He's a fraud, this season's Brendan Rodgers.
One swallow doesn't make a summer.
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He's a fraud, this season's Brendan Rodgers.
One swallow doesn't make a summer.
I doubt it will get us relegated, but I can see your concern about him. You can't guarantee anyone will be a success in this league. Best you can do is to thoroughly vet each candidate, make the most educated decision possible, and hope you were right.
I am certain we will out-monitor Chelsea.
I can't help thinking that Levy wants a bald Dutch manager because ETH made Rashford look half-decent again.
But, yes, Slot's track record suggests he can get players performing consistently as a team, & develop youngsters. Albeit at a smaller club, in a much less competitive league.
Also Levy is not going to blow £70 million on a 31-year-old veteran like Casemiro, and wages of £350k, to upgrade our midfield.
I understand the excitement many fans feel about potentially getting Nagelsmann, but the more articles I read about why it went wrong at Bayern, the more doubts I have.
Yes, Bayern is notoriously FC Hollywood, with a bunch of over-sized egos, almost on a par with PSG. But there are quotes from players at previous clubs criticising his treating players as robots, with little personal interaction, and constantly changing tactics. Add in Nagelsmann's touchline fashion antics, and there's a whiff of the immature dictator.
The football romantic in me wants Gallardo, but he has zero experience of coaching in Europe.
So we'll fuck about for months and end up with Carrick and Defoe in charge.
Don’t think anyone hates him. I certainly don’t and indeed admire the qualities you’ve listed above.
The issue is, aside from these qualities he is exceptionally limited as a midfielder and particularly if we hire a manager that actually tries to play through the midfield, I think PEH will be found badly wanting.
Was half tongue in cheek and think now Nagelsmann is available hes definitely number one but the English club who gives Ange a go will be on to a winner. As someone who’s followed his whole career, in Australia he turned a struggling mid table side into the best team this country has seen, playing beautiful football that earned Brisbane Roar the tag of ‘Roarcelona’. Then won Australia an Asian Cup which we’ve never done before, with a pretty bang average side. Dominated the J-League with Yokohama and then Celtic were a shambles before he joined and about 30 points behind. Now he’s turned them into back to back champions.
I’m not sure what’s gone on at Bayern, and I know Nagelsmann comes with idiosyncrasies, but the most talented coaches often do, so that doesn't bother me too much, as long as they also come with a track record of good coaching too. On the face of it, looks to me like a very harsh sacking. Bayern are going through a bit of a transition, lost Lewandowski, the new attackers are good but not Robben et al, Muller should have been phased out ages ago, Kimmich is ageing and they have a relatively new young CB pairing that have had some issues. I really like Tuchel as well, but I'm not sure his CV suggests he's any more emotionally stable or guaranteed to be an improvement.
This is the club that also happily waved Flick off. Suggests to me the new executive team there aren't quite on the ball.
Either way I'd take a punt on him. I'm just sure someone like PSG will come in for him, I'm not sure who else they could go for, unless the go for Zidane or maybe Ancelotti?
Why should a quick decision like that be a bad thing?
Of course, the circumstance with Nagelsmann was different than that of Conte.
What????? Seriously????? The style is irrelevant when your players are so much better than the opposition because the league is utterly uncompetitive and you can outspend everyone. As for comparing Gerrard wtf? Gerrard proves the point utterly. He failed in the prem after winning the league with Rangers and getting to a uefa cup final, incidentally with less money than Celtic. He still got schooled and this is guy who was one of the best players in the league for decades.
Have a look at some of the managers in the premier league, these are not donuts, this is not the silly league. This is one of the big 5 and it's the most competitive of the lot.
I wasn't commenting on the speed of the decision - if you look at the bit I highlighted, I was commenting on them basically (allegedly) sacking him via the media rather than telling him first.
Heh, wrote a long post about how Postecoglou isn't a fraud.
Realised you were talking about Arteta.
Managed to delete post before making an arse of myself.
I thought Ancelotti was off to the Brazil national job, hence coaches like Poch allegedly in the running for the Real Madrid gig.
If Nagelsmann is appointed, at least we'll be trying to play attacking football. After Mourinho, Nuno & Conte, another uber-cautious coach would be unbearable.
I agree that going from Lewandowski to Choupa-Moting is the archetypal Ferrari to a Skoda downgrade. Just for the laughs, I'd like to see an owner do that to Conte & watch the ensuing press conference meltdown.
So Nagelsmann or Slot it is.
Unless we get Gallardo, with Ossie on translation duties....
I lived in Brisbane in 2009 - 13, the league is awful and the football was nationwide standard. The biggest club in the Japanese league, do you think this is comparable? Or an achievement, and celtic a shambles? Er winning the league for 9 of the previous 10 years before he arrived. And the season before he arrived their manager had an actual mental breakdown!!!!!! The two are side by side every season sucking the life out of the Scottish league (other than when rangers were relegated) Celtic have had only one manager this century who didn't win a league title.....
If he had gone to Hearts, hibs or Aberdeen etc and won the league we would be impressed. But winning the league with one of the ugly sisters and being crap in Europe just adds up to nothing.
Interestingly, according to ex-Bayern player Babbel, it was Lena Wurzenburger's job as a journo at Bild that lead to discontent among the Bayern players (even though she did not cover Bayern) that led to Nagelsmann being sacked (well, according to Babbel). And Lena quit her job at Bild the day after Nagelsmann was sacked.
Spicy. What a soap opera
Marco silva has been poor in premier league till now.
So basically same advantages that anyone managing bayern has
Take a few deep breaths and calm down.
That Conte’s on the way out has been written and talked about extensively for a week now in papers all over the world; so the least Levy could do, if he intend on keeping Conte, was to denounce the insistent rumors about Conte being sacked. Such persistent rumors about a head coach and ensuing suspense about his pending situation for sure will be ta talking point among the players and will have a disturbing effect on them.
Conte himself will know whether he’s staying or not and if he’s not staying then it’s better to move on for both Spurs and him sooner than later.
I have no idea why you bring Nagelsmann into this equation. How can Levy be blamed for not knowing about his being sacked? Will people accuse him of not being clairvoyant? And how do you know that Luis Enrique would be Levy’s choice?
Maybe Potter, Klopp or Ancelotti will be sacked as well. Should L & L wait to see if that happens?
If Spurs had fired Conte it wouldn’t mean they had to appoint a new head coach right away, anyway.
I am not saying I want Conte sacked, I am cool if he stays but only if he’s backed.
Sometimes once is enough: L & L spent 2 ½ months searching for a head coach and before they appointed Nuno they had already made 2 others, Fonseca and Gattuso, believing they had gotten the job. It was a total disaster.
I was also a disaster to sack Pochettino so early after taking Spurs to the CL final. Even Levy’s hinted it was a mistake to sack Pochettino. But Levy wanted to hire Mourinho, so he found an excuse.
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