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De Zerbi's PR is incredible. Won less games than Dyche's Everton, scoring less than Palace and Moyes' West Ham. He traffics in a 40 year old methodology that he's now overly reliant on and that destroys talent. It is antidevelopment, and a "post-coaching" philosophy which is hurting football. I'm seeing coaches employ these methods throughout different age groups because twitter tacticos think it's new and interesting. It's not. His first phase is the only interesting difference he can point to, but otherwise cannot set up a serious defence, or mount a serious attack. A game model based on creating transitional moments in the backline from baiting presses will never scale to the top level, and him and Ten Hag have found thit out. At least when Arteta's circuits and routines got found out he managed to set up a disgustingly effective 541.
On top of his unimpressive game model, he seems like such a petulant, blamey, self centred manager, throwing players under the bus for not executing silly tactics completely ruining their game. Baleba, one of the best young CM's in Europe, could evade moisture in a rainforest, is facing his own goal executing shit circuits and being blamed when they don't come off, as if last year he wasn't spinning pressers for fun and carrying it 50 yards like Bellingham. Poch is significantly better than De Zerbi, I am praying Chelsea get him.
Toni Kroos retires and you’re talking about De Fuckeri? Come on man
no words on Jesse helming your neighbor soccer team yet? 🙁
Zealand getting caught by a fake quote from Uli Hoeneß about Kompany is hilarious to me
Both juve and Milan jobs available. I can see him at Milan. But both jobs are of a higher status than Brighton. Which seems to be what he’s looking for
Zealandism constant content is something i love so much, I love seeing the back to back updates on football lore 😭
RdZ wasn't being courted by other clubs as such, the media was linking him with every potential vacancy there was whether it was viable or not. That smacks of his agent trying to up his profile not that he was actually linked with any of these jobs – Liverpool and Bayern for example were never going to appoint him.
I don't think he'll suck in his next role. His Benevento and Sassuolo played amazing football. EPL just discovered him because he managed Brighton
Every video zealands gotta bash united.. someone wanna tell him that the glazers own both the Tampa bay Bucs and Manchester United
And Poch?? Smth in the air rn fr
Does anyone know where he got that hoodie from?
The reason why the club and Roberto decided to part ways boils down to the transfer business, Roberto wanted top dollar ready made signings since we made profit these past few seasons, and that goes against our club policy of buying cheap young players and developing them into top superstars /looking for bargains in the window. Which always bothered Roberto cause he kinda saw this as a lack of ambition
and aswell if you take a look at his managerial history he doesn’t really stick around for long term with clubs , the longest being sassuolo(4years) before leaving cause the club couldn’t really improve (hit its sealing at that time)this is just history repeating itself.
He's going to Chelsea. He fits the criteria.
I think Marcelinho Gallardo could be a great option for Brighton….He has a winning mentality, great track record with youngsters and he could be the perfect coach among those available
Even Zea rejected Bayern 😭
Calling the AmEx stadium Bank of America is so funny to me 💀💀💀
Z, this video seems a bit misinformed and to me it looks as though you've developed an impression of De Zerbi which does not not reflect the person that he truly is.
Brighton's 11th place finish, while obviously disappointing to many, is honestly not a failure. For starters, its their 3rd-highest finish in their entire history. Before the season even started, they sold their two best players (MacAllister and Caicedo) and "reinvested" in the form of Dahoud and Milner on frees and Baleba for 27 million, not quite setting De Zerbi up for success (although I think Baleba will have an incredible 24/25 season). Colwill went back to Chelsea and was replaced by Igor, another bad piece of business in my opinion, and one that he wasn't really able to control (Brighton's model puts Bloom and his team in charge of transfers while the head coach has little input). They did manage to get Joao Pedro through the door but it was obvious to me that they significantly weakened their squad in the build up to their most important season ever.
Then came the injuries. March has been out for literally a decade with an ACL injury, Mitoma was out for multiple spells including a back problem, Estupinan (the most underrated player on their team imo) was out for months, and many of their rising stars like Ferguson, Buonanotte, Hinshelwood, etc also suffering long-term injuries. Their injury problems were incredibly severe for the entire season, for example their most recent injury list for the United match included 9 players who routinely started under De Zerbi last season. They've had to line the bench with multiple goalkeepers and academy prospects every game, including cup ties and Europe, so its no surprise to me that they fell off after the new year. It seems incredibly harsh to judge De Zerbi for losing games to Newcastle, Chelsea, Man City, Liverpool, and Arsenal (some of the top clubs included in your screenshot) when he's handing out debuts to teenagers like candy against Erling Haaland and Martin Odegaard.
