Moyes Potential Replacement

[Portista]

This Director of Football thing is interesting because in the States in all the major sports it is almost universally done this way. The Director of Football is called the General Manager, and the Manager is called a Manager in baseball and a Head Coach in everything else. With all the money involved with the PL, I never understood why transfers, players contracts, scouting etc were run by the same guy who was the touchline manager and ran training and tactics etc. Its seems like one guy doing two full time jobs, and the skill sets may not be the same for each. For instance, I rated Moyes much higher as a "General Manager" than as a "Head Coach".

Most continental football clubs also have a general manager/director of football (who can be a very hands-on club president). The autonomy and decision making amplitude of the head-coach may vary, but generally there's someone else sharing management responsibilities with him and directly handling most of the off-the-pitch stuff.

I also share your bemusement about the British way of doing things. How can the same guy have the time to do everything well? And, for example, who's running Everton right now? Who's talking to agents and assessing scouting reports and talking to other clubs and planning the pre-season and checking with the players and making decisions on the youth teams? We are out of a manager too but we've already purchased four players this off-season. If we were waiting for a new head-coach, we'd probably lose those bargains (at least I'm hopeful they were bargains).

 

[peteblue]

You have to select the Bullsh*t to English Option to get a full translation.

Has anyone clarified whether Vitor speaks English yet or not?

Not a word apparently.....

 

[maddison]

I don't get where the rumour he does speak Enlish came from

Rumour? FFs? Rumours??? This explains a lot actually, you're mixing up the words rumours and facts. Flip them around and you should be ok

 

[Bullet_Rain]

As I clarified 80 pages back:

I'm quite tired of all the anti-Pereira arguments that are just incorrect.

1) "He doesn't speak English". Where's the source on that?

One journalist: "I believe he can muster the odd sentence, but I'm not sure if he is able to provide a coherent discourse."

...and that's all there is on that subject. By the way, the journalist works for PortuGoal, a football site. Not even national media.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

I don't get where the rumour he does speak Enlish came from

The fact that he was described as "fluent English speaker" in this Post article probably gave us a clue like

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/vitor-pereira-perfect-fit-everton-3817219

 

[griffla]

 

[andy4efc]

Most continental football clubs also have a general manager/director of football (who can be a very hands-on club president). The autonomy and decision making amplitude of the head-coach may vary, but generally there's someone else sharing management responsibilities with him and directly handling most of the off-the-pitch stuff.

I also share your bemusement about the British way of doing things. How can the same guy have the time to do everything well? And, for example, who's running Everton right now? Who's talking to agents and assessing scouting reports and talking to other clubs and planning the pre-season and checking with the players and making decisions on the youth teams? We are out of a manager too but we've already purchased four players this off-season. If we were waiting for a new head-coach, we'd probably lose those bargains (at least I'm hopeful they were bargains).

The manager does it becuase the manager is the one responsible for guiding the teams tactics, we have scouts who give reports to the manager who makes decisions on that. I cant stand this thought that everywhere needs to do it the america way. No thank you, it works fine as it is, managers have to have that responsibility in order to do there job. They aren't doing two jobs, they are doing the job of a manager. If anything, bringing in a DOF is two doing one job.

 

[Bungle]

The fact that he was described as "fluent English speaker" in this Post article probably gave us a clue like

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/vitor-pereira-perfect-fit-everton-3817219

But where's your proof eh?

 

[stinger]

He can't speak English so no thanks

Even with Vitor apparently speaking English, Pochettino couldn't do it English when Southampton hired him mid-season - still he improved them greatly and I would take him in seconds (followed him at Espanyol as well). Mantra of mystical Premier League knowledge and experience, plus knowing language is seriously overrated.

 

[royalblue66]

This is quite funny... It's like 1200 pages of rinse and repeat.

Just to repeat one more time

VITOR SPEAKS FLUENT ENGLISH

haHaHaHaHaha

 

[Bullet_Rain]

But where's your proof eh?

That's like telling the story about "This rocks scares away lions in Liverpool...See any?"

Where's your proof that he doesn't speak English eh?

 

[liambroley]

Kinell, defo a shoe in like

 

[MickM86]

What do people think about Stubbs as manager and Ralf Rangnick as an advisor/assistant manager?

 

[Fazakerley Fan]

I was at a press conference in Porto last month, and when asked a question in English, Vitor didn't understand.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

What do people think about Stubbs as manager and Ralf Rangnick as an advisor/assistant manager?

hahaha, still clinging on then mate?