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!@#$%! · 03.17.2017, 08:14 AM

i wrote a long post about this the other day but the browser ate it

i'm glad to see him fail not because i'm against his project or his idea of football but rather i see him as a lonely thinker trying to play a game of chess and then ordering people around according to his will.

but playing people like chess pieces is a kind of arrogance. and football, which is a team sport, will ultimately spit out a tyrant. you have to get buy-in from your team and staff and fans not alienate them.

his success was in barcelona which had already molded him and molded the players he used. so his chess was possible there. but then he panicked and left! under pressure.

at bayern he got all the easy victories but not the hard ones. and he broke people. not talking about gotze who now turns out to have a metabolic disorder of the muscles, but the many injuries he blamed the medical staff for, players he mistreated like schweinsteiger, players that didn't like him, people he played out of position.

yes, some players did better with him (neuer because he had to, mueller because he fit well) but others like ribéry were bothered by him, tinkering with lahm in outer space was a sort of "because i can".

so he won the bundesliga while his competition collapsed--okay, but no heroic achievement.

after he left, ribéry called him inexperienced. i think he was right. he had no experience outside of barcelona.

then he thought he was hot shit and was gonna rule the prem the same way. lol.

i'm glad he's being knocked down a peg or two. he might become a better manager after he's been humbled by a defeat he can't run away from. maybe learn to work with people instead of trying to bend them out of shape like a torturer in the spanish inquisition.

(nobody expects the spanish inquisition, etc.)

03.17.2017, 08:14 AM	#8144
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,683	i wrote a long post about this the other day but the browser ate it i'm glad to see him fail not because i'm against his project or his idea of football but rather i see him as a lonely thinker trying to play a game of chess and then ordering people around according to his will. but playing people like chess pieces is a kind of arrogance. and football, which is a team sport, will ultimately spit out a tyrant. you have to get buy-in from your team and staff and fans not alienate them. his success was in barcelona which had already molded him and molded the players he used. so his chess was possible there. but then he panicked and left! under pressure. at bayern he got all the easy victories but not the hard ones. and he broke people. not talking about gotze who now turns out to have a metabolic disorder of the muscles, but the many injuries he blamed the medical staff for, players he mistreated like schweinsteiger, players that didn't like him, people he played out of position. yes, some players did better with him (neuer because he had to, mueller because he fit well) but others like ribéry were bothered by him, tinkering with lahm in outer space was a sort of "because i can". so he won the bundesliga while his competition collapsed--okay, but no heroic achievement. after he left, ribéry called him inexperienced. i think he was right. he had no experience outside of barcelona. then he thought he was hot shit and was gonna rule the prem the same way. lol. i'm glad he's being knocked down a peg or two. he might become a better manager after he's been humbled by a defeat he can't run away from. maybe learn to work with people instead of trying to bend them out of shape like a torturer in the spanish inquisition. (nobody expects the spanish inquisition, etc.)
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