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Reply | One for our Dirk or anyone else
at 13:26 29 Dec 2024
Nowadays, the top Premier League teams recruit the best managers they can from the whole world, including England, which makes sense, as it gives them a bigger pool of talent to choose from. Interestingly, in spite of English being the international language of communication, English managers are not much in demand in the top leagues elsewhere.
Perhaps Les Reed's FA coaching guide has failed to impress.
There are none currently employed in Spain, Germany or Italy.
Spain
FC Barcelona Hansi Flick
Real Madrid Carlo Ancelotti
Atlético de Madrid Diego Simeone
Villarreal Marcelino
UD Las Palmas Diego Martínez
Athletic Bilbao Ernesto Valverde
CA Osasuna Vicente Moreno
RCD Mallorca Jagoba Arrasate
Girona FC Míchel
Real Betis Manuel Pellegrini
Sevilla FC Xavier García
Real Sociedad Imanol Alguacil
Celta de Vigo Claudio Giráldez
Rayo Vallecano Iñigo Pérez
CD Leganés Borja Jiménez
Getafe CF Pepe Bordalás
Deportivo Alavés Luis García
Valencia CF Rubén Baraja
RCD Espanyol Manolo González
Real Valladolid Paulo Pezzolano
Germany
FC Bayern Munich Vincent Kompany
Borussia Dortmund Nuri Şahin
Bayer Leverkusen Xabi Alonso
RB Leipzig Marco Rose
SC Freiburg Christian Streich
VfB Stuttgart Sebastian Hoeneß
Eintracht Frankfurt Dino Toppmöller
1. FC Union Berlin Urs Fischer
FC Köln Steffen Baumgart
VfL Wolfsburg Florian Kohfeldt
Borussia Mönchengladbach Gerardo Seoane
Hertha BSC Sandro Schwarz
Werder Bremen Ole Werner
FC Augsburg Enrico Maaßen
1. FC Heidenheim Frank Schmidt
TSG Hoffenheim André Breitenreiter
Schalke 04 Frank Kramer
1. FC Nürnberg Robert Klauß
FC St. Pauli Timo Schultz
SV Darmstadt 98 Torsten Lieberknecht
Italy
Juventus Thiago Motta
Inter Milan Simone Inzaghi
AC Milan Paulo Fonseca
Napoli Antonio Conte
Atalanta Gian Piero Gasperini
Lazio Marco Baroni
Roma Claudio Ranieri
Fiorentina Vincenzo Italiano
Bologna Raffaele Palladino
Torino Paolo Vanoli
Hellas Verona Paolo Zanetti
Genoa Patrick Vieira
Cagliari Davide Nicola
Empoli Roberto D'Aversa
Parma Fabio Pecchia
Lecce Marco Giampaolo
Venezia Eusebio Di Francesco
Monza Salvatore Bocchetti
Como Cesc Fàbregas |
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Reply | 12 substitutes today
at 09:42 28 Dec 2024
It may well be the first time it's happened. One team is allowed to use 6 substitutes if they have a concussion-related injury, but I didn't know the other team was then also allowed to use 6 to balance things up. Perhaps we weren't. The announcer said, "West Ham's 6th substitute is....", but for our 6th, he only said the name.
In future, if any of our players get injured after the 5th substitution has been made, the manager needs to tell them to go down clutching their head, even if they've broken their leg.
Incidentally, Fabianski was fine as soon as he left the pitch. He didn't even need to go to hospital for a check-up. I've looked at the replay of the incident several times and he was definitely barged into Wood by his own player. So, there is no way Wood should have received a yellow card for so-called "serious foul play". I wonder if Wood had gone down instead of Fabianski, it might have been reviewed for a penalty by VAR? [Post edited 28 Dec 11:10]
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Reply | K. Walker-Peters
at 15:37 27 Dec 2024
Yes, whatever happened? He was good, wasn't he? One of the few experienced top flight defenders we had, with more than 160 Premier League games under his belt. |
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Reply | 5 Things About The West Ham Game
at 15:18 27 Dec 2024
I agree. The new setup is a big improvement. The Northam End is very good now. It was embarrassing before, not having a proper home end.
