Ultimately I don't think it matters a jot really does it, head coach is just a title - Conte is the one overseeing things and he's the one calling the shots.
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Ultimately I don't think it matters a jot really does it, head coach is just a title - Conte is the one overseeing things and he's the one calling the shots.
In the opposite corner should really be Guardiola, Zidane, Conte?
He actually isn’t though
Simeone too. Ancelotti was also a damn good player in his day.
Beckenbauer won a World Cup, though I don’t know if he was actually a great manager. Deschamps, similarly.
Zidane is surely the greatest player ever to be a truly great manager, though he still has his doubters.
Hmm I forgot Cruyff. Him too.
How the hell would you know?
All we've heard is good things from people who work alongside him, and in his twenties he acted as a competent caretaker for a good Premier League team. Certainly that sounds promising to me, do you have any information which says he isn't a promising coach?
The only thing he is promising is a first team spot to Winks.
You try running straight after Balotelli had stamped on your head!
He had been managing the team about a week before that game. A proper management job is probably too much for him now, but that doesn't mean he isn't a promising coach. We were bad vs City but a 1-0 loss to a late goal is hardly some career ending result, is it?
I don't think anyone is suggesting he's ready for the top job now, but along the road if he learns from Conte and gathers some experience, maybe one day he will be ready, and that would be great. I find him to be a likable guy, and see no reason why there can't be truth to the idea he has potential.
Because I watched him drop Bale for Winks in a cup final
They play completely different positions .. so he didn't drop Bale for Winks at all. If Bale was gonna play anywhere, it would've been on the right instead of Lucas. I assume he wanted runners vs City and that's why he went for Lucas. It's not a nonsensical decision.
So a promising young manager can’t utilise a formation that includes Bale and doesn’t include Winks?
How is that promising?
He'd been in charge a week. Bale had not been in the lineup for most of the season under Jose, and offered very little running off the ball or pace at this point in his career. Playing Son/Lucas instead as players who will press and be more dangerous on the counter makes sense.
Playing Winks was, in my opinion, a mistake. I imagine he felt he was a player who could help provide stability, but he was wrong. But a coach of that age a week in to the job making mistakes doesn't mean he's not promising at all.
Overall, I thought we played better football under Mason, and had a few really entertaining games. I applaud him for taking on the job, and I'm glad he has a place in the coaching staff now .. why wouldn't I be?
If you want more Nuno ball with a touch of Tim, that’s your problem
Nuno ball? Under Mason we scored 4 goals in two separate games. Aside from City we scored in every match under him.
Mason isn't coaching anyone mate, imagine we actually spend some money and a star player rocks up to Hotspur Way.
You think Ronaldo would work his butt off for the Doncaster loanee?
Come on now....
he picked the useless harry winks over a midfielder who could of made things happen. thats a spineless selection and he deserves the tag of 'ryan mateson'
we was never winning that final with winks in that form, would of been a struggle with winks in his best form let alone the form hes been in for the last few years.
The only midfielder we had who could really make things happen was Ndombele. And Mason obviously wasn't a fan, maybe due to an attitude issue which he was showing towards the end of Jose's tenure, and maybe even more so when Mason took charge. Conte thus far hasn't started him either.
As I've said, starting Winks in a final was a mistake. But I'm not gonna dismiss his potential as a coach in the future because he made one error. I saw a lot of other positives while he was at the helm, and I'm sure he brings something to the table.
well lets hope youre right because hes obviously being pushed onto us.
hes far too soft for my liking, cant think of any good competent managers that are that soft.