He’s technical director but because Carrick has left and they’re short of coaches he’s helping out. He only stepped in after Ole got sacked.
This is painful to watch.
Carl Anka the only one of the Athletic lot with sense. They booted him off the podcast because he wasn’t cheerleading the previous charlatan.
I mean, I've been saying this since the 12/13 season when Pochettino took over Southampton from Adkins and turned Southampton into the best pressing team in the league immediately. Never heard Fergie speak so highly of a manager after our 1-0 home game against them in which we could barely get out of our half.
Who’d of thought? Passing sideways can be considered as negative football. I can’t wait for Ralph to teach these guys it’s progressive or out you get.
Fair to say Pochettino PSG is miles away from being a pressing team this days, and some of his decisions are quite baffling to say the least.
Hard to judge when the egos of his front three prevent an organised team press.
That absolutely. But the choices he makes for the first 11 and the way the team plays since he arrived there is far from impressive. Miles away from Tuchel.
You're right but Tuchel didn't have Messi. Obviously Messi is Messi and it's great to have.maybe the best ever, but his turtle routine out of possession is a massive headache Tuchel didn't have.
Imagine being so brainwashed by 'DNA' and the 'United way' and thinking that this was the way forward for us. I still can't get it round my head the absolute free rein Ole got from segments of our fanbase.
Anyway, if I had to take a decision to sign a new coach he wouldn't be my first choice. There are better options.
Sickening really.
It's one of those things, Clough, Fergie, Ancelotti, Zidane etc. don't talk about tactics publicly and also regurgitate this "it's about winning your battles" and "passion" stuff... it's well known that SAF rarely went into depth tactically during team talks etc.
It’s so refreshing to finally have a coach who can talk about tactics and knows what he’s doing. It’s also refreshing to see how, especially in the first half today, our players knew their roles and what they had to do.
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Is that why he was booted off? I’ve always wondered why he left.
I’m really not sure tbh it could be a number of things but it does seem weird. They don’t acknowledge it either which is also strange. Like he was there every week and now he’s not.
You simply need both - a clear tactic, and the passion to implement it. I think there might be a lot of managers who for example have quite clear tactical ideas and are able to communicate them to their team, but then go on about passion etc to make sure their tactics are implemented well. I believe SAF was such a case - never the most complicated tactics, but always knew which shape he wanted from his team and the rest was man managing.
Clough and Bobby Robson fit well on that description. Even if regarding Clough there's always those comments questioning if it wasn't Peter Taylor the real tatical brain of that Forest team.
I wish this nonsense would stop getting repeated. SAF had a very clear idea of how the team should play and he found massive success at every club he went, and the notion that he was just a pashun merchant is getting extremely annoying.
The greatest British manager ever didn't have or understand complicated tactical ideas, apparently.
Wow, after one day in training? Yet, the state of you giving excuses for Ole after 3 years is astonishing.
Were do you see nonsense in my post? My post is literally about him having clear tactical ideas
To be fair I don't think the poster was saying SAF didn't had tatical knowledge or understanding. No one makes Aberdeen win against Rangers or Celtic and beat Real Madrid on a Cup Winners Cup Final being a 4x4x2 Mike Basset football entertainer.
You clearly haven't followed Carl Anka for that long to make sweeping statements like that. He changes his tune more often than the wind changes direction and was a big advocate of Ole post Mourinho, a big advocate of Mourinho post Van Gaal, etc etc. It's no surprise he'd be a fan of Rangnick post Ole. He is captain hindsight and talks like he always had an x view when he never did.
I think you were quite clearly implying that SAF didn't have much tactical acumen (oh well, he told them the shape and let the lads have their fun on the pitch basically) but had great man management (a common cliched criticism towards the man) which is absolutely not true. He had both. I don't know why this keeps getting repeated.
The staff was fecking shit.
He was the only one who was right about Ole being a charlatan. Haven’t even heard his opinion on Ralf because they have him held hostage.
You won't be able to convince me that SAF was a visionary tactician. Overall he was the full package and as a manager might well be the greatest ever. But did he influence football tactics overall? Did he have any significant lasting imprint on how the game is played at the highest level? I don't think so. He understood what worked and used it, and had the desire to learn how other teams were successful.
A charlatan
He is though let’s be honest. He’s a championship manager at best.A charlatan
Much of the PL was influenced SAF's brand of football until recently. Up until 2010 the league's top sides utilized was basically a 4-4-2, high winger, high tempo intensive football with high pressing. Obviously if we're talking about a "visionary tactician", what type of a manager do you classify as such? Michels, Herrera and possibly Cruyff are the only ones who fit that definition, imo. But I'd easily place SAF in the same bracket as Guardiola and Klopp when it comes to tacticians. Even a little bit higher since SAF knew when he needed to adapt while Guardiola and partly Klopp are shown to be extremely rigid in their approach to the game.
His 08 team is basically the prototype for elite football today
But at the same time, that particular bit is like, burger-flipping levels of simplicity for anyone who's ostensibly a football coach.
That team was destroyed a year later by Barca. We have never played with the possession and organisation Pep has implemented.
