I agree it's unlikely they disappear, but it depends a bit on how they handle the summer transfer window and the pressure/responsibility of being the ones to beat. Will management look to cash out on their better players vs find a way to keep them all, and make the team even more robust? How do you manage champions League football? That type thing
flobaba that last part is the big variable. Stepping up to Champions League. They’re not going to play Qarabag 4 times next season
Claudius this largely same team was battling relegation last year. It's all down to the manager.
Clrnc that team was third. They suffered a bunch of injuries and form issues and fell to 16th at the beginning of the next season. He came in and stabilised them. And then built his invincible machine through a smart summer and continued tactical evolution.
Claudius Doesn't work that way. If not could say the same about Emery leaving us in mid table before Arteta took over.
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Clrnc it really does. Sometimes good teams go way down because of health and form. Ask Liverpool who plummeted about 30 points season to season.
Bayern appointing Kompany as new manager.
Clrnc talk about falling upwards
Clrnc Two possibilities:
Kompany's actually an incredible manager on Arteta's level, pumped with Guardiola juice, and all those times Burnley fell short and failed to get a result weren't his fault.
There's no decent managers available due to predatory poaching of the best ones, and clubs like Bayern, Chelsea and United that are used to being able to jettison whoever they've got and bring in a Conte or Ancelotti have footgunned themselves, or they're about to.
I'm favouring (2) I reckon.
Fucking hell imagine Craig Bellamy in Germany.
Mirth it's weird. I'm like, wait what? That shit happens to black guys too, huh? Or he must have one heck of a sales pitch.
flobaba they assume he’ll poop and pee like Pep
flobaba first time for everything. i welcome a world where we too can fail upwards regularly.
I mean they’ve gone through about 3 or 4 options so yeah, point 2 is at least partially true.
He got a lot of plaudits for getting Burley to play some good football in the Championship to be fair, and I have seen them play some decent football for in the PL.
goon About 6 actually. Think they are desperate by now.
Alonso, Nagelsmann, Ragnick, Glasner, Tuchel, Schmidt all rejected them.
They have very little choice left.
Looking like a flesh and blood RoboCop ought to help him with dressing room authority I guess.
Tbf much of Kompany's struggles seem to come from refusing to abandon his princibles even though Burnley clearly wasn't cut out to play that kind of football against PL teams. Reckon those faults are less material at Bayern, though that's not to say he'll be a success. Then again, most of their managers seem to get fired soon enough whether they're considered "good managers" or not.
Half the battle at Bayern seems to be winning the dressing room and the other half is winning the board room.
