Director of Football

[ToffeeTim]

Newcastle definitely

 

[RomanReigns]

 

[twoblue]

What if the 'continuity' plan is whack a doodle'?

Exactly. Having the right person is essential.

 

[Toff33Blues99]

Hope its Newcastle, it took him 3 seasons to realise BHA needed a forward

 

[neil999]

Burt says Newcastle

 

[RomanReigns]

Hope its Newcastle, it took him 3 seasons to realise BHA needed a forward

and he got Welbeck

 

[Azza]

Newcastle will both pay him more and he’s going into a clean slate of a job. If he came here he’d have to both do his normal job and fight the dinosaurs at the top to actually do his normal job. He’d be a madman to come here.

I'm sure he'd love to have to deal with Kenwright, Moshiri and Kia.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

DoF is overrated

 

[Encoder]

DoF is overrated

But it's necessary. Very few top level managers actively scout players anymore and given the modern high turnover that the job entails there needs to be a level of long term thinking and strategy within the management structure.

However our implementation of it has been very poor and Brands was seemingly something of a dope. We are still stuck in the old mindset with too many cooks in the kitchen. Just hire an established DOF and let him do his job free from the likes of Moshiri and Kia and god knows who else.

 

[Houghty19]

But it's necessary. Very few top level managers actively scout players anymore and given the modern high turnover that the job entails there needs to be a level of long term thinking and strategy within the management structure.

However our implementation of it has been very poor and Brands was seemingly something of a dope. We are still stuck in the old mindset with too many cooks in the kitchen. Just hire an established DOF and let him do his job free from the likes of Moshiri and Kia and god knows who else.

That is the biggest problem at the moment and might be one of the reasons why brands appears from the outside a failure and unfortunately we'll probably never know for sure.

 

[MikeH72]

Packing football in if Newcastle ever become decent you know, any sport that allows them to become successful just isn’t worth my time.

 

[Encoder]

That is the biggest problem at the moment and might be one of the reasons why brands appears from the outside a failure and unfortunately we'll probably never know for sure.

I agree that he probably wasn't allowed to do his job correctly but let's not forget the massive price tags paid, poor mentality players targeted and being unable to affect the long term strategy of the club in a meaningful way (regardless of roadblocks). He needed to go.

 

[dublinbluenose]

 

[jamieni]

Times correspondent reporting it too

 

[zukai12_]

well that was a nice 10 minuets