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Beğendiğim bir teknik direktör
not: watfordsporluyum
:sorrow:İşte bu yüzden gelmemeli.
lise dizilerinde oynayan öğretmenlere benziyor nerden buldunuz bu adamı
Adamin atletico madrid ile kazandigi AL haric hic bir basarisi yok, ne bir takimla cikis yakaladi, ne bir takimi parlatti, bence gelmesin daha iyi
For the record, Flores has performed admirably at Watford, but not without faults. He arrived last summer, when a promotion-winning squad was swollen by the arrival of 15 players, all of whom believed themselves deserving of a place in the first team. He had to rapidly assess them, decide who to play, who to keep and who to release, and he had to keep a bulging squad content even though most of them could play only rarely. Among this enormously likeable man’s greatest achievements is that it took until the final weeks of the season before the inevitable grumbling started to be heard outside the dressing room.
Watford started the season with José Manuel Jurado acting as playmaker behind Troy Deeney’s solo striker, a formation Flores ditched almost instantly after recognising that Odion Ighalo would make a finer foil for the English forward. Between them the pair have now scored 27 league goals, 71% of the team’s total, and claimed 10 assists. It was the decision of a humble man, one who is not too proud to admit a mistake and to swiftly rectify it, and it was the making of Watford’s season.
To paraphrase Andy Townsend, if anything the front two did too well. The longer the season progressed, the more successful the partnership became, the less the rest of the team seemed to contribute to their attacks, until Watford were left with a goalkeeper, eight essentially defensive players and two who might occasionally try to score. When one of them suffered a crisis of confidence in front of goal – Ighalo has scored just twice in the league this calendar year – there was nobody else to help, and Flores’s squad pruning had left the club without another striker he was willing to select.
When it was needed once again, the tactical flexibility evident early in the season had vanished. Flores repeatedly asked central midfielders to play in wide positions, and though the January pursuit of Andros Townsend suggested a willingness to play with authentic, rampaging wingers, the idea vanished along with the player himself, who chose instead to join Newcastle. Watford settled for the Moroccan Nordin Amrabat, an inferior player who has been selected, and has then performed, inconsistently.
Flores’s finest hour was December’s 3-0 home win over Liverpool, his greatest failure the limp defeat to Crystal Palace in the FA Cup semi-final. The same 10 outfield players started both games, the motivation, focus and purpose with which the team throbbed as Jürgen Klopp’s side was humiliated at Vicarage Road totally absent when the same men lined up at Wembley. For all the loyalty engendered both by Flores’s achievements and his personality, at that moment it seemed Watford could either wait 10 months or so before making a panicked, desperate decision that everyone would agree with, or act sooner and get criticised by Slaven Bilic.
We will never know what Flores might have achieved had he stayed at Watford. We also do not know whether Gino Pozzo, the club’s owner, has reacted to recent performances or if, not exactly being renowned for his loyalty, he had this moment in mind when he wrote a break clause in Flores’s contract.