aaron bond wrote:
Our recruitment policy has been lousy for the last few years now.
From 2010-2013 we had a squad of players who could rival the best in the world. Now we have a few excellent players and a lot of not very good players (despite continually spending significant amounts).
We have a great chairman and CEO, but a poor Director of Football. That's the reality.
But Pep has to take some blame also at the moment. To go into the biggest match of the season with Otamendi-Stones-Kolarov as your defence is abysmal and he has to take the blame for that.
This is very improtant.
i've never been fan of director of football system mainly because of three things. A) If the squad isn't up to standards, which is the case right now to some extent, the blame falls on "manager" eventhough in that system somcalled manager is actually head coach. B) The recruitement policy will always lead to team purchasing players that aren't suited to system and/or mentality expected by the manager. C) This sytem always leads into power struggles if the manager is succesfull. Manager will inevitably have more say on squad decisions.
Right now we got probably the best manager in the world. He himself has said that he isn't particularily interested in putting the team together. And they even have history together. Yet clearly director of football has failed to put together team suited for the system and he has made so e truly terrible purchases from financial point of view like Mangala. I want to give Pep as much time as he needs as I trust him but I wouldn't say the same about Begiristain. He has been with us for four years and has had mediocre to poor reaults in his main job even with all the resources available.