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TCEvo said:
Quite a bit needs sorting before the season starts
Yep - and apparently, he's not due in London till later in the month Hopefully, realistic targets will have been identified and spoken to already (by Bilic?) and deals ready to be tied up before our season starts in 3 weeks
ascayman said:
He's not got a bad track record has he? I thought wham fans would be pleased?
Overall win rate of 55%'s not bad (64% when in charge of Croatia which is pretty good). Sacked at Loco Moscow but looked like he did ok in Turkey. Can't comment on what his teams looked like as can't remember watching any of them.
Lack of PL experience & potentially ability to attract new players is a concern for me.
I expect that he'll jump about on the touchline more than BS ever did though & he can look like a mental bd which might help when we're busily chucking another game away in the 93 minute
AJB88 said:
4-2-3-1 Seems to be his most used.
For an old fart like me what exactly does that mean? 4 at the back, 5 across midfield and one up front? Or is that 2 defensive midfielders and 3 attacking midfielders and "one in the hole"... Or is that a big bloke up front like Andy Carroll? Ok... I'll admit I'm confused. To put this into perspective, if you look at the win rates of our managers over the years, taking the modern era (thus discounting Charlie Paynter) and also discounting Sir Trevor who only managed a handful of games our most successful managers have been Billy Bonds and Alan Pardew with win rates of 43.61% & 41.10% respectively. Aside from his year at Locomotive Moscow Slaven Bilic has consistently achieved over 50% everywhere he's managed which is very impressive.
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