Who Uses A Director Of Football?

After Tom's laptop caught a tropical disease, what does this mean for future of the European Jailbreak? The fallout in full will be revealed- buckle up it's quite the journey. * Welcome to Who Uses a Director of Football? a podcast about the highs and lows of devoting your spare time to a spreadsheet that can sack you. In European Jailbreak, the second season of Who Uses a Director of Foot...

With Laurent Legrande (Tom) settled at Stade Rennes, how will the team have got on during Tom's trip to Asia? Will Stade Rennes be world-beaters, or will Legrande's journey to the top stall similarly to his time at Eintracht Frankfurt? Whereas how have things got on for Albert Wiseman (Lewis) in Romania, managing FCSB. Leaving everything on the cliff hanger of the final stretch of the seas...

Laurent Legrande (Tom) finds himself at Stade Rennes who are delivering to the required standard. He's secure for now, but will things continue to go his way, and will he get the improvement required to drive the club, and his career forward? With the end of the regular season rapidly approaching. How is Wiseman and FCSB doing, and will they be in a good position for the the second half of the...

Having miraculously survived a season at Eintracht Frankfurt, Laurent Legrande (Tom) has received the boot a mere three games in to the next season. With the Frankfurt board finally delivering a well-deserved coup de grace to Legrande's tenure. After which Laurenr took taken some time away from the game. With an aborted move to Palermo falling through, due to a last minute check from the club...

Laurent Legrande (Tom) has somehow survived a season at Frankfurt, having been called into the board room with regularity. With super-subs and last minute miracles, enabling him to narrowly avoid the sack on numerous occasions. Will his ambitious youthful rebuild of the side finally pay dividends with an off-season for it all to bed in? Or will his challenging target of 11 points from 15 prove too...

Laurent Legrande's (Tom) first season at Eintracht Frankfurt is coming to an end, and he's doing a solid if unspectacular job. It's been steady going to the end of the season. Will they get European Football? Will the promised transfer bonanza come to pass? And what is next for Legrande in his tenure at Frankfurt? Having leapt from CSA Steau Bucharest to arch rivals Fotball Club FCSB,...

Laurent Legrande (Tom) has just undergone a huge move. Having narrowly missed out on a playoff place with SV Waldhof, the summer transfer window came and went and he remained at the club. However, having guided SV Waldhof positively in the league until January to a comfortable 6th place, Eintracht Frankfurt came calling. And with an offer that good on the table, and with Champions League football...

At SV Waldhof Laurent Legrande (Tom) is closing in on the end of the Bundesliga II season. Will he achieve back to back promotions? Or, will his wildly overachieving side find their lack of financial clout telling? Whilst at CSA Steaua Bucureşti, Albert Wiseman (Lewis) has resolved the financial crisis for now. And the team finds itself hurtling towards the end of the regular season with a good op...

At SV Waldhof Laurent Legrande (Tom) is looking to the future with positivity. As his Waldhof side are riding high heading into the winter break. Having successfully navigated the the step up to Bundesliga 2 in a fairly straightforward fashion, with only a few bumps along the way. However, will things stay as straightforward as they are as he heads toward the pointy end of the season, or will the...

After a thrilling end to his first season in Germany, Laurent Legrande (Tom) finds himself promoted. With his SV Waldhof side successfully making it out of Bundesliga 3 at the first time of asking. However, the work is far from over, as several of the key players from last year's promotion winning side have moved on to pastures new. Will he find the right players to keep the side in a new divi...

Happy New Year and here's to a good 2024 from WUADOF HQ. In this New Year's Day episode 7 of European Jailbreak there's plenty of action from Germany and Bulgaria to unpack. In Germany, Laurent Legrande (Tom) has had an up and down start to his life at SV Waldhof. However, having slightly softened his outrageously attacking approach by dropping the wingbacks in his 2-4-1-2-1 backs to f...

Having achieved all could he could with Slavia Kromeritz, Laurent Legrande (Tom) has found himself a new home. After a successful interview, he finds himself appointed SV Waldhof manager. His new home- Germany, his new division - Bundesliga 3. After being relegated from Bundesliga 2, the squad has been picked clean of stars. With the side's best players leaving with their relegation release cl...

