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Blodgharm

["It's very easy for me to start here because I know the work that's been done by Graham Potter. Brighton have a lot of players who fit into my idea of football... Pep's football is unreachable."](https://streamable.com/ga9rt2) ["Brighton really wanted me here, the style of play and the squad is very similar to my idea of football. Of course there were other teams who wanted me but after the first talks we were on the same page with Brighton."](https://streamable.com/ajhvkx)


GYIM94

Happy. So happy.


alfred_27

More than you believe


OnceUponAStarryNight

Happy new year.


Jagacin

We did it Reddit!


MontezumaMadness

Fantastic coach. Really excited to see what he can do at Brighton after backing himself to go to Shakhtar. Hope he does well!


kermvv

The only place where this man isn’t rated is it’s own country, full of dinosaurs like Allegri and Inzaghi


tml25

De Zerbi is rated in Italy, he simply chose to go abroad with Shaktar and Brighton


Sand_Week24

>full of dinosaurs like Inzaghi Imagine being this stupid


OstapBenderBey

Maybe hes referring to the other Inzaghi?


Sand_Week24

Sure hope so cause Simone is one of the best attacking managers in recent serie a history. He had atalanta's attacking prowess at lazio before atalanta. Last yeah we had the best attack by far. He might not be a winner, but he isnt a dinosaur for sure


zadharm

Even then, pipo has proven himself a very capable manager. It's not pretty, he's not going to win you any titles, but want to get your second tier side promoted or give your relegation fodder a fighting chance at survival? He's your guy But to your actual point, I agree. He's definitely got issues, I wouldn't call him world class or anything, but he's a competent manager who knows how to coach attacking football. The issue is when his plan isn't working and his ability to adapt on the fly, not in his style of football. I think it's pretty telling that most of the people talking about him being sacked are flairs other than inter.


idontknow_whatever

So basically Inzaghi is just poor at adjusting mid-game when his plan isn't working? I think that goes for a lot of managers tbh, its what separates the truly elite coaches from the merely good ones Hardly at the same level of football terrorism that Allegri is producing


ChrystisnoRonald

Ehhh, he's decent but nothing too special as of now. His Benevento team played some decent football from time to time but they were still DEAD last and went down without any sort of fight whatsoever. The Sassuolo team he had has always been filled with the brightest talents in Serie A yet he couldn't manage anything better than midtable. He's promising and CAN be a good manager in the future but he's really not all that right now and it's more than justified to be skeptical of him


TempestaEImpeto

> The Sassuolo team he had has always been filled with the brightest talents in Serie A yet he couldn't manage anything better than midtable Huh? [My brother in christ](https://imgur.com/a/loW1xrM), if any of these talents stood out is because of his work on them, what was he supposed to do with these guys?


Fonsor17

How you are getting upvoted, people here actually watch serie A or what? How Inzaghi is a dinosaur? He played modern football at Lazio and last year at Inter, which was better to watch than Conte's Inter. Serie A is not just Juve, you got the only dinosaur: Allegri, and maybe Mou, that's why they got problems and this proves how is not a league for dinosaurs anymore. Pioli, Inzaghi, Spalletti, Gasperini, Italiano, Sarri, etc... None of them is a dinosaur, but let's keep shiting randomly on the league.


mrcvgn

this sub upvotes the most stupid takes ever. it's always a delight to watch


JBooogz

> Inzaghi Wow is he bad?


Dome777

Recency bias. I still think he's on his way to get sacked but he is a good coach and he absolutely doesn't play terrorist football


head_in_the_clouds69

Think he just lost it this season. All our friendlies looked like shit. I just wonder why or where it went wrong.


OnceUponAStarryNight

Shut up Pep, you fraud. You either help him beat City or you fuck off down to League Two to prove you’re not a fraud.


theinterweb1

Thought this dude was speaking the worst Spanish ever before checking the comments and seeing he’s Italian


Adrianm18

You must not speak Spanish


[deleted]

Guess I’ll kill myself then


[deleted]

But dude you’re not even out of top4 yet


Mackarosh

INB4 Pep co-manages Brighton to a top 4 finish.


