Lol this reminds me of my very first FM game, FM15 or something like that. I had promoted Bristol City to the PL but got sacked shortly into the new season, and the only job i could get was with Tristán Suárez which was a newly promoted team to the Argentine second division. That team was utter garbage and i was eventually also sacked... and then i was hired by River Plate lol. I even managed to win a league title with them. Not bad for my first FM experience, but holy hell that was falling upwards XD
In fairness to Pardew he did quit CSKA Sofia purely on the grounds that he had zero tolerance for their fans throwing bananas at the black players so not completely morally bankrupt
Poch too I think they get hired because they agree to everything the board and owners tell them to do, and they don't cause any issues with the players, which probably explains how someone like Jose never got to manage Portugal.
VfB Stuttgart finished 2nd, meaning Bayern finished 3rd this season! They've been relegated twice in recent years, only narrowly surviving last season. They seem to have an interesting story ⚽️ Over to you, Alfie 👀 I'm still here.
I very much disagree with the Martinez mention. Belgium was a top international team under him and they kept the nr.1 ranking spot for a long time. The team fell off towards the world cup and spirits were low. De Bruyne was injured, Lukaku out of form and Hazard hadn't played at Real Madrid. Belgium played great football under Martinez.
@@sercangok523 Yeah the Belgium NT improved a lot after Marc Wilmots wasted the 1st half of their golden generation. It's just that if Belgium couldn't win a tournament with De Bruyne, Hazard, Lukaku, Mertens, Witsel, Vertonghen, Alderweireld, Courtois all in their prime at roughly the same time, when will they? It's a missed opportunity for sure
Thank you for reminding people about Rijkaards job at Barcelona. Everyone seems to forget the state of that team before his arrival and what he delivered to Pep.
@@fationmuhollari9768 i agree but Frank didn’t do anything after. Pep had success everywhere so it furthers the argument for Frank to have been carried by his squad.
@@gnaark1181 Not everything is black and white. What offers did Rijkaard have after that? Football is a strange sport. Many great managers like Capello and Lippi made wrong choices and were soon forgotten. I'm not saying Frank is even close to Pep, but we cannot disregard what he achieved. Pep wouldn't do much better managing Galatasaray imo
Dont worry, Kane will win trophies in Bayern lol Bayern has something like this basically every decade or so. They nod off for 2 or 3 seasons. The winning seasons of Wolfsburg and both Dortmund years are a prime example. After which they came back with a treble and 11 years of winning. As a sidenote too: I do think Kahn and Brazzo have destoryed alot and have given away Bayern strongest assest: Actually having money, not just revenue that keeps you going, but hard cash reserves (hopefully not just cash tho) beyond three digit millions. Presumably Bayern will go to what they have been before 2013: Winning the League "just" every two years lol
@@LiftandCoa I do get your angle but the difference this time is xabi Alonso, man just did a double and an invincible season off of pure coaching, what happens when he gets the players he wants , not to mention how attractive of a coach he is sure to become in every transfer market seeing his feats , idk , Kane being in Bayern coupled with xabi's presence just spells no trophies
You know, I didn't think you could surprise me with Freddy Adu references, but that image of him with David Bowie, William H. Macy, and the author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran" is sort of blowing my mind. How did that particular assemblage of people happen? My brain is thoroughly boggled. Thank you, I think.
Burnley could have 100% stayed up if Kompany wasn’t so arrogant with his “philosophy” & tried to force it on players that weren’t able to implement it .. “Philosophy’s” are going to hamper a lot of teams over the next few years that believe every team can play like a Pep team ..
It's funny people say stuff like this but the "Stick 10 men in the box and hoof it into the stands to try to win 1-0 from a free kick!" teams always go down, too.
@caesar-dynastysports burnley stayed up for years and got into Europe doing that. Those teams go down because they're way below good enough at doing that. Burnley aren't, they've spent alot of money and should have enough to survive if Kompany hadn't been more concerned with maintaining his image than the club he was supposed to be managing
@@jamesduffy7549 Burnley played that way and got 100+ points in the Championship. Please tell me how those players didn't know how to play that way...?
@caesar-dynastysports don't put words in my mouth. Burnley failed because that style doesn't work against teams who are better than you, because you're both trying to do the same thing, and they're better at it. They'll have that all day long. You need to force them to play on your terms
Alfie, I really appreciated your FFP video. Since you seem to be the most well organized channel at explaining these sort of aspects of the game, could you possibly make a video explaining the homegrown rules in the PL and UEFA, and also what implications if may have for the future of PL teams moving forward? Lots of thanks!
Kompany, going from relegated Burnley to Bayern Munich, one of the biggest clubs in world football, is a strange appointment. But after the recent Man Utd FA Cup win over Man City, nothing surprises me anymore.
@@jamesduffy7549 Maybe they did, we don't know. Or maybe there were reasons outside football that made some candidates uninteresting. Third option: the club actually wanted someone mediocre to wait a season hoping Xavi will eventually leave the bundesliga and then get a good coach. If none of the above, then coach scouting is yet another problem of Bayern.
Video idea suggestion: Why has Real Madrid dominated the Champions league so much from 2014 onwards? Let's not forget that they had to wait over a decade for la décima, now they already have 15.
2 things: tactic and players. Real's tactic is basically sit back and relax, wait to give the real blow at the 2nd half of the game (except 2017), and to do this kind of tactic you need the best players in the world, which Real recruit every season, have to give them credit for buying young promising players with high price and developing them to world class
An interesting video would be the lowest scoring champions of all time. I often think about this because I know Swedish champions in 1998, AIK scored 25 goals in 26 games which I think is insane. I also recently learned that Trabzonspor won the league with 25 goals in 30 games.
