and has been sacked more than once ...... few clues in this article. "The former Denmark international says he wants to manage at the highest level." Read more at http://talksport.com/football/laudr...est-brom-jobs-14060394228#3DyLqjSdD3Cm5gv7.99 Is he saying that he wants to walk into a club already at the top rather than taking a club to the top? He seems to want to stroll into a top club having never won anything more than a domestic trophy with any of his clubs.
He was lauded as an amazing manager for winning a trophy with Swansea, for all of about 5 minutes until Roberto Martinez beat City in the FA Cup final with Wigan. Martinez was responsible for both Swansea and Wigan's success in my opinion, Laudrup got lucky signing Michu and he hit form. He wants a ready made-successful team, just like Pep wants, so he can't fail... Southampton would be ideal if all their players weren't on the move.
Bang on. Martinez sets players up in such a way that they all know their exact role, it's easy for a manager to take over one of his teams, they simply have to be smart with any additions. The issue he had at Wigan was a lack of budget & quality, but he won them a trophy and kept them up, with the smallest squad & budget around, for 7 or 8 years. Laudrup took an already well set up Swansea team, won a cup, then bleated on threatening to leave, spent reasonably well to be fair, but didn't get them moulded into a team. What 'big' club is gonna want that? The 'may take an offer from outside of Europe' says it all. You want money then, you prick. Southampton would be a great job for any manager who believed his own hype.
Martinez puts philosophies in place at teams, maybe he can only take teams so far who knows until he starts delivering consistent success? But what he does is leave a team ethic to build on, and off the back of that other managers are learning and coming out with maybe undue credit, maybe some of it is earned. Rodgers, Laudrup, Rossler... obviously they all have something about them, because Coyle was ****. The philosophy Fergie left was pulled apart by Moyes, that's exactly why he failed, he perished because he could not change his own game. By the way, Gus Poyet looks like another one, building a team ethic and working rigidly on developing the team to learn his philosophy. A lot different from Di Canio who's philosophy was that Sunderland are paying your wages lads so don't stop running until your bones start poking through your skin and you die.
Haha yeah, I wish United could just hire Di Canio as a 'special fitness coach' just for players like Anderson, Young, Bebe and Nani... make them bleed for their pay!
Di Canio managed to avoid all the mental case accusations at Swindon. He took them to Wembley & promotion, offered to pay players wages when they went bust, worked through the night to clear the pitch of snow etc. He only resigned when the new owners sold his players during an embargo when they couldn't sign new ones. The Sunderland players and back room staff kicked of when he wanted hard work, proper training & diet and dedication to the club imo. I really hope he does well, there aren't enough people as passionate, hard working and ambitious as him in the game.
We started the season at home to Fulham playing the same philosophy under PDC as Poyet did. We pushed the ball around beautifully, played out from the back and looked utterly composed. We completely dominated and lost to a goal from Fulham's only shot. But we didn't turn up away to Southampton(which turned out to be a good draw but poor performance wise) or at home to MK Dons. After that Paolo publicly scraped the philosophy saying they were'n't good enough to play it. Beginning of the end for him.
I don't think it will have been the exact same philosophy, Poyet doesn't seem to what to decapitate his players every time they misplace a pass! Di Canio seemed to work on the Auschwitz Model, I'm fairly confident he'd have stuck them in a gas chamber if he could have got away with it.
I was talking on pitch playing philosophy, style of play. Yeah his man management was dreadful, doesn't mean he wasn't right most of the time though. Glad it's all happened though because we've got a better head coach now but I wish him all best. Unfortunately for him, not everyone can match his work ethic and standards, something he needs to learn if he's ever going to progress.
He's destined for an unstable career, there's always something around the corner with him. He can be successful even with his current model but not with players who have ego's and players who earn big money. He needs to decide if he wants to manage big players, then he needs to change his game because the game won't change for him.
