Oh I was referring to me asking the missus if I could out with the lads on Friday night... She said No!
Telegraph update: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...thampton-manager-ahead/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw
The Austrian has signed a deal that will take him up to the summer of 2021 and he is expected to remain at the club whether they stay in the Premier League or not. He is expected to bring within just one member of staff, Danny Rohl, the coach who worked with him in his previous job at RB Leipzig.
Going back to the days of Poch, my only real critique of his playstyle was that we didn't transition our press into offense quickly enough, and hoping that we could eventually see a quick, decisive counter-press in action has become a minor fixation...not as direct as Leicester, but immediately exploiting the space left when teams lose the ball in the middle third and flooding players forward. That's the German style of pressing, rather than the possession-oriented style that many of the Spanish managers favour. And it's Hasenhuttl's style; I'm really excited to see this in action, and while aware that we're more than a change in style away from thrashing the league, this is the best-case scenario. Hell, it's a good enough scenario that I thought it was just a stray rumour when it was first posted, because teams in our situation generally don't get managers as well-regarded as he. So credit to whoever is doing the hiring: this is a genuinely gutsy and forward-thinking choice. Given our defensive frailties, it would have been easy to appoint an experienced PL manager who'd try to grind out some lucky 1-0s en route to 17th, and we haven't done that. Now they just need to commit to bringing in players to match...and, hopefully, commit to playing in this fashion beyond the next couple seasons, rather than whipsawing between managers with vastly different approaches.
Rohl (29) was a RB defender but retired at 21. He was appointed assistant youth team manger at RB and later assistant U17 manager, he was senior squad Video Analyst 2014-2017, and Hasenhuttl's No 2 in Ralph's final season at RB.
