Hans-Dieter Flick
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[Our cameras caught you talking with Raphinha, and we want to know what you said…”
🗣️ Flick: I'm not sure if I should say this, but in the end he said the same thing I said: we will improve in the upcoming matches. We will improve in the upcoming matches. That’s all it was.”]
Guess it's easy to conclude that Flick feels let down by some players.
🗣️ Flick: I'm not sure if I should say this, but in the end he said the same thing I said: we will improve in the upcoming matches. We will improve in the upcoming matches. That’s all it was.”]
Guess it's easy to conclude that Flick feels let down by some players.
MonteCuler
Well-known member
Well maybe expected the financial situation to get better with time, as people at the top keep promising
But since he arrived in summer 2024 to now winter 2025 nothing has changed. We still can't sign a top footballer. Best we can do is some finished players or other top clubs deadwood and hope they magically return to their best under Flick
MasQueCulé
Ter Stegen and Araujo Hater
You are very harsh.
With the club financial situation, we should be lucky to have a top coach like him.
We should be grateful he wanted to go to this club.
Loki
Well-known member
Yeah, doesn't look too good. Shouldn't overdramatize it, as everyone has a bad day, but he looked pretty empty after the game. It'll become dangerous once this feeling starts to occur frequently, then he can decide he has had enough.
I can imagine it's frustrating for him, because no matter how much he teaches and tells them in training to press, not to lose the balls stupidly, in games they relapse for the worse again. Bilbao looked like a step forward, only to make the step back again against Alaves. I don't even think he's disappointed with certain players, but with the overall situation of the squad, maybe blames himself too.
The important part is, that he still believes he can change the team for the better, otherwise he'll leave at the end of the season.
The players should be aware of this. If they want to keep him for longer, they have to work harder again.
jamrock
Senior Member
When you need perfection to win games, you are bound to be disappointed.
He has had four different teams over four to five seasons.
When all things are equal with those teams, there is a clear pattern with his defenses.
But the world and probably he himself use the one season when there was an asterisk as large as the entire "continent" of Europe as his high water mark and what he's fully capable of in a regular season.
Bayern's true advantage that season was their German efficiency that made them significantly more prepared for the COVID season than any other team in Europe by a country mile.
Just check the names of the CBs he's had for bayern & Germany and it tells you the entire story, mind you most want nico from durtmond who they think will help with flick ball, it didn't help Germany much at the WC, not saying we shouldn't sign him btw, but don't expect miracles.
Martinez said it himself a few weeks ago, it's mentally exhausting playing the high line, the players are probably mentally drained right now, because they have to be perfect to win the big games with his tactics.
Hopefully raphinha being back will help the mental side of the entire team
He has had four different teams over four to five seasons.
When all things are equal with those teams, there is a clear pattern with his defenses.
But the world and probably he himself use the one season when there was an asterisk as large as the entire "continent" of Europe as his high water mark and what he's fully capable of in a regular season.
Bayern's true advantage that season was their German efficiency that made them significantly more prepared for the COVID season than any other team in Europe by a country mile.
Just check the names of the CBs he's had for bayern & Germany and it tells you the entire story, mind you most want nico from durtmond who they think will help with flick ball, it didn't help Germany much at the WC, not saying we shouldn't sign him btw, but don't expect miracles.
Martinez said it himself a few weeks ago, it's mentally exhausting playing the high line, the players are probably mentally drained right now, because they have to be perfect to win the big games with his tactics.
Hopefully raphinha being back will help the mental side of the entire team
MasQueCulé
Ter Stegen and Araujo Hater
I think the loss of chelsea, the araujo case, and the upcoming match against atletico madrid is tough for him mentally. He feels the team is not prepared enough for the big matches.
And he don't have the same mental freshness as last season to endure.
Being a barca coach can be very tough mentally. Even guardiola said it.
And he don't have the same mental freshness as last season to endure.
Being a barca coach can be very tough mentally. Even guardiola said it.
Devils
Senior Member
I've been saying it since the summer that he will likely leave at the end of this season with how poorly the squad has been built.
A few top EPL jobs will likely become available given how this season is panning out and Flick would be the top level candidate if available.
Nello
Member
Sometimes there's also limits to how much you can do with the players at your disposal.
At a large, we overachieved last season and played entertaining football that made everybody hopeful for more.
But reality is all real top teams inject new quality into their squads every year, in order to keep the squad competitive, hungry and balanced. Our only proper top signing, Joan Garcia, is already making us a lot more competitive and changing games for the better.
Besides that, injuries, departures and an ageing Lewandowski has only made the squad worse.
Players like Rashford, Kounde, Martin, Balde, Casado, Fermin, Old Lewa, Ferran, Olmo, Araujo and Cubarsí can at their current best play a supporting role in an otherwise stacked team, but will never consistently make out the core of a true top team. Yet they make up more than half of our XI more often than not.
No, he should be grateful to be a coach of FC Barcelona.
I'm not against him, I think he has instilled a much needed fight till the end spirit as evidenced by all the comebacks last season.
What irks me is the hypocrites who whined about Xavi's excuses for the quality of the squad, and now are excusing Hansi saying he doesn't have the quality, give me a fucking break. The double standard is hilarious.
MonteCuler
Well-known member
Xavi was offering excuses himself, Flick doesn't
It's a big difference
It is a fact that Xavi had a shit squad and it had no business competing with top teams, but saying that himself was sack worthy
Similarily if Flick now said "both of my strikers are morons, my defense is full of idiots, players are dropping like flies and I won't get a single player in transfer window" he wouldn't be lying at all. But it would be wrong
It's a big difference
It is a fact that Xavi had a shit squad and it had no business competing with top teams, but saying that himself was sack worthy
Similarily if Flick now said "both of my strikers are morons, my defense is full of idiots, players are dropping like flies and I won't get a single player in transfer window" he wouldn't be lying at all. But it would be wrong
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