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Was hoping to hear a manager rumour

 

Weird. I found the following transcript in an investigation into why City don't have a head coach in place...

Rahic: Welcome to Bradford City! We are so pleased you are interested in the role of head coach.

Applicant: Yes, football management has long been my dream, and to become manager of Bradford City would---

Rahic: Head Coach

Applicant: Sorry?

Rahic: Head Coach. Not manager.

Applicant: How do you mean?

Rahic: You'll be coaching the players. That is your priority. But don't worry. You'll have SOME say on transfers.

Applicant: Some?

Rahic: Yes. If there's anyone left to sign, that is.

Applicant: How do you mean?

Rahic: We're already signing players.

Applicant: So you're signing a coach to suit the players?

Rahic: Yes.

Nobody knows why the applicant withdrew his bid to become 'head coach'.

It remains a mystery.

 

I'm as confused as Edin as to why it's so difficult to find a new head coach that doesn't get to decide the style of his teams play or who he signs for his squad, and is then expected to get promotion with a mid table budget.

it is a mystery.

 

I wonder if Barnsley and MK Dons fans are as impatient or sarcastic as ours are. In fact if we had got an unknown Portugese guy for three months,who's main credentials were he'd worked with Mourinho and sacked him like Barnsley did,and still not replaced him,I'm sure official meltdown on message boards would be the result.

 

88 pages of nothing.

 

appointing John Askey would be just like Leeds appointing Hockaday. he's managed less than one full season in the football league in his entire career.
he's not young and up and coming. it would be scraping the barrel for sure if we ended up with him in charge.

and I have heard of him, I just didn't consider a team trying to get into the Championship would be looking to appoint a 53 year old from the National League to lead the team.

it would be very obvious to most people with half a brain that we must have got quite some distance down the list of potentials if we end up with Askey.

 

The wait is over
Zidane has just resigned at Real

 

How have Shrewsbury managed to appoint Askey so quickly?

I was reliably informed yesterday by our experts on here than ALL management appointments cannot possibly be done in a time frame as quickly as two weeks, nevermind a couple of days

 

Looks like a very thorough process, several meetings with the same applicants. They want to get it right.

 

Yes, they have had more time on this occasion to do this. McCall was a bit of a hasty appointment based on recommendations, as they were new to the club and country, and timescale involved due to the size of squad left as they were approaching pre-season training.
I personally have no issue with them for taking their time and meeting several candidates and more than one meeting per candidate that interests them.
Be interesting now though to see whether Heckingbottom's availability throws a spanner in the works, if he is interested.

 

“We have to find someone willing to walk the walk, not just talk the talk.”

That's good. But you should probay start doing it yourself first, Edin.

 

Whilst I'm sure some have turned us down, I'd be interested in ones we've turned down and why which is also IMO surely the case.

Interviews and negotiations are always a two-way street. Just as we turned down Grayson's demands as much as he turned down our offer.

All I can see is we're conducting interviews as you would in a business - multiple rounds and taking time to get the right person.

 

Always aim for perfection....then work down if perfection can't be achieved, but never accept mediocracy.

 

Before we start the meltdown let's assess where the information has come from - some hack journo who doesn't like us for sacking McCall. He's an arse wipe who probably knows less than me.

 

Hecky would not have gone for an interview if he intended to take a break, he would be on holiday somewhere.

It is what it is...... Edin better sort this out sooner rather than later.

 

The set-up R&R are trying for seems very familiar to someone living on this side of the ocean.Greatly simplified, the owner(s) hire a General Manager and provide the budget; the GM is really the head of the sporting aspects of the team, and amongst other things establishes the overall playing philosophy for the organisation, sets up the scouting side, takes charge of player recruitment, and hires the head coach/manager, who works with the players with which he's provided. The coach/manager is involved with recruitment, but that is not his primary job. When things go wrong, the GM fires the coach and hires a new one; when things go really wrong, or keep going wrong, the owner(s) fire both GM and coach, and start again.

There are staffs and departments and nuances involved with all of this, and the owner(s) may well have a say in overall playing philosophy and hire appropriately, but that is the basic set-up.

With us, Edin seems to want to be both owner and GM; that is where the problems begin. Owners who meddle in team affairs are not unknown over here, and the results are mixed at best. It would be better to have a specialist in as GM aka Head of Football aka Director of Football, and let him get on with it.

RCB