Originally posted by xerexes
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With IR, our choices aren't between hiring a good expensive coach orhiring a good expensive coach and spending little on infrastructure or hiring a crappy cheap coach and still spending little on infrastructure.
Kranjcar is better than most of our domestic coaches yet with our most "professional" team he keeps getting spanked out of the ACL group stage. At least this year wasn't as bad as 2013 where he lost home and away giving up 8 goals to Al-Ahli. He's managed just 1 point in 4 games against that team since last April.
Others already mentioned the positive effects of CQ's tenure in terms of instilling professionalism and a team-first mentality that is practically non-existent in our football, and I don't even think he's the only foreign coach who can bring those qualities. But I also know once he leaves, IR will either go after a Faraki type or at best a yes-man foreign coach who'll let IFF and the players run the show again while he collects his paycheck.
And not for nothing, but in all the years I've followed our football I don't remember a single time where the players cried in the locker room for the coach to stay like they did after our last world cup game. Even Karimi who is notoriously hard to get along with fell in love with the guy and still supported him after getting cut from the team.
And one last note about IR's problem with CQ's demands. It ain't about him asking for too much money. These guys had no problem with Daei's crazy contract from the same government budget just to run a club, even though he doesn't have a fraction of CQ's resume as a coach and failed to qualify us to the world cup. They're just used to coaches who put up with the corruption and unprofessionalism as long as the paychecks keep coming. They don't want CQ to have a say about things like camp sites mainly because they want their own people making money off those deals instead of him (and those people don't give a damn about the team's interests as long as their own end of the deal is good). At least with CQ choosing the sites we won't end up somewhere in rural Austria with no air conditioning in the middle of summer like we did right before he came along!
Kranjcar is better than most of our domestic coaches yet with our most "professional" team he keeps getting spanked out of the ACL group stage. At least this year wasn't as bad as 2013 where he lost home and away giving up 8 goals to Al-Ahli. He's managed just 1 point in 4 games against that team since last April.
Others already mentioned the positive effects of CQ's tenure in terms of instilling professionalism and a team-first mentality that is practically non-existent in our football, and I don't even think he's the only foreign coach who can bring those qualities. But I also know once he leaves, IR will either go after a Faraki type or at best a yes-man foreign coach who'll let IFF and the players run the show again while he collects his paycheck.
And not for nothing, but in all the years I've followed our football I don't remember a single time where the players cried in the locker room for the coach to stay like they did after our last world cup game. Even Karimi who is notoriously hard to get along with fell in love with the guy and still supported him after getting cut from the team.
And one last note about IR's problem with CQ's demands. It ain't about him asking for too much money. These guys had no problem with Daei's crazy contract from the same government budget just to run a club, even though he doesn't have a fraction of CQ's resume as a coach and failed to qualify us to the world cup. They're just used to coaches who put up with the corruption and unprofessionalism as long as the paychecks keep coming. They don't want CQ to have a say about things like camp sites mainly because they want their own people making money off those deals instead of him (and those people don't give a damn about the team's interests as long as their own end of the deal is good). At least with CQ choosing the sites we won't end up somewhere in rural Austria with no air conditioning in the middle of summer like we did right before he came along!
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