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2019/20 Marcel Brands

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Was reading the Carlo piece ive just posted in his thread and noticed this for all the people who say "let Carlo do the transfers", he's never done them.


Observation 1: Oversight. Ancelotti has worked for some of the most demanding and involved executives in football. While I have no doubt that Ancelotti has had input at every stop at least in terms of the team needs, he has not been primarily responsible for transfer strategy at many of his clubs with the possible exceptions of Parma and Paris Saint Germain. Just consider the following situations that Carlo has worked under:

  • Juventus. Worked under legendary transfer guru, Luciano Moggi.
  • Milan. Worked with one of the most domineering and invasive executives of all time in Silvio Berlusconi, who was very involved if not dominated transfer policy (and everything else).
  • Chelsea. Worked under Roman Abramovich / Frank Amesen as a combo who were primarily responsible for transfer strategy, which included strange Russian player purchases (Yuri Zhirkov) and poor fits (Fernando Torres) with bad market returns.
  • Real Madrid. Worked under domineering Florentino Perez, who likely bought Gareth Bale to set the transfer record at the time amongst other players and seemed to automatically fire managers every year or so.
  • Bayern Munich. Worked under Uli Hoeneß who was a club legend, uber traditional, and was very active – to the extent that he pushed an assistant coach on Ancelotti in Sagnol that might have contributed to him “losing the dressing room”.
  • Napoli. Worked under Aurelio De Laurentis who didn’t seem to lack ego and was heavily involved in club operations. Ancelotti’s lack of support for the De Laurentis imposed November bootcamp probably contributed more to his removal than his team’s performances.

Theres also this.

I don't think he has to worry about his employer forcing the world's best players on him anytime soon.
 
Needs a plan and needs to get it done early this time.
Can't be waiting til deadline to get business done again, squad needs to be settled and ready to go
 
I’m genuinely confused that there are people saying this is the worst Everton squad ever, and there’s no way a manager can be expected to get a result at home to relegated Bournemouth With these players, and also saying that the DoF - who’s bought enough players to put out a full balanced side - is doing a good job. Something doesn’t add up.
 


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