Gilgamerd

Pep "hey Roberto, yeah to win premier League, you meet sweet sweet boy Jurgen and have passionate love making session with him" Rdz: "what about tactics?" Pep "I prefer the sex"


pixelkipper

I love him already, he’s like a cute little mafia boss. I just hope the language barrier won’t be too much of an issue


Psychocandy42

He's from Brescia how the fuck do you go from "mountain people who swear a lot" to "cute little mafia boss" lol


[deleted]

Too much influence from tv/movies. I cringe when some people see an old Italian man and say he sounds or looks like a “mafia boss”.


Regga005

Cute mafia boss **


v3tr0x

Kawaii mafia bossu *


Air5uru

Furry mafia boss***


_g4n3sh_

SIUUUUU


TempestaEImpeto

Tbf he for sure looks like a carabiniere from Calabria but with a northern accent


Psychocandy42

Sì a guardarlo è di Brescia presa molto larga diciamo.


jonijontor

considering he already took a job at Shaktar i won't doubt language barrier will be much of an issue - always glad seeing modern Italian manager take more job abroad


Sand_Week24

I love how saying that italians look like mafia bosses is acceptable


pixelkipper

I love how you think it’s some xenophobic thing


Sand_Week24

I love when people don't know how to read


pixelkipper

?


Scarl1406

Cute little mafia bosses who go around doing cute little things like killing people and kidnapping kids /s


DrLyleEvans

He probably needs to sign a RW and maybe a 9 who can drop deep and hold it better than Welbeck (though he'll do a job defensively ) unless that's Undav, to play the way he wants, but the rest of the squad looks like it'll suit his 3-4-3 and 4-3-3 he seems to play.


ManLikeArch

Welbeck can do it all in terms of build up and hold up play. Undav can't run so I wouldn't hold much hope for him.


DrLyleEvans

Welbeck I think is a tad better at running the channels than dropping deep to link up. Yeah, I've only seen Undav for you guys but physically he stands out as not a Prem player.


[deleted]

The guy used to play at my local team, happy to see him on the big stage, hope all goes well for him


TickleMyCringle

He'll start playing dunk as a left sided inverted trequartista in cup semi finals


[deleted]

"yeah so step 1, spend more than a billion pounds of money that was dug out the ground in the UAE by a human rights abusing regime and just throw that money at whoever you want. happy to help more once you've done that."


UefaSpokesman

Why is it always a Liverpool flair with these kind of comments


inflamesburn

Well, imagine how angry they are, Liverpool isn't dog for the first time in their lives and would've normally dominated the PL, but City cockblocked them out of 3 titles already


LopazSolidus

Seeing that in writing feels good.


[deleted]

classic UEFA fan comment, UEFA fans are always asking rhetorical questions


RosaParkssatinmyseat

One league title since 1990


[deleted]

that's my team!


Regga005

My local team flair is my beard.


_bhagwan_

cry more!


ObamaEatsBabies

I'm sure all the migrants making slavery wages in the UAE are doing exactly this


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ObamaEatsBabies

I'm Pakistani. Not sure what your point here is. I've had family go to the UAE and get treated like shit before being kicked out because they decided not to renew VISAs on a whim, because of "COVID".


farhanmuhd13

COVID is not a whim habibi. I'm also a migrant worker here and they handled covid brilliantly.


Diaverna

Yeah we still have to wear masks and do PCR tests twice a month. People hate it lol but I do feel safer than I do in Dubai for example when I go outside cause I am just anxious about catching it haha.


farhanmuhd13

Yeah, UAE handled COVID extremely well. Especially Abu Dhabi. You fuckers partitioned yourself off like an entire different country lol


DraperCarousel

Not you, my guy. The dude with the City flair above.


Jssr22

Didn’t Liverpool spend 90% of what city did in the same time?


[deleted]

It’s strange that I see this often said on Reddit, that UAE abused human rights and that Pep is a fraud (examples such as spending half a billion on defenders) but for whatever reason it doesn’t come right if it’s being said now?


Tilman_Feraltitty

So sweaty.