Perfetto, the Return of Carletto! - Benvenuto Carlo Ancelotti

I think it's unfortunate we didn't install somebody in the club with the potential to take over like Manchester United did with Ruud. Part of the reason why Zidane worked out was that he had tons of experience with Carlo. We kind of missed that part when Carlo returned. A former player should have been part of his staff. Maybe Iker or somebody else.

We're kind of in a moment where if we sack Carlo we're sliding into nothing.

 

From what i've been hearing it's actually Arbeloa who is considered the more promising coach in the youth system.

 

I think we agree in the way that people dream of a triumphant Zidane return, but Zidane doesn't know any of those guys. Of course he's an idol for Bellingham and so on so you're hoping he inspires with his presence but i will be 100% honest in saying that i just don't want another run of the Carlo/Zidane system. The football is very very much the same, and you just wonder if it can even be reliably replicated with the players changing.

 

I think most people here dream of Zidane returning. That's what i mean.

 

But that’s just it, we don’t know what he’s be like and we won’t until he gets a shot either here or elsewhere at higher levels. He has started off well.

 

I also dislike the fact that this team needs some kind of movie star to speak to them. We should be open to all hires whether it's former players, stars or pencil pushers. Anything else is very unprofessional to me.

 

It's really only in football where this phenomenon exists. I've never dealt with a swimmer that asked a coach where his medals are, mostly because in many other sports the athletes operate on a different level. Djokovic will never have a better tennis player as a coach, neither will Nadal. It's about trust on a personal level and tactical competence.

In other sports players even invest in extra coaches that specialize on opponent research and analysis. We'd buy tape analysis and write ups from third parties. Sometimes even from the opponents camp.

If we want to go that route, just hire Brad Pitt and have him read write ups by other coaches. Maybe that works, i guess.


Football is really changing, and we need to be on the next thing, because by the time you wake up you're found out. This is why i found it hysterical that Ronaldo thought Rangnick was a nobody, but Rangnick was in football way before Ronaldo was born. He practically built the Red Bull / RB club system.

 

Ronaldo became uncoachable from a certain point on.

 

Coaching is not teaching. Coaching is guiding. You're not going to teach a 26 year old player anything new. You don't have the time to.

The former player/star coach is going to die out because these guys are making so much money now, why even bother coaching? Ronaldo is becoming a YouTuber right now, Kroos is running his youth camps and influencer league, it's the second tier guys are picking up coaching and guys that didn't even play.

 

If you don't understand the difference between teaching and guiding a player, we won't really understand each other. A good coach will not make a stupid player less so. The idea that our players "knew how they wanted to play" doesn't have anything to do with their diva status, it had as Kroos said on his podcast with them having success with it. They knew what they did to win, so just do that. Whenever a coach would make big changes, the team internally bounced them back and switched back to what they felt comfortable playing in due to past experience, AS A TEAM.