Mario Husillos confirmed as Director of Football
Oooh, it's happened
https://whufc.com/news/articles/2018/june/13-june/west-ham-appoint-director-football-mario-husillos
“Mario will take complete, strategic control of all player recruitment and, alongside Manuel, has the full support and confidence of myself and David Gold to lead that department"
Fair play to Sullivan. Didn't think it would ever happen.
https://whufc.com/news/articles/2018/june/13-june/west-ham-appoint-director-football-mario-husillos
“Mario will take complete, strategic control of all player recruitment and, alongside Manuel, has the full support and confidence of myself and David Gold to lead that department"
Fair play to Sullivan. Didn't think it would ever happen.
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Think this is a smart move by Sully, & good that MH & MP have a friendship, because I think DoF roles have the potential to cause tension.
Please be part of a bright new future for West Ham.
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;pray s for history to repeat itself.
;hmm
Ok, 5 secs later I feel dirty, no grubby and dirty, joking about it ;tumbleweed
Hopefully we will now see better targets identified that suit the club & the team, & be capable of unearthing those hidden gems across the world.
My only fear is that the side becomes basically a world 11. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but I hope we still retain our identity with regards the academy & British players too (likes of Noble, Cresswell, Carroll type players).
If we want technical players at a price we can afford we have top get them before they get to Europe so it makes sense.
Good Luck to him...
I suppose you are saying you'd like them to part of our first XI rather than our back-up players?
Continue signing the best players possible so the owners can honour their belief of getting into the Champions League. ;whistle
If we want to be successful it wouldn't matter if we signed somebody from lgh's favourite league in Outer Mongolia.
Because there will always be people who are unhappy. Some people want us to buy players, some people want us to bring players through.
Even if we assume Husillos will be in charge of all recruitment, scouting, negotiations, contracts, salary, fee, players coming in & going out - in collaboration with Pelle - (I don't believe he will be in charge of all those) then it still boils down to Sullivan providing the cash 1) up front 2) for the rest of the deal in order to make the transfer happen. So he still keeps overall power.
Say Husillos & Pellegrini are desperate for Anderson. Lazio want £30m up front, Sully can only go to £25m. The transfer then doesn't happen, does it?
We had similar last season. Bilic wanted a DM (Carvahlo), Sully didn't meet the price then offered the lad who went on loan to WBA & Sanchez who went to Swansea. Both ultimately flopped & Bilic was right to turn them down. 11 games later, after missing out on the DM he wanted, he got the boot.
Just wonder if this is all going to work as it should, or more of the same? ;hmm
The owners always set the budget.
But with a DoF, you give him with the overall budget to spend as he sees fit; Sully won't (one assumes) set the individual budgets/caps for each player/position.
I'm not sure what your qualms are? In what way are you thinking it 'should' work out?
And why nobody said, when they were asking that a DoF be appointed, or when the club announced its intention to do that, that it wouldn't make any difference.
Just worried about how involved he will be in that part. In principle it should work like you said: budget set for fees, budget set for wages, budget set for what can be paid up front & what needs to be paid in instalments etc & Husillos does the rest in communication with Pellegrini.
Just how much 'hands-off' will Sully be. It's one hell of a change from his previous x amounts of years in football.
Maybe I'm reading too much into it being a problem ;hmm