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Johan Lange - Sporting Director
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Naybet
If and when we get relegated he'll be gone soon enough.
Rorschach
Mel Hopkins
Sporting Director I think. It's in the thread title.
MartyFunkhouser
Terry Dyson
The club putting so much faith in Fab didn't help, what a waste of time that was.
What I will say is someone like Lange can only work within the framework they have, money v wages v availability, even then he might not have been enough in the job but I also suspect he was presenting options we had no clout or effort to get.
parj
Willem Korsten
That's a job title. What does he actually do?
DubaiSpur
Jack Jull
For sure mate - Frank talking about Semenyo in January was astounding to me in that respect. You're telling me Johan Lange's data-driven analysis identified as a target, one of the Premier League's most sought-after wingers, who was already locked into a move to City? And then when that fell through, he had *nobody* else as a backup? That's our dataset?
Either Frank was lying, Lange's atrocious at his job, or they're both trying to protect the people higher up.
MartyFunkhouser
Terry Dyson
It's the last bit because our ambitions dont match the players, after 25 years thats not on Lange or Frank.
Fab was Levy’s man. Lange is the Nepo’s pick
If Levy was still here so would Fab be picking player like Kulu
Jurgen the German
Terry Dyson
Steve Hitchen now this guy. Where do we find these chumps?!
MartyFunkhouser
Terry Dyson
Im not getting into who was whose man
My point is that any role where you are charged of buying players is restricted by certain factors that isnt all on them
I get there is an element of the job which means they should pluck some gems out of the hat, but in persuading top players the club needs the status and the DOFs need money as leverage.
The club made its own confession that it wasn't doing enough to attract players on wages, so its not all Lange fault although he is not faultless
DubaiSpur
Jack Jull
The bargain bin. Note that no one of note was after Lange or Hitchen, except us.
Whereas the sporting directors we had a decade ago (Edwards, Mitchell, etc.) all had long stints of being chased by big clubs across Europe. That was even true of Comolli.
And who hired Edwards Mitchell and Comoli?
monkeybarry
Dimitar Berbatov
Dunno, but I wish he'd stop
DubaiSpur
Jack Jull
Levy. He also hired Arnesen, whom Chelsea poached from us in 2004, and was in general a pioneer at bringing the DoF model to the Premier League. And in his early years, had a knack for appointing the right data-driven people in backroom positions (although not coaches).
None of this is new, I've said it before mate. He lost his touch around the time he lost Paul Mitchell - after that it was just a series of ever-worse choices, both in terms of coaches and in terms of staff.