Re: Serie A Thread
i don't know, mate. i can't see how one single man (mourinho or whoever) could add anything to serie a.
mourinho is a very good coach and a fantastic character, like u said....
but if there's one thing we really don't need, that is a good coach.
italy is the coaches eldorado. the average level of our coaches is fantastic. mourinho was a god in england... but here in italy the situation would be very different for him. i mean let's not consider monsters like ancelotti, prandelli, spalletti, who are simply unreachable for everybody at the moment.
cagni, guidolin, mazzarri, novellino, rossi, del neri, baldini, papadopulo... theese guys are all on the same level of mourinho...
..not to mention some very promising young guns, like giampaolo, marino, di carlo, or gasperini, who could become great coaches in a few years....
as i wrote many times before, the reason why italy is not anymore the center of european football doesn't rest upon our backsteps....it's all due to the fantastic steps fowards made by spanish, english, french and german leagues.
most of our clubs are not rich like they used to be 10 years ago, (thanks to the growth of the other leagues and to the absolute nonsense financial strategy of some of our clubs).... but this didn't effect the quality of the football.
just consider this...
till 15 years ago there was an amazing balance on the top of the table. every year there were 7 teams who could fight for the title: milan, inter, juve, roma, lazio, fiorentina and parma (we used to call them "the 7 sisters").
all those teams were full of star players, and used to play a fantastic football.... but what about the others 11 teams??? (those days serie a was a 18 club league).
they had good players too (like today), fantastic coaches (like today)..... but those coaches creativity was limited and mortified by the little clubs owners, whose narrowed mentality, forced those coaches to a defensive approach to the game...
so, is we consider the whole league, serie a wasn't really that great those days.... it seemed great because there were no serious competitors in europe.
today our top clubs average quality is lower than 15 years ago...
roma is a fantastic team wich plays an awesome football, but their financial situation doesn't allow Rosella Sensi to act like a top club chairman (just look at this season... they bought some very good players, but they had to sell chivu to get them..... a top club never sells his best players).
milan has still a fantastic "core" but galliani and berlusconi will have to do something this summer to keep inter's pace.
juventus is a new creature... it will take some years to see them back on top of europe.
inter is the only real "big club" in serie a today. they have money, they have a fantastic team and a good coach.
but, on the other side,
if u take a look behind theese top clubs, u'll notice a fantastic revolution.
our mid-class\low-class clubs chairman's mentality completely changed.
today u can see our coaches (mazzarri, gasperini, del neri, marino, baldini, giampaolo, ballardini) unleashing their creativity, giving their imprint to the teams they coach.
nowadays serie a has something nobody else has in europe. an unbelievable tactical variety.
we have 20 teams, and each of them plays a different football.
watching clubs like parma, cagliari, siena or reggina at the end of the table, u might think they're not really good....
but after watching them playing, after watching the football they "produce", u can realise they're VERY different fro their english, spanish, french and germans counterparts... theese teams play football, good football.
not to mention the average quality of serie a's mid class teams (udinese, palermo, fiorentina, sampdoria, genoa, napoli atalanta, lazio).
serie a today still has something more to offer than the other leagues.... and our league today has also something more to offer than 15 years ago.
it's not all about money... atalanta's incomes are 1\2 of derby county's incomes..... but look at what a hell of a team they were able to raise...
we have less money, but who cares! roma today plays better than 15 years ago (when roma's annual incomes were 3 times their current annual incomes)...
our most important asset has not been compromised by our lack of money.... because our most important asset is the quality of our coaches.... the quality of our players.... and i'm not talking about our star players... i'm talking about our "average" players...
if i could choose between del neri and mourinho for my club, i would pick del neri..... and the same goes for cagni, marino, gasperini, prandelli and guidolin
