People Who Should Immediately Lose Their Jobs

[cheltenhamlion]

Just to clear it up, Hendrik Almstadt has nothing to do with player acquisitions. His job is to help the manager on the playing operations side.

For example - Manager suggests there is an issue with the medical team. He is there to look into the medical team and fix it.

[four fornicholl]

Just to clear it up, Hendrik Almstadt has nothing to do with player acquisitions. His job is to help the manager on the playing operations side.

For example - Manager suggests there is an issue with the medical team. He is there to look into the medical team and fix it.

a very important job that by the sounds of things?
how much does he rake in for doing something so vital

[Le Lapin]

The defense coaches and defenders should have a good look at themselves.  How we keep making shit mistakes every single game that costs us momentum and eventually the game is beyond me. How our players keep switching off or getting dragged out of position is baffling. These are international defenders who are looking more brittle by the game.

[brian green]

Agree Lapin.  Wham's goal on Boxing Day was directly caused by Hutton roaming way out of position and Norwich's second on Monday was directly down to Clark being out of position.

[joe_c]

Just to clear it up, Hendrik Almstadt has nothing to do with player acquisitions. His job is to help the manager on the playing operations side.

For example - Manager suggests there is an issue with the medical team. He is there to look into the medical team and fix it.

a very important job that by the sounds of things?
how much does he rake in for doing something so vital

Are you suggesting that some kind of logistics manager is superfluous to requirements?

[kippaxvilla2]

Just to clear it up, Hendrik Almstadt has nothing to do with player acquisitions. His job is to help the manager on the playing operations side.

For example - Manager suggests there is an issue with the medical team. He is there to look into the medical team and fix it.

His job description includes technical scouting what does that mean exactly?

[Bad English]

Technical Scouting must be when you do it on FIFA 2015 or Football Manager.

[alftitimus]

Not officially down but there are people who should immediately be relieved of their duties.

1. Paddy Reilly.
I have no idea who he is or how the fcuk he came to be the mainstay and major decision maker in our transfer policy but it has been an absolute unmitigated disaster particularly this summer.  A team that finished 17th, allowed their main goalscorer to leave and replaced him with an entire team of complete unknowns.

2. Henrik Almstadt.
No idea who he is or what the fcuk he adds to the side.  But it is clear if he is an analyst who is employed to spot players, then by any measure he is doing a terrible job.  Games in the Premier League are not the same as playing FIFA15.

3. Tom Fox.
Has presided over all of the above.  What is more, he gets interviewed recently and starts saying things like 'it is easy to look at the league table when we are great at increasing revenue.'  Well yes Tom it is easy to look at the league table and to see what a total and utter joke of a club we have become and how it has accelerated on your watch.  From the 'only one man on the list' in Sherwood, to going for another complete novice as manager and expecting a different result on the pitch. 

How has it come to this.

They should all go now.

Can't agree more mate --- however some 'red-faced' people try obscure an hijack your thread.

YES !!

We have seen a people load of ex-Arsenal staff ~~~ why did the gooners let them go  if they were relevant ??

One winds up with a plum-crazy owner...got an ex-gooner yipeee 

He recruits other ex-gooners, cos he don't know footie---  unfortunately they don't either.
Hmmm -- what did Arsene do ? He tracked and plotted Theiry Henry, got him for peanuts, wore a false moustache and hat and watched and tracked Fabrehas...brilliant.
So, what we do is watch DVDs, which every European Club has been furnished with by agents..get a load of cheap French players, cos another Thiery might be there..

OOOps we need a new manager.

That's right !  The guy who rebuilt Spurs, gave birth to Harry Kane and personally burnt down the impediment building.

OOOps... we gotta a lot of French players who don't understand 'hoof-it' EWe need a new manager !

Get Arsene's advice....a guy who speaks French....brill...back on track...

kippax....I couldn't agree more mate.

A dysfuntional management -- from top-down.

And has been since Lerner took over.

[Bad English]

William Faulkner is an easier read, that is all I can say.

[LeeB]

Most of the staff in my local McColls, especially the fat, sweaty rude bloke.

There must be a specialist recruitment agency out there that provide overweight, disinterested staff exclusively for McColls, One Stop and W H Smiths.

I'd like to nominate my colleague Chris (not you Chrissy), who slid on his teflon jacket yesterday and ignored a customer request that came in an hour before he finished, knowing that me, who covering two days this week to his one, would have to pick it up. It would have taken 5 minutes to sort yesterday, with the customers still on site, whereas now it's a major ballache for me to try and get a formatted recording up on their system remotely.

The fucking bellend.

[brian green]

Dostoyevsky's The Idiot was the read that came to my mind.

[Bad English]

Dostoyevsky's The Idiot was the read that came to my mind.

I was thinking of Benjy in Part 1 of the Sound and the Fury.

[joe_c]

I was thinking All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy by Jack Torrance.

[kippaxvilla2]

This was the part of the announcement about Almstadt on the official site when he joined.

The 40-year old German joins the Club from Arsenal where he spent the last four years in the football department working with the chief executive and manager in the areas of technical scouting, data analytics, financial budgeting and contract management, the academy and athletic development.

I read this morning he is part of the 'quintet' that make decisions on transfers.  That quintet being Fox, Reilly, the manager Almstadt and Lerner.

[Ads]

What's wrong with that.

Manager says I need an attacking midfielder to help the big man up top. Chief scout goes out looking with his team. Sees somebody in the second division in Japan who the manager and much of Europe, had never heard of. Has the qualities that fit the bill. Filters back to the logistics guy who looks at the data available to help with the report to the manager. Manager picks his guy and agrees that this Japanese kid has something to offer. CEO goes to owner to confirm finance. Owner gives thumbs up. Data man looks at what the budget is like for a contract and passes it back to CEO who green lights the move financially.

End result is that Borussia Dortmund sign Kagawa and win two league titles, with the player scoring getting on for one in two.

Player moves on for a huge fee, before returning. More interestingly, the manager moves on to replace dear Brendon whose woes are placed on a "committee" because "Klopp wouldn't stand for such nonsense". Mega lolz.

There is nothing wrong with the way we sign players.

We are where we are because of five years of failure to invest, of lurching from one manager and therefore strategy, style and player type, to the next. It was a complete failure by Lerner and Faulkner from 2010 to now that has lead us to this abyss. That we have finally adopted common practice for purchasing players is not the root cause of the demise, its not even a symptom.

Benteke's goals kept us up, we sold him and the managers plan was to rely on an expensive, 33 year old, fruitcake who decided, after having a medical, that he did not want to come because God hadn't given him a sign. The back up was a Championship player who the manager wanted. And that was it.

We've conceded 57, 61, 69, 53 and 59 goals over the past five years and the manager picks a player who looks past it and a full back as our centre half pairing, to supplement a player in Clark who isn't and never will be good enough and a young lad who has the ability, but has injury problems.

The list of long term and short term causes are both long. The way we sign our players is a press gimmick.