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Didn't they say a few weeks back or so that they were going to be interviewing two managers for the position!?!?!
I don't know but I haven't paid much attention to it, I just assumed that it was Harry's job.
Didn't they say a few weeks back or so that they were going to be interviewing two managers for the position!?!?!
you can guarantee they will react the exact opposite way that we didI find it suspiciously convenient that the FA have taken this step, which may well unsettle West Brom as we have been unsettled, close to when the Goons play the Baggies
you can guarantee they will react the exact opposite way that we did
Redknapp tactically is hugely reactive and I don't think he has any sort of coherent philosophy at all apart from getting the best players he can (which goes for every manager) and then getting them to pass the ball to each other and express themselves. Does that make him more proactive than Moyes or Allardyce? I don't think he's proactive at all in that sense...
What makes you say Martinez or Rodgers are any more proactive than Allardyce or Moyes? They all have definite philosophies - it just seems some people prefer one over another.
And Martinez might plough the money back in but it still damages his squad to consistently lose his best players (Valencia, Palacios, Baines to name a few) and prevents him from ever building anything more than a team that is all about surviving every year...
Sounds like I didn't properly explain what I meant by proactive/reactive. Basically in the context I used it, I meant that imo the likes of Moyes, tends to look at the opposition first and devise a strategy to counteract their strengths, only when he's done that does he then think about how, within the limits of the plan he's devised, he can find a way to maximise his own side's strengths. This is what I think is reactive. Whereas Redknapp will always tend to think first about our strengths, and how to impose them on the opposition (proactive), and only pay lip-service to stopping the other side. A simplification I realise, and very many grey areas, but that's the gist of it.
Whether Redknapp's any good at maximising the strengths of his side is another debate, and one in which my views are well known.