It's probably because we never got to know them in the flesh Mark. Playing football without crowds must be a soulless business and I don't envy any manager being judged under the present circumstances. Even Jürgen Klopp can't instill passion into his players under the present conditions.
This accent?How many English managers can speak other languagesRoy Hodgson speaks a few and Steve Maclaran speaks Dutch but I can't think of any others. I agree that the new manager should have an imput in player recruitment and that he should be given time. This constant changing of manager means that any new one coming in has absolutely no authority whatsoever against player power.
The jury is out on that one Mex
In my experience regional accents disappear when speaking other languages. A friend of mine here is from Manchester and speaks completely differently from me when we use English - but when we both go into German that difference is neutralized, we just sound like Englishmen speaking German. I've even heard that the Germans can't tell the difference between an Englishman and a Scotsman when they both speak German. Which stands to reason - you and I can tell the difference between a German and a Frenchman when they speak English, but not between a Bavarian and someone from Hamburg (though the difference is all too clear in German). Basically anyone who is bilingual (German and English) can understand about 70% of a text in Dutch, though speaking it is a completely different matter. Also the Dutch language differs markedly between regions so that a person from Frisia or Amsterdam may use English when speaking with a person from Antwerp or Bruges (although Flemish is, technically, Dutch). The Dutch just presume that nobody speaks their language - even Erik Ten Hag (team trainer at Ajax) uses English in the dressing room. Even the fans forums of Ajax are bilingual.
They're funny things accents. My nephew was born in Munich and he's bilingual - speaks perfect English but with an accent I've never been able to pin down. His mum, my sister, was his language role model from a very early age - although he went to a 'normal' primary school and then International school for secondary education where he spoke German, she always insisted that he speak English at home, so I would have assumed that he would speak English in the same accent as her - Scottish (even after 45 years or so of living in Germany). As far as I'm aware he's never even been to England, but his accent certainly isn't Scottish.The jury is out on that one Mex
I always assumed that Mexican Spanish would be riddled with Americanisms. How would you get on in Spain, Mex, or is that what you mean by Castellinglish?I can change my Spanish depending on whom I talk to.
I speak 4 languages, English, Spanish, Spanglish & Castellinglish!
It could, for once, enter the brain of the Pozzo's that the ability to communicate is an essential part of management
