kiam06 said:Red faces come Friday
xzbit04 said:Lol yeah <a class="postlink" href="https://twitter.com/BankOfMarwood" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">https://twitter.com/BankOfMarwood</a> there
and search #MarwoodFacts on twitter, some seriously funny shit on there
You know the rules. Put up or shut upkiam06 said:Red faces come Friday
How is this known?AustinBlue said:Scouting....Stefan Savic, Edin Dzeko, Mario Balotelli, Kolarov, Owen Hargreaves, Pantilimon.......everyone of those Marwood recommended NOT to sign. Marwood's scouting and academy staff have all been driven off for Mancini hires.
Jack Wills said:What's top about Austin's post? It's very doom & gloom. I hope he knows fuck all and it's all shite, cos that's a right kick in the nads isn't it. Chelsea spending like there's no tomorrow & the rags getting last season's top scorer while we fuck about.
You would have thought, as champions, we'd really go for it this summer, we've talked about being the best, now it's time to show it, no-one can match our owner's money, yet we sit idle and watch our rivals spend over £120 million between them. Fucking load of wank.
kiam06 said:Red faces come Friday
AustinBlue said:Brian Marwood's role is to identify, nurture and care for talent with the intention of creating value for the football club. In other words "asset management." The resources to achieve this are:
Scouting to recruit and review talent and their background
Player care to serve their NON-football needs (housing, insurances, concierge service, etc)
Academy organization - next generation
+ Medical
Marwood's role as administration provider is to report on all talent for the purpose of update to the board. Provide reviews of identified new, finished, developing and undeveloped talent. He makes recommendations to the board according to the information at hand.
Mancini just wants players and cares NOT for Financial Fair play or any other such business guideline. Fair enough - but Marwood and everyone else in the City administration do care about sustainable business and Financial Fair Play.
Scouting....Stefan Savic, Edin Dzeko, Mario Balotelli, Kolarov, Owen Hargreaves, Pantilimon.......everyone of those Marwood recommended NOT to sign. Marwood's scouting and academy staff have all been driven off for Mancini hires.
Player decisions are made by Khaldoon at the end of the day.......nobody else and this year Khaldoon is adamant no buys without sales.....Previously, Cook managed with a little friendly persuasion and charm to open up the purse strings in search of glory......by working with the manager and taking on the big battles with the owner on his behalf....as in all of those players listed above plus Nasri, Aguero, Yaya Toure and Silva (the owners wanted to slow the process for those players, but with Yaya in particular, Cook went to bat). The CEO must balance the egos, the responsibilities, the business process and understanding and support everyone where possible.......That has been missing since Cook left. Mcbeath has been passive as CEO and Mancini is now the most strident voice.
You can blame Marwood if you want, but he is standing in the gap trying to build sustainable success for the club around real talent under some real constraints - it's not his job to change those constraints. Maybe things will turn around with the new CEO. But I wouldn't hold out hope for much good to happen in this transfer window.
Excellent post and a great insight for the "Why haven't we signed...." & "Garry Cook was a tosser" brigades.AustinBlue said:Brian Marwood's role is to identify, nurture and care for talent with the intention of creating value for the football club. In other words "asset management." The resources to achieve this are:
Scouting to recruit and review talent and their background
Player care to serve their NON-football needs (housing, insurances, concierge service, etc)
Academy organization - next generation
+ Medical
Marwood's role as administration provider is to report on all talent for the purpose of update to the board. Provide reviews of identified new, finished, developing and undeveloped talent. He makes recommendations to the board according to the information at hand.
Mancini just wants players and cares NOT for Financial Fair play or any other such business guideline. Fair enough - but Marwood and everyone else in the City administration do care about sustainable business and Financial Fair Play.
Scouting....Stefan Savic, Edin Dzeko, Mario Balotelli, Kolarov, Owen Hargreaves, Pantilimon.......everyone of those Marwood recommended NOT to sign. Marwood's scouting and academy staff have all been driven off for Mancini hires.
Player decisions are made by Khaldoon at the end of the day.......nobody else and this year Khaldoon is adamant no buys without sales.....Previously, Cook managed with a little friendly persuasion and charm to open up the purse strings in search of glory......by working with the manager and taking on the big battles with the owner on his behalf....as in all of those players listed above plus Nasri, Aguero, Yaya Toure and Silva (the owners wanted to slow the process for those players, but with Yaya in particular, Cook went to bat). The CEO must balance the egos, the responsibilities, the business process and understanding and support everyone where possible.......That has been missing since Cook left. Mcbeath has been passive as CEO and Mancini is now the most strident voice.
You can blame Marwood if you want, but he is standing in the gap trying to build sustainable success for the club around real talent under some real constraints - it's not his job to change those constraints. Maybe things will turn around with the new CEO. But I wouldn't hold out hope for much good to happen in this transfer window.
