Txiki Begiristain

Xes Lana said:
When working under constraints he was terrible. Post-FFP he’s been able to pay the asking price of very very good players, leading to very very good results on the pitch.

Cook and Marwood had much harder jobs, and generally achieved more relative to the competition at the time, and selling the dream to players who really had no business signing for us.
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I think Grealish was the last time we paid the full asking price, a couple of years ago.
 
Xes Lana said:
When working under constraints he was terrible. Post-FFP he’s been able to pay the asking price of very very good players, leading to very very good results on the pitch.

Cook and Marwood had much harder jobs, and generally achieved more relative to the competition at the time, and selling the dream to players who really had no business signing for us.
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Every club has bad buys. He was as involved in the process of signing the likes of Mangala and Bony as the managers, performance analysts and scouts. There is the infamous story of Txiki pushing for Dybala but Pellegrini forcing Bony though instead as an example.

Cook had carte blanche to go and throw 250k a week at Yaya at a time when wages were not at that level. The project was in its infancy also but we cant really believe that Yaya only came for that, he was probably given 5x his wages to move here. Silva and Aguero the same. Cook went after big names and needed to make an impact, he signed Adebayor, Tevez, Aguero, Nasri and many more.

The likes of Marwood also massively pushed for Rodwell and Sinclair etc by all accounts because he had some sort of affinity to signing english talent I guess and look how that turned out.

Txiki is by far and away the best DoF on the planet, its pretty easy to see the huge success of CFG on the pitch and off it.
 
decmancity said:
Every club has bad buys. He was as involved in the process of signing the likes of Mangala and Bony as the managers, performance analysts and scouts. There is the infamous story of Txiki pushing for Dybala but Pellegrini forcing Bony though instead as an example.

Cook had carte blanche to go and throw 250k a week at Yaya at a time when wages were not at that level. The project was in its infancy also but we cant really believe that Yaya only came for that, he was probably given 5x his wages to move here. Silva and Aguero the same. Cook went after big names and needed to make an impact, he signed Adebayor, Tevez, Aguero, Nasri and many more.

The likes of Marwood also massively pushed for Rodwell and Sinclair etc by all accounts because he had some sort of affinity to signing english talent I guess and look how that turned out.

Txiki is by far and away the best DoF on the planet, its pretty easy to see the huge success of CFG on the pitch and off it.
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Disagree - there are DoF’s who’ve found hidden gems. Every signing we make is obvious
 
Xes Lana said:
When working under constraints he was terrible. Post-FFP he’s been able to pay the asking price of very very good players, leading to very very good results on the pitch.

Cook and Marwood had much harder jobs, and generally achieved more relative to the competition at the time, and selling the dream to players who really had no business signing for us.
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I can see why you`ve not had any "likes" so far. You stand out like a sore thumb mate.A Blue !!?? MY ARSE !!
 
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