Stuart Webber

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Stuart who I can hear you asking? Well I'm quite happy to admit that 24 hours ago I would have been stumped too. But Aberystwyth born Webber is another footballing Welsh success story:

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39483647

www.skysports.com/football/news/11709/11654919/norwich-youngsters-vital-to-clubs-success-explains-stuart-webber

trainingground.guru/articles/stuart-webber-climb-of-the-canaries

Webber was instrumental in bringing in the likes of Pukki on a free, and other key players for low fees who were plying their trade in the second tier in Germany and Spain: Buendia and Hernandez. Zimmermann cost around 50K from a fourth-tier side in Germany - and is Norwich's captain.

It's a shame that Stuart Webber's skillset in player recruitment isn't of direct benefit to Welsh football, but it would be good to think that he could be involved in some capacity, if only an advisory one. Given his role in bringing Wagner to Huddersfield and Farke to Norwich he would have been well placed to advise on the last Wales managerial position. Next time perhaps?

The last article in the above list is well worth a read, especially his comments about ex-players as managers: "‘He must know what he’s talking about, he’s got 50 caps for his country’. In fact, he might not have a clue. I was fortunate to visit Red Bull recently and their Team Principal, Christian Horner, said most of their drivers don’t have a clue and you couldn’t put them in charge of a team.

But in football, everyone thinks, ‘he played, he was a top footballer, let’s put him in charge of 25 players, 30 staff - and he can deal with the media and the board.’ It’s actually a pretty tough job.

If you immediately put Max Verstappen in charge of a Formula One team, with 300 staff, people would think you were crazy. "

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A bit sad to be bumping my own thread but there's a good article in Wales Online (for once) on Stuart Webber: www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/little-known-welshman-linked-man-16412202

We really need to get Webber involved in the Welsh setup in some capacity. He should certainly sit on any selection panel for the new manager when Giggs leaves - whenever that might be.

His endorsement of Steve Cooper does make me wonder if we've missed a trick when we appointed Giggs. Only time will tell, but the only way we're going to get a top end coach in terms of philosophy is by gambling on an up-and-coming coach before they hit the big time. This was why I advocated Graham Potter (not that he was ever likely to want the Wales job) - if he was Wales manager we would have got something, probably 4 points, from the double header. That's a painful thought.

[ystradwales]

Jun 13, 2019 11:03:57 GMT alarch said:

A bit sad to be bumping my own thread but there's a good article in Wales Online (for once) on Stuart Webber: www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/little-known-welshman-linked-man-16412202

We really need to get Webber involved in the Welsh setup in some capacity. He should certainly sit on any selection panel for the new manager when Giggs leaves - whenever that might be.

His endorsement of Steve Cooper does make me wonder if we've missed a trick when we appointed Giggs. Only time will tell, but the only way we're going to get a top end coach in terms of philosophy is by gambling on an up-and-coming coach before they hit the big time. This was why I advocated Graham Potter (not that he was ever likely to want the Wales job) - if he was Wales manager we would have got something, probably 4 points, from the double header. That's a painful thought.

From memory I remember Cooper being interviewed on Sports Wales TV programme (while he was at Liverpool) saying that he would be interested in the Wales Intermediate Team manager after Flynn left the post but we ended up with Geraint Williams and Cooper went on to the England u16 managers job. Always left we thinking what if?

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For all Coleman's achievements in the Euros I can't help wondering what sort of legacy he's left us with, first with Geraint Williams and then Robert Page. Perhaps Coleman wasn't as influential in their appointment as all that, but it certainly feels as if we've been going backwards at age grade level in recent years.

[jimexotic]

Just stumbled across this thread. I wouldn't want this idiot anywhere near the Wales set up, the guy is a grade a moron.

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Mar 18, 2023 19:48:20 GMT jimexotic said:

Just stumbled across this thread. I wouldn't want this idiot anywhere near the Wales set up, the guy is a grade a moron.

I'm not going as far as you, but I did find it concerning that prior to last season (another one and done year for Norwich in the Premier League) they made noises about not wanting to spend money in same way others do (Forest this year etc. with large spending sprees on seasoned pros) and were planning longer term... only for Webber to then jack that line of thinking in later on with statements suggesting some naivety and of course they should have spent more money and spent on experience when things went wrong. 

Anything which makes Danny Murphy look like he knows what he's talking about is something I'm naturally against.  

He's still done lots of good things but his stock is not quite as high as it was a couple of years ago. 

I guess Norwich, and us in Wales, hope is that he's learnt a lot from things going wrong recently given than up until 18'ish months ago everything he touched seemingly turned to gold. 

[jimexotic]

I hear what you are saying buy I think he's too arrogant a man to learn from his mistakes because he doesn't appear to understand when he's done something wrong, he dropped everything on Farke when he got recruitment horribly wrong last season. The Everest thing was a classic example of his shocking lack of self awareness, it was the stuff of David Brent.

"I sleep easy at night because ultimately as I said to Delia and Michael, ‘If 90 per cent of me isn’t enough, it’s fine because I’m already ready to walk out the door. I’m ready for the next stage of my life.’ But they wanted me to stay and I’m incredibly grateful to them for that."

www.pinkun.com/news/22691526.city-chief-defends-decision-climb-everest/

Selling your best player and squandering the lot on largely unknown players that went on to do nothing of any note, not one,

“Now (Farke)’s got a gun, a few grenades and a bazooka. We haven’t quite got a tank yet, maybe that’ll come in the future when we stay up a few seasons.”

They got relegated.

The man is an idiot.