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Fred

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Oct 2, 2003
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Capello is great in league games, he grinds them out, he is utterly shit in CL.
Utterly shit in the CL when he's reached three consecutive finals, and won one of them.

This is the kind of subjective black and white logic that I hate. It becomes a slippery slope when you call a coach who has reached three finals, shit in the CL.

What does that make other managers if one that has reached 3 finals is shit in the CL?

I was reading this and I was thinking, yeah, he's already dropping down to his knees, he's unbuckling his belt, taking down his pants, it's only a matter of time before..





BOOM. Pep explosion!



I get your point though. Zach is just wrong. The only measure you have is winning and obviously no matter how good of a manager you are, you can't win with poor players. But history has also provided us with lots of examples of great players who didn't win shit because of managerial mishaps. Great players and great managers make great teams. It's not rocket science.
You say all that, yet you agree with me. :p

You can hate him or his style, like I hate that shitface Mourinho. But credit where its due, the guy is a world class manager that is having a couple of bad seasons.


He had the best milan which was tailored to his exact approach
He had a fantastic real madrid when barcelona was chocking most of the time

Roma was his biggest achievement. And looking at that team, it again had the players he specifically needs, coupled with some peasants called "batistuta", "Totti" and "Montella" up front. Nothing serious i'm sure
Did they really? He took over from Sacchi, who was known more for attacking football, so I don't really know what you mean by they were tailored for him. I would say it as the exact opposite.

As for Real Madrid, his second spell was at a time when Real hadn't won a trophy in years. Barcelona had won the previous two league titles and Valencia the one before that. Barcelona at the time had just won back to back League titles and they were CL title holders, not exactly "chokers" at that time.
 

Stephan

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Nov 9, 2005
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He had Baresi, Maldini, Costacurta in the squad.

Naturally it would suit Capello defensive style.




Regarding Capello and CL, he never reached same success after that Milan departure, despite coaching teams like Real and Juve. I still remember how Pool and Arsenal schooled him in the CL for his stubborn ways and he didnt do better with Real either who obviously always desperate for CL. And 5 years at Roma, fair enough won the scudetto but they signed league top scorer in Batistuta, the fact he never 5 seasons, even reach CL knockouts is weird. We have seen on paper lesser coaches like Spalletti go further (knockouts, QFs) in CL than Capello did.

He was never as good in CL after that Milan side. And i dont understand why he took the England and Russia jobs. They were only going to damage his reputation. Became greedy for money?
 

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