After losing to the deputy squad leader Zhejiang, Stanley, who had been sitting on the crater for a long time, was added another fire. After the game, accusations against him were overwhelming, and even today, news has come out about Stanley's successor.
Someone took the coach of the Portuguese relegation team and asked: How is Bistanley?
It can only be said that it is impossible to evaluate, not to evaluate the level of the relegation coach of the Portuguese First Division, but to evaluate the level of Stanley. Because there are so few things to refer to.
Stanley's resume has mostly been spent coaching the youth ladder, and apart from Ajax in Cape Town, South Africa, Stanley has had few opportunities to coach the first team.
Some people may say, then this does not indicate that the Stanley level is poor? That's biased. Yesterday's Zhejiang coach Jodi Wenyals is very similar to Stanley, he is also a perennial youth coach, Stanley is Ajax, Jordi is Barcelona. But Jodi's level is not bad, at least in China, the experience of coaching is still very good.
Stanley's coaching must be measured from several dimensions.
First, cost performance. Stanley's salary is very low, arguably the lowest of all foreign coaches in the history of Guoan, and even lower than some local coaches. One of the main reasons for Stanley's low salary is that he is alone, and without a team, he receives his own salary.
If you look at it from this point of view, Stanley's value for money is very high. Because you compare your current results with Bilich, you can understand why Stanley is cost-effective.
Second, goals. Stanley was well received when he previously coached the National Security Reserve. When Guoan approached him last year, he also vowed that he hoped that he would play to his strengths and help the team replace the old and new.
But when Stanley came, he found that this was not the case.
Especially this year, Guoan vigorously recruited, especially the introduction of a number of very old foreign aides, suddenly squeezed the space of young players, and finally a considerable number of young players were loaned or transferred away, and the young players who remained in the team had little chance. In this year's league, only Nabijiang and Jiang Wenhao have played, and they have not been long.
If it comes to winning the title, Stanley is certainly not the right person. But when he first came, whether it was the goals given to him by the national security or his own ideas, it was a replacement of old and new. But here, from top to bottom, he changed his face, and Stanley himself was confused.
Some people may say, if Stanley wants to replace with new and old people, you need to have more young players, right?
That's what we'll talk about below. Third, power.
How much responsibility Stanley has for the current national security is a question worth playing. Many details show that in terms of recruitment, training, platooning, substitution, etc., Stanley has not been effectively supported, or even able to exercise his power, and many of his work should have been too discounted.
For example, the issue of introductory assistance. Zhou Jinhui has always said that Guoan's recruitment should be based on the needs of the head coach, but this year's signing is very strange, and it cannot be seen in any report that the signing is related to Stanley, and the internal and external assistance that comes does not have any possible intersection with Stanley.
Many people say that Guoan played 10 rounds and used 10 different starters, especially the midfield on which Guoan depends, and the personnel has been changing. Stanley himself says he's been tweaking the balance in midfield.
The initial narrative was that the national security after a large number of reinforcements would take time to grind. But the league is a third of the way through, and the run-in is not over. This fully shows that Stanley has not found a manual that is more suitable for the current play of Guoan players. At the same time, the domestic and foreign aid introduced by Guoan this year has also played unstable, in line with the prediction of the previous Beijing home stadium "ID: bjzhuchang", "this year's platoon, can use one and a half (one refers to Han Jiaqi, half refers to Yang Liyu)".
The people who come don't play with the team, the team doesn't work well, the players don't perform well. This speaks volumes about the fact that this domestic and foreign aid was not chosen or needed by Stanley.
From last year's introduction of Guoan, it can be seen that whether the new signing is a coach choice is very important. After Xie Feng took office, he appointed Mei Mi to join, and then invited Jiang Xiangyou, and the performance of these two people was very good, even if the national security team did not perform well, their performance was still recognized. And it is not that Xie Feng hand-picked Adebenro, who has only seen the video, is very ordinary, and Dablo, who Xie Feng has not even seen it, is more watery.
Signings like this year's Ademi and Sousa are enough to show that he was not brought in by Stanley.
After talking about the introduction, let's talk about training. Guoan's training this year is very poor, which can be seen by discerning people. Stanley began winter training with the national security in February, but all the training was not done well, the physical training was insufficient, the technical and tactical drills were insufficient, and the set-piece training was insufficient. Do all of this require Stanley to be responsible?
In theory, of course, because Stanley is the head coach. It seems that in the past, if the national security training was not good, it must be Schmidt responsible, Gennesio responsible, and Xie Feng responsible.
