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I’ve Got Such A Long Way To Go, To Make It To the Border Of Mexico
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Yearning for a new challenge and to learn about a new league, I’ve said goodbye to Europe and taken my talents to Mexico. I will be stamping my authority on the Mexican club Pachuca and hopefully leading them to glory in the Liga MX. First thing to do is learn the rules of the league. […]
Rome was Almost Built in a Day
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Every once in a while you look through your new squad, set them up in regards to their best abilities and everything just instantly clicks. It’s safe to say that is definitely the case for me at Lazio. We’re 10 games away from the end of the season. When I took over in November we […]
Take the Ball, Pass the Ball
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It’s been a pretty solid start to my tenure here at Lazio. We won our first league game away at Empoli 1 – 4 and passed them off the park. A 91% pass completion rate with 64% possession allows us to think we may be quickly onto something with our ball retention style of play. […]
When in Rome
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After a very successful time at Bayer Leverkusen, I felt it was the right time to leave. I was having doubts about staying as we’d now won everything we could win and it felt as if there was no where else to go. With me wanting to take the England job and the board taking […]
Season Review
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Star players Gvardiol With the dust now well and truly settled on our treble winning season, I felt it only right to highlight the key performers who made this possible. I’ll start with Gvardiol. We spent mega bucks on Gvardiol at a time we shouldn’t really be doing so. An offer of 175k a week […]
Well, Well, Well. We’ve Only Gone and Done It!
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treble winners I left the last post by saying “we couldn’t, could we?” And I honestly thought we couldn’t. A thin squad going into every big game as underdogs suggested we would just scrape a title win, let alone win the league, DFB Pokal and the Champions League. The dust has settled on the treble […]
Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
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This title race is heading to the wire and whisper it quietly, we’re the front runners! In November we turned around a 2 goal deficit away to Borussia Dortmund to win 3 – 5 which saw us move to the top of the league for the first time this season. Bayern and Dortmund have both […]
The Next Big Thing
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Now the dust has settled on last season and we’ve licked our wounds from the Europa League final defeat, it’s time to look to the future. I really feel as if we’re ready for a serious title challenge this season and this may just be our year. Usually at this stage I’d look at where […]
Leverkusen
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My German adventure lives on with Leverkusen and things are looking good. Something felt stale at Gladbach and I knew it was time to leave. Leverkusen has always appealed to me, and when the chairman told me in the interview I’d have over 100 million euros in the transfer budget, it was hard to say […]
In our Groove
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Our 3 at the back set up has brought mixed results. Something just isn’t really clicking. Very concerned about the ease that through balls are played in against us resulting in clear cut chances or a goal. Having a BPD in the center of a 3 in cover would suggest you’d have cover in […]
Anderlecht!
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Welcome to belgium We’re now 3 months into FM22 and I think it’s safe to say this may be the best version of the game ever. The introduction of the data hub was extremely exciting and I found my save in Germany to be more enhanced and more engaging when I was using the data […]
A German Adventure
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After an extremely successful and enjoyable journey in Brazil with Gremio on FM 21, it’s time to go back to Europe. This however, won’t exactly be a European tour, more of a tour around Germany. The only thing that is set in stone here is that I will be managing in Germany and only […]
8 Years at Gremio
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Well, what an amazing ride it has been here for me as manager of Gremio Football Club. The club is going from strength to strength on and off the field and the future looks extremely bright, whether I’m here or not. To think back to 2020 with short term and long term objectives scrawled in […]
Joys and Sorrows too
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Since Friday the 10th of March, 3 EFL Championship managers have been sacked due to a poor run of results. The list includes Steve McLaren of Derby County, Alex Neil of Norwich City and Warren Joyce of Wigan Athletic. At the time of writing, Gianfranco Zola is still employed by Birmingham City Football Club, which […]