Monday, April 3, 2023

^*^ José Luis Mendilibar, the fixer setting Sevilla on straight path towards safety | Sid Lowe

Old-school, straight-talking coach is not a typical Sevilla manager but he offers a simplicity that is badly needed

José Luis Mendilibar can’t be bothered with the nonsense. Enjoyably potty-mouthed, as direct in the press room as on the pitch, he is, he says, the anti-modern manager. He tells it the way it is, challenges fools and takes on authority, doesn’t like VAR – a circus, he calls it – and definitely doesn’t like the theatre, saying: “We’re a bunch of cheats in La Liga; touch us and it’s like someone killed us.”

He doesn’t have an iPad, doesn’t think much of the stats and doesn’t mind saying so. He reckons too many training grounds look like airports – cones and arrows and who-knows-what all over the place – and too many coaches hang around there all day to make a point, not a difference.

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