Another interesting one would be the least time spent at the top of the table all season. i think Bayern won a title in the 80s with only one matchday at the top
Aduana stars won the Ghanaian league with 19 goals in 30 games (they were the leagues lowest scorers) Which is a massive contrast to the prem where Leicester and United scored 68 My fear with this sort of list would be it being dominated by nations where their season is split into multiple league 'phases' with each having their own league champion that's typically seen in the Americas. Depending on how vague you go with the title of champions it could also see things like he Dutch period champions, where it's a weird mix of the leagues we're used to and the aforementioned multiple leagues a year. Where they have a traditional table as well as a period champion crowned every 9 games. The teams who finished 3rd and 4th the table and the 4 period champions then face off in the playoffs where they and the team 3rd from bottom in the first division fight for a spot in the eridivisie. I'm guessing after 9 games there's a good chance a period champion or two haven't even hit double figures for goals.
"Kompany to Bayern stinks of sacked in March after crashing out of the CL" Not that weird considering they fired a Manager that was unbeaten in the Champions League that season not too long ago hahahha
@@somethinglikethat2176 The reason Bayern sacked Nagelsmann is the fact he lost Bayerns winning mentality, there was trouble in the team and players like Musiala threatened to leave. Nagelsmann wasnt good in the league. like his first season with Lewandowski scoring nearly 40 goals and having practically all of the 2020 sextuple winning side struggled imensely in the Bundesliga. If a team like Leverkusen was there in 2022 Bayern would've lost under Nagelsmann just as bad as under Tuchel. Like the moment a team defended well Bayern had huge troubles.
@@LiftandCoa they didn’t fire flick But flick resigned as the board didn’t want to give him a bigger transfer budget Naglsemann was the questionable sacking by Bayern because “the treble was in danger” whilst he was in all competitions(all of that whilst Choupo moating was up top) and ended up being sacked for tuchel for instant results and in a space of 3 weeks Bayern were out of the cup and ucl and nearly lost the league but Dortmund choked on the final match
Talking about GB at the beginning got me thinking, as an American I would be so much more interested in American soccer if we were to use a common table and promotion/relegation system like every other major league in the world.
I'd like to give an honourable mention to Daniel Scherning, the current coach of my club Eintracht Braunschweig in the 2. Bundesliga. I understand that this is too low-tier for this video, but I still like his story: After a career of being an assistant coach, his first job as headcoach was at Osnabrück, who had just been relegated from the second to the third league in Germany. He managed them for one season, finishing sixth and therefore not getting promoted, which lead to him being sacked by the club. He then was appointed coach for Arminia Bielefeld, who were struggling in the 2. Bundesliga. He failed to improve them in any way, eventually sacked again a few weeks before the end of the season (Bielefeld was eventually relegated with Braunschweig finishing just ahead of them in the safezone). For the next season, Braunschweig got a new headcoach, Jens Härtel. He managed them for a total of 12 games, only getting 5(!) points on the board with a playstyle that makes me shiver today still. The team was utterly reliant on thoughtless long balls in the general direction of Anthony Ujah, who was really the only player looking somewhat like a professional footballer. Being miles away from the safezone when Härtel was finally sacked and with a team clearly not up to any standards, really no one had hopes that we could avoid relegation. In comes Daniel Scherning as the new coach. Most fans were not expecting anything of Scherning, with him not showing any signs of being able to make a team better in his career. Yet, in a very short amount of time, he introduced a new formation with two strikers and Ujah not even on the pitch, relying more on quick, direct counter attacks, with half of the players being in a position that they hadn't played before. The result? Out of the next 22 games, Braunschweig got 33 points, being the seventh best team over that time period, managing to somehow secure a place in the league with a clutch win in the penultimate game. Players and fans alike agreed that this little miracle was in large parts Scherning's doing, since he found the right position for all of the players who were struggling and gave the team a working strategy that made them competetive in every game, regardless of the opponent. This basically did not seem possible with the team he had and his reputation up to this point. I hope he stays at the club for a long time :)
Pochettino getting sacked by Chelsea and that hilarious Nigel Pearson story got me thinking, what are the 7 most unjustifiable or most bizarre sackings of managers? 😂😂
Honourable mention Sir Bobby Robson Fulham to Ipswich. 16%win rate and relegation from Div 1, given the job at another Div 1 team. Of course Sir Bobby is a legend and did well at Ipswich and beyond.
Regarding De Rossi one must said SPAL was a goner for everyone and none blamed De Rossi. Now De Rossi has proved he can deliver the same results as Mou (maybe better?), so things are looking good for him.
Souness did a decent job at Benfica on his first season. But the year after, he signed loads of british players who were absolutely rubbish. The Benfica's president was a lawyer later convicted for robbing the club and Souness warned the fans about him when he was sacked. I still remember his words "that man lies, he's a lier and a thief".
I very much disagree with the Martinez mention. Belgium was a top international team under him and they kept the nr.1 ranking spot for a long time. The team fell off towards the world cup and spirits were low. De Bruyne was injured, Lukaku out of form and Hazard hadn't played at Real Madrid. Belgium played great football under Martinez.
Yep, I 100% agree, his tenure just ended badly, but at his peak he did a great job. But somehow that's against the narrative to say? Like people somehow like to pretend that he still failed because he didn't win the world cup.. like... really? expectation of winning the biggest trophy? With a team that never won any, no less? Belgium was one of the favorites, sure, but come on, no team can realistically expect their manager to win. He got them winning, and winning convincingly a lot of the time. Previous manager Wilmots had tons of scrappy, unconvincing last minute wins against inferior teams, by contrast. But by all means, Martinez did well, and at his peak, he did very well.
Maybe the result at Euro 2016 also hurt his reputation.. Belgium were the favourites and probably all their players also hitting their prime, while Wales just being lucky played at the quarter final and suddenly spanked Belgium 3-1 While for me the World Cup result was good job. They only loss to Argentina 2014 (2nd place winner) and France 2018 (the actual winner), and im not counting the 2022 as that was unfortunate that all their best players already past the prime and havent did the regeneration yet
As a Romanista I'm excited for next season having Danielle the whole year as a manager. This season was rough and despite ending in a bad way, I was ready to give up on the team.on January but De Rossi really gave motivation to the team for some months.
always love your content and the way you present them also the amazing out of the box ideas for these content would like more international content though personally big cheers
Great video as always. I have a question somewhat loosely inspired by my beloved Arsenal's season and having just recently watched your video on the 7 Greatest seasons in history. What are the greatest seasons in football that ultimately ended trophyless? Would love to see a video on that, think it could be interesting. Cheers.
