Damien Comolli

[lifetime fan]

You keep saying that over and over and over and over and over and over again. What are you basing it on? What exactly is it you know that I and probably many others don't?

 

FUCK All

[diamondjoe]

Aren't all people called Damien EVIL?

[Monster Masch]

Do you know what, i think we could have a foriegn manager lined up here. Someone like Rijkaard/Pellegrini who have worked under DOF's before and just manage the the players they have been given.

 

Do you know what, I think you don't have a clue.

[Guest davelfc]

Aren't all people called Damien EVIL?

 

Well it's certainly an omen.

 

 

 

and he looks evil.

 

[StevieH]

Not sure about this one. Hopefully he'll prove himself but he certainly isn't liked at Spurs. They seem to think the new owners have made their first mistake. We'll see.

 

He isn't liked at Spurs primarily because he previously worked at Arsenal.

[shaunstrudwick]

He isn't liked at Spurs primarily because he previously worked at Arsenal.

 

and because his track record in the transfer market is a bit like Rafa's......

[PaulMcC]

His signings don't look too great to me.

[waddy78]

One thing I hope he does is set up a feeder club in the Championship or league 1, the reserve set up in England is a joke, squads are massive and theres 20 games or so to fit 30 or so players into, this is a must for a club of our size.

 

spot on that,The reserve league should be fucked off and have a "B" team like spain,playing in lower leagues then have a u19's league.it would bring the younger kids on more to play regular competative football

[acks]

Aren't all people called Damien EVIL?

 

To be fair, he always got results.

 

[M_B]

He isn't liked at Spurs primarily because he previously worked at Arsenal.

 

With the fans perhaps. I was talking about the management staff.

[waddy78]

His signings don't look too great to me.

 

Lennon

Bale

Modric

Clichey

Toure

Hutton..............?

would all these not get in to our starting 11 now?

or would you rather have..

Konchesky

Poulson

Jones

.....in youre starting 11?

[Trucker Paddy]

and because his track record in the transfer market is a bit like Rafa's......

 

6 of his signings were playing at some stage for Spurs last night

[kop]

and because his track record in the transfer market is a bit like Rafa's......

 

To be fair to all involved in transfers though; pretty much everyone have the same success-rate, and I don't think I am far off if I say that 1/3 is crap, 1/3 is average and 1/3 is good or excellent. The important thing is to have the top 1/3 as good as possible, having a Bale, Van der Vaart, Berbatov, Torres, Reina, Mascherano, Ronaldo or Fabregas in there. The more of that kind of success, the less the other two brackets of players matters.

[dirk grout]

You keep saying that over and over and over and over and over and over again. What are you basing it on? What exactly is it you know that I and probably many others don't?

 

I would be amazed if hodgson is here at the start of next season.

[Jonny83]

I guess I'm a bit undecided on this one. If he is working in the background as a sort of head scout with the added ability/responsibility of physically getting the deals done (transfers agreed, contracts signed etc.), then that's no bad thing, providing the manager has the final say in who comes and goes. It tends to be his neck on the line (rightly) when things are going badly, but for me accountability and control should go hand in hand.

 

And if you decide instead to blame poor signings on the DoF and sack him to bring another one in...well that's the continuity argument blown out of the water.

 

If you're worried about the manager wasting money on players, then you've hired (or kept) the wrong bloke.

 

If a component in a machine is broken or defective you should replace it, not weld in a brace to mask its deficiencies for a while.

 

Then again if there is an outstanding manager/coach in the frame who has no interest in working the transfer market and/or knows his limitations in this area, and would actually prefer to work with a DoF, I wouldn't want to cut off our nose to spite our faces and say "no, never" to a DoF being appointed.

 

I guess in a nutshell my view is that any DoF-style appointment should be at the behest of the manager, not the other way around.

[Salou]

Well least the media now have someone else apart from Rafa to pin Roys failings on...it's started already...Henry Winter suprise : "#LFC need a chief scout with global connections so there's a role for Comolli. As long as he keeps out of Hodgson's way."

 

One thing that definitely needs to be done as has already been stated by other posters and hopefully has been done as the appointment has already been made is the roles of each person being clearly defined.

[Josef Svejk]

Well least the media now have someone else apart from Rafa to pin Roys failings on...it's started already...Henry Winter suprise : "#LFC need a chief scout with global connections so there's a role for Comolli. As long as he keeps out of Hodgson's way."

 

One thing that definitely needs to be done as has already been stated by other posters and hopefully has been done as the appointment has already been made is the roles of each person being clearly defined.

 

"Damien, your job is to help the manager with signings. Roy, your job is to wait till we hire a manager..."

[YNWAViking]

Good appointment - and right in line with NESVs vision of attracting good, young talent.

 

About time we hired someone with the experience and proven success as this Comolli.

