Carvalhal

[PSumbler]

I probably should pay more attention but didnt realise he was at Braga now

Currently 2-1 up on Leicester in Europa League on BT Sport 1

 

[TheLoneRanger]

His 19th club as a manager.

He was a youth team player with Braga when we played them in the 1982 European Cup Winners Cup.

 

[MrSwerve]

Has he found some bollocks yet?

 

[PSumbler]

His 19th club as a manager.

He was a youth team player with Braga when we played them in the 1982 European Cup Winners Cup.

Now that has to be a little known fact. :lol:

 

[airedale]

Has he found some bollocks yet?

He did have some, but he lost them on the barby.

 

[dickythorpe]

The likes of Ki let him down. We should have stayed up under him, but certain players bottled it.

 

[MrSwerve]

The likes of Ki let him down. We should have stayed up under him, but certain players bottled it.

The players certainly played their part in our relegation Dicky, but once we were looking relatively safe, Carvalhal made Paulo Sousa look like a gung-ho banzai attacking coach.

 

[Best_loser]

He seems to start well at clubs and then it all goes downhill , really thought he was going to keep us up, yes the players form dropped badly towards the end of that season but maybe that was part of his failings as a manager, an inability to motivate over a longer period than a few weeks

 

[Dr. Winston]

once we were looking relatively safe, Carvalhal made Paulo Sousa look like a gung-ho banzai attacking coach.

You can argue that Carvalhal's tactical choices in that sitation could have been better, but he was largely forced into them by the players he had available to him.

Once we were looking fairly safe, Fer got injured and we had to rely on Ki. Ki was a big black hole in the middle of the park all that season. We had nothing between defence and attack after that. Say what you will about Leroy, you'd at least have noticed he was there. Results tailed right off after we lost him.

The damage was done early in the season though. The amount of winnable points we pissed away at home because of Clement's cowardice would have seen us home and dry.

 

[Malvernjack]

100% agreed , I’d have Leroy in a team all day long.

 

[westside]

Should have sacked Clement earlier

 

[Fireboy]

He shat himself at the west brom away game were we lucky to get a draw, they were bottom and at the time were there for the taking but the shithouse set up for a draw, I'm still convinced that if we had won that game we would have stayed up.

Imo the rot started after j ayew got wrongly sent off at huddersfield a couple of weeks before, at the time the ayews were playing well together and after Jordan got sent off it started the downhill spiral.

 

[Swansea93]

What might have been had Gaitan and Gamerio decided to come here instead of rejecting us.