So what club has the best sporting director?

With the transfer period approaching its most crucial period, what clubs sporting director has done the best?

Roma secured some sweet deals, with Strootman on 16.5+bonuses, they replaced Marq with Tin, they got an experienced CB in Benatia for 10m. And while De Sanctis maybe old, they found a placeholder until they get a better keeper. Though they still need an LB imo, Balza is decent at most. Maicon was unnecessary but i suppose they need some depth and competition for the FB role

Dortmund also pulled off some nice signings as well

IMO Bayern, Dortmund and Schalke should be pretty high up in the list.

rwo power wrote:IMO Bayern, Dortmund and Schalke should be pretty high up in the list.

hmmm... Barcelona will be up there as well for me...

rwo power wrote:IMO Bayern, Dortmund and Schalke should be pretty high up in the list.

Didn't expect another anwser from you .

Juve has gotten a knock down tevez price, pirlo,pogba and llorente for free. Barzagli was brought in for for 300,000 euros, lichsteiner for about 9 mil, vidal for 10 million i think we win lol

rwo power wrote:IMO Bayern, Dortmund and Schalke should be pretty high up in the list.

What have Schalke done!!!

jibers wrote:

rwo power wrote:IMO Bayern, Dortmund and Schalke should be pretty high up in the list.

hmmm... Barcelona will be up there as well for me...

If he is responsible for the brilliant youth : yes , otherwise clearly no

Creanga Ion wrote:

rwo power wrote:IMO Bayern, Dortmund and Schalke should be pretty high up in the list.

Didn't expect another anwser from you .

Well, let's see...

Bayern this season: signed Pep Guardiola, Mario Götze, Thiago Alcántara - doesn't sound too bad

Dortmund this season: kept Robert Lewandowski, signed Sokratis, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang - not bad either

Schalke this season: signed Peter Hermann, Leon Goretzka, Tele Santana, Ádám Szalai, Christian Clemens - can't complain about that either.

Schlake not really impressive...I'd say Donezk is there too

BAYERN_MUNICH wrote:Schlake not really impressive...I'd say Donezk is there too

Just because the signings are not multi-million Euros doesn't mean the Sporting Director didn't make a very good job.
Remember, Schalke also extended Julian Draxler's contract and put a pretty high release clause to it. (And with Max Meyer they sort of have the upcoming replacement for Julian Draxler in the works already.)

The likes of Porto and Ajax can't be overlooked. Year after year they sell their best players and bring in crucial cash to keep their clubs floating while still remaining good enough to win domestic titles.

From the BPL I'd mention Swansea and Tottenham.

Agree with Art.

Has to be Ajax or Porto.

Benfica is very very good as well. Shaktar another.

rwo power wrote:

Creanga Ion wrote:

rwo power wrote:IMO Bayern, Dortmund and Schalke should be pretty high up in the list.

Didn't expect another anwser from you .

Well, let's see...

Bayern this season: signed Pep Guardiola, Mario Götze, Thiago Alcántara - doesn't sound too bad

Dortmund this season: kept Robert Lewandowski, signed Sokratis, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang - not bad either

Schalke this season: signed Peter Hermann, Leon Goretzka, Tele Santana, Ádám Szalai, Christian Clemens - can't complain about that either.

You didn't have to give concrete examples and explain. I was pretty sure that you won't say something about teams from outside Germany .

Creanga Ion wrote:You didn't have to give concrete examples and explain. I was pretty sure that you won't say something about teams from outside Germany .

Well, I prefer to write about stuff I know about. There are sufficient people who can cover the other leagues with more knowledge than I have there.

rwo power wrote:

Creanga Ion wrote:You didn't have to give concrete examples and explain. I was pretty sure that you won't say something about teams from outside Germany .

Well, I prefer to write about stuff I know about. There are sufficient people who can cover the other leagues with more knowledge than I have there.

If you pretend that you don't know much about other leagues, how can you suppose that Bayern, BVB and Schalke are high up in the list? What you've done is called  comparison. You can only compare two things of that you are aware. Isn't that true?

I didn't rank anything. I just think the Sporting Directors of these teams did a pretty good job. Or do you disagree with that assessment? *curious*

To compare I would have had to say X is better than Y. I just said "they should be pretty high up" which is no comparison, but a subjective opinion.

rwo power wrote:I didn't rank anything. I just think the Sporting Directors of these teams did a pretty good job. Or do you disagree with that assessment? *curious*

I don't disagree with that statement.

rwo power wrote:IMO Bayern, Dortmund and Schalke should be pretty high up in the list.

Thread title: So what club has the best sporting director?

I am pretty sure you tried to tell us that they should be high up in the list when it comes about their 'sporting directors'. And that's the point of the thread, but I was trying to tell you that if you are not aware of other leagues, you can't make a statement like that.

Creanga Ion wrote:Thread title: So what club has the best sporting director?

I am pretty sure you tried to tell us that they should be high up in the list when it comes about their 'sporting directors'. And that's the point of the thread, but I was trying to tell you that if you say that you are not aware of other leagues, you can't make a statement like that.

You should know by know that I hate absolute rankings I just pointed out options that did a great job - where exactly you want to rank them you can decide

rwo power wrote:You should know by know that I hate absolute rankings   I just pointed out options that did a great job - where exactly you want to rank them you can decide

I know you hate concrete rankings, you told me in the past .

I don't want to rank them.

For me it has to be Lionel Messi. He signed Neymar and is holding talks with Tata as we speak

PSG sign Ibra and Cavani.Monaco sign Falcao.PSG and Monaco are d best !!

What a club would do to have such amazing sporting directors.I mean they conducted this business without even breaking a sweat ffs.Incredible !

Not to mention City's sporting director.He signed amazing names such as Navas,Jovetic,Negredo for a combined fee of 100m+ pounds.Commendable job from Txiki really.I really think cheapskate Arsenal can learn a thing or two from these guys about transfer business.Just splash the 40m and bring Higuain FFS !

Porto has to win hands down, they fleece a club every year for a player they payed pennies for

Surag wrote:PSG sign Ibra and Cavani.Monaco sign Falcao.PSG and Monaco are d best !!

What a club would do to have such amazing sporting directors.I mean they conducted this business without even breaking a sweat ffs.Incredible !

Not to mention City's sporting director.He signed amazing names such as Navas,Jovetic,Negredo for a combined fee of 100m+ pounds.Commendable job from Txiki really.I really think cheapskate Arsenal can learn a thing or two from these guys about transfer business.Just splash the 40m and bring Higuain FFS !

Some people will agree and miss the sarcasm


Don't care how bias this sounds, Marotta has been great.

Pirlo - Convinced him to join us, got him for free

Pogba - Free

Bar - 300k, World class defender

Vidal - 10.5M

Llorente - Free

Tev - 10M approx




And before people jump in with the "Anybody could've gotten them for free" nonsense. Well, they didn't. Marotta made it happen, and has given us top, top players for less than City pay for an average striker from Sevilla ffs