Rousseau

https://gersnet.co.uk/index.php/news/ca-category-blog/236-ross-wilson-director-of-failure-or-the-fall-guy

Rangers 2 - 0 St Mirren FGS Morelos

Rangers vs St Mirren

Ooh! Sky Sports News are running it as breaking news.

The plans will already be in place. Anyone new won't be able to rip it up at the 11th hour.

I suspect the plans are all in place, but clearly someone else will need to take over negotiations, etc.

I'm more than willing to concede that we've not had the success with our DoF that we want, but to think of ripping up the model is ludicrous to me; it'll set our club back years.

Three years old, but still informative:

Football departments are too complex to be left to a manager. Every elite side in world football has one.

I'm strangely excited.

He's not moneyball. Brentford are moneyball.

It would give us wings.

Are you feeling alright?

Why did Klopp use a sitting midfield three to accommodate Robertson and Alexander-Arnold? As soon as he adds more attacking midfielders, more attackers it all falls apart.

The grass is always greener. I'd like to see more of a moneyball-, Red Bull-type appointment. That's just me, though. I suspect I'm in the minority.

There should be KPIs with which the board can hold the DoF to account. I still think any coach worth their salt should be able to get the best out of players at their disposal. If coaches need a perfect mix of players to get the basics done, they should not be here. It's up to the board and the DoF to work out the recruitment strategy. We can only judge decisions made, which is easy with hindsight. We must remember, though, that a 'DoF' does different things at different clubs, and they are responsible for a lot more than just recruitment.

The Leeds DoF has made a howler, there. I don't think the Forest guy did too bad in terms of singing all those players. They did need to sign a lot of players because 7-8 members of their Championship promotion team were loans, and none were made permanent, even if they were able to. The fact that he let that happen is the issue, for me.

They shouldn't be butting heads, though. They have to work together. If a coach doesn't want to work with a DoF they shouldn't be here. I know you're not saying so - and I don't believe MB is - but I'm uncomfortable with the idea of a coach dictating recruitment strategy to the DoF or the board.

He must have done something right to be approached by a PL side.

It was a sitting midfield three of Kamara, Davis and Jack, who are all still here. (Aribo sometimes played there, but mainly further forward.) It doesn't matter who the players are, though. If you're depending on a player in form to be a solution, it's not a proper solution. The solution for SG was using a sitting midfield three; the players were mostly irrelevant.

I get your point, but SG had a solution (three sitting midfielders) with these exact players. We conceded as few as 13 goals in one season.

Or another Dundee Utd signing Steven Thompson. Ooft.

I agree with your point, but I would argue they are dated.

The game's professional now, though.