Filippo Giraldi - Head Of Player Recruitment

An absolutely horrific read.

 

The Athletic's latest article reckons that "the role of technical director Filippo Giraldi is likely to come under increased scrutiny", and the club will aim to give the next coach "more space to breathe".

 

I'm not expecting Giraldi to be sacked any time soon, the Pearson incident makes me think that he'll be here a while longer. It would be nice though if we had some official word from the club about what his role actually involves and why they feel he is qualified. I think we're all particularly interested in his relationship with the head coaches and players. I'd also like to know exactly which decisions over the past few years have been down to him. I don't expect the club to ever give an honest summary of all this, so fans will continue to speculate.

 

A line fed to Leventhal to give the hierarchy and Giraldi 'more space to breathe' from fan criticism no doubt.

 

Also states he will still work in correlation with head coach.
It’s a nothing article. Leventhal contradicts himself a number of times within it - which is understandable if he has no info.

 

He sees himself as a: 'one club man' probably being the most worrying quote of the lot.

 

Genuinely think he would have been sacked today if it was ever realistic to expect him to be going.

 

He is going nowhere. If Pozzo stays, Giraldi and Duxbury stay.

 

The question is why?

 

He's going nowhere. He'll be told to let the coach get on with it though, which is how it should be.

 

Shame they are too gutless to just get rid of him abd his toxic atmospherics

 

I’m not even sure I trust that to happen.

 

If Giraldi goes does he still have contact with the scouting network.
Could there be a situation where if Gino dumps Giraldi his scouting network could be accessible to an other club

 

Then is a case of "say hello to my little friend" if he spills the beans.

 

Ohhh
A sleep with the fishes situation

 

Crikey, how will we survive with other clubs taking all the Penaranada’s and Zeegelaar’s?

 

I don’t see Gino as a flasher.

 

Send him to work at Udinese?

 

If it is true that he interferes with the way the head coach wants to play, then he should either be kicked out of our club all together, or at the very least told to just stick to his recruitment and scouting duties and not to interfere in how the Head Coach runs the playing staff and playing tactics.

 

Seems unlikely, but you never know.

 

Yeah believe it when I see it. This fraud has his feet firmly under the table


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Phil Giles at Brentford as his replacement?

 

A couple of thoughts on Giraldi.

Firstly, I know people joke, but there is a good chance he does actually have some knowledge of information that could be damaging if released. It doesn’t necessarily stop us getting rid of him it wouldn’t just need a big pay off and an NDA signing.

The second point is has anybody stopped to consider he might just be a mouthpiece for Gino? I alluded to this in another post, but I think it’s quite clear Gino doesn’t place as much importance in the head coach role as everyone else in football, including us. Appointing QSF and then Pearson pretty much confirms that to me. Is it Giraldi interfering with tactics etc, or is it Gino asking him to?

 

You might as well suggest Santa Claus as his replacement, he won't be leaving.

 

Makes you wish for the days of Gianluca Nani and a smiling contingent of Argentinian midgets diving, and tippy-tapping their way to glory.

 

I was thinking about him the other day. He oversaw all the Championship recruitment and the summer transfer window upon promotion before leaving to explore new opportunities. Giraldi only stepped after Nani left. And when you think about it, recruitment has been much poorer since then. Several of the players we brought in for the PL in 15/16 turned out to be pretty good - Capoue, Holebas, Behrami, Britos, Prodl. Obviously there were some rubbish ones too but that's probably the best window we had.

Nani came to the club as part of a package with Duxbury. Maybe it's time to approach him again?

 

Agree with you that the opening transfer window for this last Prem spell was pretty good. Several of those players made good contributions over more than one season. Recruitment in the Championship was a bit scattergun, but he did put together a really good squad by the end of that promotion campaign.

Not sure what Nani has been up to since, but he’d certainly feel like an upgrade. Then again, they could hire me to do the Giraldi role and it would feel like an upgrade.