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Franco Baldini
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thfcsteff
George Hunt
Bullet
Colin Calderwood
Agreed. Bale talks about Redknapp and AVB in the Telegraph in a few days, so you will soon hear from the horse's mouth what influence those two 'coaches' had on him.
Mosquito_Coasting
Jonathan Woodgate
I don't think we pay the wages of 40m pound players. I don't know why we didn't sit on at least half of it. We didn't have to spend it all like that.
Brewster's Millions.
The main thinking behind spending it all at once is that we otherwise risked having to pay a huge tax bill at the end of the year. Profit on Bale was £78m; Huddlestone £5m; Caulker £9m. Add to that, the £40m odd extra from the new broadcasting deal.
Better, in Levy's eyes, to spend on assets that would at least have some value even if they proved to be poor buys than just to write a fat cheque to HMRC and say goodbye to the money forever.
Why didn't we just send the money to one of Lewis's accounts in the Bahamas? He could have opened an account just for the money and named it 'Bonzo Jones'. If HMRC tried to say anything about it, all he needed to do was claim that he named it after a ball-juggling monkey he bought from Wales one time, who he sold onto a Spanish bloke for £86m after he fell in love with him. Just throw in the fact that you can't read or write and job's a good 'un
Rorschach
Sonny Walters
That you Harry? Sorry my bad. You are typing so no.
DubaiSpur
Ian Walker
Could be Bondsy.
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
Yep, absolutely no doubt. Hopefully we'll get the chance to see over the next year or so.
thfcsteff
George Hunt
Well I agree with the sentiment of hoping we get a chance to see via Eriksen stepping up. Personally he didn't blow away last season either...went missing far too often...
Jurgen the German
Willie Hall
Both him and Lamela need to step it up. I think Lamela has been more anonymous this season than Eriksen, personally.
Yes but then again this is effectively Lamela's first season
And if we hadn't spent it all - Spurs fans would have been crying over our net spend and how we are a joke who have no ambition and that there are some silky exotic players around the world that we should have bought with the money hat is burning a hole in Levys pocket.
a spur from swansea
Naybet
Don't understand why we didn't gamble on a couple of up and coming yougsters like we did a few years back with Huddlestone etc,but then does Baldini go around the UK checking up on these sort of players or does he prefer the private jet jolly to Rome,Paris or Madrid.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Money
We bought Lennon for £1m, Huddlestone for £2.5m, Dawson for £4m and Walker for £5m. Because we did so well on these, the price of young English players from lower league went through the roof.
So in response we just got McDermott and Inglethorpe to develop the academy, so we could grow our own (and 10 years later we are now seeing the fruits).
Now we have Kane, Mason, Townsend, Carroll and Bentaleb (+ Caulker and Livermore) for free, instead of having to pay teams like Leeds, Derby, Forest and Sheff U £10m+ each for them.
Baldini though surely knows the English market well (he was England Assistant Manager for 4 years). I think his signing of Dier was a smart, in that he's of the AL/TH/MD/KW profile, but coming from abroad was much cheaper.
LutonSpurs
Eric Dear
Dont know if this has been posted but it is by the reliable David Hytner.
Interesting.
http://www.theguardian.com/football...paul-mitchell-southampton-mauricio-pochettino
Will Paul Mitchell’s Tottenham arrival spell the end for Franco Baldini?
Mauricio Pochettino’s Southampton cohort will put pressure on Spurs technical director and bring order to usual transfer chaos
• Southampton scout could join Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs
Franco Baldini Franco Baldini is in charge of player recruitment at Spurs but his position may now come under threat. Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
The first thing to say about Paul Mitchell is he is not joining Tottenham Hotspur to work for Franco Baldini. The Southampton director of recruitment, who has tendered his resignation before his move to White Hart Lane, is one of those executives with the ambition and steel to drive matters forward on his terms. When needed he can play the politician, which ought to come in handy at Tottenham, but what Mitchell has grown accustomed to is a level of control.
He did not set up the recruitment department at Southampton, which has become the envy of English football. It was Les Reed who got it started, having been asked to undertake a study of the club in the 2009-10 season. Reed, who is now the executive director, recommended that Southampton switch to a better integrated and more European-style scouting structure. Together with David Burke, who would move on to become Brighton & Hove Albion’s head of football operations in January 2012, they laid the foundations.
But after replacing Burke, Mitchell has taken on the department in eye-catching fashion. The 33-year-old has been the top man as Southampton have developed players through their academy and made shrewd signings at first-team level. And he is joining Tottenham to be the top man there, too.
