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    New New Manager Poll (The Lets Get It Right This Time Edition)

    Yeah but in this case, the problem is not you or me or anyone else on this board. It's a) how the story will be told in the press and what the mood will be like in the stadium. Like or not, the whole Nuno debacle did happen and it set a very poor precedent. On a personal note, I won't even judge...
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    New New Manager Poll (The Lets Get It Right This Time Edition)

    What does feel like the Nuno situation is that, whoever it is, he will have to deal with the disappointment of having so many names linked and written off. Regardless of whether that's a good idea, you know fans will get invested in this or that candidate when they read or hear stories: some...
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    Lucas Moura

    I took the time to think about it and I (respectfully) disagree. Different times have different rules. In the 30s, for instance, manners in public were very important. On the other hand, beating up your wife and/or your kids was considered a strictly private matter (at least in Yugoslavia and in...
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    New New Manager Poll (The Lets Get It Right This Time Edition)

    Yeah, I gave it a quick look and it looks like getting it right 33% of the time is par for the course, regardless of who you are. I didn't post anything though because it's a fine line between success, meh and failure (or epic failure, in Lumplard's case). Levy's record in that regard doesn't...
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    New New Manager Poll (The Lets Get It Right This Time Edition)

    Liverpool are not owned by an oil state, though.
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    New New Manager Poll (The Lets Get It Right This Time Edition)

    It would be interesting to compare that success rate with vaguely similar clubs over the same period of time. By vaguely similar, I exclude Emirates Marketing Project and Chelsea, but I wouldn't mind including Liverpool, Man U, Arsenal and, say, Everon, Saudi Sportswashing Machine and Leicester, for instance. I honestly have no...
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    New New Manager Poll (The Lets Get It Right This Time Edition)

    I agree, to an extent. David Moyes is a good example of someone well-suited to mid-table teams with limited spending power for instance. However, while it is simplistic, football is perceived as an extremely vertical industry: someone like Guardiola will always be considered a better manager...
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    New New Manager Poll (The Lets Get It Right This Time Edition)

    I'd go so far as to say that we wouldn't have finished in 4th, had he stayed until the end of the season, and that's probably the reason why he completely lost it after the Southampton game. He kept us in the race, albeit with a squad that was tailor-made to suit his system. It's, of course...
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    New New Manager Poll (The Lets Get It Right This Time Edition)

    Things went downhill fast after the World Cup and Ventrone's death. I think, too often, we're guilty of assuming there's only one cause to any given situation. In my experience, it's generally a myriad of little things that build up to create a crisis. In this case, Conte was going through a...
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    *** Spurs v Liverpool OMT ***

    I don't what it's like in England but in Croatia and in France, it's part and parcel of the game at the lower level. A few years ago (5 or 6, I can't remember), I decided to get back on the pitch and I joined a club at the lowest level in France. You can't drop a division there because there's...
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    Lucas Moura

    I think that's because life is becoming harder and harder in Western countries and, as far as I can tell, in the UK in particular. When everything else in your life is going well, you have money flowing in and not a care in the world, it's easy to accept some ridiculous performances. Back in the...
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    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United ***

    It all depends on what you expect from a coach, I suppose. Conte's very good at drilling players into his system, see Lukaku's and Perisic's comments during his Inter days, for instance. He never managed to replicate that here, though, for some reason. As for Howe, I agree that nothing will ever...
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    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United ***

    First of all, one doesn't exclude the other. What you're both saying is true, but Moyes got Everton in the Champions League once and yet, few people would put him on a par with Conte. Vastly different circumstances for Howe but we'll see how he fares in the long run. Again, my point was...
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    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United ***

    I think we all felt the same relief but, according to some fans and pundits, we should never have been in that situation in the first place. The point I was making is that, as disappointing as i may sound, Conte may have got us much higher than we should have been. We all expected/demanded that...
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    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United ***

    I was as happy as the next guy when the second went in but a few hours later, I think the way we all celebrated a draw shows this team really belong in mid-table. Sure, we looked better in the second half but they'd played taxing game a few days before and it was to be expected that they'd get...
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    New New Manager Poll (The Lets Get It Right This Time Edition)

    Just about as much as I want to play Russian Roulette with 5 bullets in the barrel! Admiring someone's attitude isn't the same as sharing their views!
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    New New Manager Poll (The Lets Get It Right This Time Edition)

    I don't know, I used to think 'come on...' whenever @Gutter Boy posted on Pochettino and/or the next manager but, somehow, I'm warming up to his gung ho approach. Sure, it feels like playing Russian Roulette with 5 bullets in the barrel but I can't help but admire the panache.
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    New New Manager Poll (The Lets Get It Right This Time Edition)

    I'd be curious to learn about the 'logic' in question. Your opinion is as valid as the next guy's but logic implies something that could be demonstrated or proven. Where's the proof? Each and every appointment is a gamble: nobody thought we'd play a CL final when Pochettino was appointed. Nobody...
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    Christian Stellini - Acting Head Coach for a small part of the season

    I was under the impression (could be wrong of course) that he did so as a favour to the club. Remember that his stock was pretty high after he won his first few games in charge. Plus, if he'd left with the rest of the staff, it would have been effectively game over one month ago. Turns out that...
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    Christian Stellini - Acting Head Coach for a small part of the season

    He still got the bricky end of the stick. Conte left when we were still more or less in the race. Stellini was left to hang to dry. He got badly exposed when he could have left with his mentor. From that point of view, you can feel sorry for him.
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