Reply To: Manager.

[Anonymous]

Compensatory Management – a wage / salary in exchange for someone’s time & effort.

With regards to players, we end up with journeymen picking up their thirty pieces of silver.
Publicly they kiss the badge but privately their devotion is to their bank account – they betray the club.

Only the very wealthiest clubs can sustain this short term model. Man City will be fine until we are all driving electric cars 😂

It’s a flawed & failed ‘business model’ and lower league clubs should withdraw from it for their own survival.

The perennially or even these days, bi-perennially changing manager syndrome with each wanting their own squads of 40 plus players is destroying the smaller clubs.

It’s tantamount to insanity!

CEOs on £250k to £500k at the lower level – what do they actually do or & bring to a small club?

Do clubs attracting gates of 1,000 to 10,000 actually need a CEO?
It’s not as if they are an employment organisation on the scale of Microsoft, Amazon, Royal Dutch Shell, Nestle, McDonalds etc.

Surely the title (& salary) ‘General Manager’ would suffice?

But hey ho, image is more important than substance to some.

Loan players – better known as ‘blockers’… nuff said.

Intrapreneurship Management

Basically, developing from within.

“Steve Jobs was also partly responsible for coinage of the term when he described the approach of his Macintosh team to Newsweek as Intrapreneurship, citing ‘a group of people going in essence back to the garage, but in a large company.’

Let’s not forget that Steve Jobs founded Apple in his garage.

Where has all the millions in EFL Academy funding gone since it’s inception?
Why doesn’t the club have its own Academy site, pitches, 5G pitches, club house, changing facilities etc?
If you don’t invest in the foundations, then eventually, the house or mansion will subside and be destroyed.
Why haven’t we ever invested in the clubs future?
Academy players are ‘free’ (relatively) in comparison to those brought in from other clubs.
Build a great academy facility, the best in the area for 40 miles and you will get the best players in that geographic area.
Success breeds success.
A lineage of academy players representing ‘their’ club compounds the success and makes the academy even more attractive to players & parents.

Short term pain – long term gain.

We are now a small, irrelevant lower league club. We need to do something different.

Throwing lots of money in to lots of players (unnecessarily large squads) pockets does nothing to help the club.

We need to know our place in the grand scheme of things.

Scunthorpe United FC have traditionally been a L2 (old L4) club.

Chasing dreams is fine – but at what cost?

I’d be happy for a return to L2 and for that level of ‘mediocrity’ for the remainder of my life.