Having managed 6 clubs in Portugal and been assistant at Porto (among others) I believe the answer would be yes His career as manager in Portugal, at the time. His first job appears to have been at Paços Ferreira, getting sacked after eight games, having lost seven of them. He then got sacked after...

He was seen as a bit of a joke manager in Portugal weirdly. Not ever rated as highly as the likes of Castro, and not quite on a par with Gomes. Interesting one as it worked here so well. err... did Gomes even had a reputation in Portugal before this season? I can't imagine the locals would have fol...

Nuno managed Porto and Valencia. I'd say that is a bit more impressive than Al Taawoun and Videoton. He was seen as a bit of a joke manager in Portugal weirdly. Not ever rated as highly as the likes of Castro, and not quite on a par with Gomes. Interesting one as it worked here so well. err... did ...

Before anyone else makes lazy comparisons to Stam there isn’t just one type of possession style, there are many types. If you genuinely think Guardiola and Stam have exactly the same tactics just because they like their teams keeping possession I have no hope for you. Also, I suspect half the probl...

Usually I WOULD say that but the Chinese owners have never talked up their football knowledge, the CEO is not "big on" football knowledge, and we don't currently have anyone obvious with the necessary knowledge who is CLEARLY in post I reckon there may have been some conversation between ...

Ha, that didn't take long. :wink: So, er, how many games would it be before he is entitled to any credit then? Hell, even when I post BEFORE a ball is kicked the accusations are out? I repeat I am going to write off the Millwall-QPR games in terms of his stats. I'm saying so NOW, so there is no con...

Well here we are. Another new manager, another poll, another period of uncertainty. Regardless of whether we think it's a good idea or not (it's not) we only have one option, to get behind the new man and just hope that in some miraculous turn of events, this guy with an extraordinarily random, irr...

I think this is the major worry, the core of the club is being eroded. I don't think it's a bad thing at all that Gibbs, Gilkes and Beasant are going. Goalkeeping has hardly been a strength since Beasant's been around and since Gilkes replaced Steven Reid in the coaching team we've won around 10 ga...

Crowbar6753 PS everyone laughed at Solsjaer (Excuse my spelling) being give charge at Man U

Did they?

Remember how SSC’s appointment was greeted on here? Let’s see how he does FFS :lol: Comparisons to Coppell... dearie me. Comparisons to how SSCs appointment was greeted, not SSC FFS I don't really recall people saying the Coppell was a journeyman manager who'd achieved nothing of note, who didn't k...

Seems odd that in the season after a major pitch replacement with some of the worst winter weather in recent years and plenty of rugby played the pitch showed no signs of the problems seen in previous years. The claimhad always been that it was the cumulative effects of rugbybthst had created the p...

My Middlesbrough supporting colleague has been telling me they've been absolute rubbish for a while and the fans have turned against Pulis. Expect them to tonk us. My QPR supporting colleague echoed similar comments. They are "a bunch of big blokes, relying on the ball being launched forward, ...

The one positive is that if Joorabchian again "suggests" some Portuguese signings, this guy might at least have a clue of they are any good or not.

Neither did Maurice Evans', or Ian Branfoot's, or Mark McGhee's, or Alan Pardew's, or Brian McDermott's. Brendan Rodgers' appointmemt met with popular approval though. I don't recall them being condemned as poor choices, with people unable to fathom why they were selected. I guess what I'm saying i...

Yeah fukking YAWN Stan. There was NOTHING. special about his football. Nothing clever, nothing tactical. Nor Adkins', Clarke's, Rodgers's or Clement's. Slow tedious possession football is bullsh*t in this country. Always has been, always will be. Fukk off back to the continent if you want to bore t...

I find it incredible that people at the top aren't asking why we are being advised to go all out to get a journeyman nobody as a manager. Their money. Their club. Their way. Like a competition between the Chinese billionaires to be the first to to win the Premiership. In the process ruining the gam...

He has done one with Rio from the look of it and sounds fairly highly rated over there . Reports I've read suggest otherwise. Castro was highly rated. This guy isn't. I find it incredible that people at the top aren't asking why we are being advised to go all out to get a journeyman nobody as a man...

A Portuguese sports writer on twitter has put up some detailed thoughts, including "in terms of defensive organisation, Rio Ave is quite possibly the worst team in the league". Just baffled by this appointment, I can't see a single positive. Hope I'm proved wrong, but will be surprised if...

Somebody (none of the local press will) needs to get to the bottom of why we are seemingly obessesed with getting a Portuguese manager in at all costs. What is the connection? There is obviously something in it for someone. It's the Iranian spiv's doing. Watch Gomes now buy half a dozen of the Iran...

I watched bits of it, and I was impressed.

OK, they are not under the kind of pressure first team players are, but I'd love to see the first team able to knock the ball about as comfortably as that.