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I agreed with Paul (and Jermaine Pennant in a recent article) when they said Benitez has a poor track record of improving young players. He's not the manager you want if you buy a poo poo-hot young player who needs games to improve. Every manager makes bad transfer decisions but Benitez rarely seems to make average players play above themselves (Bellamy, the Morientes fiasco, Pennant, Kewell) or successfully bring young players along (Insua, any of the young strikers they'd had since he arrived). Liverpool just never seem to get a break on a lot of their transfer buys and I think it's because of Benitez's management style. Benitez excels at building a squad of older, seasoned pro's who are tactically intelligent. But if a young Ronaldo had gone to Liverpool I don't think he'd be anywhere near the player he is now.
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Bearproof posted:David Goldblatt, author of The Ball is Round: A global History of Soccer recently gave a talk at the London School of economics on global sport and global capitalism. I highly recommend it to everyone, as he discusses some critical issues in the game and covers a lot of geography in doing so. His style is a bit fiery but his rant on Tiger Woods is absolutely devastating. Check it out! Is there a link to download that talk? I can't find one on the page you gave. edit - Found it. http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm#generated-subheading1 , the mp3 is here: http://richmedia.lse.ac.uk/publicLecturesAndEvents/20100218_1830_thisSportingPlanetGlobalSportAndGlobalCapitalism.mp3 Markeh fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Apr 10, 2010 |
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