Why are British managers so poor tacticians?

and_solskjaers_won_it · December 18, 2014

UCL 2000, Man Utd vs Real Madrid. Man for man Man Utd aren't the team worse than Real at all. If Real had Redondo, we had Scholes. But Fergie ruined it. He played a traditional 4-4-2, with no protection for the defense and we ended up losing the tie 3-2 at OT despite drawing in Santiago Bernabeu 0-0. Vicente De Bosque was so astonished at what Fergie did, he termed it as "tactical anarchy".

UCL 2009 and 2011, again two tactical disasters against Pep Guardiola's Barcelona. Those were painful to watch.

So, it raises a question regarding British managers. Why are they tactically so naive? Even the greatest of all of them failed against the ones in Europe. Is it the lack of attention towards the details? I mean, Jose Mourinho or LVG puts a lot of attention on every detail of the pitch, do British managers lack that intensity? Is this lack of intensity cultural?

Allezfan · December 18, 2014

Maybe it's not all british managers and ferguson was just [Poor language removed]?

roydo · December 18, 2014

I know you live in Berlin, but are you an expat, or native?

and_solskjaers_won_it · December 18, 2014

Allezfan said:
Maybe it's not all british managers and ferguson was just [Poor language removed]?

Lol...then why weren't there any better British managers than Fergie?

Allezfan · December 18, 2014

and_solskjaers_won_it said:
Lol...then why weren't there any better British managers than Fergie?

Maybe they are, they just didn't have 800 million to spend every year, like?

Lets face it, we all know he just wasn't that good a manager. No need to blame an entire country for it.

roydo · December 18, 2014

and_solskjaers_won_it said:
Lol...then why weren't there any better British managers than Fergie?

You know absolutely jack mate.

toffee matt · December 18, 2014

You lost against a better team in those finals.

Simple as.

Elong · December 18, 2014

Allezfan said:
Maybe they are, they just didn't have 800 million to spend every year, like?

Lets face it, we all know he just wasn't that good a manager. No need to blame an entire country for it.

Veron. LOL.

Elong · December 18, 2014

We know how to win a war or two though.

Allezfan · December 18, 2014

Sell Ronaldo. Buy Bebe.

roydo · December 18, 2014

and_solskjaers_won_it said:
Lol...then why weren't there any better British managers than Fergie?

Eh? Take arguably the best British manager, or at least top 3, then say every other one is tosh. Its like saying why didnt Brazil produce better players than Pele ffs.

and_solskjaers_won_it · December 18, 2014

toffee matt said:
You lost against a better team in those finals.

Simple as.

But Jose Mourinho did manage to beat them

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roydo · December 18, 2014

and_solskjaers_won_it said:
Lol...then why weren't there any better British managers than Fergie?

Or are you saying if Fergie was the best, on the world stage, he is useless in comparism?

and_solskjaers_won_it · December 18, 2014

roydo said:
Or are you saying if Fergie was the best, on the world stage, he is useless in comparism?

Fergie was certainly the best in Britain, probably the best ever in Britain, but at world stage Ancelotti, Mourinho, Pep, Ottmar Hitzfeld are miles better than him.