Alan Pardew Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 Hola. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Alan Pardew Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 8 minutes ago, Donut said: Lads you’ve got me all wrong. I’m an excellent communicator - That old Chilean twat had no problem understanding me. And my Spanish is better than Moyes’ for sure. Fucking old cunt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 Gary O’Neill if he had better PR would be spoken about for manager of the year. The Forest coach gets a lot of credit in the media. O’Neill doesn’t. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 5 hours ago, The College Dropout said: Direct opposition to Italy where it seems like every decade a manager or team popularises something that changes football management in some aspect. In Italy there’s a school for coaches, Coverciano, all the big Italian managers have written thesis’ on an aspect of football or coaching. It’s completely different. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 Curious to know what @WillDanceForChocolate makes of these O'Neil for MOTY claims, after his apparent despair only a few short months ago. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bimpy474 Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 3 hours ago, Dr Venkman said: @Bimpy474’s quiet Doing the bathroom mate, whole new one. Ridiculously i'm giving a go, ripping the whole thing out and fitting a new one. What i missed ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 6 hours ago, Bimpy474 said: Doing the bathroom mate, whole new one. Ridiculously i'm giving a go, ripping the whole thing out and fitting a new one. What i missed ? Oh shit, good luck, that’s hard work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bimpy474 Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 25 minutes ago, Dr Venkman said: Oh shit, good luck, that’s hard work. I'm definitely thinking I've rather over estimated my skills Very Lampard and Gerrard-esq you could say Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 10 hours ago, Alan Pardew said: Hola. Simple, but so effective . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 10 hours ago, Disco said: In Italy there’s a school for coaches, Coverciano, all the big Italian managers have written thesis’ on an aspect of football or coaching. It’s completely different. Coverciano is basically just the HQ of the Italian national team (it's just outside Florence). Their equivalent of St George's Park. There's no reason the English FA couldn't be inculcating deeper thinking in our managers using those facilities, but I bet they don't. I mean, look at some of the coaches involved in the national team at youth level for an idea of the mindset. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 Dunno if they're all available to read, but loads of them are here: https://www.figc.it/it/tecnici/aula-multimediale/documenti/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 16 hours ago, The College Dropout said: I don’t have concrete evidence or proof. But there is a lack of thought and application to the managerial approach of 99% of English managers. There’s not been a genuine world class English manager in my lifetime. There’s something deep rooted in the English footballing culture that is not curious about innovating ANYTHING about the game on the pitch. Direct opposition to Italy where it seems like every decade a manager or team popularises something that changes football management in some aspect. Call it laziness, lack of intellectual curiosity it’s something. I don’t even think it’s just tactically - it’s every aspect. Example of this. Good video covering points we’ve been discussing across different topics in the last few days. The end scaenarios is similar to what Villa did to us on the weekend. Continually waltzed pass our press and we were regularly 4 vs 4 ok our backline. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 1 hour ago, brummie said: Coverciano is basically just the HQ of the Italian national team (it's just outside Florence). Their equivalent of St George's Park. There's no reason the English FA couldn't be inculcating deeper thinking in our managers using those facilities, but I bet they don't. I mean, look at some of the coaches involved in the national team at youth level for an idea of the mindset. We need a cultural shift. Grass roots coaches and players aren’t encouraged to think about the game tactically. Steven Gerrard was a tactically undisciplined player for his entire career and fell off as soon as he lost his athleticism but he’s lauded as the best English central midfielder of a generation and his play style is encouraged to youngsters. It’s no surprise Alonso and Arteta - tactically astute footballers have become tactically astute managers. I can imagine Rafa spending lots of time talking through positional play with Alonso and just thinking ‘we’ll build a solid base and just let Stevie do Stevie because he doesn’t have the capacity to do anything else and he can win us the game doing that anyway’. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 (edited) I’m amazed we’re still telling people to play like Gerrard. I thought everyone was being taught to tiki-taka like Foden now? Edited April 17, 2023 by AyeDubbleYoo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 1 hour ago, AyeDubbleYoo said: I’m amazed we’re still telling people to play like Gerrard. I thought everyone was being taught to tiki-taka like Foden now? Tbh this is probably true about Foden but it’s not tiki taka. It’s still essentially an attacking player with individual quality which is what Gerrard did at his peak in Liverpool. we still don’t produce players in the mould of Kroos, Thiago, Xabi Alonso etc. The biggest criticism Rice gets in the media is that he doesn’t score enough goals or get enough assists. Not that he doesn’t dictate play enough. Use his positioning rather than his athleticism to sweep up. Funnily enough Fabregas ended up being a Gerrard style player rather than a Xavi style player people expected. His tactical indiscipline was a big issue at Barca and under Conte. His game ended up being all about goals and assists and awful off the ball. Toni Kroos lost his legs at 28 but can still compete at the highest level due to his positional sensibilities. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GeordieDazzler Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 2 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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joeyt Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 3 hours ago, SUPERTOON said: I'd be amazed if this was based on anything other than he was at their game at the weekend watching Son He was Kilmarnock the day after Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 4 hours ago, SUPERTOON said: fucking hell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubaricho Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 9 hours ago, Rich said: Simple, but so effective . I laughed harder than I probably should have. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjohnson Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 5 minutes ago, Deuce said: fucking hell Please let it happen....it would be delightfully disasterous Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colos Short and Curlies Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 1 hour ago, joeyt said: I'd be amazed if this was based on anything other than he was at their game at the weekend watching Son He was Kilmarnock the day after That's how Lampard's return to Chelsea started... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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