(04-25-2019, 02:46 AM)Karl08 Wrote: Well that's not gattuso's fault really. He just got whatever he had at that point. And those were overpaid, overrated players.
Even i believe anyone way above gattuso's level (zidane, pep, even klopp) can only bring this team to top 3 at best. How can i expect a new, unproven, green coach to do what those world class coaches can
Yes, I do honestly believe that this situation is mostly Gattuso’s fault, simply because he is a bad manager. It becomes blatantly obvious when we go up against teams that are objectively much worse, but who still manage to outplay us, if you need a concrete example just rewatch our match against Parma.
This team is not bad, player for player. It is not great either but better managers can make their players perform above their normal level, Gattuso does the opposite. Atalanta is a perfect example of a team where the sum is clearly better than the parts, and that is down to an experienced manager.
Gattuso is not new, he has been managing teams for 6 years now, and he has been awful at every team, which is also why his tenures have been rather short. There has never been anything promising about him as a manager, he is a traditionalist, basically an very poor mans Ancelotti. I’d be a lot more forgiving if he was trying out new strategies or experimenting with how he can open up new dimensions to this team, but he does none of that. To Gattuso being adventurous is to take off a wingback and play with two strikers. He would be perfect in the English Championship with his approach, but Serie A is full of tactically astute managers who all run circles around his clueless tactics.
It was a good call to bring him in as the manager of the primavera team, a bad call to throw him in to the deep end so soon as a short-term replacement, and an absolutely horrendous decision to give him the job on a permanent basis.