Yeah, Everton was the anomaly there. The bigger surprise was that Everton actually managed to get Ancelotti in the first place. That's not failing upwards on his part. That's having a really successful career, stumbling, then getting back to business as usual.
Eh, in retrospect, you'd probably argue he was somewhat successful, given that Everton proceeded to be relegation fodder next. It was pretty average, sure, but I don't think it really qualifies based on what happened there afterwards
I like Alan Pardew. Southampton fan here by the way, he rebuilt us from a time when we were on our knees, he was an obvious class apart from the managers we were used to up until the time he was appointed and helped put the foundations in place that Nigel Adkins ran with. His sacking at the time was cruel, but there appeared to be a lot happening behind the scenes. Seriously, have an examination of our chairman at the time, Nicola Cortese. He was f**king mental. Thanks heavens Nigel Adkins worked out.... Only to be cruelly sacked once he had us turning a corner in the top flight.
Thanks for the video Alfie. I think you should have said “Graeme Souness to everywhere.” I’m a Liverpool fan and he destroyed that club…and then made his living being hired for every massive job going and then getting fired
was really impressed with kompanys german at his press introduction. He only played two seasons here. Some of those football players really seem like they could have been geniuses as an alternative career.
He is belgian, most of the younger belgians can speak german, especially in the brussels-area and the east. He probably learned it long before playing for Hamburg. Not that it isn't impressive to speak four languages, it is, but it is more the norm than an exception in belgium.
Thank you for mentioning Gregg berhalter, still confused about how he’s failed into managing a high profile national team on the brink of hosting the World Cup.
I’m a Newcastle fan so I can explain a bit about the pardew appointment. He was cheap and most importantly he toed the line for Ashley and listened to him on transfers and other decisions. This was the most important thing and probably why he got an 8 year deal, Ashley knew he would follow his rules without question. Also should be noted that there’s a rumour he owed Ashley or one of his mates money from casino losses and that’s why he was so obedient
It's not so much that Kompany was appointed, but that Rummenigge announced that he was appointed after advice from Guardiola. Even if he is a former manager of Bayern, he is currently a RIVAL manager for the most coveted trophy for Bayern or Cheaty.
Videos for you to consider - what on earth is going on at inverness Caledonian thistle From third place and winning Scottish cup to Scottish league one You Haven’t had a Scottish team in this series so you might want to. - Clapton CFC A fan owned team and their story You do like a non league video at times for the viewers - the rise of bashundhara kings How they won last five Bangladesh premier League now - last suggestion would be your q and a video 😊
Phil Neville should also be added to this list as after he was an assistant coach at both Man United & Valencia, he took over as coach of England's women's team in 2018 leading them to a 4th place finish at the 2019 Women's World Cup. Then in 2021, he went to Inter Miami in MLS where he was terrible, though I should point out that he was not given the chance to coach Messi because he was sacked the day before Messi signed with Miami. Neville is currently the coach of another MLS side in the Portland Timbers & many Timbers fans already want him sacked after only 2 months in the job due to the Timbers poor start to the MLS season.
if it weren’t for Jordan Ayew getting a straight red against huddersfield on one of the last games of the season, i firmly believe Carlos Carvalhal would’ve kept swansea up, and would’ve gone on to steady the ship. since then though he’s gone on to have a colorful managing career with various clubs across europe
The actual strategist for Barcelona - and something Kompany will want to replicate - wasn’t Rijkaard, but his assistant Henk ten Cate. He devised the tactics and Rijkaard rallied up the team. Rijkaard said this in his own words, it’s on Ten Cate’s Wiki page. Those who fail upwards usually aren’t great at what they do, but they can be successful by working with the right people.
idea for a video - harshest ever sackings. the Ranieri sacking by Monaco will be hard to beat, although I think Del Bosque and Ancellotti both got sacked straight after winning the league with Real Madrid
New video suggestion: Best manager and player duos. Honourable mention right away for Harry Redknapp and Niko Kranjaer. Serious suggestion Alex Ferguson and Gordon Strachan?
In fairness to Berhalter, he did lead Columbus to an MLS Cup Final on a squad with a shoestring budget and an owner actively trying (and thankfully failing) to move the team to Austin. His record at Hammerby however? Yeah.... Still better than Sampson or the post-WC tenures of Bradley and Klinsmann at least.
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 640) I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored. If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
Can we get a video about the most unlucky footballers of all time if you have not made one already? Marco Reus and Real Madrid beating Dortmund in the final gave me the idea.
I think the biggest issues with the managers like Kompany and Maresca who worked with Pep is their lack of defensive knowledge. I think Bayern will do well under Kompany but I think they will struggle against the big teams in the division, especially if Bayern doesn't manage to catch up with Leverkusen.
Bad refereeing and a bunch of fake tough guys. That ends up happening too often and guys like thay say the game has gotten soft but are the first to escalate when they face any kind of contact. These fake tough guys want to act like they want to play in a thunderdome because they think its makes them tougher but .... stop bullshitting. No one wants to play that way. That's why they escalate the situation, despite saying they want to play a more aggressive game
This appointment could work out for Chelsea, there is always that chance. However it is a huge gamble and given the uncertainty around what players are going and who is coming in, i can Chelsea starting the season similarly to last season. If that is the case how much time will he get?
