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Amps He’s already said they can’t spend due to PSR, apparently.

What a shame.

      Wally all the players they buy turn to shit the moment they arrive anyway

        And the Glazers.

        ScottBailey Joining the lengthening list of great players who failed at management. Least he gave it a proper go.

          • Amps

            • Post #22280

            @Mad_Cyril Three points for you at the weekend? Hit us on the counter? Smash and grab win? Start our blip? King makers in the league? Or something else?

            • Amps replied to this.

              How many world class players have also made it as great* managers?

              I put the asterisk in there because there is always a debate about King Kenny, whether he was a great manager or simply inherited a great side and then built another one at Blackburn with endless funds.

              I can think of:
              Johan Cruyff (European Cup win with Barcelona)
              Kenny Dalglish
              Franz Beckenbauer
              Zidane
              Mario Zagallo
              Diego Simeone
              Pep Guardiola/Antonio Conte/Carlo Ancelotti/Didier Deschamps (were they truly great players in the class of the above? Debatable, although all won a lot of caps)

                I’ll throw Mancini and Vialli in there, being a little bit generous.

                Brian Clough could still ping a ball even after he was balls deep on the sauce. Not sure if he’d make that list though.

                I’ll also throw in Mark Hateley as a player manager.

                Actually no he was fucking shit.

                • Amps

                  • Post #22285

                  I reckon Kenny did more than enough with that Liverpool team to call it his own. Three titles in six years, signed Barnes, Beardsley, Aldo, Houghton, McMahon etc. He did plenty of his own work.

                  Anyone at Real and Barca can fuck off, it’s difficult to lose with that much cash in such a pony league. they’re not proving anything.

                  So, basically, Kenny and Beckenbauer. No idea how good a player Zagallo or Simeone really were. I know they were internationals, but so was Carlton Palmer.

                  bosstrabs Zidane was a good fit for Real but I am not convinced he is a great manager. He had peak CR and world class players in every position.

                    Brentford playing right through Arsenal. Outstanding at home

                    • Dan replied to this.

                      Good game so far.

                      Arsenal will win 2-1.

                      As always you heard it here first.

                        • RichM

                          • Post #22289

                          Smallman1 my mate went for 1-2 about 2pm today, so unfortunately you weren’t the first to predict that score. Soz