Bordeaux was not doing well. They could neither find nor stick by the right coach and were sunk in panic buying or inaccurate profiles at the transfer market. The world didn’t help them either. The coronavirus pandemic hit French football hard and the broadcast deal for Ligue 1 collapsed, leading to a major decline in club revenues. Bordeaux barely avoided relegation in 2020-21 and owners were no longer interested in the project.
Over the summer of 2021, we saw Hertha Berlin take more aggressive actions in their hunt to no longer be just the “big spending club” but rather a performing club. The incredibly efficient and successful Fredi Bobic was successfully lured from Eintracht Frankfurt
A look at Anderlecht’s rediscovery of identity through the financial crisis, a brand-new youth programme, and, Eden Hazard…
The French coach’s early awareness about the importance of specialists created a legacy beyond trophies…
The years when European football was dominated by Real Madrid and Barcelona, the times when we had the chance to watch football legends such as Cruyff, Ronaldinho, Messi, and Ronaldo will remain as the signatures of Spanish football in history.
Sport is a business and spending on assets must be justified. How do we justify the wages a club spends on the player? That is what we will look to explore in this article.
Modern football is a game of numbers. Every year new ideas come to the surface to aid our human instinct of ranking and creating lists. We want to know who is the best distributor, who is the best finisher, and who wins the most challenges.
Union Berlin are a club that defies not just the odds but, at times, even logic itself. While illustrious, free-spending Hertha have floundered, their more industrious, more provincial, more modest neighbour's from the East are continually punching above their weight and enjoying a real fairytale season.
A more sustainable approach to their transfer dealings would, however, ease the burden on the owners and make a future transition fully away from their present privileged position—which should ultimately be the intent of the DFL—more palatable and feasible. Thus, continuing and refining the all-in policy on player development is the logical next step for a club that has been haemorrhaging money on transfers.
Colin gave away some key points about scouting on the webinar session of FOCUS. He detailed how the importance of the scouting department within a club’s strategy. Here are some headlines:
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