As a Southampton fan I wouldn't say that Alan Pardew was a failure at Southampton based upon results. I don't think anyone was realistically expecting us to go up that season even though he put a very good team together. Southampton also won the Johnston Paints Trophy with Pardew. I think the failure came because there were reported issues with morale in the club (there were rumours about him and a player's wife) and he also had issues with the then cheif executive Nicola Cortese. Cortese was certainly a ruthless businessman and if a manager had any issues with him then they were never going to last long. Pardew's successor Nigel Adkins secured back to back promotions but was also ruthlessly sacked mid season by Cortese despite results not being too bad because Cortese wanted to bring in Mauricio Pochettino (who was an unknown at that time).
Hilarious of course to see Vincent Kompany boss to be the new manager of the biggest ever footballing club of Bayern Munich and Alfie's list for today is unqestionable,good friends!!!He should have been proving himself to be a top manager for around four years time so that he could get that job or any other real top footballing club in Europe,good friends!!!👍🏾
Coaching in professional sports is now more about ego and personality management then it is about "x's" and "o's." Even now in North American sports, we're seeing a much higher turnover rate of head coaches regardless if they're only a year or two removed from achieving relative success with their team
Florian kohfeld has to Feature...the way he blinded an entire fanbase in Bremen even though he finished 16. and 17. in his two seasons there. Then to take over a Wolfsburg team that reached champions league football the season before.
Maybe a very German perspective, but Hansi Flick absolutely belongs here. He won the world‘s most meaningless sextuple, but WC2022 was arguably the worst coaching job in recent memory.
I thought the same thing, but in fact he managed Brighton, then in the third tier, before going to Leeds. His sole season in charge saw them win 12 of 32 league games, an 8-2 home defeat by Bristol Rovers and a 4-0 loss to Walton and Hersham in the FA Cup. So you could probably make a case for failing upwards, although his achievements at Derby still carried considerable clout.
alfie can't believe you forgot about the time i was sacked as plymouth argyle manager on fifa 15 career mode and subsequently was hired by PSG
Wait? That actually happened??😂😂😂
To be fair, seems realistic for PSG
He forgot because that’s clearly a downgrade. Going from the best club in the world to PSG.
I don't know why, but this had me in stitches, oh my goodness
Lol this reminds me of my very first FM game, FM15 or something like that. I had promoted Bristol City to the PL but got sacked shortly into the new season, and the only job i could get was with Tristán Suárez which was a newly promoted team to the Argentine second division.
That team was utter garbage and i was eventually also sacked... and then i was hired by River Plate lol. I even managed to win a league title with them. Not bad for my first FM experience, but holy hell that was falling upwards XD
Kompany must have the same agent as Choupo-Moting
Roberto Martinez set him up
who's Choupo-Moting?
@@rodrigofonseca6241 A Cameroonian striker that went from Stoke City to PSG to Bayern😂😂
They actually played together at Hamburger SV for two seasons in the late 2000s. So, maybe...
Choupo Moting is good signing. He doesnt mind to be on bench, he is cheap and his spark from the bench is great. He is like Joselu
In fairness to Pardew he did quit CSKA Sofia purely on the grounds that he had zero tolerance for their fans throwing bananas at the black players so not completely morally bankrupt
He's been upgraded to marmite.
@@HITCSevensdang. Not even Vegemite
What a dork.
@@dannytallmage2971if being anti-racist is a dork, could be alot worse honestly. Like…racist lol
This was a great move from him, however I think if he wanted to punish the club then the right thing to do would be to continue managing them
Roberto Martinez feels like the master of failing upwards
Poch too
I think they get hired because they agree to everything the board and owners tell them to do, and they don't cause any issues with the players, which probably explains how someone like Jose never got to manage Portugal.
@@Dr.Yakub22poch literally got sacked because he didn't want to be a yes man at Chelsea
What are you on about? Roberto Martinez has at least one huge result for each place he's worked in.
@mirzaabdurrehmanshakeel136 No one knows why he got sacked.
I hate this narrative. Wheres he "failed"?
It's real easy to figure out how Berhalter got the US manager's gig, his brother and best buddies were on the hiring committee.
nepotism!!!!!
3:53 That Freddy Adu picture with David Bowie is just gold.
Had to jump back 10 seconds, I thought my eyes failed me
And William H. Macy!
Fantastic four 😅😅
VfB Stuttgart finished 2nd, meaning Bayern finished 3rd this season! They've been relegated twice in recent years, only narrowly surviving last season. They seem to have an interesting story ⚽️ Over to you, Alfie 👀
I'm still here.
Roberto Martinez's entire career is pretty much him failing upwards.
I very much disagree with the Martinez mention. Belgium was a top international team under him and they kept the nr.1 ranking spot for a long time. The team fell off towards the world cup and spirits were low. De Bruyne was injured, Lukaku out of form and Hazard hadn't played at Real Madrid. Belgium played great football under Martinez.
@@sercangok523 Yeah the Belgium NT improved a lot after Marc Wilmots wasted the 1st half of their golden generation. It's just that if Belgium couldn't win a tournament with De Bruyne, Hazard, Lukaku, Mertens, Witsel, Vertonghen, Alderweireld, Courtois all in their prime at roughly the same time, when will they? It's a missed opportunity for sure
I genuinely thought he’d be #1. I had exactly the same thought as you.
Having a good squad and good manager increase your chances of winning a cup, but it's never 100%
Roberto Martinez won a Fa Cup with a team that hasn’t touched the Prem since
Thank you for reminding people about Rijkaards job at Barcelona. Everyone seems to forget the state of that team before his arrival and what he delivered to Pep.
Is it really Rjikkaards doing though or the GOATed squad that he stumbled upon (especially in the 2nd season)
@@gnaark1181 The same argument could be used for Pep. That squad had finished 6th man. He obviously put a lot of work to make them European champions
@@fationmuhollari9768 i agree but Frank didn’t do anything after. Pep had success everywhere so it furthers the argument for Frank to have been carried by his squad.
