Roberto De Zerbi 👑

[SpursStone]

Couldn't see a thread on our manager, little strange.

Anyway... Getting everyone onboard, this is very clever from DeZerbi. Gaining a lot of respect from everyone involved with the club.



I have a really good feeling about all this

 

[J.spurs]

Couldn't see a thread on our manager, little strange.

Anyway... Getting everyone onboard, this is very clever from DeZerbi. Gaining a lot of respect from everyone involved with the club.



I have a really good feeling about all this

In fairness, we'd have needed to start a lot of threads in recent years.

Whatever "it" is, RDZ does seem to have it.

I always kind of thought of him as a kind of dogmatic tactics innovator type, and a bit prickly at that, but his player management and fan messaging has been excellent from what we've seen so far.

 

[Yid]

Look I agree, the noise is right...

I'm yet to get any "feels" and maybe that's just because I've been at the dawn of change so frequently over the last 10+ years that I have had the belief knocked out of me and I can only see the true constant of the Lewis family and their legacy of gross mismanagement, greed and profit as the true measure of success...

I hope it's different will all my heart this time.

 

[Havocc]

^^ `this

 

[J.spurs]

My two biggest concerns, which I think are pretty much related: 1) will he be properly backed in the long term; and 2) will he stick around or have another falling out with upper management

 

[spurious]

I'm a romantic, I fall in love with each of them, immediately (the players also). And I go on to rhapsodize about how they're so refreshing, so much better than the last one, and dream of how much better the future will be. And that all of our problems will disappear as we travel to the sunlit uplands.

And then we lose to Charlton on a Wednesday.

Anyway, here we are, feeling good! Maybe I'm more of a slut than a romantic. But can't I be both? I wanna stay naive.

 

[Ted the Yid]

Firstly, we are going to need to upgrade our attack before this transfer window is out.

De Zerbi's I feel probably the most positive of any new coach we have got since Poch. I really like what Pochettino did at Southampton and I see a lot of what De Zerbi did at Brighton to be similar. Both have the ability to coach players into raising their level and creating a positive squad culture.

The club basically as always doesn't seem to understand football and perpetually pivot from one philosophy to the next, this time it appears that they are building the De Zerbi project. If he strops and walks out which is always possible, then we are going to be a bit fucked as pretty much our entire transfer policy this window is supporting the De Zerbi project.

However, he is seriously well respected within the game, and his style of football when backed and implemented, could be pretty devastating. Van Hecke, Senesi, Tonali and Fernandes are players that in theory should Excell in a De Zerbi team, probably why we paid over the odds for Tonali, but has the potential to be a key player for this system.

I am feeling quietly confident (subject to who we bring in up front).