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1 hour ago, The Fountain said:

With Pep and Silva leaving and Harrogate leaving the league Howe is 6th in the longest serving manager list. We probably haven't had anybody higher 

 

Yeah but Pardew and Bruce felt like they were here for 25 years

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1 minute ago, joeyt said:

 

Yeah but Pardew and Bruce felt like they were here for 25 years


Pardew was here for a decade and you can’t convince me otherwise 

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2 hours ago, Village Idiot said:

So, yesterday Florentino Pérez announced the signing of Mourinho as new coach if he wins the upcoming election. 

 

Mourinho, who's under contract at Benfica, has scrambled to state that the video of him with the shirt is an AI creation, but he hasn't denied the signing.

 

Real Madrid are voting for president this weekend, and while Pérez is still heavily favored to win, it's the first contested election since he changed the club's bylaws making the requirements to run for president so absurd, that essentially only him and a handful of people qualify.

 

He has reached the Trump stage of not really being all that there in the head while surrounded by a bunch of sycophantic yes men, so I hope he wins. The press conference were he announced the election was surreal. 

 

 

 

Do Barca have similar rules for being President?

 

It’s maybe too extreme but I like the premise. 
 

Spanish. 25 years a member.  Stupid rich.  

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1 hour ago, The College Dropout said:

Do Barca have similar rules for being President?

 

It’s maybe too extreme but I like the premise. 
 

Spanish. 25 years a member.  Stupid rich.  

 

10 years a member, resident in Catalonia, no money requisites (Laporta isn't particularly wealthy).

 

There used to be a requisite that the entire board had to guarantee 15% of the club's budget if you won (but not in order to run), which was part of the overall Spanish sports law, but that was removed years ago. Madrid kept the 15% rule in the bylaws, with the addition that you have to produce proof of funds (or that a bank will backstop you) in order to run.

 

 

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7 hours ago, Optimistic Nut said:

Much different to Klopp?

 

He built the perfect team of players to be able to handle it (Salah, Mane, Robertson etc), managed trainings extremely well, and must have had a very good team of physios etc. It's a completely different scenario to train your players for this style when you don't have Europe, because you can train with high intensity all the way. This is a much greater test for Iraola.

 

Who else have been able to replicate "the inhalers"? We're talking about one of the very best managers the league has ever seen. I don't think this set of players would handle the load as well as the team Klopp had at their peak anyways. In recent years under Klopp they dropped off when trying to replace some of those players, as some of the new ones couldn't keep up.

 

Also worth mentioning that the meta has shifted quite a bit since their peak. Take Guardiola for instance, he kept changing up his style a bit to adjust to new metas, because the thing that worked so well 5 years ago doesn't necessarily work all that well anymore, atleast not for the top teams competing for trophies on all fronts.

 

 

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28 minutes ago, Ritchie said:

He must love a tab or two.

 

At last, hes Liverpool manager so we have a free shot at everything he does, hes nee Rafa like.

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See some Celtic fans are protesting against Robbie Keane as manager because he managed Macabbi Tel Aviv

 

Not sure i agree with that

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19 hours ago, The College Dropout said:

Marco Silva has done himself a huge disservice by not going deep in cup competitions.  
 

I like his football more than Glasner but if Howe left I would want Glasner way before Silva. 

 

Can't understand why Glasner hasn't had much interest so far tbh. He's proved to be a far more successful manager than Iraola 

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11 hours ago, Chicken Dancer said:

Rotten teeth them mind, Christ. 
 

Not sure how you can be that wealthy and have teeth that yellow. 

 

Dvvunt worry. 

 

Liverpool smile incoming 

 

 

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9 minutes ago, toon25 said:

 

Can't understand why Glasner hasn't had much interest so far tbh. He's proved to be a far more successful manager than Iraola 

I suspect in a PL context there'll be some "nah he only plays 3-4-3" snobbery 

 

EDIT: Absolutely no idea if that's Glasner's "way" and the way he always plays wherever he goes or if he decided that's what he needed to do at Palace and was best for the players he had.

 

 

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3 hours ago, toon25 said:

 

Can't understand why Glasner hasn't had much interest so far tbh. He's proved to be a far more successful manager than Iraola 

The football is counter attack and he falls out with ownership. He’s not won enough to have multiple top teams fighting for it.  

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Just now, The College Dropout said:

The football is counter attack and he falls out with ownership. He’s not won enough to have multiple top teams fighting for it.  


if only he had a won the Cypriot cup 2018 like Iraola 

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Just now, GeordieDazzler said:


if only he had a won the Cypriot cup 2018 like Iraola 

That’s the point. It’s not about what he has won.  They are thinking about how the style of play fits with the club and if the manager can work within the system. 
 

Glasner moaning every week about sales and recruitment would have put off owners. 

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