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dashsnow17

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What’s the opinion on Sarri? Been watching Napoli recently and they are incredible at times.


He's working miracles with them. If there's one team in Europe that deserves silverware this season it's Napoli, I really hope they win the Scudetto.

In principle I love the idea of Sarri at Arsenal; a mad professor who doesn't give a f*ck and plays beautiful football. But my gut says that he wouldn't be able to recreate the Napoli team at Arsenal. It feels like this Napoli side is the result of unique alchemy under circumstances that you can't just transplant straight to Arsenal. Remember, he had a long career before Napoli and wasn't very successful.

It feels like Napoli is Sarri's masterpiece; the pinnacle of his career. He should stay there and keep doing miracles for them.
 

dashsnow17

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Allegri and Jardim should be at the top of the list. The worry about Sarri is he doesn't speak a word of English.

Several different people are good options who I'd advocate for, Jardim being one of them. But really if Allegri was available and possible to get, we couldn't do better. 200 games for Juve: 142 wins, 32 draws & 26 losses.

He's annoying as f*ck apparently. But he'd make us solid at the back while also balancing an effective attack.

Like with every good manager though, the worry is that we'll continue with Wenger for too long while they go somewhere else.
 

LG10

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Several different people are good options who I'd advocate for, Jardim being one of them. But really if Allegri was available and possible to get, we couldn't do better. 200 games for Juve: 142 wins, 32 draws & 26 losses.

He's annoying as f*ck apparently. But he'd make us solid at the back while also balancing an effective attack.

Like with every good manager though, the worry is that we'll continue with Wenger for too long while they go somewhere else.

Yes Allegri is the best option for me. Surely he's done everything he can at Juve and wants a new challenge. Hopefully Chelsea go for Enrique over him.
 

dashsnow17

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Yes Allegri is the best option for me. Surely he's done everything he can at Juve and wants a new challenge. Hopefully Chelsea go for Enrique over him.

Aye. I'm sure he'll want to go abroad but the worry is he'll want a club in better shape than us. Hopefully we can sell ourselves to him as a 'fixer-upper'.
 

Tosker

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We must be top of the ultimate challenge list, surely, given our history, the long years under one manager, our ill-assorted but mostly talented squad, our great facilities and our failure to ever win the CL, or EL in recent years

And being in London of course
 

Toby

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Some excerpts from a german newspaper arcticle from May 2017 about Favre I read a couple of weeks ago , which I found quite interesting. Nice were sitting in 3rd and the season was about to end. Sheds some light on him and might interest some of you.

<< On good days, OGC Nice play the french leagues most exciting football. Faster than champions Paris Saint-Germain, more beautiful than current league leaders AS Monaco, who deafeated Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League. The french press praise Favre as the first coach who has manged to tame Mario Balotelli. "Ah, Mario", says Favre and smiles. "He's a good boy. If you meet him with respect, he'll repay you in respect" and in lots of goals, which let Nice dream of the Champions League.

Gone, but not forgotten [his youth]. The football player Lucien Favre was socialised in the early 70s, he'll tell you the line-up of the brazilian World Champions of 1970 in his sleep. During that mexican summer, Pelé, Carlos Alberto and Jairzinho conveyed to the then 12-year old son of a farmer a completely new outlook on the beauty of the game. This magic has always been a part of his life. "If it's about football, you can wake me up in the middle of the night. I love the game and always will."

Favre never did, what others expected him to do. When he came to Berlin as swiss champion in 2007, Hertha BSC only ranked as a midtable club. When he took over Gladbach in 2011, they were nailed on to get relegated.

His predecessor, Claude Puel, was made out as a hero. They still rave about the tally of 63 points and fourth place the season before. Favre has achieved 77 points with two games to go. Third place can't be taken away from Nice anymore.
How did he do it? "With hard work. Just for the game against Bordeaux, I watched eight games on the computer." While in the rest of France the European Championship was still being played out, Favre had started the preseason at Nice and, through continous and repetetive exercise, instilled his own brand of football in his new team: winning the ball quickly, gegenpressing and incisive, direct passing. >>

Going from things like these, I feel Favre might be the best option in regards to the beautiful, quick "trademark" style of football at Arsenal during Wenger's peak years, and a somewhat idiosyncratic manager with a holistical outlook on the game and its peripheries. He feels like an updated version of Wenger, actually prolific in modern tactics.

But the big downside might exactly be that. He could be too much like Wenger, and maybe the club needs something else completely.
Then, he's never won trophies in Germany or France. I, for my part, wouldn't put too much weight on that, as he's never managed proper top sides in these countries and am sure he would've won something, if he'd coached Dortmund or Bayern or PSG. Seems like he's the anti-Guardiola in that way...rather going for a challenge and the chance to develop something, than joining nailed on champions and buying more titles.

But if the likeness to Wenger and the lack of trophies are a concern, I'd go for Max Allegri. He's tactically astute, he's successful, and I don't know too much about his character, but he at least seems rather different from Wenger, while not being a complete 180 degree turn to someone like Simeone or Mourinho.
 
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Camus

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What’s the opinion on Sarri? Been watching Napoli recently and they are incredible at times.

I know the team is much changed since then, but Mazzarri also had them playing some very nice football. Maybe not as good as they are now, but still good enough that you’d probably bet on him not being a flop in the PL. Which he was. Serie A is such a different beast to any other league in the world that unless a manager from their has done well in other leagues or on the European stage it’s hard to tell whether they’ll adapt to another league.

Personally he does excite me though. Think the language barrier might be a problem but other than that I wouldn’t mind taking a chance with him. Unless the new manager is a complete and utter ****show, I doubt he can do worse than we currently are doing since it seems like we’re performing at a level devoid of any managerial input and playing purely off player ability. With the squad we have it’d take a total dressing room collapse to finish below 6/7th given the quality of the rest of the league compared to us.
 

Toby

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Tbf, even before his stint at Watford, he didn't even cut it at Inter.

On the whole, I'm wary of Sarri. I'm actually sharing this opinion:

It feels like this Napoli side is the result of unique alchemy under circumstances that you can't just transplant straight to Arsenal. Remember, he had a long career before Napoli and wasn't very successful.

It feels like Napoli is Sarri's masterpiece; the pinnacle of his career. He should stay there and keep doing miracles for them.

If Arsenal go for a Serie A manager, it should be Allegri.
 

Rimaal

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Too inexperienced and full of himself. Guy needs to get a grip with reality and show he can do it for more than 1.5 years at Hoffenheim, instead of flirting with Bayern all the time.
Who wouldn't flirt with Bayern? They're a sexy club. Hot and Foxy.
 

Toby

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Who wouldn't flirt with Bayern? They're a sexy club. Hot and Foxy.

I wouldn't :D

Though, I do get what you're saying, but he's taking it a notch too far. Auctioning off his red coat he wore to a Bayern game, full on knowing the media will put a Bayern spin on it and stuff like that.
Shouldn't have talked so much to the press about other clubs, but rather more to his own players. Maybe then Hoffenheim wouldn't have dropped off so badly.
 

DanDare

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The recent recruits give me a bit more faith we’ll make a competent enough decision. I really hope Wenger isn’t involved in picking however
 
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