IFF has reached an agreement with Carlos Queiroz!

[peiman92]

We can go back and forth with these comparisons. The question is if you will ever realize the limits of comparing? The question isnt even who is the best of the two. The question if I understand you correctly is if CQ is so much better that your comparisons hold? If so, then they dont. By far they dont.

They do hold, and that is why he is back to coach us once again.

[AGC]

They do hold, and that is why he is back to coach us once again.

Ive not said CQ is inferior to skocic. He is better thant Skocic based on what we know (note, what we know)

It is YOU that complain about skocic era and belitlle what Skocic achieved. It is YOU that act like achieving what Skocic did was a walk in the park. Did you see CQ flirt with our beloved TM after Wilmots disaster? No you did not. Because no one did and because he did not. No one had the balls to coach Iran at that point, neither Yahya nor CQ nor Daei etcetera.

It is not like CQ is perfect and Skocic was all shit. Not by far. CQ had his flaws during his last stint too and we tend to exaggerate. We had worse players you say. Perhaps Azmoun and Taremi. Our defenders were in better shape and our midfield too during CQ days. Now we have out of form Ezzatolahi that were a monster before Sko era.

Im repeating it again just to be clear: It is not valid belitteling Skocic just to make CQ look good. You dont win over people by arguing this way.

[ramingeles2000]

why are we assuming this news is true? every source is repeating iranian state media. CQ, Sko, and IFF officials have said nothing so far. Until I see confirmation from Taj or better yet CQ...i don't buy it, and you shouldn't either.

having said that - PLEASE GOD!

[ramingeles2000]

I have just revisited IRNA website and there is no news of CQ in Tehran. They do refer to the "rumour" of discussions with CQ.

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this is what i'm saying. where is the official state source stating that CQ has been appointed?

I think the most telling signal so far is that Sko changed his instagram page. otherwise....all reports are simply recycling other rumors.

[peiman92]

Ive not said CQ is inferior to skocic. He is better thant Skocic based on what we know (note, what we know)
It is YOU that complain about skocic era and belitlle what Skocic achieved. It is YOU that act like achieving what Skocic did was a walk in the park. Did you see CQ flirt with our beloved TM after Wilmots disaster? No you did not. Because no one did and because he did not. No one had the balls to coach Iran at that point, neither Yahya nor CQ nor Daei etcetera.
It is not like CQ is perfect and Skocic was all shit. Not by far. CQ had his flaws during his last stint too and we tend to exaggerate. We had worse players you say. Perhaps Azmoun and Taremi. Our defenders were in better shape and our midfield too during CQ days. Now we have out of form Ezzatolahi that were a monster before Sko era.
Im repeating it again just to be clear: It is not valid belitteling Skocic just to make CQ look good. You dont win over people by arguing this way.

Ofc he’s better, it’s not even debatable. Skocic has slowly but surely destroyed everything CQ built.
The fighting spirit from our players is gone. They have become lazy going to UAE/Qatar clubs because this asshole Skocic doesn’t put any pressure on them to play in Europe. Our level of playing is getting close to 2007-2010 era, that’s how bad it is.

He’s a total joke of a coach and a leech who can’t let go of TM, because he knows that he will never get a similar job elsewhere.

I’m not belittling Skocic to make CQ look good. Everyone already knows how good CQ is so there is no need to belittle a joke like Skocic for that lol.
The harm Skocic has done to our national team will take time to fix.

[Firooz]

Reuter reported it today as well

[Ostad_Goosfand]

I assume we will get official confirmation as it becomes morning in Tehran

[oracle]

tm is really a big deal.
in indonesia they stoped
their tv programing
as breaking news
ANNOUNCED CQ RETURN
TO TEAM MELLI bench
ITS PARTY OVER HERE
party over there

[kian_khosh]

I was looking at staff who could join CQ and thought of Des McAleenan, may he RIP - committed suicide during quarantine during the covid era, aggravated by his chronic depression

Great article on him:

https://www.the42.ie/des-mcaleenan-t...Mar2021/?amp=1

CQ had a very close relationship with him, brought him along to most of his jobs (Colombia, Iran, MLS, etc):

“His lifelong ambition was to always work at the highest level and I was always pushing him. Two weeks ago, I was trying to get him to apply for the job at Watford. The night before he took his life, Mick (McDermott) was talking to him about another high-profile gig with a massive club in the UK. Carlos Quieroz said he would take him everywhere with him. With Colombia, he was playing in World Cup qualifiers, he was facing Brazil in Miami. That job meant so much to him. The fact he was wearing the team’s gear for the cremation probably gives you an idea of how proud he was”.

At the end, I think he missed the structure. When Colombia finished, there was no more getting picked up, no more training, no more video analysis, no more weight rooms. Everything ended with a bang. And he was just lost. When he got Covid, he ended up staying in a hotel room for two weeks. He was a mess. He couldn’t shower. He was biting his nails. He was very nervous. We had spoken about how fickle the football business is. If you start losing you get fired. That’s the nature of pro sports at that level. And he was weary of that.

“Carlos (Quieroz) took a real shine to him. He was this worldly man with big stories who took interest in people and life and was a deep figure and he said to Des, ‘I’ve got one more fight in me and I’ll take you wherever I go next – stay strong and don’t let it get to you’. Carlos had some good talks with him but Des couldn’t see a way out of this. I spoke to him in the days leading up to it and his mind was tortured. He said it was like a maze. Most of us have bad days – with work, with the wife, with the kids and we say, ‘Fuck it’ and close the door and bounce back. But in the end, he couldn’t come back around again. He told me about the demons in his head: ‘Sometimes I think they’re mice and they know I’m weak and they tell their friends to come around because this guy is easy’. It was just so sad listening to him in the end.”

the article was such an amazing read, this is what true journalism is

[bozghaleh]

Taj when asked by Radio Varzesh if Sko or CQ will be coach: "In 2-3 days (maybe even tomorrow) IFF will make decisions about TM."

https://www.iribnews.ir/00Ey7n

[diz]

[Casra The Great]

CQ's familiarity with the English game makes this even more of a perfect fit. Tbh he has probably been scouting england, wales, usa, for the last few months already.
so LOL how we ended up here, but I'll take it I guess.

[metallica69]

Whatever happens in the next few days, we need unity on a team level and hopefully CQ would have learned from last experience not to want to start a fight with all the other coaches in the league. The Persepolis factor is important and hopefully haha will be more accommodating and that fire doesn’t start again. Keep in mind a few key players for TM are in Persepolis.

Someone just needs to take care of IRIB, that’s only an order from above. Considering how important beating USA is for the IR, I am hoping someone can talk some sense to IRIB to stop their attacks till WC is over.

[Hosseini]

CQ's familiarity with the English game makes this even more of a perfect fit. Tbh he has probably been scouting england, wales, usa, for the last few months already.
so LOL how we ended up here, but I'll take it I guess.

England AND the US. He worked in America for years and has a lot of connections here

[Karimi 8]

Going to wait for the final confirmation from Carlos until I believe it. I can’t afford to get excited for this and be let down. The Iranian media is always making shit up, but thankfully it seems much more likely than before