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Do you think Levy says to a manager at this stage "listen, you might last 5 years, you might last 1, why not come and see how it goes?"

I'd appreciate the honesty if I was a manager.

You're not talking about the average joe here, Frank ain't worried about paying the bills.
 
Norwegian Jim said:
No approach for Gattuso this time around? :pocheyes:
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Joe Jordan was fronting negotiations.

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Macch said:
Get the feeling he'll a better job hiding our weaknesses, but I'm sure our inferior talent will be the reason we fail to win matches.
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Maybe I’m wrong but I think Ange has mismanaged our players so badly it’s made everyone think all our players are shit. We’ve seen it in football before, when they’re out of confidence and being poorly coached it makes entire squads look way shitter than they actually are, aside from the odd player who still pushes past it like an Eriksen in 13/14 or Willian in 15/16.

I think in 6 months time people are gonna be thinking back to this season wondering ‘how did mostly the same set of players deliver that last season?’
 
FightingIllini said:
That said, Frank will need a fast start, as Ange did, because with the club's total lack of any raison d'être or credibility with anyone, the situation will go the way of Nuno without some immediate narrative-building success.
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He can't start horrifically, I agree. But, it does feel a little different to Nuno and Frank starts off in a far less fragile position than Nuno did...

From the off, Nuno was famously at the absolute bottom of our list.. The one guy who was not in a club and would say yes.. He felt like a transient appointment from the start. We're paying 10 million to get Frank and it seems he was the main choice that we went after. So there's an immediate investment in terms of the club needing him to work out. Far less likely to bin him off after it starts getting rough.

Nuno also came in post Jose, when there was desperation for us to attack at all costs in nearly every game (maybe City and Liverpool aside), and there was a necessity for him to go against type and try and play a style of football that is just not who he is.. Remember the Chelsea game at home where we started Dele, Ndombele and Lo Celso? I think now, while we want a coach who's default is to be proactive when we're the better team, there's a hunger for balance and more nuance now after the last two years.

Probably the main factor will be the players relationship with him.. There were leaks from early on that Nuno and the players had a distance between them. If Frank can get the players to buy in, than it'll be far easier for him to ride through early teething problems.
 
DadHeungMin said:
Maybe I’m wrong but I think Ange has mismanaged our players so badly it’s made everyone think all our players are shit. We’ve seen it in football before, when they’re out of confidence and being poorly coached it makes entire squads look way shitter than they actually are, aside from the odd player who still pushes past it like an Eriksen in 13/14 or Willian in 15/16.

I think in 6 months time people are gonna be thinking back to this season wondering ‘how did mostly the same set of players deliver that last season?’
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THIS.
He's sent many of them backwards. People think Romero brain farts but don't realise he and VDV are almost always left hugely exposed by Angeball. Opposition now know/knew how to exploit that even with VDV's pace.
When you're constantly having to bail the team out, you're gonna make mistakes and that's why people focus on.
Porro isn't a bad RB/RWB. Far from it. He's not out of position because he's not good. He's out of position because he's where he's told to be.
Etc.
 
Crockett said:
If we beat PSG he will have a leg up on the argument that he is tactically savvy. With the best will in the world, unless they rest their first team it is hard to see how we pull that off.
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I don't think they will, fully, but expect that they'll priortise the Club World Cup which, if they go all the way, ends on 13th July. That's just a month before the Super Cup. Their league will get underway the following week so maybe...
 
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