24 Nov 2023 17:33:51
Any more word on this new DOF?
24 Nov 2023 20:55:26
Hearing the belgian guy de conde is going to be our new director of football ? Don't know when it will be announced though ?.
24 Nov 2023 21:14:14
It will be before the agm he needs to be in as soon as possible needs to get ahead of the game for the Jan transfer window.
24 Nov 2023 21:40:45
Hopefully between him and Clement they can bring in some quality players.
24 Nov 2023 22:43:33
Was it not said early doors, that it would be Janyary b4 we knew?
24 Nov 2023 23:28:14
Mark, Clement doesn't get involved with transfers. They'll be down to the new DoF alone.
25 Nov 2023 01:29:20
will be down to both he won’t get involved in the financial side etc but will definitely have a say and have some targets of his own.
25 Nov 2023 06:58:40
KF - Players will be identified and targeted - PC still has input to transfers ( knows type and who he wants for each position) but will not deal with the nitty gritty of contracts and finances - I assume that is what you implied as the whole process is not just down to DOF alone.
25 Nov 2023 11:21:04
RFC and BF, that's not how Clement and Mitchell worked at Monaco and its not how Clement worked in his earlier roles either.
At Monaco Clement worked with whatever Mitchell gave him, he did not get involved in player trading at all. He fed requirements and problems to Mitchell and it was part of Mitchell's job to buy and sell players to satisfy those needs and fix those problems. Clement had no say who the players were.
Unless the club or Clement has stated otherwise, I very much doubt Clement is going to change.
25 Nov 2023 12:24:02
I've read that about Clement Kilted, he'll tell the dof what positions he needs and let him do his stuff, seen in his games he can get players doing what they should be, Rangers do have many players with quality.
25 Nov 2023 13:00:37
KF - identifying the player you want from a group of equally talented players with similar stats is not - "getting involved in player trading" (that is the different side of the job) so you are saying PC doesn't care who he gets as long as certain criteria are met? - most managers know WHO they want assuming all correct stats are met so I would say he does have and would also expect him to have that input!
25 Nov 2023 13:12:01
Clement has actually said what kilted frog is saying in one of his interviews since he came here.
25 Nov 2023 20:00:17
Blue-Floyd, correct.
26 Nov 2023 15:34:01
Hopefully we know the positions that need filling and if we have a DoF in waiting that can't join until January that he is already aware of the options that are available. Being honest, other than goalkeeper, and possibly right back, we could do with better quality players in pretty much any position.
We will need to sell to raise funds and pretty much anyone in the squad right now that could be sold at a decent price should be available.
I just hope that the new DoF can identify better players than his predecessors. Hopefully he or she also has a better team of Scouts!
28 Nov 2023 14:43:23
Can't remember the attacker off hand, but in one of Clements recent-ish interviews, he spoke about an attacker he worked with at Club Brugge, who wasn't scoring at all, PC and his coaches there rebuilt the guys confidence got him scoring again, so regularly, he couldn't stop scoring, the player ended up in the EPL, he can definitely get the best out of most players no doubts.
That is just one example, does anyone know who the player PC was referring to, all i remember is he was a forward at Club Brugge KV.