What doesn't remind me so much of WMD is, by and large, a track record of years and years of success in three of the elite leagues in european football.
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Yeah, that struck me as a worry, given how many times the academy has bailed out the club over the last decade or so. Right up to our ffp issues being solved (temporarily) by Brennan in the summer.
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We know he likes a small squad, has no interest in youth development, and is best mates with superagent. Kapow! I think we can assume that youth development is off the table. At least of British youngest coming through academy. We still might pay a bit of a price for young Portuguese players coming through.
In terms of what the owner expects his coach to work with, Nuno Espirito Santa rather looks like he's bought himself a pup for Xmas. The main box the incoming coach ticks is that he's not going to be massively more popular than the owner.
Good luck to all who sail in her.
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Given that you get sacked after a 6 week dodgy patch there isn't really any point investing 6 years in someone, which I agree is a shame.
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Correct. Just buy new players. And if they don't work sack the coach and get a new one. And if they have a rough spell, sack them and buy new players.
As any fule noels.
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Anyone who has paid any attention to Olympiakos since Marinakis arrived here will not be surprised by this turn of events. We might want a Brighton model, but that's not how he rolls.
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I say give the bugger a chance and judge him on what he does not what you think he does based on probably not a lot of considered data. Most Wolves fans regard him as their best manager for 50 years and are mightily peeved about this. Also remember there were plenty of fans who were very very sceptical about Cooper when he replaced Hughton.
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Absolutely. But it's worth pointing out. After all there are some people who think it's perfectly reasonable to undermine the best manager we've had for 25 years, and sack him at the first sub optimal spell.
They probably need a guide to where this is headed.
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That was my big concern - he is rich enough to have a random buy, hire, fire strategy in Greece. He is nowhere near rich enough to do that in the Premier League. But he thinks he is.
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He did bring through Max Kilman and Morgan Gibbs-White.
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We can debate whether it was the first sub-optimal spell. I recall two sub-optimal spells last season.
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Only if you're the sort of idiot who mandates a certain results level without the context of other factors. With new players to the league, and to each other, and one of the worst squads in the league, Cooper managed that change and achieved success very optimally.
We will be failing to win long stretches of games, even when/if we are well established, with good squads for the division, and excellent managers (Currently see brighton/Crystal Palace as examples). This isn't a problem of sub-optimal management of the squad, it's a problem of it being a highly competitive league in which we are relative minnows, and external perception easily influenced by biased briefing.
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Looks like we are going full Mendes so that will delight the results business fans and not the development minded, local club fans.
Assuming it works and doesn't bankrupt us.
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Top tip. If you want a debate, don’t start by calling someone an idiot.
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Remind me which youth players broke into the first team while Cooper was in charge? Brennan doesn't count as he'd already spent a season banging them in for Lincoln, and pretty much everyone not called Hughton knew he was ready to play in the Championship.
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If there's something that the last few years in broken propoganda led britain has taught us, it's that if you don't tell them, nobody else is doing, and they wont know.
It's sort of a public service.
There's not a debate really...you think that Cooper demonstrated multiple periods of sub-optimal performance, and I think in context that's an idiotic position to hold. Presumably by idiots who the world has turned into febrile illogical reactionaries, with all the nuance and understanding of a furiously wanking chimp. I would argue that you don't have to fall in line.
Now. On mature reflection. With what he had at his disposal, and in the context of where he was deploying his trade, and the experience of other teams around him mostly with superior resources (Leicester, Leeds, etc), how many actually demonstrably sub-optimal spells do you really think that he had?
