[Football] De Zerbi offers to resign as Marseilles coach

[Flounce]

Of course they will.

For me…
Without Hughton you don’t survive and get Potter
Without Potter you don’t have the style of play and foundation
Without RdZ you don’t take the style of play further and hit Europe

They have all played an important role.

Agreed, no arguments on that. All three departures were quite shitty though.

 

[Justice]

I saw Elfsborg, 7th placed in the Swedish league (ranked 23rd in Europe), beat Roma 1-0 in October, some six months after beating us 4-0.

De Zerbi spent most of the pre-game press conference talking about the greatness of Roma, and about how we've written history.

We went into the game with the attitude of "we're satisifed what we've accomplished" and in professional sports, this attitude means you'll lose.

The Europa League and Conference League are the two easiest (or least difficult) competitions that a non top 4 team in England could win. A team that finishes top 6 in England should beat the Serie A equivalent. Certainly not lose 4-0.

Going to Roma, talking up their team and telling everyone how pleased we are what we accomplished (also known as nothing), and then starting this away game with Joel Veltman, Pervis Estupinan and Carlos Baleba on the bench... its a joke. A lot of people don't follow European football and will think "well, we gave it a go", but most people who follow European football closely won't share that view... We threw away the best chance this club has had of winning a title.

Luckily there will be more European adventures.

Fair play to Elfsborg although you failed to mention Roma made eight changes to the side that played us leaving the big hitters out of the squad which was understandable.

 

[Flounce]

Yet you didn’t when the Potter run was worse.

True, I knew exactly how Potter was trying to get us to play from the off, pre Forest under Fab I didn’t have a clue what our tactics were. I have seen a massive improvement since Forest and Fab seems to have binned whatever ridiculous tactics he started off with.

 

[Home and Away]

'I'm not going to coach in France again!' - Marseille boss Roberto De Zerbi fumes at 'scandalous' refereeing as Mason Greenwood & Co humiliated at Auxerre | Goal.com

A furious Roberto De Zerbi declared that he will never coach in France again after Marseille went down 3-0 against Auxerre.

www.goal.com

 

[JBizzle]

If that’s directed at me I climbed onto the fence after our poor run and the Forest result so not sure how that makes me a drama queen! I never threatened to find another team to follow

It actually wasn't, more of a general comment on account of the 152 "Fab Out" threads created on here since mid-Jan

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Exactly. I never got the love in; he is needy, attention seeking and unstable and was so pretty much from the start with us.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

True, I knew exactly how Potter was trying to get us to play from the off, pre Forest under Fab I didn’t have a clue what our tactics were. I have seen a massive improvement since Forest and Fab seems to have binned whatever ridiculous tactics he started off with.

To be fair until Forest, he hadn’t done loads wrong IMO.

Forest was just crazy….

 

[Flounce]

To be fair until Forest, he hadn’t done loads wrong IMO.

Forest was just crazy….

Chelsea away?

As a football fan I found that a thrilling game, as a Brighton fan it was a WTF game!

We also rode our luck big time early season as we were opened up like a tin of sardines by teams who just couldn’t finish whilst we had a purple scoring run. The tactics? Who knows what they were because I certainly didn’t other than thinking it was suicidal football.

 

[Lever]

"We won't hurt each other, will we......."

 

[Han Solo]

Agreed, no arguments on that. All three departures were quite shitty though.

Compared to the average manager departure in football, I'd say all of them were fairly unshitty. One went slightly past his best before-date, one was poached due to doing a good job, and one was sacked after what was a good season by historical standards. The normal manager departure is "we're horrible and need to sack the gaffer mid-season" and I think we should be happy we haven't had that in the PL.

 

[willalbion]

View attachment 197237"We won't hurt each other, will we......."

Where is Roberto’s right hand? Also looks like he has a towel to clean up after, or maybe it’s a Vinnie Jones on Gazza moment.

 

[Home and Away]

View attachment 197237"We won't hurt each other, will we......."

Find someone that looks at you like Longoria is looking at De Zerbi.

 

[Lush]

Playing gung ho football away from home against in form sides, when you have an injury ravaged squad, is either naive or arrogant or both. Fab did the same at Forest, were you as forgiving of that? Interestingly neither manager held their hands up and admitted getting it wrong post match.

