George_Costanza
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Thread about Xavi's technical management of al Sadd
https://twitter.com/KaiAnalysta/status/1345115391836696585
https://twitter.com/KaiAnalysta/status/1345115391836696585
Ronald Koeman
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serghei
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Nice, thanks. Xavi has all the components to be a great manager. Let's hope it will work.
Birdy
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He seems to try to replicate Pep's ideas. Interesting that he is doing extensive rotations, that's much needed in modern football.
HOwever, it's too early to tell.
Qatari league is not any benchmark at all.
I think he should test himself in a European club (just below top level) that wants to play attacking and possession oriented football.
After that we will know if he ticks the boxes of a Barca manager.
serghei
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They're not Pep's ideas though. Pep learned them at Barca as well. It's mostly Cruyff's vision of total football as it was implemented at Barca decades ago, until it became our identifiable style, the same which is thought in La Masia, were both Pep and Xavi learned it probably.
Birdy
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Sure. I meant Pep's, Cryuff's, etc along the line of tradition.
Question is who can apply principles effectively and respond also to contemporary football scene and way of playing.
5-1 without Messi btw...
And are you telling me that Koeman is unlucky for half of season??? Sure you can be unlucky few matches but for half of season, it can't be unlucky anymore.
You may come up with xG, well, attempt more shots then of course higher xG.
His team was defeated easily in Afc Champion league.
He needs to move to Europe to test himself.
George_Costanza
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His team wasn't defeated easily in AFC CL. Also he lost to eventual finalist.
Tuchel is free, Nagelsmann will be on the third year of his contract soon and it probably wouldn't hurt to see if he would bite and try coming to us. But no, Xavi.
Legit the only top club in Europe that would hire a manager straight from Saudi Arabia simply because "Barcelona DNA." Legit ignoring top coaches that are available simply because of Barcelona DNA, for almost a decade now. Christ this club is fucking diseased, all the way from top management to the fanbase.
Legit the only top club in Europe that would hire a manager straight from Saudi Arabia simply because "Barcelona DNA." Legit ignoring top coaches that are available simply because of Barcelona DNA, for almost a decade now. Christ this club is fucking diseased, all the way from top management to the fanbase.
serghei
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You're way off here mate. Did Zidane achieve more than Xavi when he was hired? Pirlo? Lampard? And you want us to snub Xavi, who's tier 1 club legend, the highest there is?
Xavi is not just any club legend. He was the architect on the field of the greatest team ever arguably. In a period where you see great midfielders becoming top managers (Pep, Zidane, Simeone, and many more), Xavi is the guy with the most tools to match or even supersede them.
For Tuchel?
I get if we could lure Klopp or Pep, who would be near certainties. But come on...
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serghei
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Pirlo and Lampard aren't good examples dawg.
And Zidane had actually experience at Real Castilla.
Real Castilla? Al Sadd would probably beat them 7 times out of 10. And based on rumors, Zidane wasn't doing that well at Castilla was he?
They are great examples. They got their chance.
serghei
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Pirlo won the group in which Barca was playing mate, and handed us our only home loss in CL in 7 years. Rebuilding is always difficult.
Right... European Experience. As if the continent matters.
European experience matters when it's in a top league, in a top first division league. It's not as if you go and coach in Azerbaijan's league this will be important because it's Europe.
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