West Ham 0-2 Manchester City: Premier League – as it happened!
86 min “I think a good way of contextualising the idea of a Moyes sweet-spot is to look for the Moyes equivalents,” emails Zack Gomperts-Mitchelson. “That is very good managers who nonetheless lack something either when it comes to tactics, charisma or indeed their vision of the game that means there is a ceiling, in terms of club, for their talents.There is one outstanding example, it’s the Spanish David Moyes himself: Unai Emery. Brilliant manager, great results, real silverware on the shelf and he’s never getting a big job again. In fact, he would be crazy and a club board would be crazy to try. There’s something about him, it works at Villareal, it just did not at Arsenal and PSG.
The same is true for the Scottish Unai Emery, send him to United today, he’s out insix6 months. I think the reason why comes down to imagination. These types of manager produce teams which at their best are mechanically effective but they lack a more holistic vision for the game, there is no big idea and it’s becoming increasingly clear that at the rarefied level at the elite of the elite you maybe need one. Unless you are at Real Madrid in which case you need some other ineffable quality neither of them has. Anyway! Haaland looks good. Quelle Suprise.”
Yes, this sounds reasonable. I don’t think you necessarily need a big idea, but you do need to be brilliant at something – Klopp has force of personality and eye for a player, Guardiola has ciaching and vision and so on.
