Felix Magath @ Fulham

Kiwi · February 15, 2014

Roundly derided by many as being old fashioned and out of date. But he has won Bundesliga titles. And if his obsessive focus on fitness and the lot help them to stay up, than invariably it will be worthwhile. Although the wisdom of hiring him after the transfer window may be questionable.
Oh and he likes steps.

Mikey_Fitzgerald · February 17, 2014

He likes being harsh on his players from what I hear

ijjysmith · February 17, 2014

I heard Lewis Holtby DOES NOT like his style of play. Or his dad.

Kiwi · February 17, 2014

there was one anecdote that I heard about him. They were on a training camp in Switzerland, and then when they turned up for training one morning he was like "don't worry boys, we'll take it easy today, go up the mountain and get coffee and cake from a shop at the top". So they walk up towards the gondola, where he tells them that they're going to run to the top of the mountain, all 2500meters in altitude (no idea what actual distance travelled was but that gradient would be ridiculous). So 2 and a half hours later, they finally reach the shop at the summit in tears, short their star player Grafite who had collapsed and was stretchered down the mountain. Now thats a managerial story that takes the cake, no wonder they call him Saddam.

toffee matt · February 17, 2014

Ray Wilkins and Alan curbishley have been sacked

Allezfan · February 17, 2014

Coasting on that one league title, like. Not a bad success to coast on but he seems like a nutter, mostly. Not someone you can rely on.

Kiwi · February 17, 2014

Artetafan said:
Coasting on that one league title, like. Not a bad success to coast on but he seems like a nutter, mostly. Not someone you can rely on.

he's won 3. But one at wolfsburg where no-one expected them to win it, the others were at bayern.

ijjysmith · February 20, 2014

Felix Magath looks like a cartoon.

LinekersLegs · September 21, 2014

Unfortunately this article fails to state type of cheese with the healing powers, any idea @ilikecheese?
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/sep/20/fulham-farewell-magath-felix-madcap?CMP=twt_gu

It goes back to last season when Brede Hangeland, then the Fulham captain, was diagnosed with a slight thigh injury and the club’s doctor, Stephen Lewis, with more than a decade of working in elite sport, put together a recovery programme to try to get him fit for the weekend. Except Magath thought he knew better. There was another way to treat the problem, he said. So he sent the kit-man to the Tesco in New Malden, a short drive along the A3 from Fulham’s training ground, to buy a large block of cheese.

Hangeland was then told to perch on the end of a massage table and spend the afternoon in that position with a slab of cheese carefully positioned on the sore spot. The cheese, according to Magath, would have soothing effects. Hangeland was a sceptical patient and, funnily enough, Lewis decided a few months later he would rather stick to more orthodox practices and left to join Brighton and Hove Albion. Hangeland could not wait to get away either and has been a frequent critic of Magath ever since. Others, I suspect, will start to be more forthcoming now he is gone because it is clear, speaking to some of the people who have now left Fulham, that his regime was even more bewildering and unpleasant than previously thought.

Big Fat Sam · September 21, 2014

Dead at that. If I was Hangeland I'd have told him to stick his cheese and whack in a transfer request there and then.

Pat's Van · September 21, 2014

cats like felix like felix

ilikecheese · September 21, 2014

LinekersLegs said:
Unfortunately this article fails to state type of cheese with the healing powers, any idea @ilikecheese?
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/sep/20/fulham-farewell-magath-felix-madcap?CMP=twt_gu

It goes back to last season when Brede Hangeland, then the Fulham captain, was diagnosed with a slight thigh injury and the club’s doctor, Stephen Lewis, with more than a decade of working in elite sport, put together a recovery programme to try to get him fit for the weekend. Except Magath thought he knew better. There was another way to treat the problem, he said. So he sent the kit-man to the Tesco in New Malden, a short drive along the A3 from Fulham’s training ground, to buy a large block of cheese.

Hangeland was then told to perch on the end of a massage table and spend the afternoon in that position with a slab of cheese carefully positioned on the sore spot. The cheese, according to Magath, would have soothing effects. Hangeland was a sceptical patient and, funnily enough, Lewis decided a few months later he would rather stick to more orthodox practices and left to join Brighton and Hove Albion. Hangeland could not wait to get away either and has been a frequent critic of Magath ever since. Others, I suspect, will start to be more forthcoming now he is gone because it is clear, speaking to some of the people who have now left Fulham, that his regime was even more bewildering and unpleasant than previously thought.

I have no idea, but I want some...but I'd probably just eat it.

Pat's Van · September 21, 2014

LinekersLegs said:
Unfortunately this article fails to state type of cheese with the healing powers, any idea @ilikecheese?
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/sep/20/fulham-farewell-magath-felix-madcap?CMP=twt_gu

It goes back to last season when Brede Hangeland, then the Fulham captain, was diagnosed with a slight thigh injury and the club’s doctor, Stephen Lewis, with more than a decade of working in elite sport, put together a recovery programme to try to get him fit for the weekend. Except Magath thought he knew better. There was another way to treat the problem, he said. So he sent the kit-man to the Tesco in New Malden, a short drive along the A3 from Fulham’s training ground, to buy a large block of cheese.

Hangeland was then told to perch on the end of a massage table and spend the afternoon in that position with a slab of cheese carefully positioned on the sore spot. The cheese, according to Magath, would have soothing effects. Hangeland was a sceptical patient and, funnily enough, Lewis decided a few months later he would rather stick to more orthodox practices and left to join Brighton and Hove Albion. Hangeland could not wait to get away either and has been a frequent critic of Magath ever since. Others, I suspect, will start to be more forthcoming now he is gone because it is clear, speaking to some of the people who have now left Fulham, that his regime was even more bewildering and unpleasant than previously thought.

apparently though Hangeland was quoted as "feeling a lot feta" the very next day