Jon Mcleod
Andrew MacdougallDoes the impending dismissal of Comolli miss the point fr Spurs?
The news being leaked out of White Hart Lane is that Damien Comolli, rather than Juande Ramos, will be the man to be sacrificed for Tottenham’s disastrous form.
The tide of opinion has turned against the director of football who has enjoyed such influence over the past few years. With two points from eight games a change is needed. Not just to appease the increasingly incensed fans but to act as a watershed moment, a rallying point and stimulate a new belief in the players to countering the sense of doomed destiny.
The problem is that as much as Comolli has cocked things up in his role as recruitment chief in the past few seasons, particularly in the recent transfer window, his influence over performance is minimal. His job has been done for now and it is not until January that would see him emerge again as a key player in the Tottenham story. Comolli’s departure will make little difference to Tottenham’s clamour for points. It is Ramos and his players – of which there are plenty of good ones – that must play their way out of trouble.
So the predicted dismissal of Commoli is a punishment for previous mistakes and pre-empting future errors, but it does little curtail Tottenham’s current ills. The only hope for Spurs is that the players and management can cling on to the idea of change, endow it with as much meaning as possible and somehow gain a fresh perspective from it.
Otherwise, a year and a half after dismissing Martin Johl for his inability to shoot for Champions League football, they will drop into the Championship.
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The tide of opinion has turned against the director of football who has enjoyed such influence over the past few years. With two points from eight games a change is needed. Not just to appease the increasingly incensed fans but to act as a watershed moment, a rallying point and stimulate a new belief in the players to countering the sense of doomed destiny.
The problem is that as much as Comolli has cocked things up in his role as recruitment chief in the past few seasons, particularly in the recent transfer window, his influence over performance is minimal. His job has been done for now and it is not until January that would see him emerge again as a key player in the Tottenham story. Comolli’s departure will make little difference to Tottenham’s clamour for points. It is Ramos and his players – of which there are plenty of good ones – that must play their way out of trouble.
So the predicted dismissal of Commoli is a punishment for previous mistakes and pre-empting future errors, but it does little curtail Tottenham’s current ills. The only hope for Spurs is that the players and management can cling on to the idea of change, endow it with as much meaning as possible and somehow gain a fresh perspective from it.
Otherwise, a year and a half after dismissing Martin Johl for his inability to shoot for Champions League football, they will drop into the Championship.
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