I really really really really really really really really want FDB because of his attention and desire to building a club as a whole. He takes great pride and reward in setting foundations to set a club on its way which will last even after his exit.
He said he wouldn't want to manage Barca because there is nothing new he can teach it. I.E he has great believe in his knowledge and wants to pass it on and create another Barca.
Give him a 5 year contract LEVY! You missed out on LVG but this appointment could be just as golden.
Rafa, Poch and co may help the first team for a couple years but after they leave we will be back to square one.
Still undecided about FDB. He might have won 4 league titles with Ajax but Dutch league is shyte and is rated lowly. Wish we can get more experienced managers like Gus Hiddink. But then would rather we get FDB than those young and unsuccesfull managers like Pochetino, Moyes, Martinez etc.
Unsuccessful in terms of what? Trophies won? Martinez has won the FA Cup, with Wigan, that's pretty impressive. Would they all be better qualified for the job if they went off to a one team league like the SPL and won a couple of league titles with Celtic?
Well, Scottish league had produced Alex Ferguson, so you cannot under estimate them. But I do want us to appoint a experienced manager who have won the league title atleast once in a top European league.
Can someone - ANYONE - tell me WTF this messianic fervour about FDB is based on? What has he actually achieved? Winning the Dutch league? Honestly? Seriously? is that it???!!! FFS Steve McLaren achieved the same with a far less heralded team!!! I've seen comments that he can set the foundations? Of what exactly? Ajax have had those foundations in place since the days Johan Cruyff graduated from their academy..
So please those of you who are so clearly sure about FDB, please enlighten us on the basis of your convictions...
Ajax didn't win the league for 7 years before FDB joined. Yes the dutch league is ****e but each team is as ****e as each other so the challenge to win is as difficult as any other league.
its commonly accepted in Holland that the Ajax squad doesn't have better players than any other team, they are considered overall equal to PSV and Feyenoord. Its FDBs management that had made the difference. No manager in the leagues history has won 4 in a row.
So with Lamela and co at his disposal who knows what he could do.
Ajax didn't win the league for 7 years before FDB joined. Yes the dutch league is ****e but each team is as ****e as each other so the challenge to win is as difficult as any other league.
its commonly accepted in Holland that the Ajax squad doesn't have better players than any other team, they are considered overall equal to PSV and Feyenoord. Its FDBs management that had made the difference. No manager in the leagues history has won 4 in a row.
So with Lamela and co at his disposal who knows what he could do.
I hate this whole "lol he can do it in the Dutch league" bull****.
Then again, probably the same macarons that would have dismissed suarez because he could score 40 league goals against the likes of volendam
We have seen countless players who ONLY did it in the Dutch league fail spectacularly in England - van Wolfsie being the latest...
That is why I would have expected to FDB's CV interspersed by the (at least) occasional scalp of a big shot team in the CL as evidence of his supposedly meteoric capabilities.
Without that, he remains as much as gamble as giving Sherwood another year at the helm; and believe me I have no wish to see the latter!!
He did beat Barca, then again so did Neil Lennon.
Pochettino. Seriously hope we don't take a chance with this guy. Madness. Disaster written all over it. Go all out for Martinez or hope we get very very lucky with ancelotti.