The 'Vitor Matos' Managerial Thread

[Bob]

Difficulty with such appointments is that, if it goes tits up - everybody annoyed with all.
If a half succesful season, Leeds or some other crappy previously ok team will poach in 12 months.

As long as he doesn’t play 5 at the back, I’m fully on board

 

[theallseeingdai]

If this is true, it's so odd that I'm not even sure what to say about it. We'd be hiring someone primarily on the basis that Jurgen Klopp used to park his car in the same car park. Makes Sheehan look like a 30 year managerial veteran.

Still, it's true that managerial appointments are a complete crapshoot, so f*ck it, let's do it and hope we've struck oil on this one. If not, I think Gorringe and his crew will be told to clear their desks.

If they fook this up we'll be rebuilding in league one. Huge gamble

 

[swan65split]

First time I’ve seen him…great hair, beard ….whats not to like, I’m in

My frst thought.....its RM , bubble in "tonight Mathew I am........."

 

[Cyberswan]

How Jurgen Klopp described Vitor Matos will excite Swansea City fans as talks advance

The Swans' prime target has received some extreme compliments from his ex-Liverpool colleague over time

footballleagueworld.co.uk

 

[J_B]

Difficulty with such appointments is that, if it goes tits up - everybody annoyed with all.
If a half succesful season, Leeds or some other crappy previously ok team will poach in 12 months.

As long as he doesn’t play 5 at the back, I’m fully on board

Nothing wrong with playing 5 at the back with the right players because it's actually 3 at the back when we're in possession.
The 2 are arguably the most important players in the team though because they're got to be super fit and talented for it to work.

 

[ARQS]

If they fook this up we'll be rebuilding in league one. Huge gamble

I appreciate this is pessimistic but I look at the bottom of the table and how we've performed this season and I do wonder if this is the season we go down. Or at least come very close.

You wouldn't be surprised to see Sheffield United and probably Norwich drag themselves out of where they currently are. The usual strugglers, Stoke, Derby, Hull, to a lesser degree Preston are all 6-10 points above us. Charlton (ie the worst placed promoted clubs) are 6 points ahead of us too and the other two newly promoted clubs have more points, more about them and financial power in January.

When you look at the table, it doesn't take too much of a stretch to see us down there with Oxford, Portsmouth, maybe Blackburn, fighting for 2 relegation slots.

Every metric you want to use pretty much has us down as being crap. Eyes, stats, the fact we've only beaten the bottom 3 and the team currently in 19th (and none of them very convincingly)

Unless this guy has something that none of us are aware of (maybe he interviewed for the job after Williams went?), then it seems absolutely mental appointment.

 

[CurtessECarr]

He has to have our full support! Seasoned managers are not always the answer. If they were there wouldn't be as many of them losing their jobs as regularly as they do.

 

[J_B]

He has to have our full support! Seasoned managers are not always the answer. If they were there wouldn't be as many of them losing their jobs as regularly as they do.

He has my full support but I still think it's a massive unnecessary gamble. All appointments are a gamble but some are bigger gambles than others.
I can think that and support him at the same time. They're not mutually exclusive stances.

 

[Swansea93]

Remember Jurgen Klopp rated Yan Dhanda.

 

[sit_down_jack]

I appreciate this is pessimistic but I look at the bottom of the table and how we've performed this season and I do wonder if this is the season we go down. Or at least come very close.

You wouldn't be surprised to see Sheffield United and probably Norwich drag themselves out of where they currently are. The usual strugglers, Stoke, Derby, Hull, to a lesser degree Preston are all 6-10 points above us. Charlton (ie the worst placed promoted clubs) are 6 points ahead of us too and the other two newly promoted clubs have more points, more about them and financial power in January.

When you look at the table, it doesn't take too much of a stretch to see us down there with Oxford, Portsmouth, maybe Blackburn, fighting for 2 relegation slots.

Every metric you want to use pretty much has us down as being crap. Eyes, stats, the fact we've only beaten the bottom 3 and the team currently in 19th (and none of them very convincingly)

Unless this guy has something that none of us are aware of (maybe he interviewed for the job after Williams went?), then it seems absolutely mental appointment.

I don’t think things are quite that bleak. I think we have good enough players that if we can even remotely improve our attacking output this season and retain a reasonable defensive solidity, we’ll be comfortably midtable. Sadly I think that’s all this season will be despite all the excitement of the summer.

 

[jackharris]

Remember Jurgen Klopp rated Yan Dhanda.

He couldn’t have rated him that much he let him come to us!

 

[Darran]

No tomatos.