySpur
Nov 14, 2014 at 2:40 pm
We need a director of football – only because Levy has ticked off so many clubs that none will talk to him.
Levy’s business savy has come at the expense of the club’s soul.
sheikh352
Nov 18, 2014 at 6:40 am
The point about having a Director of Football is that he is supposed to provide continuity when a manager departs and takes his backroom staff and scouts with him. That said, Tottenham seems to have acquired two DoFs that rub fans up the wrong way. One, Damien Comolli, with his mouth and the other, Franco Baldini, with his seeming incompetence. Of course, if Levy would do away with his penchant for changing managers every few months, then we would have the stability we crave and which every pundit agrees, we need! Levy thought he had it right, when he employed Jacques Santini, as Head Coach and Frank Arnesen, as DoF. Of course, Santini lasted WEEKS before it all became too much for him and Arnesen was with us for only MONTHS before the lure of a massive pay rise took him to Chelski. Effectively, they both fired Levy before he could fire them! The only recent stability we have seen at Spurs was with pre-tax trial and England speculation Harry Redknapp – who point blank REFUSED to work with a DoF – resulting in Comolli getting the sack and Harry being appointed as MANAGER, rather than the less-impressive sounding HEAD COACH!