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The trouble is, any good signing we make under a DOF will be used by some as a stick to show that we were wrong not to have one before, and any bad signing we make under DOF will be used as an accusation that they are merely a puppet for Sullivan.
But there will always be differences of opinion at some point about some player... it's inevitable.
I believe a manager must always have the last say. (If players don't perform, he's the one who gets sacked, never the DOF.) Which is why many managers won't work under a DOF.
So it will be interesting to see how it pans out in respect of Moyes staying on/a new manager coming in .
I know they are having a tough season, but the Southampton model has been the one to follow. Les Reed has been there for years as DOF, and even when managers come and go the style of football, the principles of the club (i.e. blooding young players), and the transfer policy has remained the same.
IMO, we need a DOF who is here for the long haul, who will carry the vision of the club and lead on recruitment (of players and other staff). And then appoint Head Coaches instead of a Manager.
I seem to see more pictures of him on various beaches than on a pitch...
They weren't responsible for what happened Saturday and had it not occurred who knows if we may have got back into the game and won it.
this trip would have been organised some time in advance, so cancellation would have been a bit dramatic, imo, and as likely, if not more, to provoke media comment.
The trip was clearly organised in the expectation that it would do the players/coaching staff good. That doesn't change whether or not they did well in their most recent game.
I'm unclear as to why we should care what the Twitterati publish or think.
I don't.
Story: A Premier League team has gone away for warm weather training. Reaction ;tumbleweed
Spurs make the odd mess up aswell
Look, I agree that the media team isn't top drawer. But in this instance I can't accuse them of being rubbish. How could the media team stop people on a public beach taking pictures and uploading them to the internet?
If you are suggesting that the players shouldn't have had any free time until a training session had been done and there were pictures to go up before any 'leisure' shots made it into cyberspace, fair enough. (I don't agree, but that's irrelevant.) However, how is this the media team's fault or responsibility?
Finally, it is my opinion that anyone who wants to be outraged, or annoyed, or otherwise disgruntled by these images... would have found a way to be upset even IF training images came out first. They'd have been miffed at images from the airport, the plane, the hotel or anything else that made it into the public domain.
Methinks someone at the 3rd party company that drew up the survey was being a little bit naughty.
They've probably been sacked by now.