Discussion: Txiki Begiristain (2014/15)

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Looks like we are stuck with him due to his mate doing well.

 

[peoffrey]

Not necessarily. You don't get to where you are in business without making difficult decisions.

 

[Silva_Spell]

He hasn't had a non-ffp summer so let's just see what happens.

Prior to the season we all thought he had done well in the summer. The Porto duo were highly rated and started well. Sagna on a free made sense. I never agreed with Caballero signing (not because he's not good but more due to a waste of a non-HG spot) but he's defo a Pellegrini sigining. Non of them have worked out yet tho and Pellegrini's poor tactics has made matters worse.

Apart from Jovetic, I've little complaints about the summer of 13/14. Dinho is a good player if overpriced, Negredo was good business all round. Navas is ok for the price (15m). Demi has been a good signing, tho that one was a Pellegrini signing - credit where it's due.

All this has been with the shackles of FFP. Let's give him time. He has not done as much as the manager to make this season a poor one.

 

[blueinsa]

He will deliver in spades when the gloves have been taken off financially.

 

[kaz7]

I'm not convinced by him,watch this space in the summer

 

[Damocles]

Soriano is in charge of the business side. His job is the day to day running of it, and is concerned with growing City, making money and managing staff.

Txiki works on the business side as the Head of the Football Department. His job is in the long term development of the infrastructure and squad. He is a big picture guy.

Our manager is in charge of the day to day running of the first team squad. He is the details man who concentrates on winning matches and managing players.

Our EDS manager for example is essentially the same level as the first team manager. Both have their specific squads to concentrate on, and Vieira will report to Txiki rather than Pellers, though obviously in reality things will be less isolated

Thought this was worth posting in here. Txiki's role is looking after the next 5 years and not the next 5 games. This does include managing who comes in and out of the squad but it's on a far longer scale than people here seem to make out. Every time one of our players underperforms questions get asked of Txiki and that's an incorrect direction of blame.

If you think that our squad isn't good enough to challenge for the league title and be in the knockouts of the CL, or that our facilities aren't good enough, or that our EDS/U18 squad isn't talented enough or things of this nature then this is Txiki's fault. He is responsible for bringing in players but ultimately within the boundaries given to him by the rest of the board financially, but this is only a small part of his overall role. He is also the man who would have been responsible for getting Silva, Nasri, Kompany, Aguero, Hart and the like to sign new contracts at the club at a reduced weekly rate and a million and one other tasks that we could go into.

If you think that we should stop playing a 4-4-2 or that Fernando's form is terrible then this is the manager's fault. The manager controls the team, motivates them and deals with the day to day running of it.

One of my big problems on these threads is that people get angry at a performance then blame the wrong person. I'm a supporter of the manager but it is his fault when results and performances go badly, not that of the board. Txiki's job is to buy players who the manager can fit into his plans, and considering that unlike Marwood's acquisition, every single player he has bought has played a bunch of games for us then he's doing his job correctly. Whether that player is the new Messi or the new Morrison is not down to Txiki. His job is to bring in people that the manager can use to fill gaps in his squad.

Essentially, if a player isn't getting played a lot like Sagna then that is a bad transfer by Txiki. If a player IS getting played a lot like Navas or Fernando, that is a good transfer from Txiki regardless of their performance. Their performance of players is the job of the manager, the DoF only has to ensure that he is bringing in players of a quality that the manager feels is good enough to play in our first team. If we spent £32m on Mangala and he couldn't get on our bench then that would be a spectacular failure by Txiki Begiristain and not the manager.

It's poor form to be critical of the job the man is doing if you aren't judging him on what his job entails.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

He will deliver in spades when the gloves have been taken off financially.

Yeah £180m in two years is a real tight purse isn't it?!

 

[blueinsa]

He will deliver in spades when the gloves have been taken off financially.

Yeah £180m in two years is a real tight purse isn't it?!

Its less than quite a few teams have spent and in the next few years it will look like peanuts.

Dont get hung up by the numbers and if you do, just have a look at what other sides have been spending.

FFP was a pinch and we took it, the gloves are coming off and the players we really want will be attainable again.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Judge the man by the end of this summer, and not before.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Judge the man by the end of this summer, and not before.

He has an awful lot of big calls to make mow and over the next few months.
His first 4 transfer windows have not been great but they haven't been that bad and only Fernando is a complete Turkey.