I think there's a middle ground.I've never been able to get behind the idea that a club should sign exactly the player a coach wants. (As in, not just fitting the type of player, but the same individual the coach is thinking of). Presumably a coach spends his working hours coaching. How many additional hours can he devote to scouting out potential transfers as well? It seems odd to entrust so much spending to an individual with limited time and information.
Milik is a very good striker,dont judge him by the performances at the EC.Napoli has done a good job here.What bothers me is that we're overrating Ajax's talents big time. I am not really excited to buy any of their attacking "wonderkids".
Last serious attacking player over there was Suarez. Before that they all pushed Babel like a big thing but he failed miserably. That Milik is nothing special too and Napoli just forced that transfer.
Looks they are doing solid job with defenders in last 5 years though.
I think the thing that makes me feel OK about this move only 2 weeks before the season starts, is the way de Boer took over at Ajax. He was not hired in May or June and given the whole summer to prepare his team. Martin Jol was manager of Ajax at the start of the 2010-11 season. Jol went 9-5-3 in the clubs first 17 matches. He only won 1 of his final 5 league matches in charge, which lead to his firing. He also went 1-1-3 in the group stage of CL, losing to Real Madrid 4-0 at home! Ajax was in 5th place at the time of de Boer's takeover.
Frank was put in charge on December 6th and his first match was against Milan in the San Siro on December 8th. 2 days later! Not only did de Boer win the match against Milan 2-0, but he also won 13 of the final 17 matches in the league, defeating Twente on the final day to jump them in the standings and win the Eredivisie title. He did have the winter break, which lasts a month in the Eredivisie, after his first 2 matches in charge, but he has experience getting a team together in a short amount of time.
However, his second season in charge started off awful. If he had a similar start to that here, I could definitely see us firing him. At least if things were run like they used to be. I think Ajax fell all the way to 6th or 7th place that year by mid season. Not sure what ignited them, but they won the final 14 matches of the season, scoring 44 goals and allowing just 6!
In fact, de Boer showed a similar pattern in his first 3 seasons in charge. Ajax always started off slow when he was in charge and then finished strong each year.
2011-12
First Half: 9-6-2, 4th place (5-6-2 in first 13 matches)
Second Half: 14-1-2, 1st place
2012-13
First Half: 10-6-1, 3rd place (4-6-1 in first 11 matches)
Second Half: 12-4-1, 1st place
2013-14
First Half: 10-4-3, 2nd place (5-4-3 in first 12 matches)
Second Half: 10-7-0, 1st place
So let's not be in shock if the results do not happen right away. We gave Mancini 20+ months, hopefully we show the same patience with de Boer.
Actually Murillo is pretty good with the ball (first notice that when i watch him on Copa America before he join us) but for some reasons Mancini has not used this ability too much.
Fair.Let's see if he can get that with De Boer and new season.Potential for that role is here.To me he has the technique but he doesn't have the composure.
Actually Murillo is pretty good with the ball (first notice that when i watch him on Copa America before he join us) but for some reasons Mancini has not used this ability too much.
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To me this is too general an analysis. You can't just look at results and make verdicts about methodology. Even if a trend shows up every season De Boer was at the club, there's no evidence to say he's the source.
I'm also not so sure we would get rid of De Boer so easily if we had a bad start to the season, and I'd hope we were more prudent about it. Wouldn't think Thohir would sack him but we were never in that situation earlier in the season so who knows and we don't know how Suning will look at it.
No doubt we should give him support and time to implement his ideas on the squad, even more so without a real preseason. How long the squad will adapt can depend on a variety of factors. Personally I don't expect to see his previous brand of football to come off quickly or easily with our current squad, especially with a goalkeeper that is a liability with the ball, no ball playing defenders, and as of right now two DMs that aren't composed with the ball. We'll see what happens.
its bcoz no one wants Rano,and Andreolli is hurt. Besides,Juan is very reckless w the ball in his feet,so idk about him in the midfield.the only defender that could have emulated a DM position was Juan, and we sold him for peanuts while we kept andreolli and rano.
the only defender that could have emulated a DM position was Juan, and we sold him for peanuts while we kept andreolli and rano.
He's also tight fisted when it comes to cash, into fashion (every match he has a new outfit) while not following ajax's clothes sponsor and collects watches.
Beware of a shitstorm from many football experts here. Once upon a time I said the same thing about JJ and people tried to shit on me.