Txiki Begiristain to leave role at end of season

[Mr Partridge]

It's not the players we've signed that's the problem. It's the players we haven't signed.

 

[Lord Blue]

I'm beginning to think that Txiki mentally checked out a couple of years ago.

I get what you mean. I think he is fully focused still but that the hunger or drive has gone.
Possibly a mistake getting people to stay after having expressed a desire to move on.
Mistake with Txiki, possibly with Walker too. But then i'm glad Silva was talked around.
win some, lose some.

 

[doobyedoobye]

He wasn't single handedly responsible for the transfers..

 

[GaudinoMotors]

I get what you mean. I think he is fully focused still but that the hunger or drive has gone.
Possibly a mistake getting people to stay after having expressed a desire to move on.
Mistake with Txiki, possibly with Walker too. But then i'm glad Silva was talked around.
win some, lose some.

and unfortunately we/he couldn't persuade some to stay.

 

[jrb]

If there are going to be any incoming player transfers in January, Txiki will be involved in those. Let’s see who Txiki and ‘Viana’ bring in, if anyone?

 

[Quinny851]

Txiki hasn't been perfect but I don't think this mess solely lies with him. Pep has to shoulder a lot of the blame for not committing to a new contract until after the season starts. This is the second time he's left it until the November to commit to a new deal. How can we have a succession plan when we allow the manager to have that level of control over the club?

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

Txiki also signed the likes of Mangala. His hit rate hasn’t been as good as people like to make out.

Mangala was actually brilliant in his first game, then the wolves game happened and the rest is history

 

[cheekybids]

Mangala was actually brilliant in his first game, then the wolves game happened and the rest is history

We call that the Mcmanaman effect, never judge a player after the 1st but every turgid performance after.

 

[ScottSinclair]

Txiki also signed the likes of Mangala. His hit rate hasn’t been as good as people like to make out.

His recruitment at Barcelona were largely very poor as well. Massively helped by a generation of great academy products and Pep Guardiola. If you remove Pep from Txiki's career I very much doubt anyone would see him as this great DoF. If you remove Txiki from Pep's career, you still have the best manager on the planet.

To Txikis credit though, he probably were the one to take a chance on Pep when he was Barcelona B manager over the likes of Mourinho.

 

[Vester]

It's not the players we've signed that's the problem. It's the players we haven't signed.

I think most signings since winning the treble have delivered what could be expected from them based on how they performed before joining us. The main problem as I see it is just that we replaced elite players with average ones, if we replaced them at all. We cant sell a Mahrez, replace him with a winger that scored 9 goals in 3 seasons in the French league and expect anything but an immediate drop off in quality. And thats not a dig at Doku, I think he is an exiting talent and I have certainly not ruled out him becoming a great asset in the future.
We cant sign a 25y old from Wolves who looked average there and expect him to be good at an even higher level.
One or two of these kind of signings could work (depending on our other transfer business), but when almost every signing is significantly worse than the player they are replacing over 2 summer windows, we are just weakening the squad both in quality and depth.

When we let several elite players go, we need to see at least some elite players joining.