FWIW, when I interview people (after culling the list), I want them to be well prepared as that makes a lasting impression. Bringing his entire staff to the meeting and showing professionalism should not be discounted at all.
My understanding is that it was to augment the funds available to pay for the manager's wages in the KFA budget.
going strictly by reports bilic is the one who asked for 4m per. bento has accomplished more than bilic. if the consensus right now is that kfa is overpaying for bento why should they extra-overpay for bilic? because he appears on british television and grows a better beard? makes no sense
Is Bento really more accomplished than Bilic right now? Anyways, I think Bento's facial hair > Bilic's facial hair.
That's how I feel too. Moreover, Bilic, at the end of his tenure at WHAM, looked like a tortured soul. I can see him have that look after the Asian Cup before the WCQs even started if he came to the KNT.
Bento has fallen farther down in recent times. But in the aggregate, you could argue that he's accomplished more.
Stielike ran off with $2 million after three years of shit show, Bilic will be an even bigger fraud if he were to fail within four years.
I'm coming to terms with the Bento box appointment... 1. Halilhodzic - in all seriousness, why is he bringing a litigation claim against the JFA? When I'm hiring someone, and I know the candidate sued his/her former employer, I'm highly likely to pass on the candidate. Unless you didn't get paid, why bring a claim? It's just asking to get blacklisted. And as much as there's great rivalry with Japan, the KFA does need to cooperate and work along with the JFA to navigate the cesspool that is the AFC (at both the club, national level (male and female)). 2. Bilic - his wage demand, if true, was crazy. He is still within the same tier of managers as Bento, if not one tier above. But that doesn't mean he deserves the wages of a top two tier manager. 3. Quique - the way he's holding out, I believe he wants to wait it out for a good club opportunity. He was a reach candidate for us, and it's good to see that we put in an honest effort to solicit him. 4. CQ - hell no. So happy we don't have to claw our eyes out. 5. Klinsmann - huge relief this candidacy went nowhere in the spring. The alternative that I even thought of was to give STY the AFC and wait for the Turkish economy to continue its spiral downwards to an IMF crisis level event. Then we could have easily afforded to pay Besiktas and give Gunes the contract that he always deserved to manage the KNT. But then we would have had to stomach STY, which is eating rotten rice and suffering for the next few months on the toilet while simultaneously holding a vomit bag.
@Hodori, Klinsmann and CQ can both fcuk off. While Bento was a bad choice, certainly it isn't the worst choice, if anything Stielike tops the cake for being the worst name ever to be hired by the KFA.