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Hand on heart most of us would love for Giggsy to be United manager one day and be our very own Guardiola. Possibly manage the club for a couple of decades. But I just think some including Lindegaard are taking a rather simplistic view of things. It's great that Giggsy can give rousing speeches and uplift the player morale.. But that's not all a manager's job entails, those are just tertiary requirements. The most important and basic thing about being a manager is setting up the team, employing the right tactics, have alternate backup plans in-game if those don't work etc - mostly stuff that happens on the football field rather than off it or in the dressing room. I'm not qualified enough to judge how good Ryan is in that regard but we can make an educated guess. And at least on that front he might have some more learning to do to be compared with someone like Pep.
Giggsy has only experienced the finer technical details under Sir Alex and Moyes in his whole playing career. For sure he would've learnt a lot from the great man but I doubt he picked anything up from Moyes' tenure. This is what worries me the most. It's really simple - if a person has only eaten oranges, he'll think it's the best fruit ever. Yet he's never even tried mangoes, apples or strawberries to make a proper judgement. He's experienced a fairly isolated environment so his imagination for the team might be limited and that could prove to be fatal against continental coaches. What he should ideally do is further his education under a genius tactician like Van Gaal, who is famous for keeping his door open to the staff and players. Some of his pupils are renowned coaches and 3 of them won the highest club honours - Mourinho, Guardiola, Rijkaard. Giggy could pick up so many different things from Louis which will help him develop a deeper understating for the game and in the longer run it'll only make him a better tactician.
It's getting overlooked a bit but what makes Guardiola unique isn't just that he coached the Barcelona reserve team. He vastly improved his tactical nous being in different leagues and learning from so many different coaches. He didn't just learn from Van Gaal. He learnt from Cruyff, he experienced Italian tactics with Roma and Brescia. He played in Mexico. And took a one year sabbatical travelling to Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay including mentoring by Bielsa. He experienced so many different footballing cultures and probably learnt about a million different minor details from some of the best tacticians around. This is why I think it's premature for Giggsy to branded as the new Pep. We don't even need to look further to gauge the benefits of having a varied football education. There's a great example in Liverpool with Rodgers - who's a different breed to most other British + Irish managers (no offence intended whatsoever). After a brief playing career he scoured Spain to learn a gamut of different things and that's helped solidify his knowledge of the game - and made him arguably one of the best tacticians around.
Giggsy will be United manager one day - that's for certain. But I just think waiting a few more years and gaining a thorough knowledge of the game will make him a better, more complete manager. If Giggsy keeps an open mind he has a great chance to learn from Louis if he's appointed, broaden his horizons a bit and get some distance from familiar surroundings, talk to some other great tacticians like Sacchi, Bielsa, Capello and absorb their experiences, if possible travel to South America and learn about their philosophies, coach for a bit in Germany or Italy or Spain. Then come back in 4-5 years when he's imbibed every little detail. That'll massively help him in setting up the team to counter any opposition game plan. He'll be what 45 in in 4 years ? That really young in managerial terms. No need to rush things now with a half cooked meal. He could work out great given the next season, but all we know it could be an utter disaster and scar his chances to be a United manager in the future.
Hand on heart most of us would love for Giggsy to be United manager one day and be our very own Guardiola. Possibly manage the club for a couple of decades. But I just think some including Lindegaard are taking a rather simplistic view of things. It's great that Giggsy can give rousing speeches and uplift the player morale.. But that's not all a manager's job entails, those are just tertiary requirements. The most important and basic thing about being a manager is setting up the team, employing the right tactics, have alternate backup plans in-game if those don't work etc - mostly stuff that happens on the football field rather than off it or in the dressing room. I'm not qualified enough to judge how good Ryan is in that regard but we can make an educated guess. And at least on that front he might have some more learning to do to be compared with someone like Pep.
Giggsy has only experienced the finer technical details under Sir Alex and Moyes in his whole playing career. For sure he would've learnt a lot from the great man but I doubt he picked anything up from Moyes' tenure. This is what worries me the most. It's really simple - if a person has only eaten oranges, he'll think it's the best fruit ever. Yet he's never even tried mangoes, apples or strawberries to make a proper judgement. He's experienced a fairly isolated environment so his imagination for the team might be limited and that could prove to be fatal against continental coaches. What he should ideally do is further his education under a genius tactician like Van Gaal, who is famous for keeping his door open to the staff and players. Some of his pupils are renowned coaches and 3 of them won the highest club honours - Mourinho, Guardiola, Rijkaard. Giggy could pick up so many different things from Louis which will help him develop a deeper understating for the game and in the longer run it'll only make him a better tactician.
It's getting overlooked a bit but what makes Guardiola unique isn't just that he coached the Barcelona reserve team. He vastly improved his tactical nous being in different leagues and learning from so many different coaches. He didn't just learn from Van Gaal. He learnt from Cruyff, he experienced Italian tactics with Roma and Brescia. He played in Mexico. And took a one year sabbatical travelling to Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay including mentoring by Bielsa. He experienced so many different footballing cultures and probably learnt about a million different minor details from some of the best tacticians around. This is why I think it's premature for Giggsy to branded as the new Pep. We don't even need to look further to gauge the benefits of having a varied football education. There's a great example in Liverpool with Rodgers - who's a different breed to most other British + Irish managers (no offence intended whatsoever). After a brief playing career he scoured Spain to learn a gamut of different things and that's helped solidify his knowledge of the game - and made him arguably one of the best tacticians around.
Giggsy will be United manager one day - that's for certain. But I just think waiting a few more years and gaining a thorough knowledge of the game will make him a better, more complete manager. If Giggsy keeps an open mind he has a great chance to learn from Louis if he's appointed, broaden his horizons a bit and get some distance from familiar surroundings, talk to some other great tacticians like Sacchi, Bielsa, Capello and absorb their experiences, if possible travel to South America and learn about their philosophies, coach for a bit in Germany or Italy or Spain. Then come back in 4-5 years when he's imbibed every little detail. That'll massively help him in setting up the team to counter any opposition game plan. He'll be what 45 in in 4 years ? That really young in managerial terms. No need to rush things now with a half cooked meal. He could work out great given the next season, but all we know it could be an utter disaster and scar his chances to be a United manager in the future.