True, but I can't imagine de Zerbi setting fire to his match plan in front of the players during the post-mortem in training.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Roberto will get all the focus but spare a minute for his assistant, you know, the one that looks like Greg Wallace, some year this guy has had

 

[A1X]

True, but I can't imagine de Zerbi setting fire to his match plan in front of the players during the post-mortem in training.

De Zerbi would set fire to the training ground instead

 

[pigmanovich]

True, but I can't imagine de Zerbi setting fire to his match plan in front of the players during the post-mortem in training.

Indeed, Roberto's way of motivating his players is showing them the contract he could have signed with Utd instead of coaching little old Marseille

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

Indeed, Roberto's way of motivating his players is showing them the contract he could have signed with Utd instead of coaching little old Marseille

Not to mention his habit here of reminding the players that we’re only little Brighton and they should be playing for the ‘big’ teams.

I wonder if he’s said to Greenwood and Gouiri they should be playing for PSG.

 

[peterward]

I saw Elfsborg, 7th placed in the Swedish league (ranked 23rd in Europe), beat Roma 1-0 in October, some six months after beating us 4-0.

De Zerbi spent most of the pre-game press conference talking about the greatness of Roma, and about how we've written history.

We went into the game with the attitude of "we're satisifed what we've accomplished" and in professional sports, this attitude means you'll lose.

The Europa League and Conference League are the two easiest (or least difficult) competitions that a non top 4 team in England could win. A team that finishes top 6 in England should beat the Serie A equivalent. Certainly not lose 4-0.

Going to Roma, talking up their team and telling everyone how pleased we are what we accomplished (also known as nothing), and then starting this away game with Joel Veltman, Pervis Estupinan and Carlos Baleba on the bench... its a joke. A lot of people don't follow European football and will think "well, we gave it a go", but most people who follow European football closely won't share that view... We threw away the best chance this club has had of winning a title.

Luckily there will be more European adventures.

I was in the Stadio Olimpico, and it was a chastising experience.

I wouldn't put our loss down to any sort of pre match reverance of Roma or us just being happy to be there, it was a naiveness or stubboness from De Zerbi in the type of system and game we tried to play.

They were on an excellent run at that moment and Daniele De Rossi had made them hard to beat, especially at home.

So to go there and try and play an attacking game was very Naive and something I dare say many other managers wouldnt have done.

With the second tie at home at the Amex (that we won), it always seemed most logical to play conservatively there, park the bus if you will and have something to play for with home advantage in second leg.

By the time we got to Amex, the tie was already over.

Of course nobody can forsee in advance how a tie will go, but I still think it was naive or stubborn refusal to change and go pragmatic, that cost us the tie in that first leg.

Still, was a wonderful journey.

 

[Hotchilidog]

I was in the Stadio Olimpico, and it was a chastising experience.

I wouldn't put our loss down to any sort of pre match reverance of Roma or us just being happy to be there, it was a naiveness or stubboness from De Zerbi in the type of system and game we tried to play.

They were on an excellent run at that moment and Daniele De Rossi had made them hard to beat, especially at home.

So to go there and try and play an attacking game was very Naive and something I dare say many other managers wouldnt have done.

With the second tie at home at the Amex (that we won), it always seemed most logical to play conservatively there, park the bus if you will and have something to play for with home advantage in second leg.

By the time we got to Amex, the tie was already over.

Of course nobody can forsee in advance how a tie will go, but I still think it was naive or stubborn refusal to change and go pragmatic, that cost us the tie in that first leg.

Still, was a wonderful journey.

Agree with this. It was evident from the start of the Roma game that Roberto had got it wrong.

I just don't think De Zerbi is built to hang around at any club for too long. Just enjoy the ride whilst he is on his hot streak and then accept that his time is eventually up when it fizzles out. I was annoyed with his attitude at the end of his tenure but that does not diminish my enjoyment of the good times which were extraordinarily good and great fun.

On reflection I do not think he would have sustained that initial success with us and I think the parting of the ways was mutually beneficial to both parties.

 

[BadFish]

Gotta love a flawed genius. At least when he is managing someone else.

I think there is a good chance that the documentary about his career will be better than his actual career.