What feels to me the most misleading about this video is your judgement of De Zerbi's character, it seems like you're painting him in a bit of a bad light because of unbelievably high media expectations and his failure to do the impossible, when he's realistically done as much as he can with a makeshift team and refusal from the owners of the club to let him be ambitious in the transfer market. To say that De Zerbi is being blinded by his desire to get a job at a big club like Barca or Bayern is also to ignore the testimony of his players to his absolute and unwavering commitment to every club he's been at, not just Brighton. He was the last person to leave Ukraine after the Russian invasion began because he was so focused on the wellbeing of his players. I think many people are blind to the fact that he is an incredible man-manager and can create connections with his players on a level only rivaled by a select few coaches in the modern game, probably because of the media fixation on his tactics. His former players at Sassuolo, Shaktar, and his other Italian clubs frequently give interviews talking about how De Zerbi is the most passionate coach they've seen and that he is able to build relationships with players better than other managers they've had. His personality has been lost in translation by popular media in my opinion, and you'll see that he is "genuine" to the extreme if you look into his past.
I won't act like he's perfect, but I also won't act like the media is misinterpreting this situation on purpose to create headlines. Paul Barber gave a press conference today in which he said that the club and De Zerbi parted ways "amicably", and while it's obvious that there was some sort of disagreement I feel like its not accurate to attribute the blame solely to De Zerbi. I feel like Brighton's ownership, of course knowing their past (for many years they didn't have a stadium and they once were a single game from the 5th tier), decided to follow a path which has worked well for them for the past decade or so, and that path was simply incompatible with the passion and desires of De Zerbi. It seems like the best option was for the two parties involved to part ways without a big fuss and a resignation or sacking once the disconnect grew larger. I fully trust both Brighton and De Zerbi and I think they will both be successful in the future.
TLDR: I think it is important not to fall into an interpretation of De Zerbi as simply an "AI" tactician type of manager when he is an absolutely incredible man-manager as well. Also, Brighton and De Zerbi didn't have a terrible season when you take all of their circumstances into account. De Zerbi and Brighton parted ways peacefully and they will both undoubtedly go on to do great things while maintaining their positive relationship.
lovely video
mogul mail but football
De zerbi seems to want Brighton to challenge for European spots where as the board are looking for young talent to produce and sell off
I think there is a chance he will go to Milan
The man had that run, because at one point Brighton hade more injured players, than a hospital in Belgium in the 1 WW. And also Europe took its tool, having a small size for PL and EL, while replacing Caicedo, MacAlister, Sanchez with Milner, Dahoud and Verbruggen. Big loss of talent is a understatement here.
Its refreshing to not see your chesthair fill up the screen
The style of play of Brighton made sure that the team overachieved, but if you look at all the teams that finished above Brighton, you see that the level of those players is a lot higher.
Referencing the Vincent kompany joke is SO funny it’s from a meme account that even ESPN already fell for
Bayern Fans love him
To anybody complaining about research. This is channel for (sometimes very subjective) ramblings about football, for Zealand to give his train of thoughts at that moment. This is not an objective journalistic attempt to look at things, that's what the main channel is for when it handles non-FM but football related things.
Aston Villa didnt try in that game they won, but I did think Brighton kinda looked good in that match. Didnt prove anything defensively though.
Brighton decided Roberto doesn’t deserve me
Fellas taken Brighton backwards since he arrived don’t understand the hype around the guy
Dont understand all the cheap snipes at united.
I mean it their first european season, half the squads injured whilst the other half was sold of
I think the pressure tells a different picture than just reading his statements, i think he talked about getting his situation sorted till the beginning of next season would be best but time of wouldnt be the end for him you know
I dont know if i can agree on de zerbi being fake, he feels real with his emotions, with what he says, maybe the language barrier loses a bit of the meaning
Have you moved into MoistCritkal's old room?
i prefer to judge managers on how they face adversity, de zerbi looked like a sulking teenager for most of the second half of this season. no thanks
If you look at de Zerbi's CV he rarely (if ever) spends more than 2 seasons managing any club. Could be for any number of reasons, but it's a statistic that should raise some eyebrows for any club looking to build a project with him