Ancelotti has taken the Brazil manager job as long expected.
I’m usually against foreign national team managers on principle but it’s Ancelotti. I’d hope his appointment somehow encourages a new generation of Brazilian coaches, the dearth of which is the biggest technical problem with football here now.
All the talk of booing brought back that folk were actually calling for Rafa to be sacked during 08-09 when we were challenging for the title. Was all that amplified by the onset of early Twitter? The radicalised pro-Hodgson faction on here for example.
That’s all very well I’m sure, but some of us prefer an all enveloping vendetta, a poisonous hobby that grows and eats away at the very fabric of our daily lives, before ultimately ruining us.
How long do you think even a contract with Google takes to negotiate? They didn’t just show up in town with a crew on spec.
Same goes for the Guess campaign. It was out there in August, would’ve been shot minimum a few months prior.
As I said no excuses at all but I think the clumsy optics on this side of things have been over simplified.
When did he actually film the Google ad? It isn’t a stretch to say that the spot was likely set in motion if/when he was expecting to leave last summer. When I saw the Guess Jeans billboards all over Mexico City in late August it looked incongruous for a Liverpool player. I’d imagine that was the same thing. He was expected to be the big Real signing when those campaigns hit.