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Chippy red · May 11, 2024

Mr Badger said: ↑

Because the players are our saleable assets.
It'd be no good saying that such-and-such player or players were to blame for being useless and crap. No money in that !
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I don't think comments on this forum affects a players saleability.

Dub-Tyke · May 11, 2024

MikeyD87 said: ↑

To give him the benefit of the doubt his role there would be to identify Hammerman but the club secretary will be the one responsible for doing the checks and paperwork, his qualifying factors needed 36 months out of the last 5 years and he's was on something like 32-34 months plus 4 months at the begining of the proscribed period where he was head coach of the woman's national team (10 years total at that job), I'd assume the club probably attempted to have that as a qualified period.

It's common practice for a target to come over and sign in person then be subject to additional checks once the relevant details have been submitted and it's become common place to apply for mitigating circumstance appeals across a lot of industries post Brexit but is also becoming more and more difficult to have appeals actually correctly looked at and properly processed by the home office.

To answer the OP his main job is essentially head of recruitment where he sets out the remit for what type of players we identify but as a director of football he also needs to fit them into a club philosophy playing style that will then be replicated by current and future head coaches and the academy to ensure talent that is home grown can also smoothly transition into the 1st team. The hope is he then becomes the final decider that's always at oakwell along with input from the head coach rather than the board (which I suspect is part of why we also leave things so late) and he choses where the playing budget is spent. It would essentially remove the need for the board having direct involvement. They essentially will sign the checks and set the budget for him to use.
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Best post I’ve seen on this topic.

Too many folk thinking the club just blindly flew him over without thinking….. it’s not that straight forward these days.

For a short term fix, his history shows he’s an impact manager. But after 12 months or so, it seems to wear off. It’s pretty much what we wanted for the final games. It’s only the fans who think it was a long term appointment……

Sopwith Camel · May 11, 2024

MonkeyRed said: ↑

I'm still not entirely sure what his role extends to and how much responsibility he has, but it's surely a huge summer ahead for Mladen Sormaz to step up and prove himself.

When he started work at the club, we were right in the running for automatic promotion and we all know how it then ended. Collins has taken the blame, but how much is Sormaz responsible?

Only speculation, but you can wonder if a poor working relationship between him and Collins could've led to the latter's departure.
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Didn't it say he's responsible for 'all footballing matters'.. That's why I said if Duff did say he'd come back but would want overall control then he ain't coming..

So my guess would be that we are keeping this new backroom system and we're waiting for the MK Dons coach.

icer · May 12, 2024

MikeyD87 said: ↑

To give him the benefit of the doubt his role there would be to identify Hammerman but the club secretary will be the one responsible for doing the checks and paperwork, his qualifying factors needed 36 months out of the last 5 years and he's was on something like 32-34 months plus 4 months at the begining of the proscribed period where he was head coach of the woman's national team (10 years total at that job), I'd assume the club probably attempted to have that as a qualified period.

It's common practice for a target to come over and sign in person then be subject to additional checks once the relevant details have been submitted and it's become common place to apply for mitigating circumstance appeals across a lot of industries post Brexit but is also becoming more and more difficult to have appeals actually correctly looked at and properly processed by the home office.

To answer the OP his main job is essentially head of recruitment where he sets out the remit for what type of players we identify but as a director of football he also needs to fit them into a club philosophy playing style that will then be replicated by current and future head coaches and the academy to ensure talent that is home grown can also smoothly transition into the 1st team. The hope is he then becomes the final decider that's always at oakwell along with input from the head coach rather than the board (which I suspect is part of why we also leave things so late) and he choses where the playing budget is spent. It would essentially remove the need for the board having direct involvement. They essentially will sign the checks and set the budget for him to use.
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This makes perfect sense. However there is also the topic of responsibility and accountability. I would expect the DOF to be accountable for the appointment, irrespective of who is in the loop to perform the admin. That doesn’t mean I’m blaming him here and in fact it’s hard to chalk this as a failure against him for not hiring here. In fact we may never know if a manager is eligible unless we go through the process. But due diligence would be required giving a level of likelihood. This I would think would be an indicator if we should continue to work on plan B hard or soft. I don’t know the reality but if we couldn’t appoint to Plan A before the semi’s it makes sense to take more time to get it right after the playoffs. By taking time I would hope the objective is to get someone in, fully ready and prepared, staffed up in their coaching team before players return and in order to start the rebuild in a timely manner. This will all be the first big test for our DOF unless of course the role is like the head coach, limited in scope.

sadbrewer · May 12, 2024

An article about him below
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spo...n=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target

Watcher_Of_The_Skies · May 12, 2024

Farnham_Red said: ↑

And as the OP pointed out our form fell off a cliff shortly after his appointment. Could be a coincidence but so far nothing is giving me a feeling of confidence
It’s right to start asking questions but let’s see how the summer goes. Once we see the manager and players in August we will have a better idea
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Correlation is not causation.

ringo · May 12, 2024

MonkeyRed said: ↑

I'm still not entirely sure what his role extends to and how much responsibility he has, but it's surely a huge summer ahead for Mladen Sormaz to step up and prove himself.

When he started work at the club, we were right in the running for automatic promotion and we all know how it then ended. Collins has taken the blame, but how much is Sormaz responsible?

Only speculation, but you can wonder if a poor working relationship between him and Collins could've led to the latter's departure.
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I wouldn't know him if i walked passed him, i have seen and heard that little of him

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