[PaulMcC]

Below is the list of players signed byDamien Comolli believed to have cost Tottenham over £1m, starting with the most recent…

 

1. Vedran Corluka, Manchester City, £8.5m

 

2. Roman Pavlyuchenko, Spartak Moscow, £14m

 

3. Cesar Sanchez, Real Zaragoza, Undisclosed

 

4. David Bentley, Blackburn Rovers, £15m-17m

 

5. Heurelho Gomes, PSV Eindhoven, £9m

 

6. Giovani dos Santos, Barcelona, £4.7m

 

7. Luka Modric, Dinamo Zagreb, £15.8m

 

8. Gilberto, Hertha Berlin £1.9m

 

9. Alan Hutton, Glasgow Rangers, £8m

 

10. Jonathan Woodgate, Middlesbrough, £7.5m

 

11. Chris Gunter, Cardiff City, £2m

 

12. Kevin-Prince Boateng, Hertha Berlin, £5.2m

 

13. Danny Rose, Leeds United, Undisclosed

 

14. Younes Kaboul, Auxerre, £8.2m

 

15. Darren Bent, Charlton Athletic, £16.5m

16. Adel Taarabt, RC Lens, Undisclosed

 

17. Gareth Bale, Southampton, £5m – £10m

 

18. Ben Alnwick, Sunderland, Undisclosed

 

19. Ricardo Rocha, Benfica, £3,5m

 

20. Mido, AS Roma, £4m

 

21. Pascal Chimbonda, Wigan Athletic, £4m

 

22. Steed Malbranque, Fulham, £3.5m

 

23. Didier Zokora, St Etienne, £6.5m

 

24. Benoit Assou-Ekotto, RC Lens, £3.5m

 

25. Dimitar Berbatov, Bayer Leverkusen, £10.9m

 

26. Hossam Ghaly, Feyernoord, Undisclosed

 

27. Danny Murphy, Charlton, £2m

 

They're the signings i consider to be pretty poor. I could add Woodgate, Kaboul, Boateng and Assou-Ekotto if i'm being harsh.

 

Being better than Konchesky or Poulsen doesn't mean they are good signings.

[Trucker Paddy]

They're the signings i consider to be pretty poor. I could add Woodgate, Kaboul, Boateng and Assou-Ekotto if i'm being harsh.

 

Being better than Konchesky or Poulsen doesn't mean they are good signings.

 

Gomez in fairness after a shaky start has been very consistent, Woodgate is a disaster cant believe given his injuries anybody bought him hence why I want Agger out, your been very harsh with the other 3, and Hutton(good player IMO but about £5m max) and Pavlechenco who is a decent striker who'd i gladly have at LFC

[Jonny83]

Well least the media now have someone else apart from Rafa to pin Roys failings on...it's started already...Henry Winter suprise : "#LFC need a chief scout with global connections so there's a role for Comolli. As long as he keeps out of Hodgson's way."

 

This is exactly what I am worried about in the post above yours - if Comolli becomes another scapegoat to add to Rafa, the Northampton 'B' team, etc. to deflect blame from the manager then the appointment will be totally counterproductive. The only way I can see this being positive to be honest is if a prospective manager has been approached and he has unequivocally said "I want to focus on training and match day preparation and I need to have someone alongside me to oversee transfers", then I will be all for it.

[Wor Horse]

Corluka's better than Johnson as well. Very harsh there Paul. Taraabt is quite the player too.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Its the British way and it works more than it doesnt hence DOF's being so unpopular

 

We are Liverpool not Sevilla.

 

That has been a big part of our problem off the field for years to be fair. We are this and we wont change. We need to change, big time.

 

I think having someone above the manager working with them to bring in the right players and maybe challenging them on decisions on players, epsecially if you look at some of our signings over the past 12 years, and considering Roy brought in 3 shite players out of 4 and he thought Van Der Vaart was not of the profile we are looking for, it makes sense.

 

Yes managers should live and die by their decisions, however the nature of the game is now about results, and the manager needs all the time he gets to focus on getting the results that will beneift the team long term.

 

Both Camolli and Roy or whoever is the manager in the future if it is not to be Roy (which I would like, but accept it may be longer than I wish for) they need to work together to identify targets that will fit into the team and future of this club.

 

I hope there is no big upheavel of the Academy, as I feel that it is in a better position now than it was say 3 years ago, some good and upcoming youngsters coming through who I believe are good enough to make the grade. Plus the Academy has taken the biggest brunt of everything over teh past feew years too, and it needs to have a long period of sustained development.

[PaulMcC]

Gomez in fairness after a shaky start has been very consistent, Woodgate is a disaster cant believe given his injuries anybody bought him hence why I want Agger out, your been very harsh with the other 3, and Hutton(good player IMO but about £5m max) and Pavlechenco who is a decent striker who'd i gladly have at LFC

 

I wouldn't want Liverpool to pay any of the prices that Spurs paid for them players.

 

I don't rate Ekotto either.

[PaulMcC]

Corluka's better than Johnson as well. Very harsh there Paul. Taraabt is quite the player too.

 

Where's Taraabt these days?

 

Johnson is far better than Corluka.