Prestwich_Blue said:Excellent post and a great insight for the "Why haven't we signed...." & "Garry Cook was a tosser" brigades.AustinBlue said:Brian Marwood's role is to identify, nurture and care for talent with the intention of creating value for the football club. In other words "asset management." The resources to achieve this are:
Scouting to recruit and review talent and their background
Player care to serve their NON-football needs (housing, insurances, concierge service, etc)
Academy organization - next generation
+ Medical
Marwood's role as administration provider is to report on all talent for the purpose of update to the board. Provide reviews of identified new, finished, developing and undeveloped talent. He makes recommendations to the board according to the information at hand.
Mancini just wants players and cares NOT for Financial Fair play or any other such business guideline. Fair enough - but Marwood and everyone else in the City administration do care about sustainable business and Financial Fair Play.
Scouting....Stefan Savic, Edin Dzeko, Mario Balotelli, Kolarov, Owen Hargreaves, Pantilimon.......everyone of those Marwood recommended NOT to sign. Marwood's scouting and academy staff have all been driven off for Mancini hires.
Player decisions are made by Khaldoon at the end of the day.......nobody else and this year Khaldoon is adamant no buys without sales.....Previously, Cook managed with a little friendly persuasion and charm to open up the purse strings in search of glory......by working with the manager and taking on the big battles with the owner on his behalf....as in all of those players listed above plus Nasri, Aguero, Yaya Toure and Silva (the owners wanted to slow the process for those players, but with Yaya in particular, Cook went to bat). The CEO must balance the egos, the responsibilities, the business process and understanding and support everyone where possible.......That has been missing since Cook left. Mcbeath has been passive as CEO and Mancini is now the most strident voice.
You can blame Marwood if you want, but he is standing in the gap trying to build sustainable success for the club around real talent under some real constraints - it's not his job to change those constraints. Maybe things will turn around with the new CEO. But I wouldn't hold out hope for much good to happen in this transfer window.
If it's true that Mancini signed all those players against advice then it's no wonder we were talking to Mourinho before we offered RM a new contract.
Cityfan said:How is this known?AustinBlue said:Scouting....Stefan Savic, Edin Dzeko, Mario Balotelli, Kolarov, Owen Hargreaves, Pantilimon.......everyone of those Marwood recommended NOT to sign. Marwood's scouting and academy staff have all been driven off for Mancini hires.
Seems Marwood is now some sort of Chuck Norris type character in footballing circles.Cityfan said:How is this known?AustinBlue said:Scouting....Stefan Savic, Edin Dzeko, Mario Balotelli, Kolarov, Owen Hargreaves, Pantilimon.......everyone of those Marwood recommended NOT to sign. Marwood's scouting and academy staff have all been driven off for Mancini hires.
Prestwich_Blue said:Excellent post and a great insight for the "Why haven't we signed...." & "Garry Cook was a tosser" brigades.AustinBlue said:Brian Marwood's role is to identify, nurture and care for talent with the intention of creating value for the football club. In other words "asset management." The resources to achieve this are:
Scouting to recruit and review talent and their background
Player care to serve their NON-football needs (housing, insurances, concierge service, etc)
Academy organization - next generation
+ Medical
Marwood's role as administration provider is to report on all talent for the purpose of update to the board. Provide reviews of identified new, finished, developing and undeveloped talent. He makes recommendations to the board according to the information at hand.
Mancini just wants players and cares NOT for Financial Fair play or any other such business guideline. Fair enough - but Marwood and everyone else in the City administration do care about sustainable business and Financial Fair Play.
Scouting....Stefan Savic, Edin Dzeko, Mario Balotelli, Kolarov, Owen Hargreaves, Pantilimon.......everyone of those Marwood recommended NOT to sign. Marwood's scouting and academy staff have all been driven off for Mancini hires.
Player decisions are made by Khaldoon at the end of the day.......nobody else and this year Khaldoon is adamant no buys without sales.....Previously, Cook managed with a little friendly persuasion and charm to open up the purse strings in search of glory......by working with the manager and taking on the big battles with the owner on his behalf....as in all of those players listed above plus Nasri, Aguero, Yaya Toure and Silva (the owners wanted to slow the process for those players, but with Yaya in particular, Cook went to bat). The CEO must balance the egos, the responsibilities, the business process and understanding and support everyone where possible.......That has been missing since Cook left. Mcbeath has been passive as CEO and Mancini is now the most strident voice.
You can blame Marwood if you want, but he is standing in the gap trying to build sustainable success for the club around real talent under some real constraints - it's not his job to change those constraints. Maybe things will turn around with the new CEO. But I wouldn't hold out hope for much good to happen in this transfer window.
