Best Manager of All Time?

[House of Flies]

how come there's no Rafa Benitez?

Yes, we want Rafa in the List!

 

[yusuf]

where is the GOD jose mourinho?????????

 

[dalitis8]

No Mourinho?

I am offended.

 

[Sergio]

Nobody had mentioned Mourinho, so the fact that you even associate him with being the best manager is in itself a huge appraisal of his abilities.

 

[Plip]

Nobody had mentioned Mourinho, so the fact that you even associate him with being the best manager is in itself a huge appraisal of his abilities.

Obsession, my dear Serge.

 

[Red Devil 2]

Mourinho will be in that list one day but I'd think you need to be top level over 2 decades to be considered a great.

Without being Biased it has to Sir Alex.

 

[Sergio]

Obsession, my dear Serge.

Indeed, Philip. Not a healthy one either.

I wouldn't say he is the best, but he certainly has the capacity to make his career so.

 

[dalitis8]

Nobody had mentioned Mourinho, so the fact that you even associate him with being the best manager is in itself a huge appraisal of his abilities.

No he is absolutely the greatest ever. I am the first to admit.

8:47

 

[Sergio]

Great chat.

 

[dalitis8]

Oh,and btw,the poster right before me,mentioned Mourinho

try to be careful.

where is the GOD jose mourinho?????????

 

[Sergio]

I never said I was referring to you, spastic.

 

[dalitis8]

Your post was right under mine.

 

[silky_soccer]

Shutup about Mourinho, its pathetic how obsessed you guys are with him.

Btw, Sergio, Do you rate Trappatoni higher than Lippi?

i considered putting him in, but thought Lippi was the better of the 2?

 

[Sergio]

Shutup about Mourinho, its pathetic how obsessed you guys are with him.

Btw, Sergio, Do you rate Trappatoni higher than Lippi?

i considered putting him in, but thought Lippi was the better of the 2?

Agreed, ignore him.

Yeah its a hard one, Lippi won the WC under exceptional circumstances and brought great success at club level. While Trapattoni bombed at International level, but had greater success at club. I guess it comes back to my point about influence on how the game is played rather than just taken on merits of trophies won. And in that respect I would say Trapattoni, he gave the catenaccio school of thought its purpose in the modern era, and was the influence on Lippi even. I guess what makes me shy from saying they were the very best is that they slightly innovated on an already well established idea of football to gain success. And any greatness they did have in making that innovation is ultimately undone by a strict adherence to it and becoming tactical dinosaurs, too stubborn to move the tactics and style on - see Lippi in the last WC.

 

[Lemmi]

Beautiful orange; Rinus Michels.

By a distance.






Then we must look at the managerial careers of Paul Merson and Gazza, inspired.