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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Carlos Corberan
« on: March 17, 2023, 04:46:59 PM »
I really like Corberan and I am delighted we appointed him. Do i think he's made some mistakes....yes as all managers do. At times recently his tactics have been strange, trying to fit Albrighton in is not working.
One thing that rarely gets talked about in modern football is improving players or actually coaching them. Corberan has improved the performances and I would argue mentality of the team. A bunch of players are playing better under his leadership. When he took over we were 23rd in the table and morale was on the floor.
He hasn't had a proper transfer window (Jan is always a hard time) and a bunch of the players can't play the high intensity he wants to play. The squad is a mystery to me, I don't think it's as good as people say (we have about 6 really good players and some average ones).
He is much more flexible tactically than previous managers and made a lot of decisions that most of the fans could see while watching. I always appreciate a manager who when watching the game seems to have seen the same game you saw. He ditched Livermore, Button and Grant and put Pieters in at centre half who has been excellent.
Bartley and Phillips came back in and he revived them and then they got injured long term.
As people have said if he was here all season on a points per game basis we would have made the playoffs.
One final point on the strength of squads, if you look at the league table now and compare it to last season all the teams just above us or in the play offs finished above us last season too.
Millwall were 9th, Blackburn were 8th, Middlesborough were 7th, Luton 6th, Sheff Utd 5th. There is only one outlier in the whole table Huddersfield Town who finished 3rd and their manager was.........
One thing that rarely gets talked about in modern football is improving players or actually coaching them. Corberan has improved the performances and I would argue mentality of the team. A bunch of players are playing better under his leadership. When he took over we were 23rd in the table and morale was on the floor.
He hasn't had a proper transfer window (Jan is always a hard time) and a bunch of the players can't play the high intensity he wants to play. The squad is a mystery to me, I don't think it's as good as people say (we have about 6 really good players and some average ones).
He is much more flexible tactically than previous managers and made a lot of decisions that most of the fans could see while watching. I always appreciate a manager who when watching the game seems to have seen the same game you saw. He ditched Livermore, Button and Grant and put Pieters in at centre half who has been excellent.
Bartley and Phillips came back in and he revived them and then they got injured long term.
As people have said if he was here all season on a points per game basis we would have made the playoffs.
One final point on the strength of squads, if you look at the league table now and compare it to last season all the teams just above us or in the play offs finished above us last season too.
Millwall were 9th, Blackburn were 8th, Middlesborough were 7th, Luton 6th, Sheff Utd 5th. There is only one outlier in the whole table Huddersfield Town who finished 3rd and their manager was.........
