Are Top Serie A Clubs IGNORING Young, Italian Coaches?
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Welcome to a new episode of the Football Italia Show. Good news from the Champions League, but very bad news from Europa League and Conference League as well for Syria clubs. Today we discuss all the latest games in Europe for Italian teams. But something more as well. We talk about coaches. Let's start. Chank Jaraldi joining me, our friend here on the football channel. Thank you for being here. >> It's a pleasure as always. >> So, it wasn't a pleasure, I think, to watch to watch Syria teams in in Europe yesterday. It's entirely the opposite from last week. Seven days ago, four defeats in in the Champions League and then uh uh wins in uh in Europa League and Conference League. And now it's the other way around. Four wins in the Champions League, three defeats in Europa League and Conference League. Bern Bernal 3 Milan Neil Ren Juventus 22 those for Europa League and then Conference League. Ajax beat Atlanta 2-0il in Amsterdam. Let's start with Milan because um Amarim returning to to England. Bonimoth fans chanting it's happening again with with Amarine smiling. There wasn't much to smile about for million other than that yesterday. >> No, it was >> and not even there probably. >> Yeah. Yeah. No, not really. Not really for Milan Faz. I don't think it was a I I felt it was a bit of a continuation of a theme in a way from the Champions League where Ko beat Manchester United and you know growing up as a football fan that would have been completely unthinkable to one of the great names of European football of world football Manchester United losing to Kobo and then you know a couple of days later a day later we get um Bournemouth with with all the respect in the world beating Milan who are you know one of the most storied teams in in Europe and it felt like a it feels like a changing of guard. It feels like some of the great teams of years gone by are in decline and and there are upand cominging teams that are doing well. You know what I It's not it's I'm always a bit loathed to use the word fairy tale because these teams do spend you know all teams now that are successful have almost all teams have spent a lot of money um to achieve success and any team in the um English Premier League is going to have a big a big budget but just the same a humbling experience for Milan I think and a big setback you can see maybe the league is the priority if you were trying to be kind but still you know that everything that could go wrong did go wrong really and you would not have expected I don't think you would not have expected Milan and you know certainly the great Milan sides went all around Europe and beat everybody but this is a new reality people have to get used to it I think that that's where we stand as for Amarim interesting you know he's he's had a reasonable start with Milan I um some good results, but this is definitely a setback and it'd be interesting to see how he reacts to that, how the team reacts to that. Is the team with them? Um can he take them forward because certainly that's a blow and you know I think fans would accept if if they do well in the league and you know give up on Europe, I think fans would accept that. But if it goes badly in both that's um that's starting to have the makings of another another disaster and it is happening again. You know what? Um, teams like Chroma Inter uh they they can choose uh the the best 11s they can rotate uh because they have deep enough squads especially in uh compared to Roma Juventus and Milan you have the feeling that whenever they decide to rotate like this the starting options are already not the best but when they decide to rotate you So it's almost inevitable that they're going to drop. This is why I'm not saying it's the defeat for Milan is not a big thing cuz when you can see three goals even though there was the Manan red card but even before that uh you didn't see a Milan team that really went on the pitch with the desire to win the game willing to match that sort of intensity. But that's where the problem comes. thing there are games where Milan Juventus they simply can't match their opponents even that they're not the highest level opponents they it's it's like they don't have enough depth and they don't have enough options to uh to cope with this uh with two games a week and plus there are injuries obviously the Gonalo Ramis injury is was a big one against Burmouth we'll see when he returns but Milan don't really have another reliable backer option. They have Franchesco Camardo who's very young. People tend to forget that he's only 18. The fact that he scored so many goals at a young age make him feel like he's 20 already, but when he made his uh Syria debut, he was 15 three years ago. Uh yesterday, Cece who had played with the under21 as a false ner center forward that playing against Bournemouth, it didn't have a a big impact, but it was kind of predictable. So I I feel that true it's a big win but it's most concerning because not just for the results itself for both Milan and Ju even though the results were different but equally disappointing it's that whenever they drop even uh even slightly in in the starting lineup you know troubles will come. Yeah, I mean even as you see I think even the starting lineups, you know, are not that brilliant anymore. I think we just have to accept that. We've spoken in the past about Ju's sort of scatter gun approach to signings. You know, it just doesn't seem to be a coherent kind of plan there. And Milan, you know, you'd be struggling to pick out the sort of the superstars in that team. I mean Modric has been and man certainly is a top quality goalkeeper other than other than last night but you know the they're not the the level is is what it is really you know the players that they are getting are inferior to players that are being signed in the in the Premier League at the moment and that's just a fact of life. So when they come up against that, I mean, I was hoping that and maybe over time this will happen. You know, I was hoping that the more permissive approach of referees in Italy would help Italian teams in Europe because in the past it's been an issue where, you know, there's been fouls that would have been given and said, "Yeah, but we're not given in Europe." And the Italian team struggled to cope with that. But there's not really a sign that that's happening yet. you know that that they're able to deal with kind of referees maybe get letting more go you know expecting the little fouls that Italian teams are always so clever at winning they just don't win them