Him playing a style you don't like doesn't make him a bad manager though
Yes just checked it. Got to two finals in 2012. Copa del ray and Europa
I'm just sorry I couldn't come up with a decent Tolkien pun, tbh.
I didn't say the style made him a bad manager, I said wanting to play the same way 'even if you lost every game' makes him a bad manager. The way he prefers to play is fine when you have elite players to work with, as Kompany does at Bayern, Guardiola has always had, and 'Enzo' has at Chelsea. It's also fine when you have strong technical players relative to the league you're in, as Martin did at Southampton.
But if kompany had change his style to keep Burnley up(and let's not pretend that's changed ins tyle automatically keeps you up) then he wouldn't have honed the skills required for Bayern job
I don’t think he’s honed skills. Kompany for instance has got the Bayern job on his name. He didn’t hone any skills. He did alright at Anderlecht, went to Burnley with players better than the league. Then failed to adapt when the going got tough.
He didn't get job cos he was a great CB though. He got it because of the style of football he plays
Keeping Burnley up would have been a good achievement and to suggest it would have denied him the Bayern job instead of going down with 25 points is a bit ridiculous.
Id say it's ridiculous to think of he had parked bus and stayed up that would have got him the Bayern job tbh
So you're saying that when a manager's techniques are clearly not working, they should continue to fail their employers on the hope that a better job comes along?
Not what I'm saying. I have no doubt these managers believe that they can get their plan a to start working with their current team.
Even when the evidence to the contrary is staring them square in the face? When something's not working, in whatever line of work you are undertaking, then you need to try something else.
The best managers adapt to the players they’ve got, instead of imposing tactics on players who can’t carry them out.
Yes and that's true in all working environments. If, as a manager, you continue to tell someone to do something that they are not capable of, that's your fault, not theirs
Well Dyche and Moyes can't adapt either. They play that style of football regardless of opposition, hence why they aren't going to attract those types of jobs. It's easy to play free flowing, expansive or possession based football when 95% of the time you're going to have massively superior players.
Managing elite level players requires a different skill set.
I was talking to my estate agent, used to play for City as a youth, 20 years ago, and who now plays for Rugby Boro, he said a lot of these young lads don't want to join a Div 2 team because they can get a job and play semi-pro like Rugby Boro and get between 500-1000 a week for doing so.
Rugby Borough have been doing great in recent years and it's great to see a local-ish team doing this. However there isn't a cat in hells chance they are paying players anything close to that.
To be fair to Moyes, he did get one of those jobs, but at the worst possible time.
Arsenal were watching him too!!!
No. Hopefully he means that jobs, in addition to football "expenses" amount to that.
Which teams? This isn't just recency bias about psg is it?
Liverpool and Barcelona added to that
Same division as Rugby Town and Coventry Sphinx now
