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  1. Assuming the advisors have had the information made available to them. Or indeed that further entities - with greater interest or lesser opacity - are not part of the 17%. Parma
  2. I find myself a little confused by this. I confess to having a positive bias towards Forest, who I have always admired as a club. A coach from there was part of my football journey (and is now a senior FA coach educator for quite a few Premier League teams). What Forest did might well be argued to be the only realistic way to break into the premier League - and out of the basement trapdoor and gulf between newly-promoted and functional at Premier Level. I of course fully understand what is called ‘financial doping’ in Europe - when teams use ‘unsustainable’ capitalist, artificial, state or gambled wealth - to outspend all rivals, and-or to gamble ‘tomorrow money’ on football. However how exactly does one create a plausible strategy to stay up in the premier league with its wide disparity of resources and natural financial weight bias to present incumbents vs the newly-appointed? 1. Burnley this season, Norwich previously have tried Man City lite. 2. Sheff Utd, Luton, Burnley previously and others have tried physical spoiling and ****housery. 3. Brentford have gone all-in on data, set pieces, limited weapons and algorithmic calculations. 4. Forest, Fulham, Wolves previously - and to a lesser or grater degree several others in hybrid format - have simply thrown money at it year one and really replaced whole teams as fast as possible. Now my question is this: If there is financial imbalance and teams can massively outspend others through sheer size and commercial operations, how does restricting how Forest can compete year 1 address this? Doesn’t it simply lead to existing large teams remaining large and dominant and making it near impossible to compete without doing what Forest did? Thus is it really balancing competition or simply entrenching the status quo? Is entrenching the status quo true competition then? Parma
  3. During my coaching career the number bandied about at Norwich was 17. Namely that one in 17 - who signed first year professional forms - would make a full career as a professional. Imagine the odds prior to that stage… Parma
  4. With youngsters I like ‘constructive bunching’ 🤣 Parma
  5. In bocca al lupo 🦮 MMMK …ed ai tutti I voi belli PUPetti 🦮🤗 …Quite a few interesting Women’s games this week, all of them look like positive choices: Man Utd W , Bayern W, though strongest looks: Barca W vs Tenerife W - Home win 🏡 🏆 As for MM’s Norwich bet, can see quite an attritional game, though suspect we might just edge it. Perhaps a coach’s dream? BTTS no, Norwich to win, less than 2.5 goals, less than 10 corners, less than 5 yellows cards. Parma 🦮🏆🥳💪🏼⛳️🏡🌎🦒🐆🐈
  6. Surely just to keep his name in the papers…surely? Parma
  7. From Paddy: ‘The Milwaukee Brewers principal owner reiterated in a recent interview for his domestic baseball audience there is a potentially ‘lucrative’ end game for his involvement in the ‘soccer’ club.’ Surely not one message for one audience and a different one for another? …but what about family and food and incredible similarities between Milwaukee and Norwich and Mike and love for the game? Parma
  8. @nutty nigel once - quite reasonably - asked: ’why would an American Baseball fan buy a championship club in Norwich?’ To paraphrase our friend Shilan here: ’everyone knows the value and potential value of American sports franchises…over here in the uk you find odd anachronistic ownerships and structures…they are not really aware of the strong market in multi-sport franchises that even hedge funds are moving into. It’s a pretty good time to buy, especially as a cheap punt and part of a wider portfolio’ Parma
  9. The American Shilan Patel just bought West Bromwich Albion. He said: "You look at something like the NFL, Major League Baseball or the NHL, the valuations are quite uniform... and in some cases eye-wateringly high too. "If you find the right club in the right circumstance, the opportunity to alter the standings and the trajectory of a club is much greater in football than in the American leagues." Parma
  10. In bocca al lupo 🦮 NWC ed anche ai tutti i voi belli pupetti 🦮🦮👌🥳🥂 It’s my daughter’s birthday today 🥳🦮🦜..she’s strong, intelligent, tough and streetwise …good combination that 🦮🙏🏼🥳…and it’s international women’s day of course …so football-wise off to sunny Spain for the best women out there: Real Sociedad W vs Barcelona W - Away win 🏆 As for Til’s Norwich bet, we’ll have to load up to get value, so: BTTS no, Norwich to win, more than 1.5 goals, Sainz to score…💪🏼🦮🏆🥳🦜 Parma
  11. …. but..but…. ’wass gorn on up there at Collll knee Neeyul?’ ….or…. ’why don’t they just get it forward?’ or even… ’you can get too hung up on tactics….they just need to believe more!!’ or maybe perhaps … ’you don’t know what you’re doing!’ ….surely they are not all massively out-dated ignorant nonsense? Parma Thank you @Google Bot 💪🏼….and this is Academy level….
