Management is about understanding first, and making yourself understood after that.
Benitez goes straight to the second bit.
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Benitez goes straight to the second bit.
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
Really? Ferguson, Clough, Mourinho, Conte, Guardiola. Did/do they adapt their methods based on players?
In the modern game (well modern life really) I don't think you can just manage that way and be successful. People react differently some of them need an arm round the shoulder and a bit of coaxing some need their ego massaging and some need tough love. You need to be able to adapt and do a bit of all of them and I don't think it's any coincidence that many of the old style hairdryer managers have disappeared now. It's an outdated style that modern players don't respond to in the main.
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
I think it's a stretch to say Benitez has wrecked Everton. He's sold Digne and brought in Gray, Townsend and 2 full backs. In terms of playing style, we were the worst team in the league to watch last season. Other than the results, which again we had plenty of bad ones last season, I fail to see the difference, other than we concede first more, but we also recover after conceding, which we haven't done for years.
Absolutely.
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
Now that I agree with. Then the question becomes do you get players who can cope with that management style, or do you get a manager with a different outlook.
I don't know about Potter but by all accounts Arteta has handled conflict at Arsenal brilliantly and has successfully changed many things without burning too many bridges.
sageyefc
Player Valuation: £90m
It’s very rare this type of management works these days.
Lobster Johnson
Player Valuation: £35m
That's exactly how Ferguson lasted as long as he did with the results he did. You can't treat Eric Cantona the same as Steve Bruce. You can't treat Roy Keane the same as David Beckham.
RB ,in my opinion, was appointed to change the club , root and branch.
I think it was known when he was appointed there was going to be some pain and unpopular decisions made.
The sale of Digne was the first but probably not the last.
As a club we have been drifting badly since Moyes left.
CA had five good months followed by five bad months.
I believe he had begun to realise the enormity of the task ahead of him and didn't fancy it.. Real Madrid gave him the ideal opportunity to escape.
The more I think about it I wonder if Carlo would have stayed anyway when we now know he wouldn't have money to spend.
I don't think RBis inane danger of being sacked at the moment. I think he will be given the opportunity and time to change the club.
We have a lot of over paid weak willed players who are prepared to get us mid table but not maybe more than that.
Even the move for Digne was sideways rather than upwards as we thought it might be.
We have relatively few players now who could actually expect an upward move if they left..Pickford, Doucoure, Richarlison, Gray and DCL probably.
If Gordon continues to Improve then he will certainly join that list.
I don't know if it is under Benitez he is starting to realise his potential is significant, maybe not.
However, Branthwaite also appears to be progressing and Dobbin as well
To be fair those managers could spend huge wads of cash to bring in the players to suit how they wanted to play, we haven't got those cash resources so have to find a way of playing to suit the players we do have. At the end of the day Benitez is paid a fortune to figure this stuff out.
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
He dropped Ozil, and now he's dropped Aubameyang. He plays young players who do what they're told, and more professional older players. Not too dissimilar from Benitez.
100% get a better manager. The only reason I can think of for Benitez being appointed and still being in a job is that Moshiri wanted to get rid of some high earners and popular players and bring in cheap no marks with a view to us finishing between 12th and 17th for a couple of years and thought that it would be easiest to have a manager that everybody hated anyway so there was no additional fallout. It's a terrible plan and a very risky one but if thats not what he's thinking then the only other option is that he's utterly stupid so its a bit of a lose lose situation.
Its a point but they will have had some affinity with their players and built a mutual understanding, not sulk and get rid the minute the waters get a bit choppy!
If he really felt that undermined by Digne and it looks like Doucs now, then what does that say about his character?
There will have been an element of compromise on all parts needed with all of those managers, to what degree will have been earned between them, however Rafael sticking to his guns and losing us matches is not showing any compromise on his part!
If he is such a good manager you play to your players strengths and not stick with a losing formula as he has done this season. Surely thats a better philosophy than chucking dolly out the pram?
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