Hans-Dieter Flick

Hansi Flick - how do we rate him?


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jairzinho

Senior Member
My point is neither the board or the fans will take a trophyless season lightly (if it does happen). He is not Catalan, not Spanish, not Latin. No one will take it easy on him. He has no "biases" in his favor.

He's earned the right to stay. Don't think we can do much better than him unless we manage to get Klopp or someone at same level. Xavi or any other similar Barca dna type with no top experience other than Qatar would be another disaster.
 

Horatio

You're welcome
Of course. Girona should be easy win, and a Clasico win gets us back. We still have their number I feel. They couldn't cope with Atletico pressing them.
I am actually not liking our chances for clasico as much as before. I am still gonna say Barca win screw it.

But we need at least Raphinha back for the pressing.

Also our reliable keeeper is out.
 

serghei

Senior Member
The overall point I'm making is that even if we fail, it is important for the squad to go in the direction Flick is taking it. Regardless if you agree with Flick or not about some of his choices, he demands from the players the key ingredients to improve at athletic and motivational levels.

We have no other choice than to push the players as hard as possible to better themselves.
 

jamrock

Senior Member
Belletti is next, we always try someone linked to the club first and he's been doing a solid job with the youth.

Anyone it is, after flick we'll have to get use to having more pedestrian managers like valverde, unless they take a risk with someone like Conte who has personality.
 

HeadElastico

Active member
One of the things I was curious about - after the game winning goal by PSG, the camera panned to him and he was seen yelling something and gesturing.

Now, while that is normal when you lose at the end like that, what I'd like to know is who or what he was pissed about. Was he pointing at someone in defense for an individual mistake, was he pointing at the defense for not maintaining a good line or was he yelling about the press?

Reason I'm curious is that if he's just pissed the defense was holding too high a line, then it's the players who made an error and can learn. But if he was not happy with the pressing, I think that's less good news - because it's clear that we were tired and we weren't able to press well at all in that second half. So just yelling about not having intensity doesn't help - sometimes you need to see that it's not there and adjust accordingly.

I like flick and happy to give him time. It's just that in his second year, the fact that the team still plays a suicidal high line with ZERO pressure on the ball as a general tactic....I find this concerning. I understand it may happen every now and then but it's been happening consistently and I am not sure if that he's willing to see it or address it. Your response cannot just be 'nope you gotta press all the time'. It's just not possible.
 

jamrock

Senior Member
Listen that earlier, they key statement is

"It's not about the high line, it's about how & when it's implemented".

Everyone seems to get this except the flick crowd on here.

Don't change, just be more situationally aware as a team and it starts with the coach.
 

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