Tomas Nowak built the recruitment model half the division now copies. He is the first to say when it breaks.
On trust
Every club says they trust the model. Then they lose four in a row and buy a thirty-year-old.
— Tomas Nowak
The model is not the problem, he says; the board meeting after the fourth defeat is. A recruitment process that only works when everyone is calm is not a process, it is a mood.
On the four defeats
He has a rule: no decision about the squad inside a week of any result. It has been broken twice in five years. Both signings, he says, were fine players and bad ideas.