anymore so you know I think it takes maybe a period of adjustment but even with that you've just got to see player for player it's not the same you know it's not the same as having I don't know Zida and Platini and Vanaston and Reich or whatever as it is >> and compared to that and compared to that time there are not the same number of games anymore. So uh you know when Juventus played you you would watch Delpierro every game platini every game in the past obviously uh you would watch the big stars almost in every game now it's not his way if you take Mario um Adrian Rabio Christian Pulisik out of the Milan team for one game together >> it's clear that you're going to drop something because they are the best your best players and you don't have replacements that that are good enough. Uh I mean in six days in the next six days Milan U all the other teams will be playing two more Syria games. So in one week time we'll be here talking about not one but two Syria rounds and the European round is just finished. So uh there are teams that have clear projects that have been built to cope with these things. Juventus and Milan aren't Juventus and Milan. We've been saying even the ideal 11 is nowhere close the level of uh of Inter. It's probably closer to Roma and Como Inter from um another level I think but uh even the starting 11 is nowhere near the top and plus there are injuries that are making things not easy. Juventus is the same thing. Juventus they don't have ID they don't have Tam they don't have Locatelli especially Tam and Loatelli are not huge difference makers but that still allow you to have some rotations in central midfield while with just three players available you got S you got Douglas Luis you got Cook miners one rest the other two play but you don't really see any change because uh uh the some of the best players are out and because you can't rotate much so I I think they have similar problems and this is some something we've been saying from from the very beginning since when they uh they met in Syria uh in in September. But one thing I wanted to talk to you uh today as well, Junk, is uh still related to those two games, but let I mean taking a closer look to the Napoli situation as well, the Atlanta situation. Um, and it's about coaches cuz uh we've been talking about the fact that Syria clubs have been taking a more um proactive approach in the transfer market and on the field as well, signing more young players uh playing a more attacking style football. But the same courage I think hasn't been shown on the bench because we still have coaches that are really really good. You got Spalet Juventus. He's a good coach. You can't deny that he's going downhill, but he's still a good coach. Allegri Si, they have that pedigree, but probably it's like picking them is not the the most courageous decision ever. Now, Juventus is different because he had Spali had extended his contract even uh before knewing he would not qualify for the Champions League. So, you can discuss that or not. what five or six months later it's it's surely easier. Um Atlanta Napoli with Mimi they had a chance Napoli to to get Italiano at some point for reasons that are not necessarily related to the field. Darentes picked um Masimiano Leri I'm thinking about the coaches abroad as well. Foli, Italiano, especially Italiano I think is it's it's impossible not to see him in Syria. It's impossible that no team at least in the top six thought about thought about this coach. I I haven't seen to sum it up the same courage that we seen with some transfer decisions related to players applied to coaches as well. >> Yeah, I mean I think that's a fair point. I think especially, you know, if you feel you've struggled in the past, it's easier to go for an old head. It's easier to go for somebody with a proven track record, you know, someone who's although, you know, you'd have to say it certainly, I mean, Foli would be a gamble because he's he's not got Syria experience, but but it has done well. I mean, you know, he did pretty well at Furentina. He did even better. you know, a lot of regrets I think in in Florence seeing what he did with Bolognia. So, yes, he would have thought he was ripe for the for the step up. But I think then maybe ambitious managers, young managers demand more of a club as well. And so that can be a mismatch in in vision. If you know, if you want someone to come in, if if I'm a young manager, I want to be bringing in the players I want. I want to be, you know, having the players for the style that I want. And if your president would rather that you carried on with the players that you've got or, you know, he finds somebody that's willing to to take that, then I think that's there. I I do think I'm not entirely convinced by the age argument. I think it's more about um flexibility. I would say that some coaches are able to adjust. I mean, if you look at I mean, Gasparini is no no spring chicken at Roma, but he's doing a good he's doing a good job there and he's still playing, you know, an exciting kind of football. Whereas, I mean, I think, you know, it he does what it says on the tin. You know, the style you're getting, it's a style where winning is everything really. entertainment is you know well down the list of priorities and I think maybe these sort of coaches spali you know has been a great coach still is a good coach I think and but it's you get the feeling sometimes with the the touchline histrionics that maybe it's just you know it's the end of a it's the end of the line so I think it's more about adaptability and flexibility and then you know that can you can still have that I like to think um even later on in your career. Um but I think unfortunately maybe these clubs are stuck with managers who are kind of stuck in their ways and what worked for them previously if you think I mean Saturday football was amazing back in the day but it doesn't always work. the same thing doesn't always work and football moves on and maybe maybe football has moved on and it's a shame that you know certainly Italiano I would love to see back and seri too I mean he's from well sort of from my part of the world in Tuskanyany as well so you know it would be it would be nice to see him get a chance as well but that then needs you know the the presidents are not all um so adventurous you know and and maybe especially I think if you have had bad results the temptation is always to go for the more dependable option as it is with you know as it has been for a long time with footballers as well young Italians not getting a chance because you can find a you know a 20 something foreign player who'll do the job