I listened to a panel with Cassano, Ferrara and Vieri talking down to Wanda Nara and blaming her for Icardi. No one can really believe the situation she created.
Only in Fiorentina, he remained 3 years, in all other campaigns one year, maybe less. Someone is giving a lot of chances to him in coaching world, he wasted a lot of good chances.
They had a lot of great players, mostly strong individuals, but team never had some major team spirit. At least not in the last 20-25 years.
Not a fan. Pioli failed, though. In the last fifteen years our only managers I've liked have been Mondonico and Delio Rossi, so I'm used to disappointment
Was Paulo Sousa good? He seemed as some kind of expert maybe. Hard to say with young coaches. Usually, central defensive players become good coaches: Guardiola, Gatusso, Simeone.
Testa dura provides discipline for the players. He could perfectly copy the ideas of Ancelotti, with experience in Scotland, he could understand majority of European styles. For a coaching job, they need to be strange, unusual, often stubborn. Just observe Guardiola, he makes unusual body gestures during the interviews. Some of them try to discover Eastern beliefs: buddhism, zen state of mind, just so that they become more different. I think that Gatusso acted a lot his emotional escapades during his playing time. He wanted attention, maybe because of lack of technical abilities, so he noticed that the audience likes that kind of atmosphere. During interviews, he behaves calm. He wears black always, performing some mystic energy, similar to Simeone. Remembered now the coach Villas Boas. He was silent, ordinary and he isn't coaching anyone. He changed his occuapation I think. He is now visiting Web Summit events. Mourinho now prepares the field to take Bayern. He aims on that probably. Because, other bigger clubs are not optional. The worse thing is when players feel that they have more authority and domination than their coach. Happens in Cameroon NT at every world cup. Players are the coaches.
They are known because of their temperament. Dramatic, sometimes irrational reasons why they react like that. Ciro Ferrara is also southern, but he was always calm. Ma staje pazziann. Davide Calabria should be Calabrian also. Unless if he is a Bresciano. He seems calm I guess and he is useful on that RB position.
Pioli had the makings of something special but he doesn't seem to bothered about putting in a firm structure to his teams play. Leaving it up to individuals to go out and find a way is basically giving yourself no chance of consistency. Good manager but this will limit him. He seems he will stick with this way of thinking. I guess everyone goes down their own path but it just seems an odd path to take. He also told us something that we perhaps could have figured out from watching the team these past two years: “I don’t talk to my players about systems and shapes, it’s about positions, using your strengths and finding the weaknesses in the opposition.” That’s probably been his greatest shortcoming as a manager: the inability to teach his team to control a match. Rather, Pioli’s Fiorentina always seems to be flying by the seat of its pants, pushing the match into chaos and trying to win with individual brilliance. Perhaps a bit more of a system would give his players enough structure to connect some passes rather than hopefully flailing goalwards.