@@gnaark1181 Not everything is black and white. What offers did Rijkaard have after that? Football is a strange sport. Many great managers like Capello and Lippi made wrong choices and were soon forgotten. I'm not saying Frank is even close to Pep, but we cannot disregard what he achieved. Pep wouldn't do much better managing Galatasaray imo
@@fationmuhollari9768pep would absolutely dominate Turkish football with Galatasary. He’s amazing when he has the best team in a league
7 biggest clubs to never play continental football
Good idea
Or alternatively, the 7 smallest who have
@@kidcharlemagne3044 that list is a lot longer, just go 50-60 years back, and plenty of the clubs that played barely even exist anymore
7 large clubs that never played in England's top flight (whether it's PL or First Division or whatever)
Or never to win
Vincent kompany going to bayern is the kane curse announcing its permanency 😂😂😂😂, I'd say misery loves kompany but misery really loves harry Kane
blink 182
Dont worry, Kane will win trophies in Bayern lol
Bayern has something like this basically every decade or so.
They nod off for 2 or 3 seasons.
The winning seasons of Wolfsburg and both Dortmund years are a prime example.
After which they came back with a treble and 11 years of winning.
As a sidenote too:
I do think Kahn and Brazzo have destoryed alot and have given away Bayern strongest assest:
Actually having money, not just revenue that keeps you going, but hard cash reserves (hopefully not just cash tho) beyond three digit millions.
Presumably Bayern will go to what they have been before 2013: Winning the League "just" every two years lol
@@LiftandCoa I do get your angle but the difference this time is xabi Alonso, man just did a double and an invincible season off of pure coaching, what happens when he gets the players he wants , not to mention how attractive of a coach he is sure to become in every transfer market seeing his feats , idk , Kane being in Bayern coupled with xabi's presence just spells no trophies
@@Jeree_kun absolutely love that song mate
Wouldn't surprise me if Leverkusen fall off next season and the norm continues
3:54 This is a colliding of worlds for me… my musical hero meets Freddy Adu.
Your content is goated bruv
You know, I didn't think you could surprise me with Freddy Adu references, but that image of him with David Bowie, William H. Macy, and the author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran" is sort of blowing my mind. How did that particular assemblage of people happen? My brain is thoroughly boggled. Thank you, I think.
Burnley could have 100% stayed up if Kompany wasn’t so arrogant with his “philosophy” & tried to force it on players that weren’t able to implement it ..
“Philosophy’s” are going to hamper a lot of teams over the next few years that believe every team can play like a Pep team ..
It's funny people say stuff like this but the "Stick 10 men in the box and hoof it into the stands to try to win 1-0 from a free kick!" teams always go down, too.
@caesar-dynastysports burnley stayed up for years and got into Europe doing that. Those teams go down because they're way below good enough at doing that. Burnley aren't, they've spent alot of money and should have enough to survive if Kompany hadn't been more concerned with maintaining his image than the club he was supposed to be managing
Imagine some dude with a nose wider than his mouth talking about philosophy in the locker room. Lmao. Look at my coach bro we are getting relegated.
@@jamesduffy7549 Burnley played that way and got 100+ points in the Championship. Please tell me how those players didn't know how to play that way...?
@caesar-dynastysports don't put words in my mouth.
Burnley failed because that style doesn't work against teams who are better than you, because you're both trying to do the same thing, and they're better at it. They'll have that all day long. You need to force them to play on your terms
Alfie, I really appreciated your FFP video. Since you seem to be the most well organized channel at explaining these sort of aspects of the game, could you possibly make a video explaining the homegrown rules in the PL and UEFA, and also what implications if may have for the future of PL teams moving forward? Lots of thanks!
Please do a video on Managers who succeeded despite little to no senior managerial experience
Kompany, going from relegated Burnley to Bayern Munich, one of the biggest clubs in world football, is a strange appointment. But after the recent Man Utd FA Cup win over Man City, nothing surprises me anymore.
No one better agreed to take Bayern.
@paweborkowski6959 there are better managers they could have asked but won't have
@@jamesduffy7549 Maybe they did, we don't know. Or maybe there were reasons outside football that made some candidates uninteresting.
Third option: the club actually wanted someone mediocre to wait a season hoping Xavi will eventually leave the bundesliga and then get a good coach.
If none of the above, then coach scouting is yet another problem of Bayern.
@paweborkowski6959 they've paid burnley the 4th highest compensation fee in history for a manager. I doubt hes a placeholder
eh, it's a one-off game. It's not a strange thing. Anyone can lose to anyone there.
Video idea suggestion: Why has Real Madrid dominated the Champions league so much from 2014 onwards? Let's not forget that they had to wait over a decade for la décima, now they already have 15.
2 things: tactic and players.
Real's tactic is basically sit back and relax, wait to give the real blow at the 2nd half of the game (except 2017), and to do this kind of tactic you need the best players in the world, which Real recruit every season, have to give them credit for buying young promising players with high price and developing them to world class
An interesting video would be the lowest scoring champions of all time.
I often think about this because I know Swedish champions in 1998, AIK scored 25 goals in 26 games which I think is insane.
I also recently learned that Trabzonspor won the league with 25 goals in 30 games.
Another interesting one would be the least time spent at the top of the table all season. i think Bayern won a title in the 80s with only one matchday at the top
Aduana stars won the Ghanaian league with 19 goals in 30 games (they were the leagues lowest scorers)
Which is a massive contrast to the prem where Leicester and United scored 68
My fear with this sort of list would be it being dominated by nations where their season is split into multiple league 'phases' with each having their own league champion that's typically seen in the Americas.
