Txiki Begiristain to leave role at end of season

[youngbob]

I think Txiki's been a good director, and it's because of him that we have Pep let's be honest, but things definitely could have been better.

Things weren't good under Pellegrini, then things got much better under Pep with an astonishing hitrate, but have now started tailing off again.

Right time to make a change.

 

[Keeper!]

Replace Alvarez with whom ??

Gyokeres? Toney? Delap?

Someone else our scouting network should be able to identify perhaps?

With someone that will get you 19 goals and play 40 games a season.

That's why we got 80m for him, players like that are like rocking horse doo doo

 

[kaz7]

Whos the new batch?

The new players still bedding in

 

[blueparrot]

The buck stops with the Director of Football. Txiki has explained the complications of managing post treble - but he’s made an absolute arse of it.

We were shown several times last year that the team can’t function without Rodri. Whether it was the money he wasted on Phillips and Nunes - but to go into the season with just Rodri and no proper back up was negligent.

We sold our backup striker at the end of the window meaning we went into the season with one striker that we know cannot play every game.

Those two decisions are mind boggling to me.

As you say, there could be loads of reasons we don’t know about - 115 related - Pep possibly leaving before signing his contract - loads of complications but the Summer activity ( and lack of activity ) has killed us and written a season off.

So you do think before the window, Soriano and Khaldoon and Pep go off on holiday saying wonder what Txiki will get up to this summer. The day after the window closes, Soriano and Khaldoon Pep wander into Txiki's office and saying so Txiki waht happened this sumer,how much have you spent what have you bought us.
Thats just daft, well before the window there will be a group discussion on how much we spend and which players we go after and which players leave. Txiki will help identify and negotiate.Watever happened last summer was decided by the whole board,for many reasons, not Txiki.

 

[Centurions]

Gyokeres? Toney? Delap?

Someone else our scouting network should be able to identify perhaps?

Gyokeres who is being talked up as a €100million player? Toney who was banned for 8 months at the time? Delap who wasn't good enough and perhaps never will be?

 

[Paul1970]

He said recently that winning the treble made his job infinitely harder as lots of players wanted more money or to leave.

That being said, we missed out on a fair few midfield targets and the ones we ended up with haven’t worked 100% as of yet.

Txiki has had a stellar career as a DoF. No one gets 100%of transfers correct.

I do believe the court case has made it harder because no elite pkayer will want to cone in if they don’t know where they will be playing . Didn’t think it would matter at first but as it’s got nearer it’s now plain to it’s having an effect and tbh so it should as any team would have the sane issues so to actually win a treble and then another title while it’s been going on in the background is amazing

 

[Paul1970]

Gyokeres who is being talked up as a €100million player? Toney who was banned for 8 months at the time? Delap who wasn't good enough and perhaps never will be?

But delap was better than we had which was zilch cover for he Viking . We knew all summer alveraz wanted out so we left ourselves bare .

 

[Paul1970]

I don’t see how a transfer ban is possible

It’s very possible mate

 

[thismeansfour]

Gyokeres who is being talked up as a €100million player? Toney who was banned for 8 months at the time? Delap who wasn't good enough and perhaps never will be?

Toney wasn't banned when we decided to let Alvarez go. Whilst posters are getting shot down for saying we needed a replacement for Alverez (which we did) it is on the basis of demanding they answer who with. That isn't our job. We have gradually over 3 years or so allowed good solid squad players to leave, without replacements coming in close to the exiting players level. Hopefully that improves with our new man coming in. Txiki done a good job, that's it.

 

[decmancity]

Gyokeres? Toney? Delap?

Someone else our scouting network should be able to identify perhaps?

And when our army of scouts and analysts come up with a shortlist but Pep doesn't fancy any of them. What is your suggestion?

Overrule him and buy the player?

Txiki isn't the sole executor of the transfers. When will people get this.