  12. In bocca al lupo 🦮 Branston ed ai tutti i voi belli PUPetti …🦮🙏🏼🤩🦜🦒🐊🐈💪🏼 ….think sunny Greece a nice visit this week for: GPO Kastorias W vs PAOK Salonika W - Away win 🏆 As for Splutcho’s Norwich bet, what are we looking at?….got to win really haven’t we?…so positive intention sexcast of: BTTS, Norwich to win, more than 2.5 goals, more than 7 total corners, less than 6 yellow cards, Sainz to score…🥳🥳🥳💪🏼💪🏼😊 Parma
  13. …..but…but…’Mike just spent five hundred bucks in the club shop’….? Parma
  14. An opportunity to have a woman managing the women’s team. Parma
  15. This is such an excellent post. Lots of extremely important questions that are important to ask. Previous to Sporting Directors, Managers pushed trustee owners to buy any players that might buy them an extra 6 months in the job. The rather self-serving I’m-not-picking-up-the-tab phrase ‘only 1 in 4 transfers work out’ rather created a low-threshold-low-responsibility gravy train of transfer confetti money being thrown around. Sporting Directors should be working to avoid or at least minimise this kind of washing machine short-termism. It really shouldn’t happen anymore… …However pressures are pressures and football is football. A phrase I have repeated is ‘solving yesterday’s problems’. We’re a bit flaky? Quick, buy experience! Experience has steadied the ship, but we’re not doing as well as we’d hoped? Youth is the answer, bring down the average age! We want to play positional play possession football! We want heavy-metal gegenpressing! A bit like the intended benefits of the Sporting Director role, weapons transcend managers, they transcend philosophies of play, they transcend instructions. They are what they are and they are going to do what they are going to do. Every coach should understand weapons. Every Sporting Director should try to identify them and get hold of them. ‘Events, dear boy, events’ has a habit of taking over though. We need a left back, we need experience, we need a goalkeeper…nowish…so you do the best you can with what you’ve got. You buy from what’s available. In your price range. Who will actually come to you. Almost a race-to-the-middle if you like. It’s not often a wide choice pool for a club like Norwich. So you must look for flawed weapons: Wes, Holty, Crouch, Huckerby….even at a push Pukki and Emi (though I’d argue it was clear what Pukki could and couldn’t do, and Emi was just young, frustrated and needed a bigger stage - he knew he was better, could be better, should be better and we found him. Brilliant. Perfect). You should notice pretty quickly that these players represent the difference-making drivers of almost all of our recent successes and promotions. They were of course augmented, supported, protected and amortised by other good players (some sides had quite a lot of good, balanced players, the Worthington squad was contextually very strong in this regard I’d say), though without the weapons much play would be prosaic and not result-defining. Conversely I think I’d argue that Farke did fantastically well via philosophy, methodology coaching, charisma and raised levels across the board. It’s why I liked and respected him most as a Norwich coach in my lifetime. Nevertheless I think I’d have to concede he probably had the most powerful weapons and weapon combination in Emi and Pukki. I think anybody extracting data can see a massive drop off in results without one or both of them during that period. I would concede that point about Farke, though it concurrently only goes to further emphasise the power of weapons versus good players. Something you maybe hint at @Christoph Stiepermann is whether people can see weapons, whether they can visualise how to use them, their particular skill, how it tessellates with what they have, what they don’t have, how it fits current players, methodologies, philosophies. Sporting Directors should be doing this every day, all day, in their spare time..it is game-changing. Nobody in Finland needed telling how good a finisher Pukki was and is. Can he win headers? No. Can he lead the line? No. Does he link the play well? It’s ok. So then it becomes about whether you are prepared to make the compromises for that particular player’s skills. The phrase ‘building the team around them’ can come into play with weapons. What happens if they get injured? What do you do then? What if other players are bought in to work with your weapon? Are they also then neutered and not ideally suited to playing with others or in other ways? I never said that there was no compromise for weapons. Everything comes down to plusvalenza. Does the maths trotdem favour you? Can any lower level, poorish club afford great back up for any of its weapons or even just its good players? No. Not really. That’s a mirage anyway isn’t it? This is where the wheel is come full circle and we refer back to the old boys, the gnarled fag-end coaches who said ‘both boxes lad’. Football is a low scoring game. Goals and assists have a hugely disproportionate effect on games. On how playing styles are viewed. How managers and players are viewed. On memories themselves. Others don’t know about it in football? Impossible. It is football. Parma
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