I'd like a little experience when picking head coach that's all.
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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I'd like a little experience when picking head coach that's all.
In the opposite corner should really be Guardiola, Zidane, Conte?100% this... And the stats are there to prove it:
Ferguson, Wenger, Mourinho... Nothing special as players, but fantastic managers....
...and in the opposite corner:
Hoddle, Ardiles, Souness, Lampard, Roy Keane!!!
Yes, there are exceptions, but great players don't automatically make great managers, if anything, they have TOO MUCH expectation to live up to!!
Sam Allardyce is about the same level Manager as he was a Player.... He pretty much stayed consistent throughout!
He actually isn’t thoughhe is a promising young coach
Simeone too. Ancelotti was also a damn good player in his day.In the opposite corner should really be Guardiola, Zidane, Conte?
Hmm I forgot Cruyff. Him too.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.
He actually isn’t though
The only thing he is promising is a first team spot to Winks.Conte is not going to accept someone being forced into his coaching staff against his will. Mason is there because Conte wants him to be there. He knows the squad, he knows the club and he is a promising young coach who can learn a lot from him. He is not some spy put there by Levy.
You try running straight after Balotelli had stamped on your head!I wasn't saying they were the same player, or on the same level but some of the things Winks gets flack for, others have also done and reaped praise. At this point I couldn't really care if he stays or goes, just inconsistent criticism.
No denying He had a couple of great seasons for us but I also remember all the Flack in the match threads about him running in circles and never passing forward.
He wasn’t promising in the League cup final thoughHow 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?
He wasn’t promising in the League cup final though
Abysmal more appropriate
Because I watched him drop Bale for Winks in a cup finalHow the hell would you know?
Because I watched him drop Bale for Winks in a cup final
So a promising young manager can’t utilise a formation that includes Bale and doesn’t include Winks?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
Mason isn't coaching anyone mate, imagine we actually spend some money and a star player rocks up to Hotspur Way.Being a top player means little in terms of managerial or coaching ability.
Let's face it; you know jack shit about his coaching aptitudes becasue you're NEVER seen him coach a single player. Not once.
Meanwhile, Mason wasn't merely a Hull clogger. He was one of a handful of HG SPURS lads that stepped up for in the early days of Poch when others were content to throw him straight under the bus.....
He deserves a damn sight more respect than the mindless crap you & the usual toxic mob are slinging at him.
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'But a coach of that age a week in to the job making mistakes doesn't mean he's not promising at all.
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.
well lets hope youre right because hes obviously being pushed onto us.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.