Wigan have a team of foreigners and tend to turn them over easy enough.
I think there's a fear there though, yes. I'd say that defo plays a part.
Fear defo plays a part, play the players, not the Club, infact that should be Moyes team talk.
Wigan have a team of foreigners and tend to turn them over easy enough.
I think there's a fear there though, yes. I'd say that defo plays a part.
There's a lot of really talented managers working in places like Chile and Spain who would walk over hot coals for the kind of spending power, wages and exposure a big EPL team can offer.
The only question mark is culture shock and language, really.
Ottmar Hitzfeld, Otto Rehhagel, Felix Magath, Jorge Sampaoli, Dick Advocaat, Louis van Gaal, Manuel Pellegrini etc are all massively successful football coaches who have recently worked at relatively unsuccessful clubs. Why couldn't we attract someone of that stature given we pay the ninth or tenth best managerial wages in the world?
I dont with felli and gibbo injured at the MO give them the rest time they need 2 weeks on sunday will do ;-)Wish the Derby was tomorrow me like.
Never mind failure to win trophies, is there any decent theory why he's so shit at the Derby? I've mentioned that his record compared to our other managers who've had longevity isn't good because they didn't face (apart from HKI + II reign) vast investment disparities. But that only gets you so far when you think of the way Liverpool have pretty much wasted that advantage.
There has to e a reason, chelsea, RS, city, spurs, villa have all had a lot of changes and none of the 'massively successful' managers have been given the chance.
Ottmar Hitzfeld, Otto Rehhagel, Felix Magath, Jorge Sampaoli, Dick Advocaat, Louis van Gaal, Manuel Pellegrini etc are all massively successful football coaches who have recently worked at relatively unsuccessful clubs. Why couldn't we attract someone of that stature given we pay the ninth or tenth best managerial wages in the world?
English football is so insular, chairmen would rather go for an Allardyce or a Lambert who 'know the league' than the guy who's won the norwegian league or finished 4th in la liga, or won the uefa cup with a team from the ukraine. It's the same way that it's so much cheaper to buy Pienaar from Germany and Arteta from Spain than Henderson and Carrol from England.
There's more than twenty mangers in the world and more than twenty mangerial positions is my point.
How many of them have taken those unsuccessful clubs onto success?
Not trying to catch you out cos I don't know the answer, genuinely curious. For me a lot of managers are lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time.
Magath won the league with Wolfsburg but has since gone mad and is doing pretty poorly. Rehhagel won the euros with greece but his last job was at herta where he had half a season to keep them up and failed. Hitzfeld walked the swiss league with Zurich and is doing a decent if not spectacular job with the swiss national team (beating spain in 2010 for example). Sampaoli has turned Universaid into one of the best temas in south america. Advocaat didn't do much with az but won the uefa with zenit. van Gaal won the league with AZ. Pellegrini guided malaga to the Cl.
bollox not one of the clubs I mentioned would go for a Allardyce or a Lambert
EDIT: other than Villa
Magath won the league with Wolfsburg but has since gone mad and is doing pretty poorly. Rehhagel won the euros with greece but his last job was at herta where he had half a season to keep them up and failed. Hitzfeld walked the swiss league with Zurich and is doing a decent if not spectacular job with the swiss national team (beating spain in 2010 for example). Sampaoli has turned Universaid into one of the best teams in south america. Advocaat didn't do much with az but won the uefa with zenit. van Gaal won the league with AZ. Pellegrini guided malaga to the Cl.
I would add the likes of Baxter, GarcÃa Plaza, Ignacio MartÃnez and Cuper to that too. As managers with excellent records at smallish clubs outside english football.
RS went for Rodgers and Hodgson, mate.
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