Now it is the
time where you will see the work done by the various Technical Secretariats.
It's not an easy job. You have to work many months to provide the coach (a new
one or the same one, it’s the same), a number of players that can be used to
improve the current squad. Clubs that will be forced to sell to balance their
budgets. Clubs that will be able to pay anything for that desired player. Clubs
that will miss 2, 3, 4 or 8 players, for whatever reason, and must make a new squad.
Although it
is not an easy task, the work of the Technical Secretariat is much better than
a few years ago. Today it is possible to watch on TV the majority of the
Leagues in the World. In one place or another, you can watch every week
hundreds of games and thousands of players. Clubs with less budget may only
have 1 person for this job and, in the most modest, is the same coach who does
all the functions at once.
And, this is
where I start to wonder. How big clubs may not sign virtually unknown players, and
later they will pay the price of gold when they start to show up in an average team?
How can you have Serbs, Poles or Greeks (to give some examples), which are in
some average teams without that great teams know anything about them? How is
this possible that often see very good level players in regional categories,
which could be much higher? It is true that it is not possible to see all the
players in the World but sometimes you understand nothin. Because, of course,
to sign Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo (today), my nephew, who is 11, can do it,
and he only watches Barça’s matches. To
sign them with 15-16 years you have to work more. Or, to sign a 19-year young
Swede playing in the first division of his country and bring it to a Top-Ten, you
have also to work. May be is this, not work hard enough or, maybe they do not
know, many of them, what they have to look for in a player or, what kind of
player the Club searches or, any other reason.
You look for
a full-back and you finish signing an "adaptable" winger, you looking
for a play-maker and you take a defensive midfielder. You are looking for a striker
and you take a quick forward that can open spaces on the side. You are looking
for a goalkeeper good on aerial ball and you take one that plays well with his
feet. And so, whatever you want. And, when the player is "perfect"
for the needs of the team, this is worth a lot of money unreachable. Should not
the Clubs have a list of players (4-5 for the more modest, 15 to 20 for those
with more resources) for each position? And should not be all its features
(technical, tactical, economical, personal, etc.), included in the file? Sometimes
it seems that the one that signs has done it because the player is highly
regarded in any of the simulation games that are about football, because if
not, often you don’t understand things.
And, not all
players are good to play in any team. Each team plays one way and the players
that go well for it are not the same that go well for another team, which plays
differently. A typical question is: And why was this one playing so well on
that team and he does not in this one? Simple, because the team plays
differently and functions to do by the player are different, and his
characteristics are not good for this style of play. And you see that working
and watching players and games and, more players and more games. And, also,
knowing exactly how your team plays and which player is the one that really
serves. And it is hard work and often not done. May also be one of the
problems.
And, forgive
me, but I don’t understand that, with so many people in the Technical Secretariats
you finish asking a player to the “Agent on duty”. I'll take the one he
represents, and he will charge the corresponding commission. The fault lies not
with the agents, it is clear. Blame it on those who didn’t do the job they had
to do. When you go shopping, you have to know what you want to buy, because if
not, you’ll pay for a 600 (Fiat 500), the price of a Porsche.
Jordi Pascual
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follow me on Twitter: @JordiPascualP
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