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Regis le Bris - confirmed

gatopreto said:
The background in youth development. How relevant is it? Given that we are not appointing him to an academy role. Yes, he might be more comfortable working with younger players.

But academy football is very different to senior football. It's about education, playing the right way, learning. Mens football is dog eat dog, super competitive and results orientated.

His main role is to win football matches so like I say, how relevant is the youth development?
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Relevant as he will be used to working with young players who aren’t really good enough
 

sksk3021 said:
Are you honestly trying to compare appointing Ancelotti to this?

I’d say the general consensus is it’s not considered a good thing when owners start making football decisions. Maybe ours is an exception to that but no idea what that’s based on. Tbf we don’t actually know that he did on this occasion it’s all speculation.
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You said all successful clubs have football men making the decisions.

I pointed out an example of a non footballing businessman appointing someone who appeared to be on the decline and brought them success.

I can't see any owner not having a say in their appointments when it costs so much to get rid of them when they fail.
 
RTGAdmin said:
Being replaced.


By Monsieur Le Dodds and Michel Procteur.

It will be interesting to see what happens, given the supposed work permit problems for RLB that would surely mean even bigger problems if he wanted to bring in his own coaching staff. Sports coaches don't qualify unless they are "elite" and approved by the FA. Dodds has obviously been promoted to Assistant Head Coach though which also complicates matters.
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yes the definition of elite would be interesting in that case..if his assistant comes from having worked in the top flight of one of the five best european leagues that may qualify as elite...but its a very genrous interpretation of elite due to the number of people who must have been assistants in france, england, italy, spain or germany in recent years.

Assistant head coach is (hopefully) such an imprecise term there are work arounds..what does he assist the head coach with? Whereas for example, first team coach coaches the first team..what does an assistant head coach do? Obviously assistant manager has meant different things throughout football...from terry mac getting the beers in at newcastle to carlos queroz basically coaching man utd while ferguson was manager...
 
Boris Bear said:
There’s zero evidence. He has no knowledge or education…dropped out of Leeds Polytechnic, then dropped out of a college course. He has no credentials, just a bank account
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and thecourse he failed at leeds poly was in football and business...quite something he couldnt get a pass grade in that given his family literally owned a football business!
 
sksk3021 said:
Shaping how a club is run is one thing. Every owner will do that. Picking managers yourself is quite another
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i would imagine they have three people involved in head coach recruitment....the chairman/owner..the DOF and an external football person or non exec (such as Jones at SAFC or maybe now Juan)
 
BRMC said:
You said all successful clubs have football men making the decisions.

I pointed out an example of a non footballing businessman appointing someone who appeared to be on the decline and brought them success.

I can't see any owner not having a say in their appointments when it costs so much to get rid of them when they fail.
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At the biggest club in the world who can basically have the pick of the biggest name managers. No idea how decisions are made there tbh. They do have sporting directors as well.
As I said I’m sure they indirectly have a say setting budgets etc. ultimately they appoint the football people. I think that’s very different to bringing in their own people, especially one with very little/poor track record
 
Read up on him.

He doesn’t seem like a tactically interesting hire.

He doesn’t have an astonishing record - only two seasons to judge, one excellent, one poor.

He has been in the same environment for a long time, this is very new for him in so many ways.

Doesn’t seem to be very hyped.

I don’t think this is good, but in all honesty it’s very obscure.

Seems to be respected for youth development and can speak English well.

Also, you could make an argument that L’Orient are something of a French Sunderland. There are some similarities.

Hard to get too excited, but find it hard to believe he’ll be worse than Beale and Dodds.

Doesn’t seem that ambitious though.

Season has a mid-table vibe about it.
 
woodlebert said:
Who was baffled by it?
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Loads of people from pundits to ya average fan.

A quick Google search has nearly every headline saying it was a shock appointment.

"An unmissable opportunity': Spanish papers react to Carlo Ancelotti's shock reunion with Real Madrid... with the Italian set to be presented TODAY after Spanish giants realised Mauricio Pochettino was 'impossible to get"
 
Di Canios Knees said:
Genuinely don’t know haha. As we all know, Will Still was offered the job, was presented with a contract and chose not to sign it in favour of going to Lens, before Still came about we had a verbal agreement with Maric, but moving for Still after him and then Kompany going to Bayern changed that.

They are the only 2 who I know would have been offered the job before Le Bris.

Everything else is just pure speculation.
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I’m still fuming about Maric
 
Comeback_Kenwyne said:
Read up on him.

He doesn’t seem like a tactically interesting hire.

He doesn’t have an astonishing record - only two seasons to judge, one excellent, one poor.

He has been in the same environment for a long time, this is very new for him in so many ways.

Doesn’t seem to be very hyped.

I don’t think this is good, but in all honesty it’s very obscure.

Seems to be respected for youth development and can speak English well.

Also, you could make an argument that L’Orient are something of a French Sunderland. There are some similarities.

Hard to get too excited, but find it hard to believe he’ll be worse than Beale and Dodds.

Doesn’t seem that ambitious though.

Season has a mid-table vibe about it.
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It's a very left field appointment imo
 
Fetch Fletch said:
As you’ve pointed out non-stop for ages that KLD does nothing at the club what makes you think this is different?
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im not saying he is or isnt involved...im saying thats a model many clubs use and I hope SAFC are using..

The fact a relatively obscure french manager is being hired indicates KLD may be taking an interest now..

Ive never said he has nothing to do woth the club just that he may not be involved as a full time job..but he is on the board of directors so gets involved in bigger decisions..
 
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