the sceptic said:
pretty sure most of the manager hype in modern football is media created narratives. In reality they're all doing more or less the same things and I doubt it matters much who manages these top teams.
If you have a team with insanely fast and technical players who can press relentlessly for 90 minutes youre going to win no matter what.
Glad to see someone else thinks this. Ive been saying it for years, on here, in real life, to friends etc and always been shut down by people telling me I don't understand managment and how great they are bla bla bla.
The way I have always seen it is, if intelligence was so important in football, you wouldn't have the dumbest people on earth - former footballers, taking up almost all the top spots.
People get hired based on media profile. In many cases their high media profile owes far more to their on field achievements than any actual managment experience. But they get hired anyway. Why? Because who you are, is far more important than any actual job you do. Play messi up front and ter stegen in goal. What an einstein you must be to figure that out.