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[Albion] Roberto De Zerbi - JOINS AS NEW HEAD COACH (4 year contract)
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The Fits
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I keep revisiting this thread and saying similar things but I won't stop. He's a genius. I honestly don't think we will ever have a manager like him again. If we can get three years out of him I'd be absolutely delighted and we are going to be in fantastic shape when he eventually moves on. Really wouldn't be surprised to see him replace Pep..he's that good and Pep is obviously a massive fan.
Could you imagine what he'd do with the current Man City team? It would be the most thrilling football the world has ever seen.
Could you imagine what he'd do with the current Man City team? It would be the most thrilling football the world has ever seen.
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The same here, how can we possibly replace such an innovative, exciting and at the same winning coach?
Important to absorb and enjoy these heady days.
Hopefully he’ll remain for us for a few seasons.
For me there was one problem with Potter - The Cult of Potter, backed up by 'Are you Barber in Disguise'.
Were it not for these dozen or so posters we could have had a (slighty more) balanced debate on the fella.
But with them in tow, we were unable to write 'i like him, but..'.
There was no room for nuisance, questions or criticism, you were in or you were enemy of the state.
When we lost to nil, it was the other team while on the occasions we handsomely won it was 'see, see he's the Messiah, ha I bet you're feeling stupid now'.
Beyond those posters I think many were annoyed that he went, angry about how he went, but the bottom line is we wrote off a VW so to make us feel better daddy instantly went out and bought us a Ferrari.
The 'but...' that was constantly shouted down as impossible and not with these players was 'but... can't we just do 'it' quicker'.
It turns out we can, while buzzing with character.
I can't imagine what it must be like to have a poorly maintained Renault taken away only to get back a punishment replacement Hillman Imp (look it up kidz)
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Is it not now somewhat similar with De Zerbi? Best not question anything, eh?
Nobby
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Not sure there’s much to question.
Under Potter it was, on average, dominate teams and lose, while under De Zerbi it’s dominate teams and win.
Under Potter, you just knew we would mess it up and the opposition would score in the end.
Under De Zerbi, we almost never screw up.
You have just proved my point!Not sure there’s much to question.
Under Potter it was, on average, dominate teams and lose, while under De Zerbi it’s dominate teams and win.
Under Potter, you just knew we would mess it up and the opposition would score in the end.
Under De Zerbi, we almost never screw up.
Nobby
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Ok, so your point is there is a De Zerbi cult, which by inference no one should question.
What do you question about De Zerbi?
Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
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Totally agree. As I've said on numerous occasions, if things go well for both Pep and RDZ, I think the latter will replace the former at the end of next season.
Job swap?
Pep would have the chance to disprove the theory that he can only win with the dominant club in a league...
I too agree that RdZ will end up there (sadly).
I wouldn't be so sure.
Assuming he's still here RDZ is in for a difficult season.
Plan A has been phenomenal (not a word I use lightly) but next season teams will have an answer for it.
So he'll need a Plan B while also blooding in new players in key areas, with (one chicken, two chickens) more games and less time training.
If he can do that - we'll never see him again!
Greg Bobkin
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I wouldn't say no! Pretty sure he'd prefer to go to a 'top TOP club' in a different league rather than a #TeamLikeBrighton, sadly.
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Love this man. Any dry cleaners in Brighton happy to get grass stains out of his trousers?
Except against Everton (1-5), Forest (1-3 and 0-0), Leeds (2-2), Leicester (2-2), Tottenham (0-1 and 1-2), Fulham (0-1), Villa (1-2), and Brentford (0-2 and 3-3)...Not sure there’s much to question.
Under Potter it was, on average, dominate teams and lose, while under De Zerbi it’s dominate teams and win.
Under Potter, you just knew we would mess it up and the opposition would score in the end.
Under De Zerbi, we almost never screw up.
Look, I love De Zerbi (genuinely), but let's not pretend that when we play teams that stifle, frustrate, timewaste and hold a strong, firm defensive line that we don't have remarkably similar issues getting results.
To say we almost never screw up when in the last two weeks be got battered by Everton and Forest is stretching it
Yep we are what we are.
We also ought not lose sight of GPotts statement victories either.
For me the difference is all the games in between, that's where Roberto absolutely wipes the floor with GPott.
The squad will never again go X games without wins, scoring etc.
As we were promised 'dull' games are now a thing of the past, as opposed to the norm.
schmunk
Centrist Dad
We averaged 1.23 points/game under GPott.
We're averaging 1.61 points/game under RdZ - that would still be 1.41 even if we lost all of our remaining fixtures this season (which, hopefully, we won't...)
We're averaging 1.61 points/game under RdZ - that would still be 1.41 even if we lost all of our remaining fixtures this season (which, hopefully, we won't...)
The Fits
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A certain Swede would point out that you should probably be looking at the last year under GP given the squad he inherited, which is fair.
Sepulveda
Notts County's younger cousins' fan
Here in Italy there's a popular football saying that goes "Better to lose one match 6-0 than six matches 1-0."
A difference we do see though is De Z comes out and explains what went wrong (usually blaming himself)…….none of this ‘the lads gave everything’ and ’we had a bad moment’ bollox.