With the results we've had this season, the old setup would have been dire. You wouldn't have heard anything from our groups of fans stuck in the corners of the Northam , while the away fans would have been booming out from it as if they owned the place.
Now, it's the away fans who are stuck in a corner, which is how it should be. I feel quite proud of our home support now. [Post edited 27 Dec 15:26]
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Reply | K. Walker-Peters
at 10:47 27 Dec 2024
I agree, grumpy. He was, by far and away, our best player. I was beginning to doubt him after a few lacklustre performances under Martin, but the new manager seems to have inspired him. |
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Reply | 5 Things About The West Ham Game
at 10:21 27 Dec 2024
2. West Ham fans were the first this year who sang almost as much about their rivals as ours do: with songs about Millwall and, more surprisingly, Chelsea. When the Northam End sang, "You only sing when you're winning," the West Ham fans missed an opportunity: they could have sung back, "You never sing when you're winning."
The last time they were here, their team were doing well and so they were in a much more buoyant mood and singing about a "European tour". In fact, two of them, singing that very song, while sharing a stolen electric scooter, asked me directions to St Mary's and I pointed them down a path which led straight into a wall.
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Reply | Frustrating
at 01:52 27 Dec 2024
We created better chances than West Ham today. If we'd had Bowen and they'd had Onuachu, we'd have won 2-0. |
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Reply | All three promoted teams in the bottom three
at 01:49 27 Dec 2024
But those who've managed it recently have done very well. Buying the right players in the first 2 transfer windows is crucial. Forest and Bournemouth are both in the top six, ahead of the likes of Man City, Spurs and Man Utd. |
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Reply | All three promoted teams in the bottom three
at 20:44 26 Dec 2024
Leicester should stay up. They were champions last season and even their 2nd and 3rd choice strikers are better than anyone we've got.
Apart from our position in it, the Premier League is the most exciting and competitive it's been since 2015/16. It would be great to see Forest do a Leicester and win the league.
We can only dream of one day being up there with the likes of Bournemouth. |
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Thread | 12 substitutes today
at 20:26 26 Dec 2024
I think that's the first time I've seen 12 substitutes play in a league game at St Mary's. Has it happened there before?
Theirs were better than ours. They could even bring on a top class sub goalkeeper. |
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Reply | Frustrating
at 19:50 26 Dec 2024
I agree, Grumpy, I didn't get back from the game until much later so I didn't see your post before I posted mine, which is almost identical to yours.
We so, so badly needed a goalscoring centre forward this season and we still do. [Post edited 26 Dec 19:51]
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Reply | At last Tall Paul gets a start.
at 19:38 26 Dec 2024
The difference between the 2 teams today was that only one had a goalscoring striker: Jarrod Bowen. We had a lot more chances, but chances don't win games. Give Bowen 2 chances and he'll score a goal; give Onuachu 4 and he won't.
Playing a season in the Premier League without a goalscoring striker means you don't win games. We created so many chances today, it was frustrating to see we had nobody capable of finishing them, but I guess we already knew that.. [Post edited 26 Dec 19:44]
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Reply | Merry Christmas
at 12:52 25 Dec 2024
Merry Christmas. The game tomorrow should be the highlight. I'm looking forward to it. |
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Reply | Up Front
at 12:38 25 Dec 2024
Rômulo from Göztepe would be good. He's scoring a a lot more goals there than Matsuki and Juan. I think Matsuki and Juan are the ones we can bring back in January as they are on loan from us. Rômulo is on loan from a Brazilian club. His loan contract in Turkey doesn't expire until June, but I guess we should take priority. We probably won't though. Maybe we could swap a couple of our current so-called strikers for him.
Sport Republic are proving brilliant owners for Göztepe. They're having the best season in their history.
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Reply | Ivan Jurić
at 15:20 23 Dec 2024
I agree. We've already seen that when we stop the stupid passing at the back and play Ramsdale rather than McCarthy in goal, we can compete at this level. Of course, to get the goals we really need, we must get a centre forward in January.
Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year [Post edited 23 Dec 15:21]
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Reply | Up Front
at 15:16 23 Dec 2024
"Anyone got any thoughts on who we might be able to get?"
Ayoub El Kaabi |
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