Activate Another Lever and Still Lose to a Madrid Remontada - The Small Teams Thread

As a top level coach nowadays, no he doesn't.

As an all time great, he has coached only 5 seasons and only madrid. So yeah he needs to coach many more seasons and maybe more teams.

Pep:
The media hype he got from the love Barcelona got early 2010s and the pl media machine also played a huge role.

 

It's also important to highlight that ZZ coached BBC Madrid, but also Hazard/Young Vini Madrid, winning a league with a completely different style of football compared to his first stint. Zizou is underrated.

 

For all the talk about how good or bad Halaand really is. I find it mind boggling that in a season where he managed to miss this many chances, he was still able to score nearly 40 goals in all competitions and finish as EPL top scorer.

Haaland 2023-24 season highlightspic.twitter.com/grHKzJG5x2

— Troll Football (@TrollFootball) May 28, 2024

 

Haaland took 59 Shoots on target and missed 34 big chances.
Salah took 56 Shoot on target and missed 17 big chances.
Phoden took 48 Shoot on target and missed 7 big chances.

Haaland just gets so many big chances at each game that he can miss 2 time more than dude after him and still finish on top.

 

116 charges.

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— Girona FC (@GironaFC_Engl) May 28, 2024

 

That's the entirety of Grealish's game:

Hold, hold, hold, BACKPASS.
Hold, hold, hold, SQUARE PASS.

He never has a trick or technique to get past a defender. He seldom hits a cross to one of the best #9s in the game. He can't create the play, nor combine with his team mates to advance the play.


He's a passenger on the Citeh bus, and Doku would be a better player than Grealish on 11 days out of 10.

 

Extremely hypocritical from me, but I also see Girona as an important asset to Spanish football as of now.

 

Manchester United sound out Roberto De Zerbi about becoming new manager

• Italian’s success at Brighton has impressed Sir Jim Ratcliffe
• Erik ten Hag likely to be sacked despite FA Cup success

De Zerbi’s attractive possession-based style of play and the 44‑year‑old Italian’s feat of qualifying Brighton for European football last year for the first time in the club’s history have impressed Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who controls football operations at United having bought a 27.7% stake in the club last year.

Tuchel was previously favourite to replace Ten Hag but Ratcliffe is an admirer of all the candidates and is keeping an open mind. The Ineos billionaire is also this week leading a season review after which Ten Hag will learn for sure if he is to be removed from his post. The 54‑year‑old’s position is in jeopardy after a dismal campaign in which United finished eighth, their lowest position of the Premier League era.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...t-roberto-de-zerbi-about-becoming-new-manager

 

Except, as per normal, no one said he isn't "great", which is indeed hilarious as i can see, however i'm not even sure how any of that is determined, for any coach, i'm sure many people have many differing criteria, and no one size fits all

 

Again, no one anywhere thinks and spews that Carlo invented football and is the best thing that football has ever seen coaching a team, or is the god of coaching, most seem to think he lacks tactical prowess and is just a good man manager, so, start there and work your way backwards

 

Pep has coached Barca, City and Bayern. Barca when they had revenue pretty close to RM and Utd. Bayern by far the richest team in Germany and had just won treble under Heynckes. City has been amongst the biggest spenders in Europe officially and God knows how much unofficially.

Klopp won 2 Bundesliga titles with Dortmund, won all the titles with Liverpool who are clearly behind City, Utd and Chelsea in terms of budget. If he had coached Bayern and City instead of Dortmund and Liverpool, his trophy winning record would be way bigger.

 

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— CentreGoals. (@centregoals) May 28, 2024

 

FC Barcelona legend Gerard Pique has raised $65 million for his new soccer league, the Kings League, and everyone should be paying attention to this.

Rather than try to buy his own team, Pique developed an entirely new model.

Pique and his business partners bought an abandoned… pic.twitter.com/zIp9qguPUF

— Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano) May 28, 2024

 

I remember The Biscuitman talking about when LC bottled massive lead in the league table.

He blew a 17 point lead, bottled every “big team” we had to play in the championship. Lost to Millwall and Plymouth when we needed points. Only has one tactic and will never change from that. You’re welcome to him. https://t.co/opEmtclQiy

— Casual Fox (@CasuaIFox) May 28, 2024

Also Jamie Vardy had to hold a meeting after the Plymouth game to sort it out cuz Enzo had no idea

— LC LCF LCFC OK (@LCFC_1884_OK) May 28, 2024

 

Mourinho was spending 3 times his nearest rivals in EPL

 

Do you think Carlos legacy is tainted,? he coached Juve and Milan who were found guilty and punished for match fixing. Match fixing in my books is the worst offence in competitive sport

 

Pep and Messi separated in 2012, Since then Messi made a sum total of 1 CL final, Pep made 2

Maybe they just needed each other

 

That what can he do with a smaller team question is just a cop out.
Ranieri did the greatest underdog story yet when asked to mention top coaches, no one remembers him
Is Edin Terzic 90mins from being a Goat manager? Some won' even know who he is or what he looks like

 

Good shout

No one even mentions Ranieri in this conversation, Not DiMatteo, nor Avram Grant who took Chelsea to their first CL final and a Terry slip from lifting the trophy

 

Messi won 1 CL in his 12yrs in Europe after Pep. He made it easy for who?

 

Or could have been fired in the 2nd season like many coaches at Bayern

 

Honestly, it's a genius move by Pique. It's really entertaining.