We are set to appoint former Brentford, Arsenal, and Southampton coach Andreas Georgson as our new set-piece coach, Georgson has worked with Jason Wilcox previously at he is currently manager of Norweigen side Lillestrom having succeded former Leeds midfielder Erik Bakke back in January.
Andreas Georgson - New Set-Piece Coach
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This the fella who was Arsenal's set piece coach before they actually got good at them?
let's sign James Ward-Prowse now and we're good
We've literally got managers coming here to be coaches and assistants. Massive. Huge.
He was there when they stopped conceding them in droves but yeah not when they started scoring from a ton. Brentford were notably very good at them while he was there though.
He left England for a managerial position too, so it's not like the clubs he was with weren't happy with him.
Sir Jim is playing football manager with this backroom staff reshuffle
We've signed a manager to coach set pieces? Blimey. Along with the RVN and other fella signings, we've clearly got some pull into this backroom staff of ours.
Bodes well.
Bodes well.
I guess that's a promising sign. I feel like their big improvement on attacking set pieces happened after he left, though?
Coincidentally, this news broke right as I was looking out the window longingly and thinking about Eric Ramsay.
Ten Hag's replacement?
Bringing in a swede (basically Norwegian) for Ole's return?
Bringing in a swede (basically Norwegian) for Ole's return?
Great news, area that needed to be addressed.
Yeah that could be true. Although that could still be down to the work he did. It’s not like everything you train happens immediately in matches.
That's good to know. With this bloke, that puts us on five current or former managers on staff.
The Athletic wrote a piece on him a few years back: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/29...-for-arteta-and-why-teams-take-short-corners/
Short corners.... he left Arsenal, Arsenal put corners into the box now and are one of the top scorers from corners in the league...
He'll do well to make our corners any worse. Just need some targets in the box now.
Arsenal did improve after he left but given he's ex-Brentford and ex-Arsenal and both teams quite intentionally focused on set pieces (most moneyball type teams recognize their importance) it's a good sign.
Anyone know why he left from Arsenal after a short stint?
Anyone know why he left from Arsenal after a short stint?
Makes sense seeing as we signed their medical guy right before their recurrent injury crises cleared up.
That's clearly something that needed addressing so I'm pretty glad something is done.
There's a few players in the squad with a decent header on them too.
There's a few players in the squad with a decent header on them too.
Who's been set-piece coach till now?
It was Eric Ramsay last wasnt it?
He was offered a job as the Sports Manager (kind of assistant Sports Director) at Malmö FF, where he spent over a decade before coming to England. So probably due to more money?
He has said he liked it at Arsenal and enjoyed working with Arteta though.
Was thinking the same myself.
It'll be an achievement if he can stop this lot from creating more chances for the opposition from corners.
We said the same thing about Eric Ramsay when he was hired.
The problem is that the organization as a whole need to really understand and value set pieces. Ralf for example was a big advocate.
Unless everyone (manager, players, DOF) really buys in it's not going to work. We still don't know what the backroom thinking is at United.
But as per above , he seemed to stop them conceeding so many, two sides to it.
Jobs for the boys. The more things change....
True. In the end it's hardly rocket science, decent delivery and good players in the air.
ETH has no more excuses. He is fully backed now with proper football people upstairs, coaches in different roles, new medical team and player signings.
Hope this is the year finally we will see a proper Man Utd again.
Hope this is the year finally we will see a proper Man Utd again.
No more foul throw-ins then?
Not going to get excited as I was excited when we poached Erik Ramsay from Chelsea and people thought we were going to score boatload for us to only score one or 2
We could be so much more creative with set pieces, corners in particular.
We just swing it in and hope for the best.
Hopefully this guy earns his corn and gets us a few goals this year.
We just swing it in and hope for the best.
Hopefully this guy earns his corn and gets us a few goals this year.
That’s 4 first team managers we have now in the coaching set up 
Including Ten Hag himself, it's 5 (him, this bloke, McClaren, Ruud, Hake).That’s 4 first team managers we have now in the coaching set up
He wasn’t a specialist set piece coach. Just given the role.
He can't be worse than previous one.
Wasnt ETH against this appointment?
Anything is better than what we have now.