By Sam McGuire
The Calm before the Storm.
It’s always a little difficult when you’re having to start over in any walk of life. You get to start afresh and there must be a fear that if you get it wrong, again, you may not be able to recover. Outsiders looking in may consider it an easy job when a football club is looking to appoint a new manager, but is it? You’re supposed to look to the future whilst judging likely candidates on what they’ve achieved in the past. It’s easy to put too much emphasis on what managers have won at previous cubs, they must be good if they’ve won things, right? It’s only when you starting breaking it down you realise how difficult it truly is to judge a manager.
Said manager may have won the league title but then you have to examine his squad at the time. A certain player may have excelled in that team but the current Liverpool side doesn’t have a player like that. Will the manager’s tactics be just as effective without that player? Similarly, the Liverpool side may have players that the manager’s successful teams didn’t have. Will this manager adapt his style? If he changes will it detract from what made him good? Football is all about evolution and adapting but if a successful manager is having to change what brought him success will it be a negative? If you don’t have the players for this manager is it worth appointing him?
Then of course the club has to take into account the league the success came in. Of course many dismiss the quality of any league other than the Premier League and La Liga. I don’t agree. I think Bundesliga is superior to the Premier League, if Pep is managing there it can’t be that bad can it? Likewise I think Ligue 1 gets a bad image, it’s fairly competitive and plenty of English sides shop there. So if managers have success in those leagues you shouldn’t brush it under the rug. Obviously if the manager has a CV made up of winning the Scottish Premier League a few times I’d not buy into that myself. Owners and Chief Executives will look at this though. Was their league easier? Is the manager Premier League proven and has he beaten big clubs? Has he managed at a club of this stature before? Has he had success in Europe before?
There are plenty of success stories of when clubs have appointed managers from abroad and very few, that I can remember, of when big clubs have appointed managers from lesser teams. The likes of Rafa Benitez, Jose Mourinho, Carlo Ancelotti, Arsene Wenger have all been appointed and brought success to big English clubs whereas the likes of David Moyes, Mark Hughes and even Brendan Rodgers failed to properly deliver what was expected.
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