The Pep coaching tree is bearing fruit.
What managerial experience did Van Gaal have in England before he took the Man U job?
Same as Pep had before he managed City, same as Klopp had before he managed Liverpool, same as Ferguson had before he managed…you get the picture.
Thank you for belatedly clarifying that Van Gaal who you say was ‘tried and tested’ when he took the Man U managerial job actually had no experience of managing in England.
Hed managed Ajax, Barca and Bayern hadnt he? Amongst other clubs. And Holland. A wide range of experience and at big clubs too. Seems youre very brexit-centric in your views on coaching despite the years since an english coach has won a league.
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He’d have appointed Harry Redknapp over Klopp at Liverpool going on his logic.
Isnt he just back from a ban for racism too?
5 of the most successful managers in the English Division 1/EPL over the past 30 years never managed in England prior to being successful there.
Ferguson
Wenger
Mourinho
Guardiola
Klopp
Ancelotti had no previous experience in England when winning the League and FA Cup with Chelsea.
The only league winning manager since Kenny Daglish with Blackburn in 1995 with previous experience managing in England is Claudio Ranieri.
Edit: I had excluded Mancini, Pellegrini and Conte
Ten Hag’s experience is quite similar to that of Mourinho prior to him joining Chelsea.
Mourinho learned under Van Gaal at Barcelona where Ten Hag learned under Pep at Bayern.
Jose had rub of the green in European knock out stages where Ten Hag was very unlucky against Spurs and Jose’s career went into hyperspace thanks to a last-minute winner at Old Trafford.
It really would be a spectacular gamble to go the hipster route of appointing Ten Hag, who’s managerial experience is essentially managing a crowd of kids in the very weak Dutch domestic league, which is only the 7th strongest in Europe.
All the more so when you have a candidate out there with the credentials of Pochettino with all his managerial experience in England with Southampton and Tottenham and who’s also managed in Spain. Then there’s the experience Pochettino was garnered of trying to facilitate all the galacticos and egos at Paris St Germain which would be invaluable at Old Trafford for the path that Man U have gone down over the past decade.
Using this level of reasoning Chelsea would have appointed Harry Redknapp over Jose Mourinho.
I must have missed the bit in Ten Hag’s cv where he had won the two premier competitions in Europe in consecutive seasons.
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Poch is a decent option too. Altough i think youre forgetting he hasnt coached them very well. Complete lack of spirit and smarts from them in the champions league for years. Ĺosing the french league with psg is a serious blot! At least we’d be exciting again. Its more the disdain you have for ten haag thats weird…
That because you’re only quoting the selected part of the post. I said quite similar and stated that Mourinho proposed due to last minutes winner at Old Trafford whereas Tern Hag was caught by a late Spurs winner.
Anything could have happened without those events. Such are the fine margins.
Previous success is not a guarantee of future success. Anyone who knows anything about recruitment recognises this.
Both prospective managers have serious flaws in their CVs and are very far from the level of appointments that pep or even klopp were at the time they went to their current club. Chances are neither will be successful in the short to medium term at least until the other two leave their jobs.
History of the club ( about 1 hr.) now on Sky Docs. 10 minutes tops would suffice but they’ve gotta fill time.
Big month for Manchester United with their 120th birthday coming up in less than three weeks.
1 hour to cover 144 years? I’d say they skipped a bit.
Moyesie did very well at Preston, and at Everton on a tight budget. Now doing very well at West Ham.
ManU fans hounded him out with the club having singularly failed to back him in the transfer market because they felt they were entitled to win everything every year, despite being an overseas owned piggybank in a crumbling stadium in a grim part of Salford.
They are bipolar, swinging from unbridled unwarranted arrogance and joy that someone like ole is at the wheel, or the current hipster, or moyesie, and the club is headed in the right direction, to feral anger when they don’t get what they want. Like a bunch of overtired four year olds with their toys on Christmas afternoon. They got what they wanted, now it wasn’t what they wanted, and it’s all their parents fault.
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