QUOTE (Fillipo Simone @ Jun 9 2015, 08:49 PM)
Ancelotti a lucky coach? The better coached team won? Oh come on Acid, you can do better (I'll respond to your post more extensively as soon as I'm able to).
Looking forward to it, my friend. I'm very much due a lengthy discussion or two. (IMG:
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style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) But yeah, if you ask me Ancelotti is the luckiest coach around these days. That's not to say that he does not possess all the necessary skills that make a good tactician, he certainly does. But his luck factor outweighs all his other aspects.
At least, the way I see it. And that's why I have never placed him in my great coaches category, which is reserved for only the best of the best. (IMG:
style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) Then again, only a few individuals are there in that list, almost all of them not requiring a large overlay of an investment to bring home the bacon.
Thing with Ancelotti is, for me, he has disappointed just when I expected him to lift his game, lift his teams alongside. And when has has won, more often than not, it has got to do with the players at his disposal. You take them out, and he starts to falter. Not the sign of a great coach. Even with all his continental wins, which I'm not disputing.
So in that sense, I'm mighty glad that he's not back. I expected him to say no, that 50-50 thing was only a smokescreen. Plus I have serious issues with coaches that are not good at man management. (IMG:
style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) Just rewind the clocks to how Ancelotti treated Shevchenko upon his return.
Who I rate much more highly for his time here in our colors than Ancelotti. Being a senior, more experienced individual, Carlo should have known better rather than indulge in a petty feud with the club icon. Not to say, Sheva might not have been on fault there, but come on, Calrlo, you're top of the food chain for a reason.
Besides, the 2005 loss was more due to his rigid tactics after half time, than the Sheva miss (or his performance in the penalty shootout). Ancelotti should either have gone in all attacking like Sacchi said to the 1994 team, or gone in water tight defense, moving Maldini to the center and making the correct substitutions.
Instead he just went with the flow. Just like the 4-0 loss to Deportivo de La Coruña. (IMG:
style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) That was stingy! We'll discuss this further, surely, but I personally think it was possible to win five consecutive CL titles (or three at least) with the state of affairs of world football in the early to mid 2000s, and the squad we had.
Practically the most gifted assembly of the biggest names in the game. Dida, Nesta, Maldini, Sheva, Kaka, Rui Costa, Seedorf, Pirlo on a pitch at the same time? Tell me one other team that had such talents at its disposal in the past two decades. And that's not even talking about the bench.
Only the original Galacticos put up a fight, but they don't come close to just how solid this group of players was. We did taste a lot of success, for which I am more than grateful. But we also squandered a lot of opportunities, which our coaches in the late 80s and early 90s did not. Hence their iconic status.