http://smtop100.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/italian-manager-mid-season-review.html
(Season 2 Italian Manager Review)
http://smtop100.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/gazzetta-dello-sport-special-italian.html (Season 1 Italian Manager Review)
Following on
from the comprehensive review of the Italian managers over the previous two
seasons it is now time for the Italian Manager Review season 3. This season
Gino Kinnearo has also decided to compare the scores from the previous 2 seasons to
see if that manager has shown any improvement.
DP 91 Juventus are as doped up as a non-banned Russian athlete at the
Rio Olympics and this is the sole reason for their continued supposed dominance
of the better managers that surround them, take Gordon Kinnear for example or
David Senior with that Juventus side they’d have come mid-table and they are
talented managers yet DP somehow finds an extra gear from somewhere or is it an
extra injection? One thing is for certain DP doesn’t give his players Lucozade
sport at half-time and yet Frank Hirst stands by and lets this happen –
disgraceful.
In addition his continued hounding of every man and his dog in order to strengthen his squad is abysmal he is a homeless man sleeping outside the house of a different manager every evening and then taking his personal helicopter to training each morning. One manager reported 20x missed calls, 15 text messages, 12 messages on fb messenger, 10 emails, 8 tweets, 5 whatsapp messages and 1 voicemail in the space of 1 hour from the horrible excuse of a man - all enquiring for the same player and most were aggressive in nature.
2/10
Mister Dinosaur T-Rex Malcolm Fiorentina - This season Mister Malcolm hasn’t
failed to disappoint as ever and he has been about as brilliant as a gelato in
Antarctica, once again proving that dinosaur tactics have no place in the new
match engine and even Mr Gore has called for Malcolm to be sacked. The former
“supposed” Italian team of the year have lost their heart, a heart ripped out
by a blunt and boring style of football brought by an overaged manager who
finds himself grappling onto the slippery pole that will surely see him sacked
come early October.
Malcoasauras some of the Florentine press have come to call
him in recent weeks.
1/10
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| Malcoasauras as he has became known has been gobbled up by almost everyone |
Fred Dodger Lazio – Sensational – but still not as good as Beddows – he is without doubt
the most over achieving Italian manager in the whole of SM Top 100 – so out of
his depth that he is having to use an inflatable pink lilo just to stay afloat.
Whilst his work this season might be miraculous there is some doubt to its
legitimacy as last season he survived at the death on the last day and numerous
sightings across the globe of Dodger and Hirst at several Costa Coffee outlets
in Umbria, Liguria, on the French Riveria, on the Copacabana and on Merseyside
have sparked rumours that some sort of method of payment has resulted in the
season that Lazio are having.
4/10
Rob Ryan Napoli – another manager who has overachieved perhaps following his promotion
from Div 2 last season. As to why there are where they are there are any number
of explanations but other more brilliant managers – like The Doctor at Atletico
and Noisy are Leverkusen underperforming are making Rob look better than what
he actually is. In addition, inconsistent team selections and too many experiments
are not being supported by the Napoli board or supporters – does he think he is
some kind of scientist?
4/10
Stephen
Beddows AC Milan – Beddows has once again proved his brilliance as a manager – top of
the table for much of the season but his side have suffered due to a relentless
calendar with the WCC and Youth Cup commitments but find themselves with a good
chance of avoiding relegation as we approach the 2/3 part of the season.
Balotelli
otherwise known as God has been a revelation once again with an amazing amount
of goals this season, the youths have been excellent and even though we expect
Milan to finish about 10th do not be surprised if they overachieve
this season and finish 9th.
The
continued oppression of Milan by other T100 managers clearly isn’t working this
season but as Beddows said he and his players are only human and the continued
bullying is likely to take its toll sooner or later – but so far so good –
EXCELLENT.
10/10
Neil Frankland AS Roma - Not having a bad season once again but Neil as a manager is clearly
like a good jockey whose horse always goes lame 4 fences before the end and we
shouldn’t expect anything less this season. Any manager who abandons his side
to his kids to go on holiday mid-season to the Dominican Republic should be
publically flogged and if this was Roman times for sure the fans would have
sent Frankland to be a Gladiator where he’d stand no chance.
Most Roma
fans are largely disappointed with the lack of progress under Frankland and to
be honest with the word “Frank” in his surname believed that they would be
given some favours by the T100 hierarchy – some Roma fans have called him lazy
for not trying to capitalize on this remarkable coincidence but it appears that
Frankland is only interested in succeeding in his new chain of Coffee shops he
has opened in Rome (Frankie’s) as opposed to bring success on the football
field.
6/10
Brian Clough Inter Milan – Absolutely disgraceful again from Clough. He is a poor
excuse for an Inter manager and following on from such failures as Dr Fox and
PMW he was only ever going to surely emulate their effectiveness at failure –
yet he actually went a step further and got them relegated.
Most Inter
fans expected at least Top 7 this season but that is seeming unlikely at
present with the possibility of Inter surpassing their City rivals about as
likely to happen as Wayne Rooney to lose the England captaincy. Farcical is a
word many journalists have used to describe some of Brian’s post-match
interviews this season following defeats against minnows such as Donetsk, Lyon
and Lokomotiv Moscow – I mean who the hell is Greg Owen!
