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That's delusional. France is in the SF, Portugal lost a QF on penalties to France - while outplaying them - and England are in the QF. You could say they've been bad but there's managers who have been outright catastrophes for their sidesHas to be Deschamps, Martinez and Southgate.
Saying Deschamps when he’s in the semi is just stupid.
Tedesco, Martinez, Stojković
Serious question to all - if England reach the final and lose to France, are you still saying Southgate is the worst manager at the tournament?
Deschamps may be a boring coach but he gets results and it can’t be only attributed to luck. He hasn’t lost a knockout out game in 90 minutes since 2014… Actually got very unlucky in 2016. He also was a decent club manager. Comparing him to Southgate and Martinez is disrespectful…
That's delusional. France is in the SF, Portugal lost a QF on penalties to France - while outplaying them - and England are in the QF. You could say they've been bad but there's managers who have been outright catastrophes for their sides
I'd say Spalletti, Piksi and the third...right now I'd say Tedesco. Southgate could bump him off later tonight though![]()
that's not what this thread is about though. It's asking about the *worst* managers, not who is bad. There is no way France make the semifinal with one of the worst managers in the tournamentSo if England reach the semi's you think Southgate is a competent manager?
Yep, thank you. Only other guy who has been this bad is Southgate but he's still in it by the grace of Bellingham so too early to mention imoSpaletti.
Couldn’t make a decision on a formation or style of play and ended up fudging it, getting off with it under the guise that the players aren’t that good anymore.
There was more than enough talent to put together a cohesive and dangerous team, but he couldn’t commit fully to a formation that he traditionally didn’t use and left it way too late to decide who would be starting.
Failed to define anything and got the best out of very few players. Biggest fail of the tournament by far.
You can’t put managers who are in the quarter/semi final above him.
Saying Deschamps when he’s in the semi is just stupid.
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This thread is titled "3 worst managers in the competition"Reaching the later stages shouldn't be the only prerequisite to not being a bad manager. Di Matteo won the UCL and people still, rightfully, didn't claim he was a good manager. If a team is barely scrapping it through the tournament, especially when their team has one of the best squads, then the manager should be called out.
So if England reach the semi's you think Southgate is a competent manager?
A team with Dembele, Thuram, Mbappe, Griezmann, Coman, Muani have not scored in almost 600 minutes of football...
Not really delusional as they have done very poorly with the resources they have. Smaller and weaker teams maximised their potential.That's delusional. France is in the SF, Portugal lost a QF on penalties to France - while outplaying them - and England are in the QF. You could say they've been bad but there's managers who have been outright catastrophes for their sides
I'd say Spalletti, Piksi and the third...right now I'd say Tedesco. Southgate could bump him off later tonight though![]()
Blame the players, not deschamps. Portugal game was bad, but in the others games the French have missed big chance after big chance after etc. Griez managed to miss 2 sitter in 30 second vs the Dutch. Mbappe one on one Giroud sitter vs austria. The French have created more than enough chances and been very wasteful.So if England reach the semi's you think Southgate is a competent manager?
A team with Dembele, Thuram, Mbappe, Griezmann, Coman, Muani have not scored in almost 600 minutes of football...
I have never rated Martinez. He under-achieved with Belgium, With such a talented squad he should have won somethingI think what Martinez did is far worse than anything others did. We could argue about choices and preferences of at least ten managers, possibly of every single one of them in the tournament, but what is in common for all of them, apart from Martinez, is they did it for footballing reasons.
I criticize Southgate a lot, but he plays who he plays, and plays the way he plays, because he honestly believes that is the way to go.
With Martinez and his obsession with Cristiano Ronaldo, it is something different. He deliberately sacrificed his team's chances of winning the tournament because of Ronaldo. And I am not saying it just because he played him all the time, it was ridiculous to allow him to take those idiotic free kicks from literally anywhere on the field.
I have never seen manager so bent on pleasing one player's ego, that he was literally willing to destroy whatever reputation he's had, not just as a football manager, but also as a leader, boss, call it whatever. He is by far the biggest disappointment on a scale greater than football.