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Franck Rijkaard was a great player and a very good manager. He was unlucky at Euro 2000 with that penalty shoot-out defeat against Italy (the problem with penalty shoot-outs is nothing new…) and enjoyed great success at Barcelona. It’s a shame he stopped managing.
If we were to go with a foreign manager (which seems unlikely to me), Mancini would be a better option than Conte. The absolute dream would be Guardiola.
If we want to be the champion in World Cup, the only choice is Pep Guardiola full stop!
top choice: Pep
possibilities: Bosz or Slot or Reiziger
what we’ll end up with: Ten Hag or De Boer
thanks for the great coverage during the WC – sad that it ended so soon.
Keep up the fantastic work!
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Oranje has so much talent in this current generation. Such a rich defense should act as an insurance policy to go forward with confidence, not as a strategy to build a fort and defend it; and I believe that is the main lesson to be learned from Koeman’s tenure. Knowing that he has arguably the best defense in the world he chose to use it by defending.
Call me crazy, but I believe Koeman is a really good players’ coach. I don’t recall any dressing room drama with Oranje and in his time in Barcelona he managed to clamp it down effectively even with the whole Luis Suarez situation (which I believe he was right to do, just lacked a bit of tact and warmth) to later have a Barcelona spell that was pretty good when it came to talent acquisition.
I think overall, Koeman is a manager for a simpler time in football. A time when you could win consistently if you fielded the right players and keep egos in check and let a straightforward gameplan work out. Unfortunately that’s not how modern, data-driven football works.
We need to see Oranje lead by a coach with layers to his plans and contingencies under his sleeves. Pep is obviously the dream coach for this squad, considering how Cruijff basically transformed into an adopted Catalan and even managed Cataluña, Pep in Oranje would be one of football’s most beautiful full-circle moments.