Depending on how vague you go with the title of champions it could also see things like he Dutch period champions, where it's a weird mix of the leagues we're used to and the aforementioned multiple leagues a year. Where they have a traditional table as well as a period champion crowned every 9 games. The teams who finished 3rd and 4th the table and the 4 period champions then face off in the playoffs where they and the team 3rd from bottom in the first division fight for a spot in the eridivisie. I'm guessing after 9 games there's a good chance a period champion or two haven't even hit double figures for goals.
they were the worst attack in the league tf
@@GreekHouseEffect Ans people complain about managers like Mourinho and conte 😂
Milan once also won the league scoring 36 goals in 34 matches
Kompany to Bayern stinks of sacked in March after crashing out of the CL, similar vibe to Nuno to Spurs as 8th choice a few years ago
"Kompany to Bayern stinks of sacked in March after crashing out of the CL"
Not that weird considering they fired a Manager that was unbeaten in the Champions League that season not too long ago hahahha
Bayern: our winning manager isn't winning hard enough. Let's sack him.
Also Bayern: why is it suddenly so hard for us to find a manager?
@@somethinglikethat2176 The reason Bayern sacked Nagelsmann is the fact he lost Bayerns winning mentality, there was trouble in the team and players like Musiala threatened to leave. Nagelsmann wasnt good in the league. like his first season with Lewandowski scoring nearly 40 goals and having practically all of the 2020 sextuple winning side struggled imensely in the Bundesliga. If a team like Leverkusen was there in 2022 Bayern would've lost under Nagelsmann just as bad as under Tuchel. Like the moment a team defended well Bayern had huge troubles.
@@LiftandCoa
they didn’t fire flick
But flick resigned as the board didn’t want to give him a bigger transfer budget
Naglsemann was the questionable sacking by Bayern because “the treble was in danger” whilst he was in all competitions(all of that whilst Choupo moating was up top) and ended up being sacked for tuchel for instant results and in a space of 3 weeks Bayern were out of the cup and ucl and nearly lost the league but Dortmund choked on the final match
Talking about GB at the beginning got me thinking, as an American I would be so much more interested in American soccer if we were to use a common table and promotion/relegation system like every other major league in the world.
The Marmite joke was absolutely brilliant, perfect delivery ad usual.
I always enjoy the Freddy Adu mention
I'd like to give an honourable mention to Daniel Scherning, the current coach of my club Eintracht Braunschweig in the 2. Bundesliga. I understand that this is too low-tier for this video, but I still like his story:
After a career of being an assistant coach, his first job as headcoach was at Osnabrück, who had just been relegated from the second to the third league in Germany. He managed them for one season, finishing sixth and therefore not getting promoted, which lead to him being sacked by the club. He then was appointed coach for Arminia Bielefeld, who were struggling in the 2. Bundesliga. He failed to improve them in any way, eventually sacked again a few weeks before the end of the season (Bielefeld was eventually relegated with Braunschweig finishing just ahead of them in the safezone).
For the next season, Braunschweig got a new headcoach, Jens Härtel. He managed them for a total of 12 games, only getting 5(!) points on the board with a playstyle that makes me shiver today still. The team was utterly reliant on thoughtless long balls in the general direction of Anthony Ujah, who was really the only player looking somewhat like a professional footballer. Being miles away from the safezone when Härtel was finally sacked and with a team clearly not up to any standards, really no one had hopes that we could avoid relegation. In comes Daniel Scherning as the new coach.
Most fans were not expecting anything of Scherning, with him not showing any signs of being able to make a team better in his career. Yet, in a very short amount of time, he introduced a new formation with two strikers and Ujah not even on the pitch, relying more on quick, direct counter attacks, with half of the players being in a position that they hadn't played before. The result? Out of the next 22 games, Braunschweig got 33 points, being the seventh best team over that time period, managing to somehow secure a place in the league with a clutch win in the penultimate game. Players and fans alike agreed that this little miracle was in large parts Scherning's doing, since he found the right position for all of the players who were struggling and gave the team a working strategy that made them competetive in every game, regardless of the opponent. This basically did not seem possible with the team he had and his reputation up to this point. I hope he stays at the club for a long time :)
Pochettino getting sacked by Chelsea and that hilarious Nigel Pearson story got me thinking, what are the 7 most unjustifiable or most bizarre sackings of managers? 😂😂
Imagine waking up from a year coma and you imagine what Burley did that Kompany gets Bayern manager
Probably qualified for the Europa Conference League and won the FA Cup against Man City 😂😂
@@LuigiLuigi728 that would be some Fifa/FM type shit right there lmao.
Honourable mention Sir Bobby Robson Fulham to Ipswich. 16%win rate and relegation from Div 1, given the job at another Div 1 team. Of course Sir Bobby is a legend and did well at Ipswich and beyond.
Do biggest managerial turnaround from nearly being sacked to success. EG: Mikel Arteta at Arsenal
Regarding De Rossi one must said SPAL was a goner for everyone and none blamed De Rossi. Now De Rossi has proved he can deliver the same results as Mou (maybe better?), so things are looking good for him.
DDR got sacked about two months ago by Roma.
Souness did a decent job at Benfica on his first season. But the year after, he signed loads of british players who were absolutely rubbish. The Benfica's president was a lawyer later convicted for robbing the club and Souness warned the fans about him when he was sacked. I still remember his words "that man lies, he's a lier and a thief".
I very much disagree with the Martinez mention. Belgium was a top international team under him and they kept the nr.1 ranking spot for a long time. The team fell off towards the world cup and spirits were low. De Bruyne was injured, Lukaku out of form and Hazard hadn't played at Real Madrid. Belgium played great football under Martinez.
Yep, I 100% agree, his tenure just ended badly, but at his peak he did a great job. But somehow that's against the narrative to say? Like people somehow like to pretend that he still failed because he didn't win the world cup.. like... really? expectation of winning the biggest trophy? With a team that never won any, no less? Belgium was one of the favorites, sure, but come on, no team can realistically expect their manager to win. He got them winning, and winning convincingly a lot of the time. Previous manager Wilmots had tons of scrappy, unconvincing last minute wins against inferior teams, by contrast. But by all means, Martinez did well, and at his peak, he did very well.
@@maciejbala477 Exactly. It's like saying Guardiola wasn't succesful at City until last year because he didn't win the Champions League yet.
