I've explained it as basically as I can Si. If you don't get the difference now, or refuse to, you probably never will, but ask yourself why you'd want a DoF (something you've always wanted) instead of what we have, when that's exactly what Dortmund have and not what we have. You maintain they're the same yet you're shown reasons why they're different and still keep saying they're the same, it's unbelievable to be honest.
Which is better, Dortmund's approach or ours? If you can answer definitively that one is better than the other, how can they be the same?
Ask yourself why we bought two players for the same position and still managed to choose the wrong player out of the two to start games.
We have no direction with our choices, the disconnect is as obvious as it could be, one time the committee chooses (this is where the over reliance on statistics debate comes in and our over reliance on them without a DoF to guide the decision therefore making appropriate use of the statistics rather than using them as the driving force behind the decision as demonstrated previously) the next it's Brendan, honestly a broken system on conception.
The manager not fully buying into the process is a big factor in where we have went wrong Luke and as you say why we seem to have bought to players for some positions like Lovren/Sakho and the manager pikcing 'his guy'.
Now when I say our system is the same as what most of the top clubs in Europe use I don't mean they are exactly the same to the final degree just that 99% of clubs in Europe use a process that has a 'transfer committee' which has an analytics guy, a head scout, the Head Coach, and then more often than not a DoF.
When I say our system is the 'same' I'm talking about the process in selecting players to recruit as it will involve the manager and the others discussing what positions he needs filling and the type or profile of player he needs then the stats people and the scouts will bring a list of players that the manager/Head Coach will pick from and they then go out and try and sign them. They stats will back up what the scouts have seen with the 'eye' and vice versa.
Once a player has been selected as the one they then negotiate to try and sign him.
Our 'committee' uses a combination of stats and scouting to try and get players in that fit the managers profile.
Dortmuds 'committee' uses a combination of stats and scouting to try and get players in that fit the managers profile.
The only real difference is that they have Zorc as the DoF to head up their committee of scouts, Head Scout, analytics department, Head Coach etc etc whereas we don't seem to have that but in the last 12-18 months it appears Mike Gordon has been that guy alongside Ian Ayre. This is the only difference I can see and I do agree with you that we need a DoF as a matter of course to become the head of our recruitment and with that we shouldn't see the disconnect between what the manager wants and what the others in the committee want.
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