A dream plan for AEK the next day

With the end of Argyris Giannikis’ (short) season on the bench of AEK, a very didactic cycle for his organization is closing. It is the latest stronghold in a series of experiments and utopian designs that have been surrounded by a very vulnerable protective grid. The face of the team’s former coach reflects the club’s low self-esteem for its size. For several consecutive seasons, the decisions of individuals – with few exceptions – have been subordinate to the real needs of the team. Fatally, the contraction of the race was a path that was inevitable.

It matters little now what is achieved and how the team will proceed from now on under the leadership of the fierce Socrates Ofridopoulos. Of course it’s great for him, it’s a big step for his career, but it’s also temporary. And that’s how it should be treated when the likeable coach achieves the unexpected, namely 12 wins in the next 12 games. Of course it’s not possible, but even if that were a possible development, the flow doesn’t reverse. Or at least he may not return…

People’s outrage, this pent-up frustration bordering on the (fortunately) controlled anger at the team’s competitive collapse, created a climate of opposition to Dimitris Melissanidis himself for the tactics of recent years. However, the answer to the problem does not lie in vague desires for a change of baton, but in how the existing administrative leadership cleaned up the team and pushed with building the team on the path to prosperity and future stadium, will meet the demands that have by themselves have to. Yes, it needs drastic interventions, change of course, gigantic management potential at all levels. Don’t do things by halves.

“I change everyone” does not guarantee progress without rethinking

The next day’s AEK must be detached from the football perceptions and practices of decades, with the sport suffocating under the imposition of the ideas of (any) ‘monarchs’. Once upon a time, in the 1990s, it was easy for an executive to pull the strings with human puppets around him, executives with very weak personalities compared to his own. At the beginning of this decade, the Union is still alive, but 30 years have passed since then.

This model, which AEK continues to adhere to, is the ideal path of (competitive) self-destruction and progress ban. When the people around you don’t have the ability and stature to convince you of their ideas, but instead consistently agree with what you say or say what you want to hear and tail their tails when they realize that the strategy is damaging the organization, instead of standing up and demonstrating abuse, the case is lost. There will be occasional flashes, but they will remain solitary upheavals, enhanced and encouraged by favorable circumstances. But there will be no follow-up and this was clearly proven in 2018.

Changing course, at the financial and managerial level, is one way. There isn’t an impasse that AEK hasn’t crashed into in the last four years. He needs to spend more, but first he needs to find people who have the knowledge to come up with a different strategy and who are able to support the project. Do you also want to talk about faces? Let’s catch up on the latest news:

A very different plan of action

Melissanidis mainly to set the financial budget, run the trade deals, finance and decide on everything but not on the team’s personnel matters. Nikolaidis in football management to build an action team from the start with capable, functional and technocratic perception to have the final say in the decisions of transfers, coaches, staff around the team and the PAE.

Santos sporting director (and not on the bench), in the role of Bajevic, with his main responsibility for the organization and operation of the football department, the club’s progress in the purely competitive part, the organization of the scouting department, the selection of the coach and players .