I think Sampaoli deserves a full season next year to really stamp his style on the team in pre-season.
I honestly don’t see why he can’t get us challenging for top 4 again if we get it right over the summer.
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How can you look at Sampaoli long-term? He’s only managed to stay longer than 2 seasons once in his managerial career; that was with the Chilean National team.
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Sampaoli reminds me of the Tasmanian Devil. He’s 62, but he covers the touch line like someone half his age. I think his duration in the job is more constrained by how long it takes him to fall out with the board, rather than a loss of passion.
I think he should be given another year or two, providing he wants to continue. Within that time, Monchi should be looking at bringing in Gallardo or another coach to succeed him before it all goes to pot.
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This
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He could be our Simeone… we definitely need a long term coach that takes all competitions seriously and instills a great winning mentality.
I don’t see Sampaoli to be the one, but if he’s changed his old ways (always doubtful, Chris provided the stats)… you never know!
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Because that’s what I want and so I’m imagining a rosy future that might not exist but I get the feeling this is where he wants to be and it might be his last gig.
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Interesting name, and he’ll be out of At Mad soon. He’ll have a rest first though and maybe another hair transplant then on to Sevilla. Koke will be the next At Mad manager guaranteed.
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I think the board saw Sampaoli as temporary and one who could turn the ship around and re-ignite the spark. How long is his contract…?
I definitely think we should go a long way before terminating his contract and replace him if it means it will cost us money. We know he is a coach capable of getting results, so the manager-position shouldn’t be a priority for changing at this point. Keep him for as long as the contract says and at least for next season. If it works out great then consider a renewal. If not, go for a long-term manager and build his team.
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Contracted until Jun 30, 2024
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Todofichajes claim that both Sevilla and Sampaoli are in agreement that he will leave at the end of the season. With little money to invest in the squad in the summer, Sampaoli does not want to carry on.
Sevilla are evaluating candidates, and unemployed Marcelino Garcia Toral has been mentioned as another potential returning manager for next season.
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Hopefully not true. Sampaoli deserves at least a full season with a proper squad planning in the summer.
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Sell Bono and YEN.
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I said before that I can’t see him going unless they fall out over money, so it fits but I doubt it’s anything more than a rumour.
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I hope you’re right. Would like to see him stay
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Lopetegui’s dismissal cost SevillaFC12 million € . Sampaoli’s (contract until June 2024) would also go to 12 million € . Add the signing of a relief (the Bordalás agent does not stop pulling strings), in total a nonsense of almost 26 million.
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Don’t do it. It should at least be an agreement that he goes with no further costs for us.
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Even if it were for free, it’s a terrible idea. Among winnable games recently, he’s lost a few, but I think overall still has us above the trend we need to stay in Primera since January (ie ignoring Oct-Dec). I just don’t even get the idea that we would fire him. It’s like we hired an unpredictable, passion-driven coach and then we were all like “this damn guy is so unpredictable in his subs and lineups!!! And just so passionate, so many red cards!”. You hired Sampaoli, not Manolo Jiménez.
Let Sampaoli coach, good lord.
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Great, he sucks the life and soul out of the club, pockets a cool 12m then goes to the premier league to play football manager, must be a charmed life.
Radio Marca quoted management looking at alternatives already and if they fall to Almeria the axe will fall. Oh so now you’re so quick to act and try to get rid of someone who was willing to take up this trash heap at it’s almost lowest point. If they had any sense they would’ve paid Lope to piss off after last season and gone for Diego Martinez.
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Monchi will be on SFCTV tonight at 20:00 CET. Can anyone watch and translate into a summary post? I would appreciate it
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Just watched the interview writing along with some notes, my Spanish is far from perfect but this is what I made of it.
How are you or should I skip it?
Monchi saying its the most negative moment as a sporting director so far. And just looking for some hold or support to claw ourselves out of this situation. But its rough. Trying to look for some power that might not even be there to turn the things around. its a critical situation. But we are here because of our own mistakes.
Talking about how he’s an atypical sporting director, way closer to the players and the staff. Only thing that can help us is being in union in the squad and everyone at at the club. Try to not even focus on game to game, but day to day to try and do our best. There is a lot of doubt, pain, believe and trust issues. He thinks the mental aspect is an immense problem right now.
People asking for his head, but if he believed that it would help, he would have been gone yesterday. Right now it would be cowardly, leaving the responsibility. He still believes, and only with support it will be possible. But in the end his word is not worth much ofcourse.
