[Albion] Had you heard of Roberto De Zerbi a week ago?

[Bozza]

Well, had you?

 

[sparkie]

Calling [MENTION=34942]Dr. No[/MENTION]

 

[AmexRuislip]

I had an inkling something was on the cards, when during Paul Barbers PC, his voice kept slipping into an Italian style.
So I put two and two together and thought De Zerbi maybe.

CAPish...

 

[jessiejames]

Yes, only from my uncle.

 

[Hugo Rune]

22mins and counting.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Nope

 

[Triggaaar]

Who?

 

[Weststander]

I await "Yes, for several years" and an essay about De Zerbi.

 

[bluenitsuj]

I hadn't heard of Potter until we signed him, so your point is?

 

[Bakero]

He's had his own thread in here for over a week and was mentioned on the new manager thread soon after Potter left. In fact, someone suggested him as a future manager a couple of years ago.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Voted "no".

I had noticed a team called Sassuolo who I'd never heard of, doing well in Serie A and did some reading on them to see if they were really a kind of miracle small club, so at some point on my googling it would have told me De Zerbi was the coach but did I remember him and go "ah, that guy!"? No, not immediately.

Was a nice little research project when he appeared on the short list. Plenty of you tubes out there about him and Sassuolo. So, based on a few highlights, two tactical videos, a look at their results under him and the fact he's available right now, I've decided get him in*.









*also I have a tenner on him at 4-1

 

[Barnet Seagull]

I'm a bit of a tactics nut so first i heard was this article in 2020

https://theathletic.com/1927757/202...sassuolo-pep-guardiola-how-to-beat-the-press/

...
During one of the autumn international breaks last season, Pep Guardiola flew to Trento in northern Italy and appeared on a panel with Carlo Ancelotti and, one of his great influences, Arrigo Sacchi. They wanted to know whether his opinion of Italian football had changed since he left Brescia as a player all those years ago. Is the game in Serie A evolving, or is the style of football the same as always?

“You see Sassuolo at the moment,” the*Manchester City*manager said, “and they give me the impression that it’s actually very expansive.”

 

[dwayne]

The telegraph article was exactly a week ago.

So, yes.

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[Eeyore]

I thought he was an American actor.

 

[Eric the meek]

Voted "no".

I had noticed a team called Sassuolo who I'd never heard of, doing well in Serie A and did some reading on them to see if they were really a kind of miracle small club, so at some point on my googling it would have told me De Zerbi was the coach but did I remember him and go "ah, that guy!"? No, not immediately.

Was a nice little research project when he appeared on the short list. Plenty of you tubes out there about him and Sassuolo. So, based on a few highlights, two tactical videos, a look at their results under him and the fact he's available right now, I've decided get him in*.









*also I have a tenner on him at 4-1

......incoming two-footed challenge from Swanny........

 

[zeemeeuw]

I thought he was quite good playing that villain in Coronation Street.

 

[Swansman]

Yup. He was flavour of the month in Italy for a while and Sassuolo were funny to watch.

I know a lot more now than a week ago though.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Yup. He was flavour of the month in Italy for a while and Sassuolo were funny to watch.

I know a lot more now than a week ago though.

Funny how?

Don’t get me worried!

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

No, who is he ?

 

[Swansman]

Funny how?

Don’t get me worried!

Unpredictable, lots of action, lots of goals. Luxuary attacking players and second hand-market defenders. Funny indeed.