Looks like a great hire to me. I'm not sure what happened at Inter and Palace, but both of those teams were a disaster and gave him less than six months. At Atlanta, he's going to be walking into something much more similar to what he had at Ajax, where he was extremely successful. If he can win trophies outside of a top five league, show well in continental competition, and develop players to sell off to bigger leagues, that's pretty much everything we want.
To be fair, timing was terrible at inter. Mancini quit on them just before the season started, and he came in late. They made a mistake hiring a guy who couldn’t communicate and there wasn’t time to figure it out.
Wish he were going to be more challenged on a weekly basis. Scottish League is legitimately full of farmers
Yeah he’s just got to get on the field. I don’t think it’s a terrible move and will be a good developmental place.
At what point does FIFA and/or UEFA stop penalizing teams with empty stadiums for fan racism and start docking them match points? Because it seems like we’re at that point in Italy.
I don’t necessarily disagree, but for what I think the sanctioning bodies could reasonably get away with: No points for the first incident, then start taking them away. So, if you win or tie, you get no points. Next time, dock them one, then continue to take 3 away if the problems persists from there.
Yeah, you threaten to knock someone out of European leagues or even worse, put them in the relegation zone, things will change.
There’s tension there. Southern Italy is a lot poorer. It doesn’t matter where the ultras are from, though, there’s a high % of POSs
