I think it was truthful actually. I just don’t think the candidates this time are as easy, because there are a lot of clubs looking for managers right now, last time it was just us really.
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[Albion] What number choice will our next manager be?
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I think it was truthful actually. I just don’t think the candidates this time are as easy, because there are a lot of clubs looking for managers right now, last time it was just us really.
Maybe your manager pissing off mid-season in exchange for millions of pounds is actually the best way to play this situation.
Sod all that "planning" lark.
Same again, innit?
They wouldn't claim anything different. Try conjuring with the words needed in a full and frank presser....... doesn't bare thinking about does it.
There is never a need to explain anything to one's second wife (not that things went particularly well in my own case
).If we consider how billion-pound-entertainment-businesses are run, we have to acknowledge that there's a good chance Paul Barber is full of shit every now and then. Realistically they had some chats with at least the representatives of other managers, in case it wouldn't work out with De Zerbi.
That he was the number one choice - no reason to doubt it. The football we played with Potter and the football Sassuolo played weren't all that different and the size of the clubs is also comparable - and Roberto had produced results with that. Bloom and Barber may have ignored that Sassuolo often put squad quality above sustainability and their owners having no willingness or capacity to get involved in sports matters.
Its different with us. We're one of very few football clubs where the board will understand football better than the manager. And not through delusion or illusion, but through science.
This time the appointment is different from last time around. When Potter left, we needed a strategical manager who could say "this is the direction we're going". This was important in order to keep insecurity from infesting the team; its a nasty, nasty disease at this level.
Now we need a tactical manager instead, and its much more difficult. We have 90% of the talent required to get to Europe again within two years. Our new lad is not supposed to turn the world upside down - he's supposed to work within our system to carry this players to what they can achieve. And he's supposed to do it on one of the lowest manager wages in the league.
To summarise... We had the freedom to do anything we wanted with our last appointment. We could have gone with pretty much anything and at least stay up. Few reasons not to pick the "fun choice. But this time around, we need the right person/coach or we're in trouble. We need someone truly aligned and dedicated to the way we want to do things. If that, after interviews, turn out to be the third, fourth or thirdyfourth choice, is less interesting.
If there's any time to take our time with our next appointment, its now. The transfer market is going to be uberdead until the Euros are done and there will be more time than in 8 years to prepare ourselves for the coming season.
That he was the number one choice - no reason to doubt it. The football we played with Potter and the football Sassuolo played weren't all that different and the size of the clubs is also comparable - and Roberto had produced results with that. Bloom and Barber may have ignored that Sassuolo often put squad quality above sustainability and their owners having no willingness or capacity to get involved in sports matters.
Its different with us. We're one of very few football clubs where the board will understand football better than the manager. And not through delusion or illusion, but through science.
This time the appointment is different from last time around. When Potter left, we needed a strategical manager who could say "this is the direction we're going". This was important in order to keep insecurity from infesting the team; its a nasty, nasty disease at this level.
Now we need a tactical manager instead, and its much more difficult. We have 90% of the talent required to get to Europe again within two years. Our new lad is not supposed to turn the world upside down - he's supposed to work within our system to carry this players to what they can achieve. And he's supposed to do it on one of the lowest manager wages in the league.
To summarise... We had the freedom to do anything we wanted with our last appointment. We could have gone with pretty much anything and at least stay up. Few reasons not to pick the "fun choice. But this time around, we need the right person/coach or we're in trouble. We need someone truly aligned and dedicated to the way we want to do things. If that, after interviews, turn out to be the third, fourth or thirdyfourth choice, is less interesting.
If there's any time to take our time with our next appointment, its now. The transfer market is going to be uberdead until the Euros are done and there will be more time than in 8 years to prepare ourselves for the coming season.
Great post, spot on
Terry Butcher Tribute Act
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- Aug 18, 2013
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Heard at the time from a reliable source that we interviewed someone else before RDZ, so as a rule of thumb tend not to believe the club PR.
How they spin it if we end up with GPott will be interesting
How they spin it if we end up with GPott will be interesting
Coldeanseagull
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I wouldn't mind him coming here for a stint. His brand of football is ok....sort of a sedated RDZ, but a bit more zing than Potter. That leaves the booed one to go back to stains with Lallana as a first team coach.
It's all guess work and conspiracy theory nonsense, I haven't got a clue what is going on!
- Oct 12, 2022
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I think we all know that media management will dictate that the one that we select and gets the job will have been our first choice.
