Manager of the Tournament - nominations

[skyscraper101]

Southgate
Martínez
Deschamps

Honorable mention to Aliou Cissé too.

 

[Badgers]

Julen Lopetegui

 

[binka]

Definitely not Southgate

Martinez possibly. The way he changed for Brazil was impressive, and they did go toe-to-toe with France.

Be hard to look past Deschamps if they win it though

 

[belboid]

Definitely not Southgate

Martinez possibly. The way he changed for Brazil was impressive, and they did go toe-to-toe with France.

Be hard to look past Deschamps if they win it though

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Tho Dalic should get a mention too, for the thrashing of Argentina, successfully changing tactics against England, and just getting Croatia to the WCF

 

[editor]

Martínez

 

[The Octagon]

Martinez changed the game against Japan immediately with his subs and set his team up perfectly for Brazil, so probably the most overt display of good management.

Deschamps managing a drama-free French side is worth note all by itself

Southgate wouldn't feature for me personally, he had a great game plan and said / did all the right things generally, but we didn't look like we had a Plan B and his subs were mostly obvious ones that didn't really affect the games. He needs to improve that side of things if he wants to play at this level regularly.

I'd go for Dalic. For the overall dismantling of Argentina, then setting up his wide players to push England back and kill our tactics, we couldn't get a foothold after 30 mins.

But most importantly for telling Kalinić to fuck off home when he refused to come on as a sub, clear message to the squad that they're together or else, could well prove key.

 

[stavros]

Shout for Tabárez? If Cavani had stayed fit, who knows how far they'd have got.

 

[The39thStep]

Got to with Dalic , Martinez had a good competition but he had a squad overloaded with talent imo.

 

[Idris2002]

Southgate got you shower the furthest you've been in a long, long time. Some credit where it's due is in order.

 

[Gromit]

Zlatko Dalić took a country with a tiny population to the final and you don't even consider him in the OP? Disgraceful.