Man united and Chelsea give the lie to money buys success. It almost has nothing to do with it now. Itâs all about the managers really at a certain level.
What sort of an absolute gom is posting this scutter on behalf of his English franchise?
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Thereâs a clear agenda against us Scousers.
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Feel free to log it on the appropriate thread mate
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Yes and no. Ten Hag and Pochettino managed against each other in a Champions League semi-final less than five years ago, so they arenât bad managers.
Different managers have different emotional tones and different managers suit different clubs. Personally I think Ten Hag and Pochettino are at the wrong clubs for their respective management styles. Ten Hag is too cold, too clinical, too passionless and too Dutch for Manchester United but that style would probably suit Chelsea more given that Chelsea is a passion free zone as a club. Pochettino is Mr. Passion, but you canât be passionate at a club with no soul. I think heâd be a much better fit for Manchester United than Chelsea. His recent job decisions have been disastrous.
Klopp and Guardiola are clearly the best. But at the same time, the emotional tones they strike arenât going to suit everywhere. Klopp is Shankly. That style suits Liverpool, Borussia Dortmund, Celtic, Napoli, Roma, Marseille. There wasnât another club in the world which would have suited Klopp better than Liverpool, which would have perfectly matched his emotional tone and football ambitions in the same way.
Kloppâs style wouldnât suit Chelsea or Real Madrid or Abu Dhabi.
Guardiolaâs style didnât suit Bayern Munich and their sense of what they are as a club. At Abu Dhabi, because the club has no history, he has no Uli Hoenesses or Franz Beckenbauers interfering. He is an absolute king. The only type of manager that works for Bayern Munich is ye olde quiet and dignified German football man. Jupp Heynckes and Ottmar Hitzfeld in other words.
Real Madrid have a particular style of manager they need. Del Bosque, Ancelotti, Zidane. A chilled out oulâ fella. Mourinho didnât work with them. Too neurotic. Mourinho at Chelsea was perfect for them. He knew that a comic book villain persona was what Chelsea needed, that they could only develop a sense of themselves as a club through being supercunts. Conte was similar with them for a while.
Unai Emery at Aston Villa works, but it didnât work at Arsenal. Emery is an excellent manager who isnât cut out for an impatient club and fanbase. Fans turn on him too easily because they see him as sort of small time because of how he looks.
Kevin Keegan at Newcastle was a perfect mix of emotional tone and club.
Spursâ best managers have been dreamers.
I have a half baked notion that the Dutch management style doesnât suit English football in a general sense. Too diffident, too patrician, too awkward, too yeasssh? The Dutch donât suit English speaking peoples in general. They suit Barcelona because Barcelona traditionally sees itself as a sort hub of cutting edge thought in the scientific and artistic fields and the Dutch with their neurotic and arrogant brains sort of fit into that. Thereâs a tremendous Dutchness about Guardiola.
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Lovely through ball there from Kalvin Phillips. Unfortunately it was to Solanke
13 leagues goals this season Solanke?
Theyâre playing against each other
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https://x.com/mc_rum_hammer/status/1752776421427028025?s=46&t=hSGvLmSk-FqZqCQxN6TdEQ
Not on at all. Disgraceful.
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Doherty is some fucking charlatan. Heâs getting a chasing here from one of the worst teams in the league
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No surprise how much better Wolves were when this Cunt went off
That was a sublime goal by the young chap Mainoo. What a finish.
That Bruno cunt
Taxi for Woy (to AbbotstownâŚ)
Big Vince could beat him to it
Luton!
Barkley is having some renaissance