freelander2, on 21 May 2015 - 12:43 PM, said:
Do you not think that it's time for football clubs to take control of their structures & how positions are populated, rather than it chopping & changing every time there's a change in manager?
There appears to be a reluctance by clubs to take control & opt on the side of fully supporting a newly appointed manager, but all this does is help jobs for the boys culture at the expense of other employees.
If a club is happy with employee X & that employee has a proven track record of delivering results, why should he/she be moved on to accommodate the wishes of a new manager.
I'd hope Paul Mitchell's new position might start to look at the club's structure & how we go about hiring / firing football related personnel.
Sports businesses are team business that need success delivered immediately: us fans demand it !
With it being a 'team', the business/club cannot afford any conflict between management/players - otherwise no matter how good they are individually they won't perform to their best ie Gerrard/Lampard rarely performed as well together for England, as they did for their clubs.
Would Cooky have been as successful with Crossley & Wright as he was with Richardson & Lynch? Probably not. Would Saunders be successful with Richardson & Lynch? He doesn't know them I guess, how they work etc - they may get on socially but when it comes to football strategy/tactics - they probably have different views and therefore potential conflict. And with the business being short-term, they wouldn't be allowed the time to find out if they could work together, especially if the results are not there from the start; then the fans start protesting, gates drop and revenue reduces and pressure builds up.
We know the football business is different from normal commercial businesses, it needs results immediately and importantly it is based on people and personalities: not about making products and selling them. However, it should be, but isn't. What other 'business' would their owners chuck millions at for no return (Bolton Wanderers £145m in debt, what other 'business' with similar t/o could sustain that?) and yet these same 'owners', with their 'proper' business will negotiate the 'shirt of your back' when you try and sell them something.
We have to accept that in football commonsense/logic/best practice goes out the window and not just with the owners, but fans too ie I would like to be though of as a normal/rational chap, but between 3-5pm on a Saturday afternoon, you've probably witnessed me turn into somebody completely opposite