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One astounding quote from that defeatist article - "Against Jose Mourinho—who for all intents and purposes is football's antidote to the 64-year-old..." Astonishing. In the same way you could say Bernie Madoff is the antidote to ethical finance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
Also from that dreadful article. "Rodgers, of course, is a disciple of Mourinho. But more telling than their connection is the results the two men are yielding from their teams. The pair have embraced the times and moved with the sport's evolution to become the pre-eminent managers in the English game."
Half a season's worth of performance is all it takes to become pre-eminent? Symptomatic is how I'd describe such idiocy.
Some more childish analysis that dispenses with anything except the raw data. Rather like calling the 400m champion a slow coach because he was trounced by the 4x100m relay team. Give as another couple of Ramseys and the original article would have only played in a third of the games anyway, less chance of injury. Although, how have City been doing with Aguero compared to say, Giroud? Sort of blows the theory to smithereens but that doesn't mean the silliness garnered from the mainstream rags and regurgitated as expertise isn't at least amusing.
"In 2011-12—which was incidentally the first season Arsenal had managed to keep Robin van Persie on the pitch for a full campaign—Arsenal's players missed 1,343 days of activity through injury. In the same season, Chelsea's squad missed just 356. Champions Manchester City saw their players absent for just 186."
The only redeeming feature of that article is it has gathered all the unqualified speculation of the guess masters into one simple sheet that if used carefully would be good for one substantial wipe.
Enough with the self righteous rants!
After mulling over a possible replacement I narrowed my list to one man who can lead us to glory and work within a tight budget, and bring players in and turn them from good to brilliant. That my friends is the one and only DIEGO SIMEONE
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Just dont mention the war!
No it's not just the interview it's the general attitude of the man, I've seen it enough over the last 9 years that I know about his belief in his team and how he goes about fixing problems and improving us and in my mind it's not adequate in any sense, whatever he does he always leaves us short or doesn't do the necessary with transfers and doesn't seem to motivate the players after heavy defeats or poor runs, it's not just this season this has been going on for the last 9 years, this season is just a repeat of the 8 before it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Personal gain, well the whol cub has gained benefited financially, yes those that have left certainly, I wouldn't say Wenger specifically but he has also benefited just look at how much money he gets paid (I'm not saying this was his intention but it was a consequence), which IMO is too much for a club with our record in the last 8-9 years. You can argue that the people upstairs are happy with it as that was his target, but that just reinforces my point, 4th place = money and thus they are happy and don't fell the need to pressure the manager into more and ultimately he's also happy.
No getting almost regular beatings does though, this season it's been cricket scores (3 times), but this isn't new, there's been enough 4-0, 4-1 and unacceptable scorelines in recent times, this season is just the icing on the cake, we've sunk to new levels getting absolutely humiliated, though in Wenger's opinion it's just circustmances, he changes nothing, doesn't adapt and doesn't react to results like this and within a couple weeks they're irrelevant.
Results that embarrass the club like this aren't irrelevant, they need to be taken seriously, you may be able to put one an an accident but three in one season for any other manager at a top club that would be a sackable offence tbh.
It seems to me that even some of the fans now write off those results as a bad day at the office, it's almost like they never happened at all now and don't matter, they matter a lot and should be taken more seriously rather than written off, big teams don't get battered like this as often as this without there being serious issues somewhere.
Enough with posting up curated content posing as analysis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
Perhaps a misuse of words but by antidote he may well be talking about the fact Wenger has failed to ever get the better of Mourinho in a game, if you look at it from that perspective the word antidote kinda works, I doubt it's meant in the nasty way you probably are thinking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
This suggests to me that Mourinho's methods and tactics are able to nullify Wenger's philosophy.
It's not just half a season though, he did a fine job at Swansea too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
It says "football's antidote", as if somehow Mourinho represents a positive. His philosophy is possibly the most negative and destructive we've ever seen in the game. A man who cares nothing for the sport as evidenced by his abominations in Europe. I'm not disputing his foul methods are effective, but to cast him as football's antidote to anything except entertainment is a polar misrepresentation, as wide of the mark as it is possible to be. Of course Mourinho didn't write this himself, it was some know nothing web administrator who culled a series of hack pieces into an article so he could pose as an analyst. Link bait for the unwary. Let's at least be sensible about who we listen to in our rush to put the boot in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Özim