The others will have been talented coaches that we looked at but for one reason or another, decided that now was not the right time for them to join us.
Mancgull
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You may have this one right.
- Aug 8, 2005
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This number one choice stuff is just nonsense though isn’t it. Media generated nonsense. I’m sure in reality they have a top five or so. Find out if all would consider the job and then talk to them and decide who they want. No different from any other job is it? How do you know they’re your first choice until you’ve spoken to them?
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Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
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At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter if it is first, second or tenth choice. If it works out well on the pitch next season, who cares? McKenna/Martin/A. N. Other could have arrived as first choice and been SHITEHOUSE.
- Apr 5, 2014
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They should reach me before then. So you'll see me with the scarf.
Kalimantan Gull
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You're probably onto something there. When you're advertising a job vacancy when 4th in the league its very attractive indeed. Probably less so when the departing manager has moaned about the clubs ambition for the best part of four months.
I always think there's a chance with these kind of statements that when they say "offer", they really mean an approach offering a chance to join the process of being considered (amongst quite a few others), or perhaps any stage up to actually being made an official offer for the job.
So it might have been a chat to this agent "We like the look of Jindřich. Does he fancy an initial VC chat with David Weir before maybe coming over to Lancing for an interview?" rather than "Congratulations Jindřich, you have aced our interview process and passed the NDT. We'd like to offer you £3m per season, starting ASAP. What do you say?"
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The cap says no.
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Translation of the full article:
Home Premier League Brighton
05. 09. 2024
And And
PHOTO: SK Slavia Prague
During his time at Slavia, Jindřich Trpišovský gained a reputation that very few Czech football coaches in history could boast of. With successes and good performances comes interest from abroad.
The 48-year-old coach had several offers on the table, with England being the most interesting. Specifically, Nottingham Forest. "Nottingham was in the second division at the time and wanted to advance. There was one person who knew Jiří Müller and wanted us," Trpišovský said in an interview for Radiožurnál Sport. "That was something I thought about a lot," he admitted.
An interesting proposal landed in Prague this summer as well. Jindřich Trpišovský did not reveal the specific club, he only hinted at it with a few clues - a seaside town in Western Europe.
According to inFotbal.cz information, the Czech coach negotiated with English Brighton. After the departure of Robert De Zerbi, he was one of the few names on the shortlist, but in the end he stayed in Slavia for various reasons.
Brighton subsequently reached an agreement with 31-year-old Fabian Hürzeler, who came from St. Pauli in Germany.
"It was very difficult to refuse. It will make you very happy, I appreciate that they were interested in me," said Jindřich Trpišovský. At the same time, he hinted that he could join the club in the future.
Most offers come to Slavia coaches from the Arab world, but he says he does not feel like such an engagement. "I can't imagine coaching in Saudi Arabia or Qatar," the coach commented on the potential departure to the Middle East.
Home Premier League Brighton
Trpišovský: I had an offer from Western Europe in the summer. Brighton were interested in the Slavia coach
author: Jiří Novák05. 09. 2024
And And
PHOTO: SK Slavia Prague
During his time at Slavia, Jindřich Trpišovský gained a reputation that very few Czech football coaches in history could boast of. With successes and good performances comes interest from abroad.
The 48-year-old coach had several offers on the table, with England being the most interesting. Specifically, Nottingham Forest. "Nottingham was in the second division at the time and wanted to advance. There was one person who knew Jiří Müller and wanted us," Trpišovský said in an interview for Radiožurnál Sport. "That was something I thought about a lot," he admitted.
An interesting proposal landed in Prague this summer as well. Jindřich Trpišovský did not reveal the specific club, he only hinted at it with a few clues - a seaside town in Western Europe.
According to inFotbal.cz information, the Czech coach negotiated with English Brighton. After the departure of Robert De Zerbi, he was one of the few names on the shortlist, but in the end he stayed in Slavia for various reasons.
Brighton subsequently reached an agreement with 31-year-old Fabian Hürzeler, who came from St. Pauli in Germany.
"It was very difficult to refuse. It will make you very happy, I appreciate that they were interested in me," said Jindřich Trpišovský. At the same time, he hinted that he could join the club in the future.
Most offers come to Slavia coaches from the Arab world, but he says he does not feel like such an engagement. "I can't imagine coaching in Saudi Arabia or Qatar," the coach commented on the potential departure to the Middle East.
Non-German & Non-Texan, that simply won't do. My cousin Liz in Tyler, Texas would rescind her Brighton fan license.