BirkenheadBlue
Player Valuation: £70m
I mean he’s only been an assistant under 1 manager afaik.We know they've produced f.a. from the academy of late; we know that they've been part and parcel of the last 4/5 failed regimes.
I mean, what assistant manager serves under 5 different managers - as Ferguson has - and retains their job? It's ludicrous this job for life he apparently has.
Let’s be honest, none of us have any idea whether he’s a good coach, or what level of input he’s had into those regimes you mention. He might have had a lot (which could certainly be a mark against him) or he might have had very little - which could go either way.
In fact I’d say there have really only been 2 pieces of anything approaching clarity…
The first is that we know he’s done a good amount of one to one work with DCL. It would be hard to argue that Dom hasn’t improved over the last few years. That said, we don’t know how much of that is down to Duncan’s influence.
The second is the spell he had in charge of the team before Ancelotti was appointed. It was a very short spell, and hard to draw many conclusions, but you’d be hard pressed for any conclusions you DID decide to draw to be particularly negative.
At the end of the day we really have next to no idea of what his role and influence have or haven’t been. But that’s less fun to shout about on an Internet forum.