Mendilibar has now coached 24 games for Sevilla and has only been able to win in nine of them, which, according to @LaLigaenDirecto, makes him the coach with the worst winning percentage for Sevilla in the last decade. Specifically, Mendilibar only has 37.5% of victories, surpassing the worst until now, Montella (39.3%) and is the second worst of the 21st century only behind Marcelino García Toral (33.3%),
who was dismissed after 27 games.
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We can bless the lord, that those wins were in the Europa League or at least two of them were Vs United and Juve and the draws did the rest.
That Europa League win still is a miracle, but part of this club. Not of mendilibar.
I just don’t want them to keep throwing away money by sacking coaches. The board lacks vision and good decision making and have their mind focused on other things.
They all have to sit on their blisters now, and accept whatever mediocrity comes out of this season and pray to God that we survive the CL group and pass another round for some more income…
Mendilibar never was a good long term choice while you are in a rebuilding phase. But they decided to throw this year away. And just stall for some reason.
It’s sad that they don’t realize that, if they fire him, the same mess will repeat. Emergency manager etc. New system etc. Endless misery of mismanagement.
Sit it out, and make an actual plan this year contacting a promising manager from the start of next season and actually look for a better future.
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I always thought Mendi was a stop-gap coach after relieving Sampaoli, and has only been able to stick around because of our miraculous Europa championship and the sporting director change. Personally, I think it’s time to welcome a change. I have my eyes on Gaizka Garitano. He seems to have a lot of love for the Basque country and might not want to head south, but he had such a great run with Bilbao/Eibar.
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Yeah, I do think the fans and the board too heavily weighted the Europa League performance when considering renovation, myself included. When you think back about the actual La Liga resurrection, it was good enough to avoid relegation, but only by a pinch, and still a lot of disappointing matches.
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Anybody ready for Lopeball 2.0?
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I think Mendi now is under pressure after a poor start to the season.
I include myself in believing that Mendi had earnt an extended chance after the Europa League success and steering us to safety in the league.
That said, he had originally been appointed on an interim basis and maybe was ever meant as a stop gap appointment. Maybe we need a younger manager with fresh ideas to come in and rebuild for next season. This year we probably accept more mediocrity in the meantime.
We will see I guess.
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I 100% believe a younger coach would have more success. Get these old heads out of here.
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They say Marcelo Gallardo, again. But the issue remains, they keep doing it mid season, that’s always a deficit to start from in my opinion.
I hope the Lopetegui return will remain a joke. If not, I might have to inform at a couple nearby mental hospitals.
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Please don’t be true. We need a revamp of the team and that starts with the coach and his play style.
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If Castro et al pursue Lopetegui then they need to be strapped to a raft with a slow puncture and sailed down the Guadalquivir!
Lopetegui is part of the reason why Sevilla are in a mess right now (older players on high salaries with no resale value). It makes no sense to return to that model when you’re trying to dig yourself out of the financial hole that it created in the first place.
Give Mendilibar the season, take the rough with the smooth while planning & securing his successor. I guess however there’ll be a mid-season panic and yet another manager brought in to rescue the team from whatever failure they’re experiencing.
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Apologies for the delay here. I know y’all are were waiting on the edge of your seats for this. I’ve slowly been transitioning to a tablet as my primary PC, and this isn’t on the cloud yet, so I had to make a point to update it 
Through 7 games (8 MDs if you count the postponed Atletico game, we’re one point ahead of last year. Definitely feels more optimistic than October 2022 though.
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He just got there. I hope we don’t touch him with a ten-foot pole.
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