But here's the problem, which is that whether it's Schmidt, Gennesio or Bilic and Xie Feng, they are all in the team as a team. In the coaching responsibilities of modern football, coaches exist as teams. The head coach's job is to coordinate and make decisions, while the assistant coach is responsible for execution and providing references.
Why such a division of labor? Because the head coach can't be busy alone. The first team list is generally around 30 people, a head coach can not bring 30 people to train together, in the daily training, the head coach after formulating the corresponding training program, will definitely be executed in groups, and then the assistant coach will lead their respective groups to complete the training. In general, a coach can only bring a maximum of 8-10 players in training.
Therefore, Stanley is the leader of Guoan's daily training, but the executors are his assistant coaches, that is, Sui Dongliang, Jason and Tao Wei.
This raises the question, can the assistant coach fully understand the goal, method and effect of the head coach training? Factors that play a decisive role in this include the assistant coach's ability to execute the manager's requirements, the assistant coach's own understanding, the assistant coach's recognition of the manager's transmission concept, and so on.
In the past, whether Schmidt, Genet, or Xie Feng, their assistants were colleagues who had worked with them for many years, and their coaching staff were all recognized by the concept of the head coach, familiar with the training method of the head coach, understood the training goals of the head coach, and even they could know the details of the head coach's training requirements. Moreover, their assistant coach has no language barrier and can communicate directly when carrying out the training requirements of the head coach.
In fact, even so, it is impossible for an assistant coach to execute 100% of what the head coach has proposed. This is not difficult to understand. It is as if in our daily workplace work, the tasks assigned by the leader, even the subordinates who have strong work ability and recognize the leader, will be more or less biased in execution. However, the execution, understanding, work attitude, concept recognition and other aspects of the subordinates determine how much the final result can complete the requirements of the head coach.
For example, Schmidt arranged a training session, he directly communicated with the assistant in German, assigned the task, the assistant understood 95%, and then executed, the player only accepted 90%, this loss is acceptable.
But Stanley wasn't like that. His coaching staff was set up by Li Ming before he came, and although he had cooperated with the reserve team before, after all, the reserve team and the first team are two different things, and there are also language communication problems and concept recognition problems.
In the coaching staff assigned to Stanley, Jason is Dutch, Luke is British, and Sui Dongliang, Tao Weihe and Zhengyuan are all Chinese. Stanley's training requirement is 100%, through the translation of Mr. Jiang (Mr. Jiang is already a relatively high level of translation in the domestic football industry) is already 95%, assistant coach when receiving information is probably 90%, if the assistant coach has a different understanding of football, is not familiar with the training method, and the execution is not strong enough, then the implementation may be less than 780%.
For example, that and Jeongwon, a goalkeeper coach spent a year teaching three goalkeepers, who should have been eliminated last, but turned out to be a set-piece attack and defense coach, with his understanding and execution of football, it is already a miracle that he can execute Stanley's requirements by more than 30%. Therefore, Guoan rarely scored from set-pieces this year and lost many points, and the reason is self-evident.
Moreover, the coaching staff of Guoan, including Stanley, does not have enough experience in leading the first team to the league. Of all the people on the coaching staff, except for Tao Wei and Stanley, everyone else is basically leading first-team related positions for the first time. It's not the same concept to prepare the first team for a year of league games as it is to prepare the reserve team for a month's conference.
Guoan's coaching staff, physical coach Luke is such a situation, Guoan's first team and reserve team evaluate him as "hard work, inexperienced". Jason doesn't even have a coaching certificate, and in the past in the Netherlands, he only followed Li Ming and Li Sijian behind his back to pick up the ball, and the club's private evaluation of him was "messing around and making relationships". He Zhengyuan is even responsible for set-piece attack and defense with a goalkeeper coach "Hatozhan Phoenix's Nest". Including Sui Dongliang, there is no experience in the first team.
It is even bold to estimate that with the current execution ability and understanding of the Guoan coaching staff, Stanley's request that they communicate 50% to the players is already thankful.
What's more, these assistant coaches who have been with Li Ming for many years, when performing training, whether they "carry private goods" and mix some personal or Li Ming's ideas in it, it is even less known. It is questionable whether Stanley, as head coach, has absolute management authority over the coaching staff.
