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to get monaco within a point of the league is impressive though.
Personally i don't know who i'd prefer out of the 2. Laudrup seems to have more of an admiration for the club which would be nice to have, but it's hard to take your eyes of deschamps silverware.
DDs for me
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1 french league title
2 french league cups
1 french super cup
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as i said, it's hard to take your eyes of the silverware
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as I said I personally would go for someone who is going to get more out of limited resources.
this is what roy was supposed to do.
from wiki
At the start of his reign, Laudrup proclaimed a tactical scheme close to that which Olsen and he had coached at the national team. Laudrup renovated the Brøndby team by letting a large contingent of older and experienced players go, in favour of several new offensive players, and he gave the chance to young talents from the club's youth scheme. To ensure the defensive strength of the team, he hired the proven national team player Morten Wieghorst. In his first year as head coach, he managed the team to a Danish Cup win against OB in the final. After finishing runners up twice, he finally led the team to The Double in 2005.
I think this is exactly what we need.
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the young talents i don't think would work well here as we have about 4 players at youth/reserve level who look good but it might be too soon in their development to drop them in. I agree with letting older players go but thats obvious to any manager for us and there would be a cull regardless. Several new offensive players....again....exceptionally obvious to anyone who watches us or even takes a passing glance in our direction. The reasons for laudrup are just problems with our club. Massive gaping problems which even roy has put his finger on.
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Both agree and disagree there Fabio. Players like Suso and Pacheco in particularly would come very close to the starting line-up pretty fast with Laudrup at the helm. Techincally-gifted, accomplished passers and talented players. It's all about how you address the game really and why I agree they'd look completely out of their depth in Roys away tactics against Blackburn another manager would make them fit in. Wenger for instance has no qualms over playing very young and tiny players at an early age even in the Premiership.
Apart from those two however there isn't many obvious candidates to pick from perhaps although a player like Shelvey could be another good shout for a more important role already.
A mate of mine said last night that Suso could become the best player in the world under Laudrups influence, if he's even half as good as he looks to be already that is. Perhaps a bit steep but still I can see where he's coming from.
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if laudrup (or anyone else) is able to tap into the excellent youth rafa has bought then youth can pad out the squad leaving more money to spend on quality players.
the same could be said about rijkaard at barcalona
Rijkaard was not out of a coaching role for long, and less than a year after leaving Sparta Rotterdam, he was appointed manager of Barcelona for the 2003–04 season. The season would prove to be a watershed for the club, but not without initial instability. Rijkaard arrived at the club as it entered a new phase, having elected a new President in Joan Laporta and a new managerial board, but with fans unhappy that Laporta had let English midfielder David Beckham snub the chance to join the club. For Rijkaard, the team he inherited, with the exception of new superstar signing Ronaldinho (who was the club's second choice after Beckham), also consisted of many underachieving players from the old guard and era that failed to meet the club and its fans' demands to match arch rival Real Madrid's success in the early 2000s, having not won a trophy since 1999.
Rijkaard had a disappointing start at Barcelona that saw some sections of the club's fans call for his resignation, and he drew flak from the media when the team lost to Real Madrid in December 2003.[4] Rijkaard's resilience won through and from 2004 onwards, he achieved a massive turnaround, as the team went from strength to strength. Barcelona finished runners-up in La Liga in 2003–04, having been close to the relegation zone at one point in the earlier stages of the season. Rijkaard then took Barcelona to the next level as he phased out the old guard and rebuilt a new-look side around Ronaldinho, with new players like Deco, Samuel Eto'o, Rafael Márquez and Ludovic Giuly, along with the latest promotion of some young players from the previous era trained in the club's youth teams (i.e. VÃctor Valdés, Carles Puyol, Xavi and Andrés Iniesta). He eventually succeeded in turning around the fortunes of the club, with the strong support of Laporta, and within the next couple of years finally managed to win La Liga both in 2004–05 and in 2005–06.
a) a strong character to phase out the old players
b) ability to add talent to maximise the potential of the team
b) the ability to identify and bring through youth
using an example, I would say our strongest current team is;
-------------------pepe---------------------
johnson------carra------agger------aurelio
kuyt------lucas-----meireles--------maxi
-----------------gerrard-------------------
-------------------torres-------------------
you would phase out older players like kuyt, maxi and aurelio and replace them with younger players that better suit your system. in all likelihood these new player wages will reduce the wage bill. if you are phasing out the likes of carra then your bench becomes stronger as you have experience there. if any of the youth are ready then that will also reduce the wage bill, leaving more money for transfer fees.
all of that would take at least two summer transfer windows so you would need someone with the ability to punch above their weight whilst the team is in a transitional period.
