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Post by gillard on Oct 30, 2008 9:53:51 GMT
Their partnership seems to be working well so far even though very early days so should we just leave things as they are at the moment?
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Post by cpr on Oct 30, 2008 10:44:55 GMT
don't fix wot aint broke
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Post by QPR Report on Oct 30, 2008 11:13:41 GMT
Disagree...Ainsworth should return to getting experience as a coach as we bring in a manager (or just maybe, a "Director of Football."
And ESPECIALLY, Briatore should get out of the team selection/tactic involvement process. That way leads total disaster.
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Post by gillard on Oct 30, 2008 11:39:31 GMT
Disagree...Ainsworth should return to getting experience as a coach as we bring in a manager (or just maybe, a "Director of Football." And ESPECIALLY, Briatore should get out of the team selection/tactic involvement process. That way leads total disaster. But is he 100% involved with the team selection etc or are we all just believing rumours and certain negative parts of the media? It seems to be working well at the moment regardless of the truth and long may it continue. |
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Post by QPR Report on Oct 30, 2008 11:47:29 GMT
You could make a case for Ainsworth to be put in charge. I think it's premature; but maybe we have uncovered a prodigy manager/Chief Coach.
Re Briatore: I think it's a pretty universal reporting re Briatore's involvement in team selection. Briatore's had the luck of the draw. It won't last.
The idea that a businessman/entreupreneuer even in the Sports world can come in and know what he's doing re team selection/chosing players is inane. It's a fairly common bussinessman perspective that they come to the world of football and they will know what they're doing. They don't usually try and pick the team; but general involvement. Time after time it's failed. I don't see any reason to believe, Briatore is some untapped special talent in the world of football. He should step back and return to providing the tools for the manager to do the job.
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Post by QPR Report on Oct 30, 2008 11:59:40 GMT
And this piece a couple of days ago by James Lawton in The Independent might apply to Briatore. And that's just one aspect of him and OUR club
Levy receives bitter lesson in real football intelligence
It shouldn't be too surprising that Daniel Levy, chairman of Tottenham Hotspur and the owner of a first-class Cambridge degree, has taken so long to understand the first thing about running a football club.
Roman Abramovich, bright enough to gobble up so many of Mother Russia's mineral resources, has also struggled with so many of the fundamentals.
Lower down the food chain, Don Roberts, a Leeds businessman who made his fortune in the laundry business, once asked why it was that he and his fellow Leeds United directors never received the same level of praise as a certain Don Revie.
The great Bill Shankly certainly wouldn't have been surprised by the failure of a Cambridge man to protect the legacies of Arthur Rowe and Bill Nicholson at White Hart Lane. "Winning at football isn't about the kind of intelligence you get out of a book," said Shanks. "If it was, I'd spend most of my time hanging around Oxford and Cambridge. But you wouldn't find many Busbys or Steins around there. Malcolm Muggeridge is a great man but I wouldn't put him in charge of the A team. Football is about instinct and giving control to someone who knows football and how footballers tick."
Levy's most disastrous error was a failure to understand, despite many lectures from many quarters, including this one, that appointing someone like Damien Comolli, a man of extremely slender credentials, to run the most vital area of a club, the selection and signing of players, was an act of outright football illiteracy, one that wouldn't have been countenanced for a work day by the great football men of the past, or those of the present like Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsène Wenger.
By turning to the old pro Harry Redknapp, Levy has made his first significant step into football reality.
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