It raises several interesting discussion points, not least regarding Baldini, who moved to White Hart Lane from Roma in June 2013 as the sporting director or, essentially, the head of player recruitment. Mitchell’s arrival stands to clip Baldini’s wings or, more seriously, threaten his position.
Baldini appears to have been on borrowed time since his part in the attempted restrengthening of the squad in the wake of Gareth Bale’s £86m sale to Real Madrid. Together with the chairman, Daniel Levy, he oversaw the outlay of £110.5m on seven players last year and it is questionable whether any of them have a higher resale value – something on which Levy places great store.
Roberto Soldado, the £26m striker from Valencia, continues to labour for goals; Paulinho, the £18m midfielder from Corinthians, has made one Premier League appearance this season – as a 61st minute substitute against West Bromwich Albion; and the case of Erik Lamela seemed to highlight the club’s recruitment problems last season.
The winger followed Baldini from Roma for £30m – a Tottenham record – but the manager at the time, André Villas-Boas, did not start him in the league for almost three months. Lamela told the Observer he had not been injured during the period. The situation became an embarrassment for Baldini, although Lamela has picked up under Mauricio Pochettino this season.
Baldini trades – and hopes to continue to trade at Tottenham – on his extensive network of contacts and, by and large, he has signed talented players. But, for a variety of reasons, they have not all been able to fit into the playing system under either Villas-Boas, Tim Sherwood, who took charge from December to May, or Pochettino.
Soldado, for instance, has not looked comfortable in English football as the lone striker in the formation favoured by Villas-Boas and Pochettino. The overall impression is that of a lack of joined-up thinking.
Levy has decided to act and the move for Mitchell, once it is ratified, seems like an attempt for some sort of stability. Levy has fired too many managers since he came to the club in 2001 and he desperately wants to create an environment in which Pochettino can succeed.
He gave Pochettino a five-year contract when he prised him from Southampton in May although, as an aside, the club made great play of how Sherwood had been given an 18-month deal only for Levy to reveal, after sacking him, that it contained a break clause at the end of the season. Pochettino has recommended Mitchell and it is difficult not to see the appointment as one that strengthens his position.
Levy has long favoured the two-tier approach to management that tends to be employed at mainland Europe clubs but when he has tried it the dynamic between sporting director and first-team coach has sometimes jarred. The latest structural re-think has broader aims.
Mitchell has been in charge of a large stand-alone department at Southampton, in which there have been six full-time scouts in England (including himself) and many more part-time ones, together with a team on the international front. At most Premier League clubs there is a delineation between the scouting at first-team and youth levels but Southampton have adopted an holistic approach.
Everything is shared; every scout has access to the same data-base. From the first-team down to the under-sevens there is continuity; a common philosophy. Analysis is everything. Players are brought in to fit the system, not the other way round, and the same principle underpinned the appointment of the manager, Ronald Koeman, following Pochettino’s departure.
There was no panic at Southampton over the summer, when five of their star names left, because there was the knowledge and reassurance they would make sound signings. They always believed they would be better than last season and they are second in the Premier League table. Similarly, there is no panic over the imminent loss of Mitchell. They would prefer not to lose him but Reed has contingencies and, above all, the structure is in place to cope.
Mitchell’s contract, in line with many football executives, contains a six-month notice period so if Southampton were not happy with Tottenham’s offer of compensation they could hold on to him for the remainder of the season or place him on gardening leave. It is unlikely to come to that.
Mitchell is set to link up with Tottenham’s international scout, Ian Broomfield, and he is ready for his new challenge. It will be quite a task. Pochettino is struggling to impose his high-tempo style, the team have lost more times than they have won in the league and they are stuck in mid-table. The problems are seemingly everywhere. Over time, Mitchell hopes to offer a solution.
Interesting.
http://www.theguardian.com/football...paul-mitchell-southampton-mauricio-pochettino
Will Paul Mitchell’s Tottenham arrival spell the end for Franco Baldini?
Mauricio Pochettino’s Southampton cohort will put pressure on Spurs technical director and bring order to usual transfer chaos
• Southampton scout could join Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs
Franco Baldini Franco Baldini is in charge of player recruitment at Spurs but his position may now come under threat. Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
The first thing to say about Paul Mitchell is he is not joining Tottenham Hotspur to work for Franco Baldini. The Southampton director of recruitment, who has tendered his resignation before his move to White Hart Lane, is one of those executives with the ambition and steel to drive matters forward on his terms. When needed he can play the politician, which ought to come in handy at Tottenham, but what Mitchell has grown accustomed to is a level of control.
