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OK - based on his two years in the lower divisions and his 12 games here, what ingredients did he have to be a 'top class manager'?
Apart from diet and apparent professionalism (something he didn't he didn't have on occasions as a player and certainly didn't act with any as a manager) the only thing we keep coming back to is that he apparently "had the players sussed" and he slated them in the press, which some fans lapped up as it give them an easy target for years of failure and something to buy into even after he'd gone. The fact his tactics were lower league, the fact he had no man management skills, the fact that he can't seem to decide which players he was responsible for coming to the club and who he wanted, the fact that this forward thinking genius (and misunderstood) hasn't managed since, well he's just screaming out as a 'top class manager' to me.
It could be you or me if we had a foreign name, made all the right noises about diet and fitness and gave the players a right good slating in the press then some would buy into us as well.
He was stitched up by De fanti FFS. He was hardly going to go against the DoF early doors and say I didn't want any of these players is he?
Looking back Di Fanti probably brought in more quality, albeit on loan, than most managers and DoF's have here in my lifetime. Di Fanti's remit was also to lower the wage bill overall, restructuring the side after selling off one or two big earners.
Di Canio also wanted a DoF. A DoF is then responsible for bringing in players, not him. Anyway that's an easy get out saying you didn't get who you wanted - how realistic was the players he did want? and which SAFC manager does? It's easy to say you didn't get the required quality and lay the blame at the DoF.
The point with Di Canio is even now he cannot make up his mind which players we brought in he actually did ok and did want. He kept repeating about the player with the keys and that he didn't get one, then later in the same season when we were doing well under Poyet he said Ki (and Borini) were the only players he asked for and wanted, so is Ki not the player "with the keys" like? He conveniently forgot about telling people previously he'd wanted Altidore and wanted to keep Ji and inbetween telling us he didn't get anyone he wanted.
Ki was more defensive and not your typical no10.
If di fanti had got his first choices like mendy and Duncan (and cavaniLooking back Di Fanti probably brought in more quality, albeit on loan, than most managers and DoF's have here in my lifetime. Di Fanti's remit was also to lower the wage bill overall, restructuring the side after selling off one or two big earners.
Di Canio also wanted a DoF. A DoF is then responsible for bringing in players, not him. Anyway that's an easy get out saying you didn't get who you wanted - how realistic was the players he did want? and which SAFC manager does? It's easy to say you didn't get the required quality and lay the blame at the DoF.
The point with Di Canio is even now he cannot make up his mind which players we brought in he actually did ok and did want. He kept repeating about the player with the keys and that he didn't get one, then later in the same season when we were doing well under Poyet he said Ki (and Borini) were the only players he asked for and wanted, so is Ki not the player "with the keys" like? He conveniently forgot about telling people previously he'd wanted Altidore and wanted to keep Ji and inbetween telling us he didn't get anyone he wanted.
Not true.Ki was more defensive and not your typical no10.
Not true.