Yeah, Ettiene Reijnen. He was primarily an analyst, but also responsible for set pieces. He didn’t qualify for a work permit because he didnt have formal UEFA badges. It seems the work he would have done was split between Van Der Ham (analysis) and Briggs (set pieces)
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Perfection, anything less is unacceptable. Of course I’m sure people hold themselves to this same standard too.
Ultimately it’s a case of bloke hired to do job. Does job less well than expected and everyone rightly moans. Gets sacked and some of those same people who moaned about him not doing a good job now moan about him getting hired in the first place and him getting sacked. Clubs fault for hiring him, Slot’s fault for firing him.
Just find a stick, any stick will do and use it to beat whoever your current gripe is with. Won’t be long until someone blames Gakpo for this as he’s a bit of a lightning rod at the moment.
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Yeah, let’s chuck some more academy kids in whilst we’re trying to secure a second league title in 35 years.
We definitely needed more Tyler Morton game time even though we all knew he wasn’t going to be around this season.
Last season he’d just joined the club, a huge step up for him and he’s quite rightly wants to make a strong start. He then finds himself in a title race he could win. This season we’ve struggled badly.
You can say it’s not about a specific time period but when exactly do you want him giving these squad players and academy kids a bit of game time? The cup competitions maybe. Well go look at the sides he put out in the league and FA Cup last season including the one where Chiesa, Elliott, Endo, Gomez and Quansah all started and we got knocked out by Plymouth.
Klopp always talked about wanting a smaller squad than most, Slot seems to be of the same opinion. For one of them that was fine, for the other it’s a stick to beat him with.
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Slot’s argument last year was he didn’t have enough good players to go beyond the 14-15 he used regularly and if he was going to do the rotation necessary for us to still be fresh at the business end of the CL season we needed to make personnel changes to support him. That is what drove our summer business - getting rid of as many players as they could outside of that core group and replacing them with alternatives Slot would be more willing to use.
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The only players he seems unwilling to use are Chiesa and Endo.
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I think you made that up!
Thanks
And last season Elliott, who we replaced in the summer with Wirtz, one of the best younger players in world football.
You could even make the case for Gomez too who we also tried to replace with Guehi.
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Reading the statement, it sounds as if Briggs isn’t being replaced. Slot and the other coaches will take over set piece training.
It sounds like the coaching staff haven’t been on the same page, and this has led to the players unsure as to what they were meant to be doing. In fairness, this is exactly what it looks like on the pitch.
I don’t know if this has been a personality issue, or simply Hughes hiring mismatched personnel.
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Right now, perhaps not.
I understand it that for now the coaches will share it (no doubt there were part of it by now), but the search to have a specialist will continue…
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It seems they promoted him to that role after failing to find someone. I don’t think it’s mismatch it’s just there wasn’t a suitable appointment.
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He was doing the job unofficially last year so you have to think it was working well enough then for him to be considered a viable candidate for the permanent role, better than all the new candidates who were considered. I’ve seen working relationships change and deteriorate as formal positions change so that is a possibility I guess, but at least from last season it was working well enough to consider him worth promoting into doing this as a full time role.
The interesting wrinkle is we announced the appointment of Lubel before we announced Briggs’ new role. I wonder if the set piece gig was less a case of promoting him and then finding a replacement for his old role, and more one of hiring the person we really wanted as the development coach and then looking for opportunities to reassign someone who was rated but hadnt yet found their niche, and he just landed in a role that didnt work out.
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It’s Iubel.
NVM, I see
I thought he just blamed his best man from his marriage and then sacked him.
I assume Hughes is making these decisions mind, let’s be frankly honest though whatever this lad has been doing with set pieces it’s not working.
However I knew someone would mention it as people love the Rodgers comparison.
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I see it as something quite straightforward tbh. Like in many businesses, there’s structure/hierarchy - a main manager who has a team who work under them running the different departments. On this occssion one department is failing so that person should be rightly held accountable.
Yes Slot is the manager and ultimately accountable, so the question now is do things improve or get worse. That’s when we can make more of a judgement call on the managers ability.
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I’m wondering how long that takes. A month? 2 months, maybe?
Well if it changes overnight then Briggs really was the bad egg. Fingers crossed 
No offense to him like but I like easy wins!
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If it changes that fast I’ll assume he was a saboteur.
First time I heard that… but I disagree that it “drove our summer business” because that would entail adding quality depth in numbers and we did quite the opposite.
We went from Diaz, Nunez, Jota, Elliot to Ekitike, Isak and Wirtz. We reduced our squad options both in numbers and variability.
Morton (an usused depth option) to no one - again we did not replace him with a quality option Slot would use.
TAA to Frimpong. No change here.
Quansah and Phillips (though he wasn’t used) to Leoni.
Tsimikas to Kerkez. Only here an argument could be made.
And if the push was to impeove the squad beyond 14 to 15 quality options Slot would use, why did we keep Chiesa and Endo?
With an an aging Mo and VVD, it seems like we did more to limit Slot’s options for rotation rather than improve them.
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