There I think lies the difference between a coach and a manager Bruce was a manager in the old fashioned sense did the wheeling and dealing and left the coaching to others unlike some of the coaches today like Arteta who are on the training ground everyday actually coaching and leave the wheeling and dealing and other stuff to the technical director or similar. Back in the day a Cliff Britton compared to a Terry Neal. We need now an Arteta/Terry Neal not a Brucie/Cliff Britton
Bruce could coach, all our successful managers have been ex defenders or midfielders, Carter, Horton, Brown, Bruce, I'm never convinced ex Strikers like Shota can coach defences, was that the problem?
I woudn't think so. More like horrendous luck with injuries, scatter gun recruitment, no strong spine recruited, lack of real leaders on the pitch, over-estimation of the quality of last years defence, severe lack of real pace (only partly due to injuries). And problems with communicating.
I know it is only aurally seductive sound bites to ameliorate the reality of dispensing with the manager but what exactly is Acun's preferred type of football that didn't align with Shota's? And if you know what it is, what potential candidates have a track record of this style of play, whatever it may be?
And how the **** did it take him so long to realise given they were apparently BFFs and had been discussing City for some time before the take over was official. WTF were they actually talking about. Smacks of naivety. What a Cluster ****.
Who ever gets it have a very difficult job, he not only as to improve the defence, he also as to make the midfield more competitive, the wide men have got start producing decent crosses into the box and he’s got to find a way of releasing Oscar by getting others around him to cause more havoc in the box. Not only this but he as to get the team to defend from corners better and start doing something at the other end from our set pieces. In other words it’s not just one area he as to improve it’s more or less the lot. Not easy with the same players so he’s going to have to be good.
I think Carvalhal would be a sound appointment. He’s got relevant experience and done a decent job at this level (and higher…I think he made a decent fist of it at Swansea). He comes across as having a bit of personality and passion. Possibly everything Arveladze wasn’t.
Nope. Even more underwhelmed to be honest. So if I’m underwhelmed but not as underwhelmed as when we appointed the previous manager I suppose that’s progress.
Forest look an absolute disaster. That’s what happens when you change almost the entire starting 11. They look like a group of strangers. A bit like us…
