“If you’re so dismissive of everything I have done, and I am here (in the Europa league final) then it doesn’t say much for the competition I’m in, either I’m doing something significant and I’ve earned the right, or this isn’t that big a deal anyway because anybody could do it.”
That statement is, frankly, laughable and reveals the exact kind of warped logic that makes Ange so frustrating for a lot of fans.
You can’t measure the quality of a manager solely by reaching one European final while actively presiding over a complete collapse in the league. We are 17th in the Premier League ffs and even if we weren’t, the idea that his presence in a cup final somehow invalidates any criticism is nonsense.
Plenty of managers have fluked cup runs while struggling domestically it’s the nature of knockout football. One-off games, favourable draws, or players turning up on the night don’t suddenly make you a managerial genius.
By Ange’s logic, if he gets to a final, his methods are beyond criticism and he deserves to be there but where’s that logic when we’re losing to teams we should be beating every week in the league?
It’s also incredibly arrogant (shock) he’s basically saying: “If I’m in a final, it must mean I’m brilliant, otherwise the final doesn’t mean much and the competition must be shit”
That’s not leadership; that’s a man trying to spin one success to cover for months of mediocrity. It’s insecurity masquerading as confidence, and it doesn’t wash imo.
By that logic, Roberto Di Matteo must have been a world-class manager because he won Chelsea the Champions League or the champions league can’t be that great of a competition? Must be really easy to win it ey?
.Maybe, just maybe, finals don’t always reflect managerial greatness…
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, was just spilling my thoughts into the void basically.
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