In fact, similar problems have been discovered by fans in terms of on-field command. First of all, Stanley wore headphones when he was in charge last year, and the other end of the headphones was connected to Jason. Jason is Li Ming's "follower" brought to the national youth team from the Netherlands and then brought to Guoan, the beautiful name is to help Stanley, but in football all over the world, I only heard that the head coach conveyed instructions to the assistant coach through the intercom in the stands after being sent off, and I didn't hear that the head coach wore headphones to listen to the communication with the assistant coach in the stands during the game. The content of this communication is unknown whether it is Jason's idea or Li Ming's idea. If it is Jason's idea, then in terms of his coaching ability, it must be a "blind move" for Stanley, and if it is Li Ming's idea, then Stanley is a complete "puppet".
After yesterday's match with Zhejiang, some people found that in many recent games, when Guoan was substituting, he and Zhengyuan were arranging tactics for players who were ready to play. Someone posted this detail on the Internet, which caused a lot of doubt. Generally speaking, in football matches around the world, either the head coach sets the tactics for the players, or the first assistant coaches arrange the tactics for the players. And Guoan is strange, before the player is replaced by the set-piece coach who has been eliminated from the goalkeeper coach position.
Not to mention whether Fu Bin conveyed the ideas of his friend Li Ming to the players through his other friend and Jeongwon, there will be deviations in communication and understanding. It is equivalent to Stanley telling He Zhengyuan his thoughts on tactical adjustments through translator Jiang Xiaojun, so why doesn't Stanley tell the players directly through the interpreter? Or tell Sui Dongliang or Tao Wei through an interpreter that with Sui Dongliang and Tao Wei's ability to understand, how can it be better than a goalkeeper coach who can't even train a goalkeeper!
Therefore, many people question Stanley's on-the-spot command, in fact, Stanley's decision to replace is not entirely up to him, many times he has to consider Jason's suggestion, and then let and Jeongwon execute, is there any "private goods" with Li Ming? How much can these two understand football? How high can they execute? Several questions, completely unknown.
In fact, many people have found that in many games this year, Guoan is a scene of losing first and winning later, that is, playing poorly in the first half, and changing the situation through adjustment in the second half. Does this also mean that Stanley himself directly explained the technical and tactical adjustments to the players, and the effect was much better than "crossing the water" with Zhengyuan?
This can also be said to line up the troops. At the beginning of the season, the use of Zou Dehai was very strange, Stanley, as a legendary goalkeeper of Ajax, can't he see that Zou Dehai's level and state are far inferior to Dahou and Xiaohan? Why is Zou Dehai used in such an important competition? Doesn't Stanley think it's better for Dabao to play as a substitute striker than a main centre-back? Didn't Stanley see that Jiang Xiangyou was the player who helped the team the most of all the foreign aid? Didn't Stanley find that if Zhang Xizhe and Gao Tianyi appeared at the same time, Guoan's midfield would be smoother? Stanley has changed into a double striker, didn't he find it more comfortable to play than Li Ming's obsessed 433?
Many people asked, Stanley led the team to watch the band last year, what happened? No one can tell what's wrong. It feels like many of Stanley's practices this year are very different and contradictory. Generally speaking, there are two reasons for this problem, one is that the person is stupid, and the other is that there are too many voices around him to take care of, and these voices themselves are contradictory, but they cannot be ignored.
Not long ago, it was said that during the training and explanation, Stanley would often "break the text" while talking or wrap himself around while talking. So is this Stanley's form of thinking is too jumpy, or is he too much information in his head and is already in a state of dying?
So, having said all this, I want to give you a conclusion: if you have to ask us to evaluate Stanley, we can only say, we can't evaluate. Because there are too many unknowns and too few known conditions.
I can only tell you that Stanley's level is definitely not as good as Schmidt and Genet. If a European champion-level coach is 100 points, Schmidt and Genet are at least 80-90 points, after all, they are coaches who have coached strong teams in the five major leagues and played in the Champions League. Manzano is slightly lower than them and will not fall below 70 points. Pacheco won the Portuguese Premier League and was not successful in La Liga, nor will he be below 60 points. So, don't give Stanley too high a score, 50 is always objective.
The key is that Stanley with 50 points, his training, employment, adjustment, after Jason and Jeongwon these people "crossed the water", how many points can be left on the players? If these people cross the water and then "carry private goods", the players are not confused.
In the past, Schmidt and Genesio, they may have played 60 points as an 80-point coach, now Stanley is a 50-point coach, and if all things are okay, he plays at the 40-point level, which is not too bad. But now that he only has 10 points, it's certainly not just him.
Therefore, objectively evaluating Stanley, in one sentence - too difficult. It's hard for me, it's hard for him, it's hard for everyone.