But he's right about everything else though. We hired a supposedly better version of Gasperini in Sarri, didn't back him in the market, made random signings and expected him to play 'attractive football'.
Forget about the locker room and big ego's. This squad is constructed very poorly for a Gasperini or Sarri to implement their style of football successfully. I mean I can name only a handful of players in this team that can play with the same intensity and work ethic as Gasperini's Atalanta. We would need a complete squad overhaul for that to happen. Add to Tici's incompetency and a complete lack of vision on how to build a team as per modern footballing standards, hiring Gasperini or a manager of a similar mold is a disaster waiting to happen.
i have a lot of remarks on this (and the previous post), so just some shorties:
- he said that gasp is not a big team coach. zero sample size, and it was a badly managed inda. before marotta's arrival, every single coach failed there since mourinho left. we simply have no idea whether atalanta is gasp's ceiling or not. fact is that he's doing great with zero budget, everything else is just speculation.
- he also based his judgement on gasp's strong personality. plenty of successful coaches have strong personalities.
- he said that he'd lose the locker in no time. well, i only remember ONE player (papu) after working together with the core of the squad for several seasons, even conte, or my man allegri has a worse track record. yes, gasp's fucking demanding and puts the team above everything else. i bet it'd be hard to handle for some of our overpaid snowflakes, but honestly, i couldn't care less.
- sarri isn't a better version of gasp, they play completely different football. their personality is different too. sarri managed to get shat on his head by some little spanish prick, while gasp fired his best player when papu disrespected him. sarri is very reluctant to make changes. remember the voices about atalanta being finished without papu a couple of months ago? gasp tweaked them pretty well. sarri never connected with the club and the squad (that was the main problem with him), while you can't dismiss gasp, and he's got a history at juve. they have a distinctive playstyle associated with them, but they have completely different history and personality.
- i also never said i specifically wanted gasp or the squad was compatible with him. i literally wrote this:
"he's one of the very few italian coaches i'd be happy to take, even if it would take him a season or two to fully implement his ideas", meaning we'd have to build a squad for him. this should the normal situation with every single coach, and we were very, very lucky and spoiled at the same time during allegri's first 4 seasons, when our sideways steps in squad building didn't really show in the results. for gasp, we'd need two full summers, but if we were to lose two titles in a row, i wouldn't mind making a squad overhaul anyway.
- yes, he's right about our lack of planning after allegri.
- and yes, i absolutely agree with you about tici's squad building
skills. i said many times: no coach (allegri included) would bring back the domination of the conte/allegri era without getting a proper squad first. i absolutely love allegri, and if we could bring him back, i'd most certainly do that, but signing him and giving him this midfield would be a waste of resources. bring someone like luis campos first. without a proper team builder (like gasp btw, just saying), firing pirlo and putting faith in
any coach is an other dead end.
bottom line: this squad is constructed very poorly for a
*insert any name* 