Swango1980
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That is just it though, does he drag them down, or does he make a good fist of keeping poor teams up? Managers like him, Pulis and Allardyce never / rarely seem to get chances at the better clubs within a league, clubs with bigger budgets and clubs with players who can play nice attacking football. They get typecast into positions where they manage slow, poor quality lethargic teams, and it is their job to try and strength the players mentality and defence, and hope to pick up enough points to keep safe.It puts him towards the bottom of those who’ve made 1000 games, think Pulis has a similar record. It’s the fact he continually gets chances, his record for us is actually 27%. I understand it’s going to do for some chairman, but there’s a disconnect between how he’s lauded, and the reality of the fact he just seems to always drag teams down to a lower part of the league level.
It'll never happen, but if any of those managers suddenly found themselves at a big club, I'm sure they would have a much more impressive win %. Sure, probably not as impressive as the "top" managers, nor playing a style of football fans would be impressed with. However, I bet they'd be somewhat more attacking than we know them as being, because suddenly they'd have very different players than they are used to.