So it's not the coaches fault, its a buigger club/organisation wide issue. Ok, lets start form the very very top.
Welnix - they own the club, they've set the direction and plan to be a development/selling club - that si the busiens model and it wont be changing unless we get a change in ownership - good luck with that.
Then we have our favourite CEO and his staff - all hired to fulfill the business model set by the owners - and we'll never know what KPI's are being set for them, but given they've been here forever they must be meeting 90%+ of them. Our owners are business people at the forefront and know how to make money.
Down the bottom we actually have the football arm of the business, we have a coach who has been brought in to develop our youngsters so we can sell them for mega bucks. We've suceeded with some of that but the onfield stuff is not working. Tactics appear to be confusing the players at best, utterly non-sensical at worst.
Blaming one person seems pointless, it's not just the managers fault that the team are struggling, it's not solely the players fault either - it's all of their responsibility.
Do the owners have any responsibility for what's happening onfield - a little, they set the plan in motion and this is what happenes when you sell your big names youngsters and the replacements dont work out. Does the CEO have any responsibility with the onfield stuff - minimal if any. His arena is purey the non-football stuff - gameday experience and marketing all his, but not the results.
Blame who you want, but this is the club we have right now and the machine is doing what it is supposed to be doing for the owners, perhaps not for us as fans. But like anything, a manager's lifespan a a club can be pretty short. Italiano will move on, whoever we get next had better not be a Kalezic type. But given the demands from the owners for attractive attacking football I'd expect that will be the kind of manager we get next.
Welnix - they own the club, they've set the direction and plan to be a development/selling club - that si the busiens model and it wont be changing unless we get a change in ownership - good luck with that.
Then we have our favourite CEO and his staff - all hired to fulfill the business model set by the owners - and we'll never know what KPI's are being set for them, but given they've been here forever they must be meeting 90%+ of them. Our owners are business people at the forefront and know how to make money.
Down the bottom we actually have the football arm of the business, we have a coach who has been brought in to develop our youngsters so we can sell them for mega bucks. We've suceeded with some of that but the onfield stuff is not working. Tactics appear to be confusing the players at best, utterly non-sensical at worst.
Blaming one person seems pointless, it's not just the managers fault that the team are struggling, it's not solely the players fault either - it's all of their responsibility.
Do the owners have any responsibility for what's happening onfield - a little, they set the plan in motion and this is what happenes when you sell your big names youngsters and the replacements dont work out. Does the CEO have any responsibility with the onfield stuff - minimal if any. His arena is purey the non-football stuff - gameday experience and marketing all his, but not the results.
Blame who you want, but this is the club we have right now and the machine is doing what it is supposed to be doing for the owners, perhaps not for us as fans. But like anything, a manager's lifespan a a club can be pretty short. Italiano will move on, whoever we get next had better not be a Kalezic type. But given the demands from the owners for attractive attacking football I'd expect that will be the kind of manager we get next.