No evidence he is though.The Subhuman wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2023 9:31 am But my point is he's more qualified than us .... a hell of a lot more... Scouting and recruitment he'd be aqauinted with vicariously or by osmosis to start with. Unless he hates football of course and he just goes to work to sort out sponsers and advertisers....
We have no idea how deep his interest in football goes beyond it being part of his job to attend matches
There are footballers who openly admit they have no actual interest in football.
Kinnear's background is marketing, for Coca-Cola, for Procter and Gamble, for Arsenal, West Ham. He's only been in a position that requires even a vague interest in on field matters with us.
And even that is just because he is CEO.
He I'm sure has a vague understanding but that is reflected in this manager list, you could have put that list together.
When he interviews these managers and they present there ideas how is Kinnear meant to analyse them good and bad? When they are showing him graphs on this and stats on that how much of it will he truly understand?
I think his list of targets and the fact he is focusing on such a tiny pool of targets shows he doesn't have the experience to be doing what he is being asked to do
Not his fault but I think think DOF would have cast the net far wider and found much better potential targets.
Kinnear having more knowledge than a fan isn't the issue (not convinced he does) but there is a reason almost every club has DOF's and various other people analysing football managers and not the CEO.
Besides it's odd that it was apparently the 49ers who told Radz to go for the best biggest appointment they could.
Nobody on that list aside from maybe Rodgers ticks that box.
Do as I say not as I do