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Been ruled out I think. Between De Zerbi and Hansi Flick I think.
Was he ruled out? Last I heard of it, Deco (who Barca aren't very happy with right now btw) just said there hadn't been any contact yet.
Fair enough. Weird though, that one seemed a very obvious appointment.
Why is that then?
He had them in a CL final last year and is on pace to break records this year? After doing exceptional work at Lazio? The one big blemish is the title they literally threw away in his first season, and his game management - especially substitutions - can still drive a sane man up a wall[and it cost them the derby which was the turning point in the title race two years ago]
I rate what Motta is doing more than Inzaghi’s Inter.
I think the jobs they're doing are pretty equally impressive in different ways.
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Van Gaal had an initial plan that he didn't stick with. After losing 5-3 to Leicester, he decided to stop playing attacking football and instead implement a safer and more boring possession based style.
I approve of this. Could be very exciting.
Ten Hag was all of those things. Sure, 10 years older, but far more proven and experienced.
Why not? With the footballing structure being put into place by INEOS, we would be an attractive destination for any manager with ambition.
The squad needs purged but Ten Hag wasn’t a young and upcoming manager, he was 50+ and had never managed in a top league. Motta has played with some of the biggest players of the last 30 years. He is much younger and his philosophy is already a lot clearer.
The uproar when some dirty foreigner gets the United job over Sir Gareth will be something
There is no inevitability about it.
He's a manager with less than a 40% win record. This season we've seen Roma, Napoli and Atalanta collectively shit the bed. Forgive me if I don't jump on this particular bandwagon.
Plus, like Xabi Alonso, he is his own man but has played under lots of different types of coaches (van Gaal, Rijkaard, Gasperini, Mourinho, Prandelli, Ranieri, Ancelotti, Conte, Blanc) and takes inspiration from lots of different tacticians (Guardiola, Bielsa, Löw). That breadth of experience and theoretical knowledge should hold him in good stead as he puts his own twist on things — a few of them were great defensive strategists, some adhered to positional football regiments, others encouraged a bit of relationism, there was considerable variance wrt. in-possession and out-of-possession approaches (as well as a sense of reactiveness and proactiveness), a couple were masters of man-management, and so forth. For example, he recently seems to be doing what Guardiola (and Arteta with White and Kiwior) does in terms of playing multifunctional defenders at the fullback position, that can't be entirely coincidental.
I really don't understand why anyone would want Nagelsmann.