Maybe the result at Euro 2016 also hurt his reputation.. Belgium were the favourites and probably all their players also hitting their prime, while Wales just being lucky played at the quarter final and suddenly spanked Belgium 3-1
While for me the World Cup result was good job. They only loss to Argentina 2014 (2nd place winner) and France 2018 (the actual winner), and im not counting the 2022 as that was unfortunate that all their best players already past the prime and havent did the regeneration yet
The Frank Rijkaard example makes you think Vincent Kompany could conceivably be successful against our wildest expectations 🤔
27:45 -"Ronald Koeman's appointment by the Netherlands."
Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
As a Romanista I'm excited for next season having Danielle the whole year as a manager. This season was rough and despite ending in a bad way, I was ready to give up on the team.on January but De Rossi really gave motivation to the team for some months.
always love your content and the way you present them also the amazing out of the box ideas for these content
would like more international content though personally
big cheers
Great video as always. I have a question somewhat loosely inspired by my beloved Arsenal's season and having just recently watched your video on the 7 Greatest seasons in history.
What are the greatest seasons in football that ultimately ended trophyless? Would love to see a video on that, think it could be interesting.
Cheers.
That'd probably be any number of 2nd place finishes in league, cup comps etc
was waiting for this after seeing the tweet
Ancelotti from Everton to Real? Get it together Alfie
But he had a great career before.
Everton was the odd one out.
Yeah, Everton was the anomaly there. The bigger surprise was that Everton actually managed to get Ancelotti in the first place. That's not failing upwards on his part. That's having a really successful career, stumbling, then getting back to business as usual.
Eh, in retrospect, you'd probably argue he was somewhat successful, given that Everton proceeded to be relegation fodder next. It was pretty average, sure, but I don't think it really qualifies based on what happened there afterwards
Ancelotti resigned from Everton
I like Alan Pardew.
Southampton fan here by the way, he rebuilt us from a time when we were on our knees, he was an obvious class apart from the managers we were used to up until the time he was appointed and helped put the foundations in place that Nigel Adkins ran with. His sacking at the time was cruel, but there appeared to be a lot happening behind the scenes. Seriously, have an examination of our chairman at the time, Nicola Cortese. He was f**king mental.
Thanks heavens Nigel Adkins worked out.... Only to be cruelly sacked once he had us turning a corner in the top flight.
Thanks for the video Alfie. I think you should have said “Graeme Souness to everywhere.” I’m a Liverpool fan and he destroyed that club…and then made his living being hired for every massive job going and then getting fired
was really impressed with kompanys german at his press introduction. He only played two seasons here. Some of those football players really seem like they could have been geniuses as an alternative career.
He is belgian, most of the younger belgians can speak german, especially in the brussels-area and the east. He probably learned it long before playing for Hamburg. Not that it isn't impressive to speak four languages, it is, but it is more the norm than an exception in belgium.
Yea a lot of untapped “genius” in the Congo. You should move their and staring investing in the country.
You know I always forget that the Freddy Adu mention is coming but I’m pleased by the surprise every time 😅
Thank you for mentioning Gregg berhalter, still confused about how he’s failed into managing a high profile national team on the brink of hosting the World Cup.
I’m a Newcastle fan so I can explain a bit about the pardew appointment. He was cheap and most importantly he toed the line for Ashley and listened to him on transfers and other decisions. This was the most important thing and probably why he got an 8 year deal, Ashley knew he would follow his rules without question. Also should be noted that there’s a rumour he owed Ashley or one of his mates money from casino losses and that’s why he was so obedient
It's not so much that Kompany was appointed, but that Rummenigge announced that he was appointed after advice from Guardiola. Even if he is a former manager of Bayern, he is currently a RIVAL manager for the most coveted trophy for Bayern or Cheaty.
Day 3 of asking alfie to make a video on 7 football clubs based off universities
Well, I finally watched an HITC video a minute upon release
He really failed upwards 😂😂 like his agent is the goat rn.
popping champagne every morning since they signed
I had no idea Alfie had such beef with Pardew
Brian Clough to Leeds. I think he only took the job to see how long it took to get sacked.
Videos for you to consider
- what on earth is going on at inverness Caledonian thistle
From third place and winning Scottish cup to Scottish league one
You Haven’t had a Scottish team in this series so you might want to.
- Clapton CFC
A fan owned team and their story
You do like a non league video at times for the viewers
- the rise of bashundhara kings
How they won last five Bangladesh premier League now
- last suggestion would be your q and a video 😊
Phil Neville should also be added to this list as after he was an assistant coach at both Man United & Valencia, he took over as coach of England's women's team in 2018 leading them to a 4th place finish at the 2019 Women's World Cup. Then in 2021, he went to Inter Miami in MLS where he was terrible, though I should point out that he was not given the chance to coach Messi because he was sacked the day before Messi signed with Miami. Neville is currently the coach of another MLS side in the Portland Timbers & many Timbers fans already want him sacked after only 2 months in the job due to the Timbers poor start to the MLS season.
if it weren’t for Jordan Ayew getting a straight red against huddersfield on one of the last games of the season, i firmly believe Carlos Carvalhal would’ve kept swansea up, and would’ve gone on to steady the ship. since then though he’s gone on to have a colorful managing career with various clubs across europe
The actual strategist for Barcelona - and something Kompany will want to replicate - wasn’t Rijkaard, but his assistant Henk ten Cate. He devised the tactics and Rijkaard rallied up the team. Rijkaard said this in his own words, it’s on Ten Cate’s Wiki page. Those who fail upwards usually aren’t great at what they do, but they can be successful by working with the right people.
idea for a video - harshest ever sackings. the Ranieri sacking by Monaco will be hard to beat, although I think Del Bosque and Ancellotti both got sacked straight after winning the league with Real Madrid
Hey Alfie can you please do a video on Bursaspor fc
Hey Alfie called out my state, and its not a particularly noteworthy one internationally(Maryland.)
