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everyone has to have his favourite whipping boy so who is yours?
Mines has to be Ruud Gullit. Adored him as a player but as a manager...
Not only being tactically terrible (bringing on Sebastian Pardo, the smallest player on the field to play as a holding midfielder in the derby against Ajax before having to sub him off later), his handling of the media was ridiculous:
-First praising and hyping up his own signings (Cory Gibbs as the great communicator) and then when already sacked, continuing to hype them when working as a media pundit.
In actual fact, it would have been great to have been an agent in Gullit's time. Panic all round the club, Gullit listening to every agent and believing them too hence the biggest weirdos coming on trial and the signings of characters like Gibbs, Bruno Basto and co.
-Then picking on a player straight after a game every time we lost. One day it was the goalie, the other it was all down to Romeo Castelen, a right winger, wearing the wrong shoes.
Never was it his own fault to the day he was sacked, he honestly seemed stunned the board didn't back him.
Mines has to be Ruud Gullit. Adored him as a player but as a manager...
Not only being tactically terrible (bringing on Sebastian Pardo, the smallest player on the field to play as a holding midfielder in the derby against Ajax before having to sub him off later), his handling of the media was ridiculous:
-First praising and hyping up his own signings (Cory Gibbs as the great communicator) and then when already sacked, continuing to hype them when working as a media pundit.
In actual fact, it would have been great to have been an agent in Gullit's time. Panic all round the club, Gullit listening to every agent and believing them too hence the biggest weirdos coming on trial and the signings of characters like Gibbs, Bruno Basto and co.
-Then picking on a player straight after a game every time we lost. One day it was the goalie, the other it was all down to Romeo Castelen, a right winger, wearing the wrong shoes.
Never was it his own fault to the day he was sacked, he honestly seemed stunned the board didn't back him.