Lomar1o
Active member
Prediction (and its MAY 2014! remember me, i will remind this when time comes):
He will prove fully unable to handle this team right now, apart from his general managerial abilities. Concerning the latter, he is much less competent than Tito, in the same tactical domains and within the same ideas and style.. He could not infuse a single team spirit, while he could not teach the football he advocated during his reign at Roma, who supposedly played nice football, but actually played same shit as in previous years..
His success in the protected greenhouse called Barca B, sorry i dont count (plus the fact that he received a ready built team from Pep with all the benefits of his hard work and without all the daunting tasks of the first team)
He is trying to copy Guardiola in whole, but he doesnt 'have it' at all. Even Tito, the right hand of Pep, talking to each other every single day and being together for so many years, failed when he left..
It is much more than this to become successful coach at Barca. The Guardiola model is not a worn shirt to wear it even in bodies that dont simply fit!
Apart from all this, his inability in psychological traits of a teacher-leader of the team, will hamper every positive tactical rearrangement (if any) considering the situation right now.. He is not even going to be taken seriously by the -right now- arrogant and inflated egos at the Nou Camp. Being an important player for 8 years doesnot say really anything, let alone that he has not connected his name with any big success in the history of the club.
And for the stupid board: Guardiola's success is not a recipe to implement every time things go wrong..
What Barca needs right now and some fail to see, is first and foremost a rigid coach that can restore discipline and hard work ethic, infuse hunger again in this team, while at the same time maintaining some football principles that constitute Barca's identity (So, Simeone or Klopp excluded straight away just because of this..)
With all this said, you can all understand that
1) there is no ready made solution waiting
2) the best would be a Guardiola return which is not possible at all
3) a Van Gaal return was, even with his history at Barca, a better solution than Enrique.
amen barca will have a decent first half of a new season. then we will fail again