Le Fil De Deschamps In/Out De Fonctionnaire!

[Guest Patrokles]

All it shows is that people have listened to talksport and placed a lot of bets. I could call a phone-in and claim that I was meeting with Mike Ashley, and immediately I'd be new favourite.

 

Got to be more than just TalkShite for his odds to drop this much, this quickly.

 

Obviously not.

[Park Life 71]

The Mirror reckon he'll bring in Gianfranco Zola as his number 2.

 

 

I was having my usual extended lie in while the radio was on and heard that. I instantly jumped out of bed and did a little excited run about the flat.

 

Yes please.

 

At last we'll have someone on the coaching staff who's probably still as good as most of the players, rather than having never been. Someone to demand respect.

Even I would be happy with Zola, just because he was such a great player. I don't know anything about his coaching abilities though.

 

And I still don't really get this whole Deschamps jizzfest.

Actually bit of a serious question from myself, who do you want for the job mate? I know myself, I personally don't have a clue at the moment so I'm well and truly sitting on the fence so to speak.

I am probably in your camp with not really having a clue. It's more about not getting excited by certain names.

 

I mentioned in another thread that the most important criterion for appointing a manager is that he matches with the club and its philosophy. And I think there are managers despite their superb CVs or playing careers could be failures. And to be a bit arrogant, I've quite often been right with my feeling about managers. I live close to Stuttgart (among the most fickle football fans you can think). When they replaced Trapattoni with Veh, a manager who had more or less only managed lower league teams and been unemployed for a couple of years, I was more or less on my own when I thought, he would be successful because he would really match with the club. A bit over a year later he had lead them to a league title and to a cup final. I was sure about Klinsmann being a success for Germany or most lately Schuster doing brilliant at Madrid (I think I even mentioned it on N-O). I've been in many cases (Gullit for example) though...

 

I've have to say I am not really a big fan of French, Italian and Spanish football and it is probably because of this that I think that most players/managers who were brought up in this environment would struggle at Newcastle. Though I know too little about the likes of Pellegrini for example.

 

Being more nordic orientated I think a manager like Morten Olsen for example who plays a decent football could do a job. Or maybe someone like Michael Laudrup who is now at Getafe (and who I think I mentioned here already a couple of years ago). Of course my favourite would be van Gaal, although I do believe he is far too happy at Alkmaar (and hates English football) to take the job. Another person I always mention who imho would fit in well at Newcastle is George Burley. Or maybe now the likes of Mowbray or Magilton (a bit of an Ipswich school of bringing up a certain kind of managers).

 

Have to stop here, because I've actually some work to do, I'll try to think of more names more of my liking.

 

 

Mmmm...Good thinking.

[Tom 14021]

Was the thread title babelfished?? Brilliant

 

[Guest alex]

As for Deschamp, I don't mind people looking French, but not that French. Having said that, I saw him interviewed on La Gazzetta once in a shirt, dress pants, slip-on shoes combo that would have graced the bar in any working man's club.