Brian Marwood (merged)

[moomba]

Re: Well done Brian Marwood.

Nah, popcorn cat not needed.

People are still talking about agent fees, transfer and the like. I've said previously, I don't care if we sign Messi, it's no reflection on Marwoods performance. Neither is signing noone. Transfers are stupid ways to solely judge somebody

Marwood is in charge of the whole technical side. I don't think we have a world class Academy, or a world class scouting department, or a world class PA team. This is his job. He has made some changes which I think are very, very good. Our player liason teams seem to work wonders, the time it takes new signings to settle in is almost instant, thanks in a large part to this. Our medical department is almost mythically good, thanks to both Mancini and Marwood. He takes credut for these.

I use the word incompetent too flippantly and give credit where credit is due. I also don't give credit where it isn't due. Marwood has done ok. I don't think doing ok is good enough for City. We wouldn't accept Mancini doing just ok, nor would we accept a first team player doing just ok.

All of these people defending Marwood constantly duck this one question.

Is Brian Marwood the best Director of Football in the world? Are there better out there that are available?

If you think he's the best, then fine, as they say it's a game of opinions. I don't. I don't think he is particularly well qualified, nor do I think that his performance in his job has been world class. We could have a better scouting system. We could have a better Academy. We could have a unified football philosophy.

Some would argue that Mancini isn't the best coach in the world - maybe 10 others coaches would have pissed the league but we will never know.

All we know is he hit the objective, winning the Premier League and we thank him for that.

The same should be said of Marwood. Unlike Mancini we don't know what targets he has been set by the Chairman - for all we know he could be held in high esteem. They may also judge we are over-achieving in the timeline of the project.

I have no reason to doubt the leadership of club or their Management Team - they have delivered so far!

This is the only argument that his defenders ever use; he must be doing well or he wouldn't have a job. It's fallacious. Plenty of people who aren't doing well have a job, otherwise they'd have nothing to not do well in.

I can't predict the thoughts of the owner. I can however look at Udineses scouting system and Barcelonas academy and see how we are miles away from them. And ultimately, it's the job of Marwood to have a large part in that.

As Khaldoon recently said, the success (or otherwise) of academy and scouting systems isn't something that can be properly assessed for several years until we start seeing the products of it.

 

[Anonymous]

Re: Well done Brian Marwood.

thankyou brian x

 

[Pam]

Re: Well done Brian Marwood.

You were a near lone voice of reason on his fee yesterday when the handwringers were throwing their toys out of the pram saying Marwood was awful and likely to pay £24m.

LMFAO

Another gem from our resident lunatic.

Why are you laughing your arse off Ms. Myopia?

Or can you not give a reason as your clearly limited reasoning skills have been wasted on thinking about nasty rags?

It was a compliment on an amusing post, SWP! You are an entertaining poster! And see PM.

 

[tomhawley]

Well done Brian Marwood.

Thanks Sam,

As I said I appreciate both sides of the argument and when people actually give reasoning behind their opinions then I can take it on board, however I'll take your word for it on this occasion that it's in another thread.

The comment wasn't specifically aimed at you - there have been numerous posters who it could apply to.

The last thing i'd say is that the point about everyone you speak to agreeing, doesn't make it right, it depends who you speak to to be honest.

I'm not going to justify that Marwood is the man for the job, as I'm not sure he is, just like to see proper arguments behind comments.

Thanks for the reply

 

[Sam.]

Re: Well done Brian Marwood.

Fair play Tom.

I thought it was completely aimed at me and got the impression you were having a bit of a dig at me.

Ta for explaining.

 

[SWP's back]

Re: Well done Brian Marwood.

LMFAO

Another gem from our resident lunatic.

Why are you laughing your arse off Ms. Myopia?

Or can you not give a reason as your clearly limited reasoning skills have been wasted on thinking about nasty rags?

It was a compliment on an amusing post, SWP! You are an entertaining poster! And see PM.

I have no pm pam?

Anyway, I'm off to the ground.

 

[ZZmaestro]

Re: Well done Brian Marwood.

Are everybody serious ?
I mean, when you're in charge of the recruitment of the third biggest team in europe, the caliber of the player's we have signed this week are the absolute minimum we could accept.
That being said, Marwood's staff have really done poorly to strenghen the team.
We needed a strong and competitive MD : we got Garcia, who is better than NDJ but not a big improvment from Barry.
Needing a cover for Lescott/VK we got that Nastasic fella, let's hope it's not a new Savic ( i'm afraid their names pronounces verry similarly ).
We needed a wide player, we get an old and past his prime Maicon.
But selling NDJ for 3.5M is really killing me; that's some really poor negociating skills right there.

 

[Shirley]

Re: Well done Brian Marwood.

Are everybody serious ?
I mean, when you're in charge of the recruitment of the third biggest team in europe, the caliber of the player's we have signed this week are the absolute minimum we could accept.
That being said, Marwood's staff have really done poorly to strenghen the team.
We needed a strong and competitive MD : we got Garcia, who is better than NDJ but not a big improvment from Barry.
Needing a cover for Lescott/VK we got that Nastasic fella, let's hope it's not a new Savic ( i'm afraid their names pronounces verry similarly ).
We needed a wide player, we get an old and past his prime Maicon.
But selling NDJ for 3.5M is really killing me; that's some really poor negociating skills right there.

Third biggest team in Europe, calm down.
You are well wide of the mark on your other comments.

 

[TCIB]

Re: Well done Brian Marwood.

I have never commented on his position and effectiveness at the club as i simply do not have enough info to form an opinion, same as everyone else.

If he does his job well he will stay, the boss ain't daft so i trust his judgement totally.
The day i am richer than the boss and his boys through sound financial investments and being a general business wiz.
I will offer an opinion more than i have on here then, until that time though i'll shut up about stuff i have no idea about.

I think we have had a great transfer window, rid of deadwood and new and young good players in, very happy.
In fact now i think we have the best defense in the world and midfield and attack to rival any other you could name.

 

[smiles]

Re: Well done Brian Marwood.

Bottom line is marwood doesnt deserve praise for bringing in plan c targets on the last day. it wasn't a good window for us, all the last minute deals are testiment to that, but it doesn't mean we didn't sign some good players or get some bargains. Time will tell.