Surely those in power at Anfield will be questioning these decisions just as we are. It's almost as though he's been planted to cause as much damage as possible. Mission accomplished bar the Napoli and Chelsea games.
ASI, I understand what you're saying and we'd all hope for it to be true, but we'd then be making the presumption that they already understand enough about 'soccer' to be able to make that assessment.
So far we've had a 'director of football strategy' appointed on the recommendation of Billy Beane, the general manager of Oakland As baseball team, who just happens to be a friend of Comolli. So why not Txiki Beguiristáin, the former Barca sporting director, who is now rumoured may be joining Chelsea sometime in the near future.
Yes they may have experience of running a sports business, but it's a sports business, based on baseball, in the sporting enviroment of the USA. We on the other hand are a business based on football, run in twin environments of England and Europe.
IMHO, the best first move they could have made was to ask David Dein to be a consultant and work with him a) to be educated and b) to discuss the best setup. If they've looked at Bayern, as was once mentioned in an earlier interview with Henry (if memory serves) they would see the advantages, at least in their case, of a football board. This could be made up of a former CEO of a football club (primarily from the transfer/financial side of operating a football club and player recruitment processes, someone
like Dalglish as an ex player and manager and someone
like Steve Heighway as an ex academy director with knowledge of the recruitment, education and training of young players.
At the moment their football knowledge extends to just one man, Damian Comolli. We need to have set out a blue print for the playing side, so that every team, at every level plays the same way.
Pep Segura and Rodolfo Borrell would be a good place to start as they will be producing the youngsters and therefore are the starting point of the process. Also Barca seem to have a decent way of playing.
Again, look at the past, the way we used to play, the way that has been adapted by Ferguson.
I have no doubt that Henry, Werner and Co will get it right, they've been too successful in their previous incarnations not to, but I think it will be a long ride over some very bumpy terrain for the first 1-3 years.
