Marcos Alonso to Sunderland.

[Athers]

talking of sunderland...

it seems the problem with Di Canio was nowt to do with his managerial skills - but that none of the players were as good as him!

Wasn't that one of Hoddle's big failings ?

It is/was, from what I heard. He doesn't understand that he was a bit special and asks ordinary players to do what he used to.

It's common logic based on him still being a good player in training, but I've never known how much to read into it.

As an aside I bet Michael Laudrup is still bloody good in Swansea training!

[bobo the clown]

talking of sunderland ... it seems the problem with Di Canio was nowt to do with his managerial skills - but that none of the players were as good as him!

Wasn't that one of Hoddle's big failings ?

It is/was, from what I heard. He doesn't understand that he was a bit special and asks ordinary players to do what he used to.

It's common logic based on him still being a good player in training, but I've never known how much to read into it.

As an aside I bet Michael Laudrup is still bloody good in Swansea training!

I understood that he would ask too much of players ... ordinary players who weren't anywhere near his abilities.

When they failed ... as they inevitably did ... he'd fck them off, or ridicule them. Often he would then demonstrate the thing they had failed to achieve. Now that's impressive, but can't be very inspiring.

In short, he'd only be any good managing at the highest level, otherwise the players would always seem a let down.