Not sure why all the speculation, when the latest puppet moves on he will be replaced by an equally baffling appointment. There is intelligence behind our direction and leadership, so why bother trying to second guess these numpties.
According to Belgian journalist Sven Claes Fred Vanderbiest is at The Valley this week with other young Belgian coaches doing an internship for their pro-license degree.
Apparently the best man wins a 3-year interim contract (he didn't say) ;-)
According to Belgian journalist Sven Claes Fred Vanderbiest is at The Valley this week with other young Belgian coaches doing an internship for their pro-license degree.
Apparently the best man wins a 3-year interim contract (he didn't say) ;-)
According to Belgian journalist Sven Claes Fred Vanderbiest is at The Valley this week with other young Belgian coaches doing an internship for their pro-license degree.
Apparently the best man wins a 3-year interim contract (he didn't say) ;-)
I was at the Valley today and there were no coaches there.
More likely that they would have been at Sparrows Lane in any case
I wonder if we have been analysing the experiment from the wrong angle. Perhaps the priority is to fist find a young and importantly cheap head coach. The method they are using is to bring in a string of unknown coaches on short contracts to try them out. While this is going on the player farm is running on low power with the knowledge that emergency loans can be used to overcome any major failings in the young head coaches.
Once a head coach proves they really have something to offer (the appointed one?) then the player farm moves up a few gears and the head coach is allowed more influence and able to 'acquire' players of a higher standard and price. This process allows the acquisition team more team time to practice their 'scouting' and enhance their knowledge of the Championship.
Obviously it's not the sort of plan that RD and KM can go public with so they just have to keep stringing us along, at minimal cost, until they strike lucky and uncover a super head coach - if they ever do !!!
Personally I think the only reason RD hires younger inexperienced coaches is that they are much less likely to question him over the football business plan, as they know without him they will get no where near a club of our size again, it is why I think Riga was not kept on(although him turning up at Standard is still bizarre), seems he uses the same policy for hiring CEOs too.
I wonder if we have been analysing the experiment from the wrong angle. Perhaps the priority is to fist find a young and importantly cheap head coach. The method they are using is to bring in a string of unknown coaches on short contracts to try them out. While this is going on the player farm is running on low power with the knowledge that emergency loans can be used to overcome any major failings in the young head coaches.
Once a head coach proves they really have something to offer (the appointed one?) then the player farm moves up a few gears and the head coach is allowed more influence and able to 'acquire' players of a higher standard and price. This process allows the acquisition team more team time to practice their 'scouting' and enhance their knowledge of the Championship.
Obviously it's not the sort of plan that RD and KM can go public with so they just have to keep stringing us along, at minimal cost, until they strike lucky and uncover a super head coach - if they ever do !!!
Personally I think the only reason RD hires younger inexperienced coaches is that they are much less likely to question him over the football business plan, as they know without him they will get no where near a club of our size again, it is why I think Riga was not kept on(although him turning up at Standard is still bizarre), seems he uses the same policy for hiring CEOs too.
Quality is not needed, just obedience.
Bingo. Add in they are cheap. Also it works on all other posts such as CEO. It's a sad sad state of affairs, one which I posted about very early doors - he puts people who will obey him in the important positions, the goal is everything but first team success because everyone knows that you have to pump a lot of money in to achieve that. Of course he wouldn't say no to it but there is no way we will achieve it, you can win League One with youngsters but you can't win the Championship with them and no experience.
I wonder if we have been analysing the experiment from the wrong angle. Perhaps the priority is to fist find a young and importantly cheap head coach. The method they are using is to bring in a string of unknown coaches on short contracts to try them out. While this is going on the player farm is running on low power with the knowledge that emergency loans can be used to overcome any major failings in the young head coaches.
Once a head coach proves they really have something to offer (the appointed one?) then the player farm moves up a few gears and the head coach is allowed more influence and able to 'acquire' players of a higher standard and price. This process allows the acquisition team more team time to practice their 'scouting' and enhance their knowledge of the Championship.
Obviously it's not the sort of plan that RD and KM can go public with so they just have to keep stringing us along, at minimal cost, until they strike lucky and uncover a super head coach - if they ever do !!!
Personally I think the only reason RD hires younger inexperienced coaches is that they are much less likely to question him over the football business plan, as they know without him they will get no where near a club of our size again, it is why I think Riga was not kept on(although him turning up at Standard is still bizarre), seems he uses the same policy for hiring CEOs too.
