English Football Thread 2013/14

[Bevab]

First XI: Returning managers - ESPN FC

 

[Bevab]

BBC Sport - Tottenham to name Franco Baldini new technical director

Interesting.

 

[zeustrojanstark]

Glory Glory Manchester United

 

[MasterBlaster76]

Glory Glory Manchester United

Nah mate, that doesn't fit the song! It's 'Glory, Glory Man Utd'.

 

[Haarithan]

BBC Sport - Tottenham to name Franco Baldini new technical director

Interesting.

Levy + AVB + Baldini is going to be one hell of a combo. Class appointment if it goes through. Baldini was voted Serie A's Mercato of the year last season - has a great track record.

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

Thread for the new English Football season.

• Predictions on the league winners
• How will the new teams fair?
• Discussion on managerial changes
• Best new signings

 

[ste_mc_efc]

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[MasterBlaster76]

Bit tricky to predict a league winner until some transfer activity gets underway. Man Utd will be there or thereabouts though.

 

[Bevab]

Think City will get close to it. Chelsea's recent transfer rumours don't sound too well...

 

[Epic]

I think it's fairly open and any one of Chelsea, City or United could win it, but if I had to predict a winner it'd have to be Chelsea on Mourinho alone.

 

[SiriusBlack]

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[vaibhavtewatia]

Phil Neville is saying goodbye too.

Too keen to pursue a career in cricket maybe.Coaching?

 

[KBC]

Levy + AVB + Baldini is going to be one hell of a combo. Class appointment if it goes through. Baldini was voted Serie A's Mercato of the year last season - has a great track record.

And the poor spurs fans who think they could now sign Erik Lamela..

No.

Not unless you sell Bale.

 

[Epic]

Manuel Pellegrini will not have a long reign at Manchester City - Martin Samuel | Mail Online

I don't know how I missed this one, but personally, I'd say the majority here and Martin Samuel for that matter, are well stuck in the past. If the norm is to have a manager run 10 years at once just because he was successful once then why isn't Rijakaard still working at Barcelona? Or van Gaal at Bayern Munich? Or hell del Bosque at Real Madrid? 2 of those 3 clubs went onto achieve the greatest feat in club football under their next manager, the treble. The fact of the matter is a club's structure and hierarchy are and will always be more important to a club's stature and success than one man that picks a XI off a squad born out of the club's structure and hierarchy.

So get with the times people, and while you're at it, lose this stigma that a club has to be run a certain way and no other way, a club can be run anyway it chooses to be run, be it by a power hungry Russian, a powerless Sheikh or a ---- like Perez.

 

[Bevab]

Powerless Sheikh?