If it's true that Mancini signed all those players against advice then it's no wonder we were talking to Mourinho before we offered RM a new contract.
AustinBlue said:Brian Marwood's role is to identify, nurture and care for talent with the intention of creating value for the football club. In other words "asset management." The resources to achieve this are:
Scouting to recruit and review talent and their background
Player care to serve their NON-football needs (housing, insurances, concierge service, etc)
Academy organization - next generation
+ Medical
Marwood's role as administration provider is to report on all talent for the purpose of update to the board. Provide reviews of identified new, finished, developing and undeveloped talent. He makes recommendations to the board according to the information at hand.
Mancini just wants players and cares NOT for Financial Fair play or any other such business guideline. Fair enough - but Marwood and everyone else in the City administration do care about sustainable business and Financial Fair Play.
Scouting....Stefan Savic, Edin Dzeko, Mario Balotelli, Kolarov, Owen Hargreaves, Pantilimon.......everyone of those Marwood recommended NOT to sign. Marwood's scouting and academy staff have all been driven off for Mancini hires.
Player decisions are made by Khaldoon at the end of the day.......nobody else and this year Khaldoon is adamant no buys without sales.....Previously, Cook managed with a little friendly persuasion and charm to open up the purse strings in search of glory......by working with the manager and taking on the big battles with the owner on his behalf....as in all of those players listed above plus Nasri, Aguero, Yaya Toure and Silva (the owners wanted to slow the process for those players, but with Yaya in particular, Cook went to bat). The CEO must balance the egos, the responsibilities, the business process and understanding and support everyone where possible.......That has been missing since Cook left. Mcbeath has been passive as CEO and Mancini is now the most strident voice.
You can blame Marwood if you want, but he is standing in the gap trying to build sustainable success for the club around real talent under some real constraints - it's not his job to change those constraints. Maybe things will turn around with the new CEO. But I wouldn't hold out hope for much good to happen in this transfer window.
supercrystal7 said:AustinBlue said:Brian Marwood's role is to identify, nurture and care for talent with the intention of creating value for the football club. In other words "asset management." The resources to achieve this are:
Scouting to recruit and review talent and their background
Player care to serve their NON-football needs (housing, insurances, concierge service, etc)
Academy organization - next generation
+ Medical
Marwood's role as administration provider is to report on all talent for the purpose of update to the board. Provide reviews of identified new, finished, developing and undeveloped talent. He makes recommendations to the board according to the information at hand.
Mancini just wants players and cares NOT for Financial Fair play or any other such business guideline. Fair enough - but Marwood and everyone else in the City administration do care about sustainable business and Financial Fair Play.
Scouting....Stefan Savic, Edin Dzeko, Mario Balotelli, Kolarov, Owen Hargreaves, Pantilimon.......everyone of those Marwood recommended NOT to sign. Marwood's scouting and academy staff have all been driven off for Mancini hires.
Player decisions are made by Khaldoon at the end of the day.......nobody else and this year Khaldoon is adamant no buys without sales.....Previously, Cook managed with a little friendly persuasion and charm to open up the purse strings in search of glory......by working with the manager and taking on the big battles with the owner on his behalf....as in all of those players listed above plus Nasri, Aguero, Yaya Toure and Silva (the owners wanted to slow the process for those players, but with Yaya in particular, Cook went to bat). The CEO must balance the egos, the responsibilities, the business process and understanding and support everyone where possible.......That has been missing since Cook left. Mcbeath has been passive as CEO and Mancini is now the most strident voice.
You can blame Marwood if you want, but he is standing in the gap trying to build sustainable success for the club around real talent under some real constraints - it's not his job to change those constraints. Maybe things will turn around with the new CEO. But I wouldn't hold out hope for much good to happen in this transfer window.
Would not be surprised if most of this this was true. Kolorov, Balotelli, Savic etc are clearly players Mancini likes a lot and wanted at the club. Not so sure about Dzeko, but if the person is ITK then might be true.
However, equally I would bet Mancini was very keen on Yaya Toure, Nasir, Silva and Aguero as well not just Cook. If he is really ITK maybe he will be fair and reveal how hard Mancini was pushing for particularly Toure or Marwood's opinion of Toure, Silva and Aguero?
Nor does it mention the signings Marwood was pushing for, that Mancini was against.
If the owners are done spending then you cannot complain and that is a different issue. If they feel they have invested enough and that is fair enough. They have spent hundreds of million of their own money and helped you win the FA cup and League title; memories I am sure you will cherish for the rest of your lifes. However, then you have to adjust your expectations. Coming 2nd in the league, winning a cup and the quarters in the CL will be a good season. A sustained period of dominance over Chelsea and United not going to happen. Still, being a threat for the league for the foreseeable future winning cups and going deep in the CL is what 99% of fans dream of. I think I would give my right nut for that at Palace.