Soldato
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Lets say Wenger does go this summer. Does looking for a new manager during a World Cup summer complete things?
Lets say Wenger does go this summer. Does looking for a new manager during a World Cup summer complete things?
or anchelottiThe 2 favourites for the job are Low and Henry, so if we are going for one of them we would have to wait for Germany or Belgium to be knocked out. Maybe Henry would leave earlier for his dream job, who knows?!
or anchelotti
Ancelotti isn't a great manager, he doesn't build teams, he's a caretaker manager, as in literally that is his only job. He's old, he's not in it for the long term, he doesn't buy players, he doesn't build teams he just rights a single problem with a great team, does okay for a short bit then gets fired.
Nothing about anything Ancelotti has done in the past 15 years of football suggests he's the man to come in and rebuild Arsenal.
Tuchel, maybe, maybe not. I'm not exactly sure why he did get fired. He didn't really cause a resurgence at Dortmund either, they went to **** under Klopp not because the team got bad but due to a crazy injury crisis and difficulty finding form as only half the players came back. Once most of the players were back they were excellent in the final few months before Klopp left, Tuchel took over a side that fixed 95% of it's problems 4 months before he took over. THe difference was they started a season without an injury crisis, I think without internationals so the players got a proper summer break and started the season fresh and ending the previous season in form.
They were good but they were good before him. Under him they just felt like Dortmund back to their best as opposed to something different and new. I don't really know about him in terms of results before that, how much he improved (or didn't) Mainz.
As for Low, as you say, international is completely different. You're not dealing with contracts, you're not dealing with buying and selling, you're not dealing with motivation over multiple seasons and the level of competition is dramatically higher. In international there are 2-3 really good teams and everyone else kinda sucks, league level is for the most part much much higher. Assuming he'd be good at club level is well, based on nothing at all basically. He could be, he could be terrible. Maybe the only outright positive for having Low would be there are probably some great German internationals he'd have a great relationship with who he would be a great asset in terms of persuading them to sign.
Whether his job actually hinges on winning the Europa League is anyones guess, but at least there were some interesting comments from the fan forum the other day with Gazidis re Raul 'don't call me Director of Football' Sanllehi with regard to his experience with overseeing managerial changes from his Barca days. My gut feeling is that he'll be allowed to see out the last year of his contract, especially with it being a World Cup year, although obviously I'd prefer he went this summer.