Hey Alfie, can you make on why they trained the flair out of Joe Cole’s game? Thought it’d be interesting as a video concept
Mentioning Gregg Berhalter reminded me-you should do a video on the biggest managerial upgrades. Berhalter -> Mauricio Pochettino has to be up there.
Awesome putting Triple-G at the start of the video
New video suggestion: Best manager and player duos. Honourable mention right away for Harry Redknapp and Niko Kranjaer. Serious suggestion Alex Ferguson and Gordon Strachan?
In fairness to Berhalter, he did lead Columbus to an MLS Cup Final on a squad with a shoestring budget and an owner actively trying (and thankfully failing) to move the team to Austin. His record at Hammerby however? Yeah....
Still better than Sampson or the post-WC tenures of Bradley and Klinsmann at least.
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 640)
I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored.
If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
do you copy-paste this from your notes app?
@@un6505 yeh.
@@RyuzakiTaiyou respect the grind
forgetting that ole went from cardiff relegation to manchester united
Could make the whole video about sacked Everton managers, Martinez to Belgium, koeman to Barca, lampard to Chelsea & anclotti to real.
As an American, thank you for mentioning Greg. Severely under qualified for his job
I will never forget that Alan Pardew had a column in the Independent titled 'Par-view'
Can we get a video about the most unlucky footballers of all time if you have not made one already? Marco Reus and Real Madrid beating Dortmund in the final gave me the idea.
Love the Adu bits even if the topic doesn’t always include him ❤😂 I’m definitely expecting rob mart to be here ❤
Thanks for the berhalter shoutout👏
I think the biggest issues with the managers like Kompany and Maresca who worked with Pep is their lack of defensive knowledge. I think Bayern will do well under Kompany but I think they will struggle against the big teams in the division, especially if Bayern doesn't manage to catch up with Leverkusen.
Not sure if you have already done it but, a video on the SHORTEST time a manager was at a club.
Diplomatic, man often was on a rant from some of the matches I've seen on the Burnley touchline
Bad refereeing and a bunch of fake tough guys. That ends up happening too often and guys like thay say the game has gotten soft but are the first to escalate when they face any kind of contact. These fake tough guys want to act like they want to play in a thunderdome because they think its makes them tougher but .... stop bullshitting. No one wants to play that way. That's why they escalate the situation, despite saying they want to play a more aggressive game
This appointment could work out for Chelsea, there is always that chance. However it is a huge gamble and given the uncertainty around what players are going and who is coming in, i can Chelsea starting the season similarly to last season. If that is the case how much time will he get?
25:32 Is that Ryan Giggs?
Saw that Intertoto Cup qualification makes me feel old 🥲
Hope this inspired you to make a video on the Benfica of the 90s. We call it the "Vietnam era", so you can imagine.
As a Southampton fan I wouldn't say that Alan Pardew was a failure at Southampton based upon results.
I don't think anyone was realistically expecting us to go up that season even though he put a very good team together. Southampton also won the Johnston Paints Trophy with Pardew.
I think the failure came because there were reported issues with morale in the club (there were rumours about him and a player's wife) and he also had issues with the then cheif executive Nicola Cortese.
Cortese was certainly a ruthless businessman and if a manager had any issues with him then they were never going to last long.
Pardew's successor Nigel Adkins secured back to back promotions but was also ruthlessly sacked mid season by Cortese despite results not being too bad because Cortese wanted to bring in Mauricio Pochettino (who was an unknown at that time).
Hilarious of course to see Vincent Kompany boss to be the new manager of the biggest ever footballing club of Bayern Munich and Alfie's list for today is unqestionable,good friends!!!He should have been proving himself to be a top manager for around four years time so that he could get that job or any other real top footballing club in Europe,good friends!!!👍🏾
Coaching in professional sports is now more about ego and personality management then it is about "x's" and "o's." Even now in North American sports, we're seeing a much higher turnover rate of head coaches regardless if they're only a year or two removed from achieving relative success with their team
Doesn't Pablo di Canio's move from Swindon to Sunderland count as failing upward?
That's downward
10:46 we finished 2nd, no title was won.
What about ole gunnar solskjær when he was appointed to manu?
Florian kohfeld has to Feature...the way he blinded an entire fanbase in Bremen even though he finished 16. and 17. in his two seasons there. Then to take over a Wolfsburg team that reached champions league football the season before.
What have you done Alfie 😭, Man United is going to watch this video and hire Rooney.
Maybe a very German perspective, but Hansi Flick absolutely belongs here. He won the world‘s most meaningless sextuple, but WC2022 was arguably the worst coaching job in recent memory.
I like the stat that Bayern have more European Cup wins (6) than Kompany achieved league wins this season (5).
Any chance you do an opposite vid? Managers that were surprisingly sacked after a successful season
Someone send this to Vincent Kompany and Enzo Maresca please
I think Ancellotti's reappointment to Real Madrid deserved honorouable mention.
This list could be made entirely from Ashley era hires at Newcastle
How about Tim Walter? Playing great football with Hamburg but missing his promotion targets and still getting the hull city job
Please Alfie, can you do a video about Dr. György Sárosi? One of the most complete players of all time.
Can you make a vid on bromley being promoted to league 2
Funny thing is Dave Hockaday managed against my Uni side earlier this year. How the mighty have fallen
Whilst maresca isnt on this list he will fail so hard at chelsea
Maresca didn’t really fail at Leicester tbf
@@LuigiLuigi728he was expected to win the league and he did so that’s a fair achievement
15:29 well I guess that they also had in common that they failed upwards
Brian Cloughs job before Leeds was Derby where he did quite well
I thought the same thing, but in fact he managed Brighton, then in the third tier, before going to Leeds. His sole season in charge saw them win 12 of 32 league games, an 8-2 home defeat by Bristol Rovers and a 4-0 loss to Walton and Hersham in the FA Cup.
So you could probably make a case for failing upwards, although his achievements at Derby still carried considerable clout.
@@exsandgrounder Should have known it was too obvious for him to get wrong. Thanks for the correction.