Don't Like The Sound Of How Zola Is Being Asked To Work At Watford

'Asked whether the players brought to the club were his choice, Zola replied: "The structure is that I play in a certain way and the club provides me with the best players to play in this way and then it's my choice to pick the players. This is the way we work." '

(From BBC site).

So the owners of the club are bringing in the players and he has to make them fit around his system-in addition, he has said he now has more players than he needs or can play, so some of the new ones will now have to go out on loan.

Is this the way its going for Managers? The owners decide who they want onboard and the Manager has to do his best with them?

Of course, if Zola struggles with personnel who he had no choice in recruiting and might not have chosen had he the "right" to identify players-he'll be out.

What with the talk about "young and hungry" players not necc being the choice of Lambert last season but a club that wants to bring in people with a resale value-maybe its also, to a far lesser extent, happening here?

You then have teams bringing in players from the Far East etc under the misapprehension that having the Captain of Malaysia in the squad will generate millions in replica shirt sales out there, regardless of whether or not he is actually any good as a player.

Posted By: Martin Peters, Sep 18, 11:01:58