Thread by @jucojames

Sentiment is understandably skeptical on every move, but cleaning house of legacy scouting and recruitment personnel is a good sign on a relative basis, IMO.

Even with the DD-as-de-facto-DoF the quality of talent ID and profiling has been erratic and poor.

Good luck to Swansea

https://twitter.com/celticway1888/status/1988227752655237381

It is possible that DD has finally woken up a bit on a relative basis?

In a column from July where I reviewed his September 2020 interview published in The Athletic, he referenced his view on collective responsibility and reticence to fire people.

Is he going to fire himself?

With many in the support talking about the club "modernizing," what would that look like?

Directionally, it would be hiring someone like Wilfried Nancy, who currently works in one of the more progressive and emerging analytics-focused clubs in MLS, Columbus.

Their head of analytics has a masters degree in bioinformatics- as I have said and written repeatedly, the modern sporting "arms race" is about empowering smart/intelligent people to unleash smarter decision making across operations.

I smart move would be to lift out him along

with Nancy.

THAT would be a move towards modernizing and likely far more portable/replicable than what Knutsen has been central to building at Bodo/Glimt.

Ironically, see a lot of online chatter arguing for modernization while at the same time advocating for another version

of the legacy model - i.e. a "manager as god" appointment.

Obviously, need to see who actually gets hired, and I'll remain skeptical about DD realizing the errors in his stewardship until there are tangible signs of progress, but it would be churlish and counterproductive to

be automatically negative regardless of what changes are made.

So far, two big problems in talent ID and utilization have departed, which is good news, IMO.

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