Franco Baldini

[Gutter Boy]

So why has he been released then if he was doing such a great job?

I know by what I've seen over the past couple of years; Paulinho, Stambouli, Soldado, Fazio, Capoue, Chiriches.

Maybe Capello has asked him to join him for his next venture (a soon TBC international team)?

Maybe Levy wants more of a CEO than a DoF now the scouting infrastructure has been fixed and the stadium build is the new priority area?

Maybe Baldini wants to leave England after nearly a decade here and spend more time with his grandkids?

Lots of possible reasons.


You can also balance Paulinho, Stambouli, Soldado, Fazio, Capoue, Chiriches with Dier, Davies, Wimmer, Alder, Eriksen, Alli, Chadli, Son, Njie. In fact a 50% strike rate is well above average in the transfer game.

The fact that his later signings were better than his initial ones attests to his work of overhauling the scouting and analysis department

 

[billyiddo]

It was reported he had no involvement with in comings this summer and was tasked with selling players, iirc

 

[Millsy_Yiddo]

Maybe Capello has asked him to join him for his next venture (a soon TBC international team)?

Maybe Levy wants more of a CEO than a DoF now the scouting infrastructure has been fixed and the stadium build is the new priority area?

Maybe Baldini wants to leave England after nearly a decade here and spend more time with his grandkids?

Lots of possible reasons.


You can also balance Paulinho, Stambouli, Soldado, Fazio, Capoue, Chiriches with Dier, Davies, Wimmer, Alder, Eriksen, Alli, Chadli, Son, Njie. In fact a 50% strike rate is well above average in the transfer game.

The fact that his later signings were better than his initial ones attests to his work of overhauling the scouting and analysis department

To early to say that for the ones in bold IMO.

 

[Gutter Boy]

It was reported he had no involvement with in comings this summer and was tasked with selling players, iirc

Yet also reported that he led on Njie and had been pursing Son for us for 2.5 years.

 

[milo]

If we assume that Bale was already half way out the door when he arrived, I think that Baldini leaves the club with a stronger squad than we had when he joined.

 

[parklane1]

If we assume that Bale was already half way out the door when he arrived, I think that Baldini leaves the club with a stronger squad than we had when he joined.

A very good point.

 

[Gutter Boy]

If we assume that Bale was already half way out the door when he arrived, I think that Baldini leaves the club with a stronger squad than we had when he joined.

The team was at the end of a cycle (most teams go through 4-5 year S-curve cycles). King, van der Vaart and Modric had all recently left too, and a lot of our players were ageing.

We're now at the start of the cycle, and have completely rejuvenated our squad with a zero net spend.

I think like Comolli before him, most of Baldini's work will come to fruition 2-3 years after he's left the club (when his signings start to peak).

 

[billyiddo]

If we assume that Bale was already half way out the door when he arrived, I think that Baldini leaves the club with a stronger squad than we had when he joined.

I think that's fair

 

[alekaras]

I've no interest in a hypothetical argument, I was just pointing out that there could be other reasons for him leaving.

Ms. Martial, perhaps?

 

[milo]

If we assume that Bale was already half way out the door when he arrived, I think that Baldini leaves the club with a stronger squad than we had when he joined.

And at what must be close to zero net spend.

 

[scaramanga]

And at what must be close to zero net spend.

No way.

Only Wenger is capable of that.

 

[milo]

https://twitter.com/x/status/649700330893144065

 

[Jurgen the German]

If we assume that Bale was already half way out the door when he arrived, I think that Baldini leaves the club with a stronger squad than we had when he joined.

But we needed to sell a lot of crap players that HE signed.

 

[Jordinho]

But we needed to sell a lot of crap players that HE signed.

That he was INVOLVED in signing.

 

[Jurgen the German]

That he was INVOLVED in signing.

And the ones that were success stories are all down to him

 

[billyiddo]

And the ones that were success stories are all down to him

Has anybody said that?

Paulinho is the only player I know that we can attribute to any one individual (if you need to play the blame game)as he said AVB was key man behind his move.

 

[milo]

Jesus @Jurgen the German - you are like a broken record sometimes

 

[Jurgen the German]

Jesus @Jurgen the German - you are like a broken record sometimes

As are some of the MODS. You don't want anyone criticising Poch, Levy, Baldini, people even get grumpy when AVB is criticised.

 

[billyiddo]

Criticise who you want, just expect to provide some logic/reasoning/evidence if pulled up on it

 

[Jurgen the German]

Criticise who you want, just expect to provide some logic/reasoning/evidence if pulled up on it

Can any of us really provide evidence on a lot of stuff that goes on though? Doesn't stop people criticising Sherwood for example.