Alfiembra
16-05-2019, 11:10 AM
You regularly hear from incumbent national team managers that they miss the day to day involvement of club football.
So given our current malaise does the job have to be full time?
I feel that lots of potential candidates for the job are put off accepting the position precisely because of this reason, so are we losing out on getting the right man for the job?
Is there a different way to manage the national side and allow the manager the freedom to keep his involvement at club level and do the Scotland job.
I think it's possible, there are breaks for international games so the manager could focus on these games at that time and his club assistant manager continues to run his club team in his absence.
The requirement to go to matches and see potential players could be done with a network of national scouts that report back to the manager, does this already happen? Also club managers regularly take in other games anyway for potential signings of their own.
I can think of lots of other ways to do the job in this manner but want to keep the post to a reasonable length.
So given our current malaise does the job have to be full time?
I feel that lots of potential candidates for the job are put off accepting the position precisely because of this reason, so are we losing out on getting the right man for the job?
Is there a different way to manage the national side and allow the manager the freedom to keep his involvement at club level and do the Scotland job.
I think it's possible, there are breaks for international games so the manager could focus on these games at that time and his club assistant manager continues to run his club team in his absence.
The requirement to go to matches and see potential players could be done with a network of national scouts that report back to the manager, does this already happen? Also club managers regularly take in other games anyway for potential signings of their own.
I can think of lots of other ways to do the job in this manner but want to keep the post to a reasonable length.