KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Damien Commolli a good move !.

As mentioned in the other Commoli thread, this is destined to fail as no Premier league manager has ever liked losing control of recruiting. Look at Fergie and Wenger, they don't have a Director in their clubs in charge of recruiting or 'football strategy'.

This appointment, imo, is purely for commercial reasons. And that is to spot young talent, sign them, let them spend a couple of years in Liverpool or on loan, then sell them on for a profit. Like a cattle market.....whether it is good or bad, i think we have to look at the Ramos era with Director of football, and after when Harry took full control.

I don't doubt the commercial side of this appointment but I do feel it may not fit in with the traditional Premier League Management style.

I dont see why some people think that this move is destined to fail. It may or may not but it has proven to be successful at other clubs in the Premiership most notably at Chavscum.

Frank Arneson has pretty much the same job title and role as Damien Camoli will have with us.

So the current Premier League Champions and favorites for the Premiership again this year have the system "that never works in the Premiership" too then.

He's had some successes, some failures. They all have. Wegner took him with him from Monaco, and had him for seven years at Arsenal, so he can't be that bad. And even Wenger has had some dodgy buys over the years.
Give him a chance, he can't do much worse than poulson and konchesky, can he?

For me Commolli will do two things:
1. Prevent rabid spending
2. Focus on younger rather than older players

This should stop the typical Roy target buys of older and/or average players.

Commolli should technically be the manager's conscience, and we could use that right now.

First massive mistake by the Americans?
How do you know? You want to give Hodgson 4 months but this guy 4 minutes? Hahaha. You don't even know how much authority he will have.

only time and signings will tell us if it is a good move or not.

No sorry that doesn't wash. Benitez was a dictator shall we get him back. Hodgson's not a dictator either. So you say that we need a dictator, therefore we should get rid of hodgson as he is not a dictator.
However I am against the system and I agree for most clubs it doesn't seem to have worked. But you have to give the guy a chance. In any case he has been picked so he'e likely to be around for a while. IF there is one manager who could work with a technical director it is hodgson...I think there is in this case a chance that it will succeed for 2 reasons 1. There is consensus that we have to try something new as look at the players that hodgson has brought in recently and some of RAfa'a buys)2 Secondly this guy knows the premier league. It seems crazy that the youth system overhauled by benitez and producing 5 or 6 possible first teamers (and i dont include spearing in that i think hes a squad player)who could break into the team and yet we have a manager who goes for the experience of poulson konchesky because he is afraid) We need help with player purchase. It would seem easy to do we all know what players are worth looking at , for whatever reason the lfc managers dont seem to be able to do it

According to Henry Roy wanted this sort of person put in place so I dont see how Roy will moan about it. Also Roy has worked like this across Europe and its never been a problem for him so just because his doing it in the UK should make no difference.

Of course there will be differences of opinion on players but they should be professional enough not to throw their toys out of the pram. My only real concern is the philosophy of the two guys, if they are not in sync then it will be a problem but I dont think Henry would have appointed Commolli if him and Roy were leagues apart.

In the video Henry said he discussed this role with Roy and that Roy wanted it to be filled but Roy was surprised when it was filled which suggest the candidate for the role was not discussed, which yes could be a mistake because for this system to work it needs the two guys to be in sync and have the same mind set in how football should be played and I have a sneaky feeling that these two wont see eye to eye but they should be professional enough to work it.

Thank god for this appointment. Roy will not get a say over who comes and goes which will help me sleep a bit better. This is the only way Hodge will get a chance to turn things around by concentrating on his hoof and run type football. Keeping him away from the money is a priority which, thankfully, Henry has realised.