Sam Allardyce and Alan Padrew are actually good managers.
Yes to Allardyce.
Allardyce being considered a good manager wouldn't have been controversial 7 or 8 years ago after his exploits with Bolton. His spells at Blackburn and Newcastle seem more to be the exception to his record than the rule.
LOL, Fat Sam being praised on an Arsenal fans site, now I've seen it all.
I've mentioned Allardyce before in the PL thread. He's always been an analyst sort, but now he's growing some cojones where didn't have before.
Might even be slightly less walrusish.
Allerdyce is what he has always been, a good midtable manager. He'll never be any more than that.
Ozil should be sold this summer (and the money deployed to buy for other positions).
Fat Sam has certainly gotten the better of Louis "mind games" Van Gaal and his "fachts". 😆
http://www.football365.com/news/21554/9708543/-Long-Ball-LVG-Produces-Dossier-Of-Statistics
The expression of the lady in the end is priceless 😆
What an arsehole. If it's that easy to get under his skin he's not going to be around in England for long. Every manager that wants the spotlight will call him out.
Biggus wrote: http://www.football365.com/news/21554/9708543/-Long-Ball-LVG-Produces-Dossier-Of-Statistics
😆 This is the best thing that has happened since Benitez and his: "No mind games, this is facht."
He's even referring to himself in third person:
Then, of course, with the quality of Fellaini we played more forward balls and we scored from that, so I think it was a very good decision of the manager.
Another way to look at it is that you screwed up your match plan, yet insisted for 70 minutes and then started pinging balls at the tallest donkey just to claw back a point.
He always refers to himself in the third person, you ain't seen nothing yet.
I actually like van Gaal. He is mad as a bat, but he isn't boring. He also is less of an arrogant twat than Moron.
You obviously haven't read his book "Biography and Vision", where he explains the basics of football and life on the basis of what he calls the "Total Human Priciple" (he invented the term himself). You'd struggle to find a bigger megalomaniac on the planet than Louis van Gaal. He gives Putin a run for his money.
I've hated van Gaal ever since it was announced that he took the United job and every decent thing he did in the WC was hyped as a masterstroke.
Gurgen wrote: You'd struggle to find a bigger megalomaniac on the planet than Louis van Gaal. He gives Putin a run for his money.
You'd struggle to find a bigger megalomaniac on the planet than Louis van Gaal. He gives Putin a run for his money.
And thats saying something for a Dutchman. 😆
I remember reading that his daughters have to use the formal u (Dutch for the French vous) instead of jij (equivalent to tu) to this day when addressing him, because he "needs them to know that there's some distance between them and that he's from a different generation".
I kinda like Roy Keane.
I think Vieira is a tit for tapping up Arsenal players. Taints his legacy for me.
When he came close to joining Tottenham I suspected he doesn't hold the same connection with the club as the likes of Wright, Adams, Keown or Henry. I don't think sentiment comes into the equation for him. Still a legend but I don't think he's a fan.
