News for Sporting Directors: The Holy Grail of Modern Football Already Exists, Why Do We Still Ignore It?
To give a clear example: if you were Guardiola’s sporting director at Manchester City or Luis Enrique at PSG, what value would it have for you to have all your methodological, tactical, and emotional work stored—in video, data, processes, performance, and management—step by step?
That value is no longer a utopia. It’s a must for any elite sports management.
Today, artificial intelligence allows you to save and organize all that knowledge into personalized sections, adapted to the performance of each player, each session, each decision. And the most powerful thing: it does so with such precision that you’ll never have to start from scratch again.
That is the Holy Grail of modern football.
That is the perfect excuse to defend long-term projects with substance, structure, and identity.
Because if a coach arrives at a club with his or her own methodology, with a clear idea, with a defined playing model… and the club has done its work, that information is compatible. The new coach can adapt his or her philosophy without breaking the line of work, without destroying the tactical culture or the players’ progression.
And you know what? That’s exactly what the Pons Method has been doing for years. Not for marketing. For the love of football.
❓ The Burning Question: Why isn’t there a hunger to learn innovative methodologies?
Aside from those who have had direct access to my methodology because they’ve completed the Pons Method Master’s degree, I still ask myself:
Is it ego that prevents us from wanting to learn more?
Is it the industry that rewards image over performance?
Or have we simply accepted that football is 80% appearance and only 20% actual performance?
Because if “everyone knows about football,” why is it so difficult to form an informed opinion, to acquire in-depth training, and to embrace methodologies that transform processes in almost every department within a club?
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My opinion is clear: modern football needs more science and less pretense, more humility and less ego, more methodology and less improvisation.
And it needs clubs and coaches who speak the same language of performance.
That is the essence of the Pons Method.
And the ultimate question isn’t what’s stopping you from knowing it…
…but what are you willing to do to make a real mark on football?
