Perfetto, the Return of Carletto! - Benvenuto Carlo Ancelotti

We're a pretty poor club at seamless transitions. It's always the case that we have a good run and then are suddenly smacked with a poor season and scramble to fix it.

 

Real Madrid is the best club in the world and our academy is the envy of every pueblo and village in the world.

 

Yes, he lost some of his magic this season. But he won the Double only a year ago. You talked as if he won nothing in ages.

 

Did the baldy have staff supporting him?

 

Of course it isn't a math exam, nor is it a Futsal tournament.

The game has advanced to where analytics do matter as they can reveal key weaknesses within the tactics, gameplay, squad, etc or analyze the upcoming opponents, key weaknesses, how other teams managed to break them down, etc.

Instead we got a whole season of the manager promising we will improve the next game or how great we played despite squeezing a 1-0 victory against minnows Alaves.

 

I don't necessarily think analytics would have saved Carlo nor is it a big deal.

I bring up his book every once in a while, Quiet Leadership because it gives a great behind the scenes look at how Carlo thinks when managing.

Sadly, some of his methods are just a bit outdated in an era where there are many games and trophies to play for.

 

There's a whole world of analysts being deep in stats and data, and trying to find meaning in randomness. Nassim Taleb wrote a few books about that, like Fooled By Randomness. Soccer has so much randomness and variability, a couple of our recent CL wins cannot be explained by any logic.

 

I'm not the biggest fan of analytics playing based on statistics etc. But I can understand the game evolution may require set piece coaches.
I'm not sure you need an expert for every type of set piece though. Is that what Arsenal actually have?

 

Premier League teams have insane squad numbers too, maybe that justifies the insane number of coaches.
La Liga still has the 25 maximum number of first team players. Wonder if that needs to change since the number of games has increased from existing or new competitions.

 

Analytics is a tool. Not the end all be all.

But a coach has to prepare his team to have the best chance of winning. And analytics is a great tool for that task.

No sane coach would purposely setup his team to go down a goal then win the game via remontadas for example even if hypothetically the analytics say so.

But make no mistake, any manager should have this fully at his disposal.

 

Smaller teams won't be participating in the bigger competitions therefore won't have the same amount of games. They can choose to register players based on their budget, probably fill the remaining slots with players from their youth systems. Unless you're referring to Barcelona, we already know they do what they want and don't face any repercussions.

 

And thats why having a better coach matters. Ancelotti might have 100 times the career Slot did, but Slot is a better coach in the present. In fact hes the prime example of the forward thinking type of coach I was talking about, I didnt say who uses analytics more is better.

We know the flukey context of that double. The writing was on the wall. We squeezed out those titles but we played the same disjointed incoherent football. Adding Mbappe confirmed Carlo cannot foster structure and cohesion, so its the right time to give it to someone for whom there is evidence he can.

 

Carlo excels when working with experienced players. We no longer have the KCM or the BBC trios that require no coaching at all. Instead, we have young players who can't afford to sit on the bench and need more than just a sense of family. They need development. That's not Carlo's business.

 

You think Klopp's ideas are outdated? I'd disagree, imo his system asked a lot of his players so they were physically and mentally drained after many years of that, therefore a change was needed. Its similar with Ancelotti, his way ultimately reached a ceiling here similar to Klopp at Liverpool. But whose prospects for the future are better? Klopp without a doubt, so this type of gotcha argument youre offering here is just obstinacy.

Xabi taking over Ancelotti is similar to Slot taking over Klopp, so hopefully we will see the same resurgence by the team.

 

The debate wages on in here!