Quality is not needed, just obedience.
Bingo. Add in they are cheap. Also it works on all other posts such as CEO. It's a sad sad state of affairs, one which I posted about very early doors - he puts people who will obey him in the important positions, the goal is everything but first team success because everyone knows that you have to pump a lot of money in to achieve that. Of course he wouldn't say no to it but there is no way we will achieve it, you can win League One with youngsters but you can't win the Championship with them and no experience.
The problem with this theory that quality is not important only being cheap and obedient is only possible if you accept that the coach has no control over team selection which I don't buy into at all.
No one thinks the coach has no control over team selection. It's more that Roland has too much say (i.e. any!) in team selection. There is too much corroborating evidence that Roland put undue pressure on Chris Powell and his management team to play certain players at certain times, against he and his management team's better judgement.
"Traditional" managers are too invested in the conventions of football in this country to accept board level involvement in details of the first team on a match day. Roland prefers those more vulnerable to his particular "genius".
I've got no issues with us signing a Foreign Manager... the likes of Hasselbaink / Flores / Martinez / Jokanovic / Villas Boas etc. have all proved that they can do a job here in the English Leagues (albeit, two of those names have been in England before).
What I'm getting fed up with is the fact we only seem to look into the Belgian market... We sign players from all over Europe based on the Scouting Network and because its cheaper than going English (fair enough I get that), surely though these scouts can also spot a good Manager doing well in Spain / Germany / Portugal etc...
Why would some inexperienced young Belgian manager be less of a risk than say Euell, who will have a far greater understanding of the league and players in it? Euell is surely part of the network as he is under the Fool's employ. Not saying he should employ Euell, just saying it would be better than an inexperienced Belgian. We should look for a manager - from whatever country that has shown he has a knowledge of the English game! It shouldn't be rocket science!
I just don't get why, if you remotely cared about the football performance and progression, why you'd keep employing managers from a poor Belgian league who have proved over and over again that they are too inexperienced, inept, and out of their depth.
It's quite clear that Roland Duchatelet and Katrien Meire couldn't care less about the future of the actual football club and what division we're in. All they care about is having the club exist enough to farm footballers in and out of to make them money. That's it. No grand plan, just that. They have to go.
I'm not sure it's even about making money. Just an experiment to see if things can be done differently.
You're quite right of course. But he must have shit for brains, if he can't see what's happening.
Rumours have been circulating that Frederick Vanderbeist, the coach of Club Brugge, is to be the next head coach at Charlton. He is Belgian. However, I have not been able to find any independent confirmation of these rumours, not least from Belgian sources. It looks like one of those rumours that has developed a momentum of its own, so for now the Vanderbeast is staying in Bruges.
Posted by Wyn Grant at 06:26
I think it started on Glynne Jones' mailing list (not posted by Glynne). I've not been able to find anything to back it up either.
Is Glynne still doing the mailing list? Bloody Hell....
I just don't get why, if you remotely cared about the football performance and progression, why you'd keep employing managers from a poor Belgian league who have proved over and over again that they are too inexperienced, inept, and out of their depth.
It's quite clear that Roland Duchatelet and Katrien Meire couldn't care less about the future of the actual football club and what division we're in. All they care about is having the club exist enough to farm footballers in and out of to make them money. That's it. No grand plan, just that. They have to go.
I'm not sure it's even about making money. Just an experiment to see if things can be done differently.
You're quite right of course. But he must have shit for brains, if he can't see what's happening.
Maybe the CEO is telling him that everything is fine and dandy
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Apparently the best man wins a 3-year interim contract (he didn't say) ;-)
More likely that they would have been at Sparrows Lane in any case
Quality is not needed, just obedience.
"Traditional" managers are too invested in the conventions of football in this country to accept board level involvement in details of the first team on a match day. Roland prefers those more vulnerable to his particular "genius".
Its just a joke...
We need to ramp up the protests... we need to start being hugely vocal all game, every game...
and to think we just " take " KM laughing at us and taking photos...
I'm disgusted...
We all feel powerless... well come the season ticket renewals we will see a huge drop... and in many ways I hope so...
What I'm getting fed up with is the fact we only seem to look into the Belgian market... We sign players from all over Europe based on the Scouting Network and because its cheaper than going English (fair enough I get that), surely though these scouts can also spot a good Manager doing well in Spain / Germany / Portugal etc...
If we have to have a foreign manager/coach why can't we consider someone like that?
Chill out ffs.