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10 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

I'm going with Wednesday at 10:30 for appointment.

 

Dentist? Hair? Doctor? Why on earth are you telling us?

From the quote I read, Beale essentially posed a rhetorical question and used recruitment as a possible example as to why 'two excellent managers' haven't worked out. 

This is more yellow journalism being Chinese whispered. 

Just move on.

15 minutes ago, The_Steve said:

"They’ve had two outstanding managers in the last two years and for whatever reason it hasn’t worked out so they may have to look at the way the club is run or the model. Is the recruitment all in line? There’s a lot of good people behind the scenes that have got a lot of despair at the moment.

"I feel for the fans because it’s a wonderful football club, but no, I gave my commitment here the other day. There’s certainly no interest on my part. A few of my friends have lost their jobs in the last few days."

Here’s the quotes. What a bitter little lemon. I’m sure there’s more but he’s not exactly complaining about the loans we gave QPR.

Your mate Stevie did more to upend the recruitment strategy by leaving us with no wingers to fit a system the players didn’t like. Fantastic revisionism from Beale.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/michael-beale-gives-scathing-aston-25332213

Wow. He is essentially asking a rhetorical question and some asshole makes it out like he has questioned the whole set-up? 

Journalism. Jesus christ. 

I don't understand why football refs aren't clamping down HARD on all the smack talk and crowding the ref after they blow the whistle. It's mindboggling it's still allowed. Give it a few weeks with straight reds if you are in the refs face shouting or crowd him and it will stop. I just don't understand it.

God, Chelsea - Man Utd is boring as ****.

4 minutes ago, KentVillan said:

Cheers, yeah makes sense, but just wondering if anyone has the clip?

I do think since the summer we sold Grealish, we’ve just looked completely devoid of a strategy. Smith went from having a squad designed for his 4-3-3 system, with mostly young “development” signings being made, to then trying to shoehorn players into a 3-5-2 to then Gerrard signing older players.

It does feel like something god abandoned, and that both managers have had to work with players they didn’t particularly want.

Although I feel more sorry for Smith than for Gerrard. He *was* backed with Digne, Coutinho, Carlos, Kamara, etc.

But it’s worrying if people are openly talking about this - surprised Beale didn’t have to sign an NDA when he left tbh!?

If true it's not good at all. The manager circus isn't massive, and word travels fast. If stuff like that leaks publically you can only imagine what is being said in text messages, calls and behind closed doors as prospective managers are sounding us out with those in the know. 

Also, it makes Beale look like an unprofessional asshole airing stuff like that to the press. 

8 minutes ago, KentVillan said:

anyone hear this?

 haven't heard the segment, and considering how things work I am skeptical that is what he actually said. 

Just now, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

Sounds kind of like a Portugues Potter, in a sense?

Indeed. I got the same sense.

An older article, but still interesting if you like tactical analysis.

https://totalfootballanalysis.com/article/ruben-amorim-sporting-cp

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Amorim favours, almost exclusively, a 3-4-3 system with a lot of fluid movement in the attacking phase. Indeed, so far this season Sporting have used this system 83% of the time with the other 17% spent in a 3-4-1-2 variant.

He is a coach who has elements of positional play within his game model with the tendency to create overloads in the half-spaces and build-up through vertical passes that find players in pockets of space within the opposition defensive structure. In the defensive phase Amorim likes to counter press and then move aggressively to win the ball back as close to the opposition goal as he can.

A quick look at the statistics at the time of writing further displays this. Sporting CP currently sit at the top of the table and are averaging 2.6 goals per 90 minutes. This is no surprise given the fact that they are averaging 13.03 shots per 90 and 17.45 touches in the opposition area per 90. In terms of their tendencies in possession they are averaging 427.63 passes per 90 but 65.47 of these are listed as progressive passes. In the defensive phase they have a PPDA (passes per defensive action) of 8.14 and are known as a side that will press aggressively when out of possession.

2 minutes ago, HKP90 said:

Genuine question to those who want Rodgers. What makes you think we'll get the Rodgers who was historically successful, and not the Rodgers who is imploding at Leicester? 

The man's passion is gone. He clearly has no drive to stay on top of the game, and he just looks like man ready to use the nepotistic league that seems hellbent on keeping the same old dross in the money for as long as possible. 

7 minutes ago, NoelVilla said:

So it is an Catalonian source and Pochettino lived for a long time there. It is happening?