1/10
Frank Hirst Genoa – a success story that is about as surprising as Nigel Farage’s decision
to step down, everyone knew that Frank does not take defeat lightly and as such
it is actually against the rules in T100 to beat Genoa and Frank. Beddows has
long continued to vent this rhetoric around the gameworld yet no one listens
and Frank continues to dominate. His signings are all clearly about as innocently
clean as Gadhafi and yet still no action. It is perhaps a forgone conclusion
that Frank will continue to rise up and up the leagues and Gino for one has
already decided to bet £1million pound on Genoa going up again next season,
unfortunately the odds are as little as 1/100000 so he doesn’t stand to win
much.
5/10
Attila Olah Udinese – the Hungarian hound continues to produce miracles in the Youth Cup as
his side next fact the might of Real Madrid. Yet in the league they continue to
be uninspiring, like his countrymen Attila has proposed to build a fence to
stop the dissenting fans from getting into the ground on matchday but when he
realised this would mean he wouldn’t be able to pay the wages of such talents
as Pohjanpalo and Kouassi he quickly backed down.
Having been
in charge at Udine for 12 months now there clearly has been no signs of
improvement in the first XI aside from cheating to win the Division 4 play off
in season 1 and many fans want him out.
3/10
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| Attila has tried to built a wall at Udinese |
Sean Cass Atalanta – Milan’s nearest neighbour who they actually get on with. Sean is a
fantastic manager whose own success this season is almost mirror image of Milan’s
and that can be put down to Beddows and the regular glass of Barbera wine and
plate of pasta which the two managers regularly share at Beddows’ favourite
Brazilian restaurant in Milan (happy to name it if any of you ever go.)
Consistency
in results and team selection have seen Sean get the best out of his average
players like Mehmedi and Flanagan and don’t be surprised if they do go up to
Division 3 next season.
5/10
paddy d Chievo Verona – Paddy is in his first full season in charge at Chievo and
he manages a side who are about as up and down as the Vengaboys yet presently
find themselves just outside the play offs. With a front two of Ibisevic and
Pelle without question have the fire power to push on and get promotion but the
temperament of Paddy, a man with Irish ancestry and known to turn up to
training drunk may take its toll and have a negative impact on the other
players.
5/10
André Libras-Boas Hellas Verona – Andre has had the unenviable task of following in the
footsteps of such greats as Marco De Angelis and Davy (that Furry guy from
Belgium) yet he is performing quite well and like his city rivals find themselves
on the brink of the play-offs.
A well balanced
squad is certainly in evidence here but having a double barrelled surname might
have a negative impact on the Verona natives who are more used to Montagues and
Capulets as opposed to Libras-Boas’ who has not endeared himself to the locals
with his criticism of the local area and its culture or lack of – one such
story occurred when he criticised the Verona authorities for banning ‘ethnic
kebab shops’ now making it nigh on impossible to find a decent kebab within a
100 mile radius and has resulted in Andre losing about 10lbs.
4/10
Michael Hudson Torino – Are we going to get through an anaylsis of Huddo without mentioning
Kangaroos, well we shall try. Again a largely disappointing season for Huddo
who has a squad capable of dominating sides, yet like his own nation at the
Olympics he appears to be a man who cannot cope with pressure and is quite
happy to finish 5th and 6th and publically applaud the
victors whilst privately scratch his head trying to understand why it is not he
who is at the top – grow a pair of bloody balls Huddo.
It was
reported in the Sydney Morning Herald that Huddo’s approach to management doesn’t
resemble a typical Aussie bouncing up and down but at half-time he plays the
players episodes of My Little Pony and Care Bears and his philosophy of “love
for everyone” is not supported by the players.
It remains to
be seen if he will be sacked come the end of the season but surely after 3
seasons of no success it is time for a change in Turin.
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| Huddo - Torino manager |
2/10
Bob «Groucho» Sal Sassuolo – Bob is a man loved by all at Gazzatta dello Sport and it
breaks our heart to see him struggling for breathe at the wrong end of Division
4. He kindly let Beddows progress in the Youth Cup and this is a favour that
shall not be forgotten but could Sassuolo really be facing double relegation?
Who is at fault surely Bob is to blame?
Not so – the
“Blame Bob” campaign which has been started by a large number of the Sassuolo
fans is an utter disgrace and is probably financed by DP and his supporters to
unsettle the club and force Bob out allowing Drum, Zaza and Luan to move to
Juventus for cut price cash deals.
We hope Bob
will survive but do not feel that the Canadian manager will last out the
winter.
5/10
Marco De Angelis Sampdoria – A brilliant appointment which has turned out to
be slightly uninspiring. The Sampdoria fans were delighted to have an angel as
their manager expecting him to bring uplifting performances and wings of goals
yet this has not materialised and Marco is said to be frustrated by the
continued references to angels by the press.
He has had
to rebuild his side from scratch and therefore we should recognise this in the
review and we hope that he will survive the sack race.
4/10
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