straight away and it takes a bit more it takes a bit more vision I think from presidents to to appoint a a coach. >> And in all these we we tend to forgot. Uh we had a video in uh in the summer about Marisa being appointed as the Manchester City coach. Uh it's almost like he is a he's more foreigner than than Italian. Is a strange feeling because you got his best results as a coach and as a player outside of Italy, but technically we we have an Italian coach in one of the best clubs in the world. troubled now but still uh uh one of the best clubs in the world and he's doing a fantastic job job at Manchester City. So there are examples of uh young Italian coaches who are are doing a good job at a very high level and in Mariska's case at the highest level but probably uh that type of profile now in talking specifically about Mariska is is gone for Syria as you said because he belongs now to a different level and you mentioned Spaleti. I think what's worrying for Juu is that he seems to have gone through a spiral that is very similar to the one that he had with the Italy national team like starting with one idea uh and then uh it all becomes a little bit confusing uh again changing systems. It's it's good to have fluid football. is good to know that players must uh every players must know how to play in different positions. But all these rotations, all these changes of positions on the field, it's it seems to be undermining some way the team's confidence. And this is something we saw with with Yuri. And like I'm feeling is is just unfortunately for Juve and Spaleti going exactly the same way um at the club now. >> Yeah, it does look like it. And as I see the sort of the the histrionics are usually a sign that things are not well, you know what I mean? I think he's conscious that he's not got, you know, much time left as a coach at the highest level. So he wants the team to do well and you know and that kind of feeling can it can work but it it can backfire you know and it just at the moment it's leading to confusion on the pitch I would say that you know people don't know he doesn't seem to know what his best formation is his best approach is who his best players are you know and that's with all the kind of provisos attached to the players that are missing Um it it does seem a bit like history repeating. It does seem, you know, that things are going downhill and he can't apply the the handbrake and turn things around, you know. So that's difficult and and then you then you're back in the position, I suppose, do you have a knee-jerk reaction and get rid of him? And if you do get rid of him, who I mean, the name we've not mentioned, I guess, hovering in the background of all jobs at the moment seems to be Antonio Conte, you know, who's I don't know where we fit him in to this discussion. Is he is he an old head that um would change his ways? I mean he's been successful wherever his style is successful but will that style >> surely he's one who would want to have a certain impact on the market like the young >> and that's the other thing is that you know we know he is a demanding um guy. So you know if you take him on you you he comes with certain expectations with certain baggage that you have to deal with. So, you know, and you have to give him what he needs to be um successful. So, yeah, I mean, it's a shame. Marisa would be lovely to have in in Syria, but you know, I guess it might depend how things play out at Manchester City. We might we might see him. I'm not sure if he'd fancy managing in English League 2. So, you know, we might see him back in Italy at some point, but for the time being, he seems he seems out of reach. And uh the fact that uh there's already so much noise around Spalet's job, his successors, it seems more something that is going to happen more towards the end of the season that in the current campaign, but already is isn't a good sign. Gazeta mentioned Simon and Zagi a few days back. Uh there would be other names thrown in the mix as well. if uh things don't get don't get entirely out of control at Juventus, they're not going to change mid-season, but it's something that they may consider at the end of the campaign, especially if Juvia don't get the minimum target, which is qualifying um for the Champions League. But I I said this in a previous video. I think as long as they don't start with a clear project and they don't keep changing directors every every year, uh it's it's not going that they can fix because one coach arrives and then another director arrives then director waits for the next coach and and it's been we've been saying the same thing about U since Ali was sacked right or not. Uh but Thago came in, Tudor came in and strangely it's almost like Juventus 7 even developed their playing style. They're always playing the same way. Um and just to finish off here another um coach already obviously uh with lot of noise around is is Ruben Amore which is in terms of our discussion here I think a little bit in between. I mean it it was a I mean courageous decision from from Milan because he's a coach who didn't have any serial experience before uh before he because he's a coach who technically wants to play modern attacking football who has attacking style ideas where do we see the million decision come to nearly November and I I still think personally it's uh it's it's a good sign for Milan. Personally, I would still have chosen for a new project an Italian coach and I think Italiano would have been absolutely perfect because he he knows how to manage teams across two competitions. He reached European finals. He led Bolognia in the Champions League and in Europa League as well. So, probably an Italian name, specifically Italiano, would have been uh more solid as a decision. But um I I I still like Amorim. I mean the way he talks to the press, he's very honest. He explains his decisions. Uh and he's trying to show something different to give something different to Syria, which is we've seen some from other uh foreign and Italian coaches as well this season. Not much from the most experienced coaches or from the from those who who we mentioned before. For example, if if you look at at the top teams now, uh probably the best coach in Syria is Fabregas who comes from Spain. And then I would say Gasp and Ko at the same time. Maybe give Gasp a little edge because of his career. Ku is a very good coach coaching a very strong team, the best team in Syria. So uh there are mixed signals. How how would you assess the decision of hiring a morim with the first few results coming in? >> I mean, I think you've got to be more patient and that's always I always see the sa