Is Caplehorn the right choice?
Manager, head coaches get judged by results, results that are not actually in their hands. The future of any club in the hands of the players, as we have seen at Tottenham even this season.
We hear the talk about time, but time for the wrong person will do your club more harm in the long-term and take longer to put right so the wrong man should never be retained for stability, only the right man. But who is the right man, given that his future is not in his hands?
Firstly the club have to have a vision, which all clubs do and then a strategy to make that vision a reality, again which all clubs have. That of course doesn't guarantee success if it involves gambling with a clubs financial future through transfer fees and wages.
What you pay does reflect how well you will do, football throughout Europe shows that, but simply paying any player wages and then saying we have a large wage bill therefore we must finish in xyz spot is missing the vital ingredient. The top players are paid top wages because of the mental approach to the game, without their approach you are wasting your time looking for any consistent success.
We have appointed QPR finance director, Rebecca Caplehorn, as our Head of Football Operations after being head hunted. Did QPR not get relegated having bought in a bunch of players on high wages that didn't care about the club, just their income? How much of a role did she have in the financial side, QPR gave themselves massive debts.
She was part of the team who should have been asking about the mental side of each player so if she doesn't understand the importance of mentality how is she going to implement it at Tottenham? For the success we want it is essential mental assessment is undertaken and yet it's her responsibility to introduce it. Is this another case of the blind trying to lead?
Any player should be able to look in the mirror and tell you what he likes about himself as well as what he dislikes, just as you yourself can. He then has a choice, just as you do. He can do something about what he doesn't like or not, just as you can. Successful people change things, the majority can't be bothered so trundle along as they are.
Football players are no different. A player has to determine where he wants to be in 5 years time and work his socks off to get there. That involves a strategy for improvement. However the majority when they get to a certain level can't be bothered to improve anymore, they have a nice life, nice wages as it is so why bother?
If you fill your club with those players then you severely limit how you can improve a team, all you can do is change systems to find one that suits best, until you have different players and you have to change it again.
If you want different results then you have to do something different. Surrounding yourself with people who want to improve will give you the chance to make a significant difference to the performance of the side. A manager or head coach can't improve a player, he can help but at the end of the day it's down to a mental decision from the player, just as only you can change you.
Which therefore does it make more sense to surround yourself with, players who will limit team improvement or players who won't?
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The manager or head coach is merely the conduit for that improvement but he has to have grasped that you need those open minded players who want to improve. The issue arises that many of them are young and therefore those who have experience are expensive and require expensive salaries, thus they congregate at the richest clubs.
The balancing act is finding those experienced players abroad who still want to improve rather than the majority who don't. It's not easy this transfer window lark and it demonstrates why mentally assessing a player is of paramount importance to a clubs future, yet it is given so little thought.
We hear the talk about time, but time for the wrong person will do your club more harm in the long-term and take longer to put right so the wrong man should never be retained for stability, only the right man. But who is the right man, given that his future is not in his hands?
Firstly the club have to have a vision, which all clubs do and then a strategy to make that vision a reality, again which all clubs have. That of course doesn't guarantee success if it involves gambling with a clubs financial future through transfer fees and wages.
What you pay does reflect how well you will do, football throughout Europe shows that, but simply paying any player wages and then saying we have a large wage bill therefore we must finish in xyz spot is missing the vital ingredient. The top players are paid top wages because of the mental approach to the game, without their approach you are wasting your time looking for any consistent success.
We have appointed QPR finance director, Rebecca Caplehorn, as our Head of Football Operations after being head hunted. Did QPR not get relegated having bought in a bunch of players on high wages that didn't care about the club, just their income? How much of a role did she have in the financial side, QPR gave themselves massive debts.
She was part of the team who should have been asking about the mental side of each player so if she doesn't understand the importance of mentality how is she going to implement it at Tottenham? For the success we want it is essential mental assessment is undertaken and yet it's her responsibility to introduce it. Is this another case of the blind trying to lead?
Any player should be able to look in the mirror and tell you what he likes about himself as well as what he dislikes, just as you yourself can. He then has a choice, just as you do. He can do something about what he doesn't like or not, just as you can. Successful people change things, the majority can't be bothered so trundle along as they are.
Football players are no different. A player has to determine where he wants to be in 5 years time and work his socks off to get there. That involves a strategy for improvement. However the majority when they get to a certain level can't be bothered to improve anymore, they have a nice life, nice wages as it is so why bother?
If you fill your club with those players then you severely limit how you can improve a team, all you can do is change systems to find one that suits best, until you have different players and you have to change it again.
If you want different results then you have to do something different. Surrounding yourself with people who want to improve will give you the chance to make a significant difference to the performance of the side. A manager or head coach can't improve a player, he can help but at the end of the day it's down to a mental decision from the player, just as only you can change you.
Which therefore does it make more sense to surround yourself with, players who will limit team improvement or players who won't?
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The manager or head coach is merely the conduit for that improvement but he has to have grasped that you need those open minded players who want to improve. The issue arises that many of them are young and therefore those who have experience are expensive and require expensive salaries, thus they congregate at the richest clubs.
The balancing act is finding those experienced players abroad who still want to improve rather than the majority who don't. It's not easy this transfer window lark and it demonstrates why mentally assessing a player is of paramount importance to a clubs future, yet it is given so little thought.
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