UPL: 07-08 season

Slitty · Sep 30, 2007

loden said: ↑

Slitty,

yea, and Hiddink coaches Russia. what's your point?
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Oh, I have no personal conviction as to whether or not Dinamo will be coached by Cappello, Lobanovsky from beyond the grave, or Verka Serduchka for that matter. I was merely pointing out precisely why FM chose the analogy of Torbinsky and Ronaldinho in regards to Lokomotiv, as well as trying to show how neither Titov nor Tikhonov would suffice as an adequate replacement in either role.

goliath74 · Sep 30, 2007

Slitty said: ↑

I think Torbinsky was mentioned by FM as there is a strong basis for the comparisson between him and Blokhin in their present situations. Torbinsky has been rumoured, at some points to the regard of perceived certainty, to be joining FM's team in Lokomotiv Moskva this offseason. Which bears, I presume, similarity to Blokhin's potential future at the helm of Dinamo Kiev.

The name of Ronaldinho was then mentioned to convey FM's conviction that the likelyhood of Cappello coaching Dinamo is equivalent to Lokomotiv being able to lure one of football's most highly regarded players into the midst. However far out of the realm of possibility these two aforementioned scenarios may respectively be, they resemble one another in that despite the notion both Cappello and Ronaldinho are [/will be in the near future] looking for new employers, to present them in such stark contrast to the much more likely possibilities of Blokhin and Torbinsky produces a very similar, out of the blue, and perhaps even comical effect on the neutral reader.

I do not, however, understand to what Tikhonov or Titov amount to in our Blokhin-Torbinsky + Cappello-Ronaldinho analogy. It is less likely that either of them joins Lokomotiv than us seeing Ronaldinho ply his trade in the RPL... yet both of them donning a red & green jersey would create less of a stir in the global footballing world than Cappello as much as setting foot in Kiev.
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I made an assumption that FM was comparing Capello and Blokhin straight up and thought the difference between them would have been as gaping as that between Torbinsky and Ronaldinho. I agree, Capello is a better and more experienced coach than Blokhin but not by the Ronaldinho-Torbinsky margin.

loden · Sep 30, 2007

Diogo Rinkon > Ronaldinho

or something

Chosen One · Oct 2, 2007

Gio-13 said: ↑

I think nothing can stop Shakhtar, biggest Ukrainian club, become a champions in this season
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So do I.

loden · Oct 2, 2007

^^Well, aren't you smart, Captain Obvious?