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The “individual errors” argument is basically nonsensical. If we took that stance for every situation, there would never be a managerial sacking. Holistically, managers have to be judged on results and performances. Results and performances this...

Ah… the old “it’s the player’s fault”. Nevermind it’s a team full of internationals, World Cup, Euro and CL winners… absolutely they must be tactically inept. This is a fecking insulting post. Anyone who has managed to play at a reasonably high...

Still never answered the question. For Xavi “didn’t do better than Koeman,”well, he did. He won La Liga. And came in 2nd in his first season. Koeman has crashed out of several jobs. He won 3 Eredivise titles… 15-20 years ago… but that’s a much...

You never answered the question. Also, strongly disagree. Messi was still the best player in the world. It wasn’t prime Pique and Alba, but Busquets was still great, Pedri was outstanding. Koeman persisted with Dest at RB, that’s his own fault...

Not really. Do you fact check anything before you make any statement? Seriously. Koeman had Messi who scored 30 in 35 appearances in the league that year, Griezmann, De Jong, and a brilliant Pedri. They finished 3rd in the league. He started out...

It was interesting to see the run up to the CL match between PSG and Barca, with Luis Enrique saying that PSG’s system was a more pure version of the Barca ethos than Xavi’s… In fact, during the title run last year, Xavi explained that they...

Xavi’s English is better than Ten Hag’s ffs. I’m serious. There’s a bunch of interviews on YouTube with British reporters asking questions and Xavi replying in English.

Agree. You hire and sack based on results. Standards have been set and must be met. It could be someone proven (Klopp and Pep hires), it could be someone who hasn’t made their mark yet (Alonso with Leverkusen). Wait. Now you want Ten Hag to...

Yep :lol:

Yes, and Arteta is a very good manager. If we assume that Arsenal had a good structure from when Wenger left until now, what happened with Unai Emery? Why didn’t he challenge for major trophies?

So you’re saying that structure is the only factor in winning trophies? :houllier: Well, Brighton has a great structure and they’ve won nothing. Leicester has/had a great structure and they are in the Championship. The reason they haven’t...

Mate, most people would say that City and Liverpool have a great footballing structure and have done exceedingly well in the transfer market. But they also have maybe the second best manager of all time (Pep) and an all time great (Klopp). To...

Really? If that’s the case, then we can get anyone, and I mean anyone in as manager. We don’t need to pay 10m/year for Ten Hag, let’s just get some bum off the street. The problem with absolutism is that it looks at a complex problem and thinks...

Thanks for sharing whoever did that. Most of these points have been made in this very thread. Kudos to the caller who started off with the baseline “Big clubs change managers when targets are not achieved” and proceeded to list out all of the...

I get the spirit of this comment, but disagree with the statement. If anything, Ole was pretty conservative and really played to our strengths as a counter attacking side. I never minded the fact that we were counter attacking, but some fans...