Gary Neville...DOF

comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 2 hours, 47 minutes ago
would anyone be against this?

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Me for starters. This is a role that imo that is more important than the manager at this moment in time.

We have to get it right.

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This appointment needs to be someone who knows what they’re doing. Someone with experience at a top club. At whatever cost. Anything else and it’ll be more of the same for the next 6 years.

Gary Neville is living proof that it's much easier to criticise and identify fault than it is to solve those faults and do a good job yourself.

I could watch a performance by Phil Jones and tell you areas of his game he could improve, but I couldn't play centre half for Man Utd.

We like listening to Neville because he brings insight and knowledge to football analysis, but it's with the benefit of hindsight.

Planning ahead and getting it right is a far more difficult skill.

What do united actually need here, like if a DoF just going to sort everything out?

I mean it should be more than one person, a team of people including the manager, scouts etc. need to be working together to identify targets, it should not all be on a single DoF to make all these decisions.

It's sounds like many think appointing a good DoF will solve everything, but then you're making this individual into a key man dependency, the team is what is important, and Ole, as manager must have final say.

comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 4 minutes ago
It's sounds like many think appointing a good DoF will solve everything, but then you're making this individual into a key man dependency, the team is what is important, and Ole, as manager must have final say.
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I don't think it sounds like that at all.

But many people believe it's a major gap in the hierarchy and leaves Ed to make decisions he really shouldn't be making.

But how does the DoF operate then? Does he work as part of a team with Ole having final say?

comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 5 seconds ago
But how does the DoF operate then? Does he work as part of a team with Ole having final say?
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Same way it operates everywhere else!

There's a few interesting articles about Begiristain at City, if you're interested.

Yeah Winston if you can post them I'll take a look, to be fair to City it took time but they built a very good model.

Yeah Winston if you can post them I'll take a look, to be fair to City it took time but they built a very good model.

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It didn't take them long once they had all the major pieces in place to be fair.

No worries, will take a look as I read a couple in print a while back.