Who's the resident Ribery expert on here? Not so much his playing style, but his mentality & footballing philosophy etc... because whilst filtering back through some old posts I stumbled across something I thought might be interesting in regards to his future.
I know Ribery has had a lot of clubs, something like 7 already, usually only stays for a short while. Whether Bayern have made him at home, or whether Klinsmann gave him all the freedom to express himself I'm not sure, so if anyone knows about him in this context let me know.
Here's a post from Serenity last September when talking about Riquelme & his time at Barca, when they were coached by Louis van Gaal... the new Bayern Munich coach...
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Serenity Now
The thing is that Van Gaal is in almost every respect a systematist, perhaps more so than any major manager of the past 20 years other than Lobanovsky; he essentially took the classic ideas of Dutch football, fostered by the likes of Michels and Cruijff, and turned them into automatisms. Similar to what Wenger has been trying to do at Arsenal, but even more extreme. So for him, the collective of the team and how it functions as a unit according to his philosophies is far more important than any individual player, and he'd much rather have a good player who fits into his system than a great one who doesn't. This was also his philosophy off the pitch, where he was renowned as both a disciplinarian - didn't hurt here that he spent eleven years as a teacher - and as an egalitarian in terms of how he treated his players.
For me, this is undoubtedly why Van Gaal had by far his biggest success at Ajax, where he had a squad of players who understood what he wanted, including many players from the Ajax youth system who were drilled in this style from day one, and who were often either coming towards the end of - Blind, Rijkaard - or just beginning - Kluivert, Seedorf, Davids, Edwin, Reiziger, etc. - their careers. This is also why he signed so many Dutch players for Barca.
Riquelme, on the other hand, is perhaps as much of an individualist as you will find in modern football. So a player of his type and temperament, a player who functions most effectively when the rest of the team plays for and around him, is in almost every respect an anathema to a coach like LvG. Really, it's a match made in hell; a prestige signing by an increasingly desperate Gaspart, made with no thought regarding how a player like Román would function under a coach like Van Gaal, or whether Van Gaal wanted him at the club (of course he didn't, and he told Riquelme this point blank).
|
If van Gaal reverts to type, and has a less inclined to indulge Ribery (I'm retty sure I saw him do a Ronaldo & never track back, exposing his side of the field for others to cover for him) I can see van Gaal getting the %@#$&! ache with him. Maybe van Gaal has already identified that & Bayern are playing their usual hardball for a ridiculous figure so they can indulge their new coach rather than their star player. maybe I'm talking %@#$&!s
If I were Ribery, I know who I'd rather play for manager wise, Fergie or van Gaal... not a difficult decision tbf.
11-06-2009, 11:53 PM
Similar Threads for: Ribery and £30m instead of Ronaldo