How we gotten here?
We messed up a lot. That’s it. As a club who grew in 20 years from second league to a reference for all teams doing things we were doing, and still doing them. The model definitely involved risk, and if there are errors it will be costly. However, the things that could have gone bad, went worse.
Why?
Sometimes using the same strategies will make it that you don’t end up in the same place. Same argument that went well in the past, went wrong now and here we are. Our turn to be brave and take responsibility.
Solution?
As a football player he believed support, especially if its a mental problem, will help more than critics, at this moment. It might be different per player, but that’s my opinion he says. Best to give, care and confidence to all of them. Otherwise we might become a fish eating its tail, and us eating ourselves up.
Almeria, Cadiz, Getafe, Celta and Valencia coming up, decisive?
Everything is decisive, there are 14 games. It could have been any other 5 teams and it wouldn’t be much different but of course they are direct rivals. It doesn’t even make sense to look further than Almeria. Of the situation where we put ourselves, there is no more margin.
Sampaoli?
Same thing, giving him confidence and trust which there still is in his work. Still believe we can turn it around.
Pape Gueye’s card?
How it was described in the act didn’t correspond with reality. How he sled kicking the ball, where the atletico player 1.5 meters away was not in a dangerous position and they hope the committee will discard the second yellow for him.
Loic Bade?
He’s getting close, training in higher pace, higher intensity now, almost back to normal. But still carefully treating him. We will have to be careful of how much his importance outweighs the risk of making it worse.
Talk about outweighing, how the Europa league weighs right now?
Any further loss or win, will only increase hope and confidence or doubt. The best way or recipe to win against Almeria, is to win against Fenerbache. If we get out of the potholes it will only help our confidence. Sevilla as a record holder has and will be always a favourite just because of this but that doesn’t mean we actually are, with teams as man utd and Juve in there…
Dreaming about another Europa League?
No… I’m just dreaming that our next training tomorrow will be as good as todays and yesterdays. We need to return to a positive dynamic which I feel is getting there. Probably against Osasuna it has gotten worse and damaged into more negativity again.
What remains of the Revolutionary Monchi in 2019, 2003, 2005?
Depends on who you ask haha? For me, I didn’t change a thing. Same excitement and enjoyment to work. Same tools, same hours, same colleagues, same personal life and family balance. Not much changed. But I’m human, with the right to make mistakes as well. But I also want to try and correct those.
You believe?
I’m an optimistic person, and I believe in finding solutions. Believing in his duties and what he can bring to the club to support it as much as possible. There are many players in the squad that made him very happy. Jesus, Bono, Rakitic, Fernando, Jordan to name a few, who won and contributed huge to win trophies for the club and is eternally grateful for and now its his obligation to stand with them and give them as much support as possible.
Any feelings of revanche?
No, none with myself. For me making Sevillista’s happy is the biggest prize there is. And right now, many of them are unhappy and its hurting many, and him included. This hurts most. I just hope it ends well this season and it ends in being a bad experience from which we can learn our lessons.
Reactions from People?
I think he mostly speaks about in public and the online things doesn’t bother him that much eventhough twitter is like a mental arguing institute to me personally and he’s on there, but he didn’t speak about it. Generally in the streets what he hears and who come up to him,100% of the people that do that are supporting, ofcourse he is not hiding, walks in Sevilla, or with his dog in San Bernardo so yeah nothing bad. Speaks about his daily routine, some carnival. Always being busy in his mind making it difficult to learn carnival song lyrics lol. There is little rest, it doesn’t stop. and when it ends, next season will start again. He never got lost too much in victory, which he regrets a bit. But it helps him reflect and cope with the current situation, and the current failure better.
35 years in total at the club, you’ve lived everything good and bad, it’s like a script?
From the past 20 years almost all of them were good and that makes one bad year worth the price, or i’m not sure how he phrased it. But right now, none of that matters. Past is gone. All that matters is today and now. For everything that we have had, I’m a thousand times grateful already. But its time to take the ‘oh here we are’ Sevilla suits off. And put on the ‘we screwed up’ suits to get us out of this situation. We can’t dodge the issue. Reality is 24 games, 25 points. That’s it. Should we hurt and torture ourselves with this, no. But we should take our lessons from it to not do it again.
Any last message to the fans?
No, they are and always have showed their support and they are mature enough. So no, I can’t be asking more already.
Not sure how this will read, some is quoted and interpreted but that’s what I got out of it.
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