With Slavia Kromeritz having been promoted to the top flight, how will Laurent Legrande (Tom) cope with the step up in quality? A newly professionalised team, but shorn of their route through loans to easy talent, how will they recruit the caliber of player required? And with a season of fighting the odds again, will it all end up being a bit too much? Whilst Albert Wiseman (Lewis), having had the...

With the second half of the season beckoning will Laurent Legrande's (Tom) Slavia Kromeritz side, make their early season success count? With the semi-pro side sat first in the Czech second flight, can his rag tag band of journeymen and loanee youngsters keep up the form when it matters? Or will it all fall apart when things matter the most? Whilst Albert Wiseman (Lewis), having successfully k...

Having taken Slavia Kromeritz to 5th in the Czech second flight, Laurent Legrande (Tom) is in no mood to rest on his laurels. With limited funds to improve a team operating on a shoe string budget, he's looking at creative solutions to make the next steps. Will this modest semi-pro club be able to take the next step to match Legrande's ego and ambition? Or will his radical approach to re-t...

Disgraced Swiss Ex-financier Laurent Legrande (Tom) finds himself at Slavia Kromeritz in the Czech Second Division. As the only semi-pro club in the Czech second division, he's made a decent start against the professional clubs. However, as the season progresses, will the challenge of constantly beating the odds prove a challenge too great? Whilst Albert Wiseman (Lewis), the convicted Ponzi-sc...

The jailbreak begins in Episode 1 of the second season of Who Uses a Director of Football?! With our two managers finding out their fates, and being dragged to eastern europe. How will our cunning couple get on at the start of their lives on the run? Having broken out of a Czech jail by helicopter, how will Laurent Lagrande (Tom) fair in the lower leagues of Czechia? What club will he foist his eg...

With the full release of FM24 nearly upon us, Lewis and Tom are back with Season 2 of Who Uses a Director of Football? A podcast about the highs and lows of devoting your spare time to a spreadsheet that can sack you. However, in Season 2, there's something underhand going on... and the boys are back for Episode 0 to lay out the schematics of this deception, and how this subterfuge will unfold...

The boys are back after (an even longer break) a summer off-season. With a 25th, and final, Episode of Sudamericana Adventure to wrap up this first season of Who Uses a Director of Football? With Pa being placed into retirement by Tom after winning the Brazilian top flight and the Copa Sudamericana, it's one final update from Lewis and Renzo Rivero. With a potential treble, including the Copa...

Welcome to our second ever bonus episode of Who Uses a Director of Football?: Sudamericana Adventure. In the Bigger Match 2 it's a clash of heavyweight South American titans as Pa Jackson's (Tom) Corinthians take on Renzo Rivero's (Lewis) Fluminense. In the white corner, Pa leads out his Corinthian team fresh from just winning the Brazilian Serie A league title. The team features the e...

The boys are back after their summer break, which Tom insisted wouldn't happen! (Can you guess which one of us writes the episode descriptions?) In Sao Paulo, Corinthians under Pa's (Tom) watchful eye are closing in on the league title. However, with a chasing pack close behind will they be able to get it over the line and complete a domestic and continental double? Whilst in Rio, Renzo (L...

In this one, Renzo (Lewis) and Fluminense's season takes a strange detour. Pa (Tom) concludes likely his final ever appearance in the Copa Sudamericana at the Mâs Monumental with redemption on his mind. Serious transfer business is undertaken, and epic contests have both managers talking. What more could you want from your favourite south american footballing fantasy? It's episode 23 of Wh...

It’s the name on everyone lips as both Tom and Lewis can’t stop saying it! Pa (Tom) is ploughing on in his league campaign, as Corinthians continue their good form. With heroics coming from some likely and unlikely players in their team. Players are going against Pa’s principles in the best way possible, not that Tom seems to mind! And with it likely being Corinthians last Copa Sudamericana campai...

Hello and welcome to Episode 21 of WUADOF- an early morning special recorded on a Friday morning and delivered to you first thing on a Saturday morning. In the Fluminense camp, Renzo (Lewis) has finally made it to the end of his first season in Brazil. With the domestic cup already secured will there any further success? And what will the transfer window bring, especially as the Libertadores quali...

We've made it to episode 20 - thanks for your continued support, we really appreciate the fact that people are listening! And whether you're a listener just listening to this as your first episode, or whether you're a seasoned veteran have been with us since the beginning, we appreciate you taking the time to our pod. In this week's episode, Pa (Tom) has made some decisions during...