Toby Carvery wrote:
Sausage wrote:
dons50 wrote:
How does anyone go from being an inexperienced manager to an experienced one? Everyone has to start somewhere. Dan will get better as he learns the job.
Inexperienced managers already have experience of coaching, assisting, or at least playing with adults in professional teams. DM has none of that. It’s like asking my biology teacher to give me a vasectomy.
Lovely image aside, I wonder whether the difference between managing teenagers and adults is actually that significant. Perhaps it may even be a positive that Dan has extensive experience with, say, 16-21 year old players. I would imagine he can connect with the current generation better than Colin Wanker and those of his ilk.
I read that clubs in Germany are increasingly promoting youth coaches to senior teams for this reason.
Yip, Jurgen Klopp went straight from being a player at Mainz to their manager, aged 36. David Wagner had only managed Dortmund's reserves when he got the Huddersfield job. Mauricio Pocchetino got the Espanyol job aged 39 with his only coaching experience an assistant at a ladies side. Then there's Guardiola and Zidane, who had both only managed Barca and Real Madrid B sides when they got the job at arguably the 2 biggest clubs in the world.
That's 3 of the current big six English sides managers. Add to that many other young, inexperienced appointments (Robbo, Alex Neil, etc). I can understand an argument that Dan Micciche himself may not be a good enough manager - because time may prove that right. But the argument his very inexperience makes it a terrible appointment goes against the current thinking and has been disproved many times. Young managers are very much a la mode.
The difference is that those Germans have extensive experience working in the adult professional game. Dan had none.
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