It sounds like the are regurgitating the old stories that circulated. 

Just now, CVByrne said:

People need to accept our owners ambition to sign a top manager doesn't mean a top manager will want to come here. So criticising because we end up with a Dyche is just ridiculous. 17th, 11th, 14th and currently 17th. That's our Prem record. 

Indeed, we might miss out on everyone we want and get Dyche. But we can't expect better than those results for the foreseeable future if that is the case. 

3 minutes ago, Hiney said:

All those advocating going for an unknown, unproven manager purely because they are foreign have short memories. 

Remi Garde says hello. 

I haven't seen anyone forward that argument to be fair. It's a false equivalence. Every foreign manager isn't Remi Garde. 

Just now, Dodgyknees said:

I still think it will be Dyche. 

I'm going to go drown myself now  cheers!

England doesn't really produce very many good coaches. Not that I really care about that particular trait, but there is a reason German coaches are 'popular'; they produce good ones. Looking at his track record Garde was one of the worst gambles we've taken in years, and it didn't pan out. He went on to do **** all after us confirming how badly we **** that one up. At least we got rid quickly.

Dyche is just a no. Rodgers as well, he seems utterly spent having lost all passion and drive to keep up with the ever changing modern tactical football, and listening to Leicester fans, he seems a right **** tit as well. 

Scary as it seems, we probably need to look broader than the current bunch of English coaches floating about in the nepotistic system that keeps them in jobs in order to kick on. That is why we have executives and a club hierarchy to do the due diligence needed. Hopefully that has improved under the new management so we can avoid the same mistakes we've made so many times before. 

Get someone in with passion, drive, skill and understanding enough to mold Villa into a successful club. 

Just now, MSvillain said:

Lyric just said no chance of Rodger’s 

Thank ****. Now do Dyche. 

4 minutes ago, Jas10 said:

I was just joking

Sure it won’t be a similar situation…

But the quote did give me a bit of the heebie jeebies

Competent people have the ability and humility to surround themselves with people that equally, if not more competent than themselves. That is a good sign, and it speaks to him being humble and giving his team credit.

Just now, nick76 said:

My biggest concern, is he just the current sexy name that has a brief spell looking like the next best thing and then fades into obscurity while somebody else takes over for a while and then somebody else.

I think he seems like a good candidate on paper, but you are 100% right. We need to pace ourselves a bit. Hype is a seductive thing. Some outlet or youtuber creates a piece on someone, romanticizing or bigging up a person or thing ad that pice then sparks more pieces. 
 

It's all about the man, and there we can only hope the club does it best to nail down if he is a good fit. Our lad Ruben is now decidedly riding a massive hype wave. That's not to say he shouldn't be the man, but that we, again, need to pace ourselves. 

Just now, Stephen_Evans said:

Maybe a small plaque.

Such sacrifices demands proper commemoration! 

5 minutes ago, calcifer said:

If it kept Dyche away I would take one for the team

Well maybe name a stand after them or put up a massove plaque over the Holte End.

1 minute ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

The compensation figure seems to be getting higher by the hour.

I thought it was 20 mill Euros yesterday?

Maybe we suck at negotiations?

8 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

With you on this. 

So many on here will be left scratching their heads when a new manager comes in and has the same struggles as Gerrard. I expect us to be better than we were with Gerrard, no doubt, but that’s not to say we won’t be in a relegation fight. 

We’ve been spectacularly poorly run over the last 18 months. 

I am bit stumped by this sudden shift in narrative. I've had some really sharp posts thrown my way for suggesting that our squad is probably overrated and has a lot to prove, and it might not all be Gerrards fault.

Now it seems a new consensus forming that our squad is 'unbalanced and poor'?

I mean I think so too, but again, this is a silent narrative shift we are seeing. It was all down to him not getting their true potential out.

4 minutes ago, tinker said:

Learn he's not cut out for managing footballers? The ego he built up as a player (warranted) has hindered his development as a manager. 

Maybe. Successful people generally don't give up just because they struggle or hit bumps in the road. They learn, try something different and tries to learn from that. Maybe at a different level, another league or whatever. We'll see. 

1 minute ago, imavillan said:

I Think Mat Kendrick sums it up....

 

 

I think that is spot on. If Gerrard is clever, he will allow himself to be humbled by his experience here and actually learn.