Um, this was 'supposed' to be the Austria thread!
Yeah we played differently under Ole but the positions that need strengthening are the same. Because as I said the striker we signed is 37 now and the CB we signed is injury prone (+Maguire falling off a cliff). So Rangnick's time at United hasn't affected recruitment at all, had Ole stayed as manager until the end of the season I doubt it would have changed Ten Hag's targets.
I would say the club was doing exactly what you're saying, pre Erik ten Hag. The football side was structured in such a way that it required a manager led approach, which meant the manager(s) post Ferguson were tasked with fixing the football side of the club. And they were trying to fix the football side of the club, whilst being allowed their own personal recruitment staff. So it's not really a big surprise to see the club waste huge sums in the last 10 years due to the above reasons.
It's much easier to assess players on team playing with similar style. But yeh, you're probably correct that ETH didn't learn anything from RR tenure.
I wouldn't say that at all. Mourinho and Van Gaal were washed up coaches, Moyes was hired because of his nationality and Solskjaer because of his playing career. I don't think any of them were comparable to Conte at the time of their hiring.
Van Gaal and Mourinho might well have been washed up coaches but both didn't want to work with a Sporting director according to reports. And in LVG's case, he wrote in his book about always having the itch to be the all powerful EPL manager, rather than the head coach he was at Bayern.
Yeah I'd agree but we weren't really playing a similar style to Ajax under Ralf. He reverted more to a similar style as Solskjaer employed after about a month.
8th. 4th was in his first full season after having his own window. Ralf had neither
They must not have devoted enough time since they had to buy him a new defense and goalkeeper.
Real Madrid spent 200 million euros on Eden Hazard and Luka Jovic. In an alternate timeline, 34-year-old Benzema is moving to Lyon this summer, having lost his place to the "Serbian Sniper," and Vinicius is leading Getafe to a Copa del Rey win while on loan.
Those are facts. But it's also fact that Madrid didn't buy a direct replacement for Cristiano Ronaldo after just winning the UCL and isn't even on the top 20 spenders on transfer fees over the past 5 years or so.
Can't be the Caf has already said that Ralf doesn't know shit.
Because he’s clearly a nightmare to work with for more than 7 days a month
To be fair it was a severely weakened French team (No Varane, Pogba , Kante or Mbappe from the final for example).
He’s managing Austria mate
France second team should beat them. No excuses with the starting XI they put out.
I didn't they say that France shouldn't have beaten them (in fact if you watched the game you would have seen that they should have/ were a crossbar away from beating them) I only said that France were missing a lot of Key players.
Even the best of managers can look like clowns if players down tools and average managers can look like excellent managers if quality players put in a fecking shift and work towards a plan.
Top managers don’t ever have players downing tools unless the manager himself is a cnut. Do you seriously think any team under Fergie or Klopp for example would down tools?
He's not a PL manager. Austria and Leipzig is his level.
Jose wasn't a top manager ? Toxic shite players will down tools everywhere, its just that top managers move them out of the club before they start the rot.
Our players are not top 4 material let alone challenging or winning silverware.
Jose was a top manager. He was also a cnut like I said.
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That is what I meant. A lot of his players or about all come from or have played in the Red Bull clubs.
remember when we tried this for ~40 mins in one game and then all those losers found it tough so they just started calling him "speccs" and mocking someone from his staff because they were American?
Which ones?
