Navigating the Changing Dynamics of Football Management: The Role of Coaches, Sporting Directors, and Player Transfers

Do you know what is, what I, I don’t understand nowadays is what I’d like to see change is. And not only at Newcastle, with every football club, because we’re now seeing more and more, it’s coaches, isn’t it? Rather than managers. We’re now seeing more and more sporting directors or chief executives or whatever, who are buying the players for the coach. Yet we’re seeing the coach having to come out and explain all these decisions and sometimes the coach hasn’t got a clue what’s going on. Me, Eddie said himself this week, I don’t, I, he didn’t really know. So I would like, I would like more sporting directors or whoever is making the decisions to then come out and explain and see how it is or what it is, because I don’t think it’s fair on the coach all the time to front up every single week and having to answer questions which they, they, they don’t know the answers to. Yeah, I wonder how much the, the, the coach has to say on transfers. And I suppose it varies at different clubs, but, I mean, if you’re the guy in charge of the team, you’re the guy in charge of selection, you’re in charge of the tactics, you need to have a, you need to have a say in the players that you bring in because they’ve got to fit into your system. Now, I’m sure a lot of them do. I, I listen to why We’re on the Tottenham Newcastle game. I listen to Angie Postocoglou last week saying, I have the final say. Um. And you can see that with the type of players that they’ve brought in, but I’m not sure that’s. That’s the case at too many clubs.