He did not set up the recruitment department at Southampton, which has become the envy of English football. It was Les Reed who got it started, having been asked to undertake a study of the club in the 2009-10 season. Reed, who is now the executive director, recommended that Southampton switch to a better integrated and more European-style scouting structure. Together with David Burke, who would move on to become Brighton & Hove Albion’s head of football operations in January 2012, they laid the foundations.
But after replacing Burke, Mitchell has taken on the department in eye-catching fashion. The 33-year-old has been the top man as Southampton have developed players through their academy and made shrewd signings at first-team level. And he is joining Tottenham to be the top man there, too.
It raises several interesting discussion points, not least regarding Baldini, who moved to White Hart Lane from Roma in June 2013 as the sporting director or, essentially, the head of player recruitment. Mitchell’s arrival stands to clip Baldini’s wings or, more seriously, threaten his position.
Baldini appears to have been on borrowed time since his part in the attempted restrengthening of the squad in the wake of Gareth Bale’s £86m sale to Real Madrid. Together with the chairman, Daniel Levy, he oversaw the outlay of £110.5m on seven players last year and it is questionable whether any of them have a higher resale value – something on which Levy places great store.
Roberto Soldado, the £26m striker from Valencia, continues to labour for goals; Paulinho, the £18m midfielder from Corinthians, has made one Premier League appearance this season – as a 61st minute substitute against West Bromwich Albion; and the case of Erik Lamela seemed to highlight the club’s recruitment problems last season.
The winger followed Baldini from Roma for £30m – a Tottenham record – but the manager at the time, André Villas-Boas, did not start him in the league for almost three months. Lamela told the Observer he had not been injured during the period. The situation became an embarrassment for Baldini, although Lamela has picked up under Mauricio Pochettino this season.
Baldini trades – and hopes to continue to trade at Tottenham – on his extensive network of contacts and, by and large, he has signed talented players. But, for a variety of reasons, they have not all been able to fit into the playing system under either Villas-Boas, Tim Sherwood, who took charge from December to May, or Pochettino.
Soldado, for instance, has not looked comfortable in English football as the lone striker in the formation favoured by Villas-Boas and Pochettino. The overall impression is that of a lack of joined-up thinking.
Levy has decided to act and the move for Mitchell, once it is ratified, seems like an attempt for some sort of stability. Levy has fired too many managers since he came to the club in 2001 and he desperately wants to create an environment in which Pochettino can succeed.
He gave Pochettino a five-year contract when he prised him from Southampton in May although, as an aside, the club made great play of how Sherwood had been given an 18-month deal only for Levy to reveal, after sacking him, that it contained a break clause at the end of the season. Pochettino has recommended Mitchell and it is difficult not to see the appointment as one that strengthens his position.
Levy has long favoured the two-tier approach to management that tends to be employed at mainland Europe clubs but when he has tried it the dynamic between sporting director and first-team coach has sometimes jarred. The latest structural re-think has broader aims.
Mitchell has been in charge of a large stand-alone department at Southampton, in which there have been six full-time scouts in England (including himself) and many more part-time ones, together with a team on the international front. At most Premier League clubs there is a delineation between the scouting at first-team and youth levels but Southampton have adopted an holistic approach.
Everything is shared; every scout has access to the same data-base. From the first-team down to the under-sevens there is continuity; a common philosophy. Analysis is everything. Players are brought in to fit the system, not the other way round, and the same principle underpinned the appointment of the manager, Ronald Koeman, following Pochettino’s departure.
There was no panic at Southampton over the summer, when five of their star names left, because there was the knowledge and reassurance they would make sound signings. They always believed they would be better than last season and they are second in the Premier League table. Similarly, there is no panic over the imminent loss of Mitchell. They would prefer not to lose him but Reed has contingencies and, above all, the structure is in place to cope.
Mitchell’s contract, in line with many football executives, contains a six-month notice period so if Southampton were not happy with Tottenham’s offer of compensation they could hold on to him for the remainder of the season or place him on gardening leave. It is unlikely to come to that.
Mitchell is set to link up with Tottenham’s international scout, Ian Broomfield, and he is ready for his new challenge. It will be quite a task. Pochettino is struggling to impose his high-tempo style, the team have lost more times than they have won in the league and they are stuck in mid-table. The problems are seemingly everywhere. Over time, Mitchell hopes to offer a solution.
Rorschach
Sonny Walters
The academy is producing good talent now I would say.
metalgear
Luka Modric
True but we how we use that to benefit the senior team and not confound ourselves with our signings....there's got to be a grand plan overall. Did Mitchell do all that with the head coach?