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Onwards and Upwards
portslade seagull
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Blimey time flies, where is he now ?
Super Steve Earle
Well-known member
Couldn't even hold a scarf straight!
AmexRuislip
Trainee Spy 🕵️♂️
I couldn't be Hyypiä when he left, dire times.
Super Steve Earle
Well-known member
Sammi here!
He is chilling in Finland with his kids and hobbies, watching racing and shit. Any time there is a manager job at any of the Scandinavian clubs, his name pops up but he has refused the jobs so far, saying he is in no hurry and waiting for the right time. He says he is realistic though and that he "wont get any offers he cant refuse" and that he is ready to start working from the bottom once the time is right.
Could definitely see him ending up in Sweden, Norway or Denmark at some point. From the interviews I've read I got the feeling that he regrets starting off with all those difficult manager jobs (Leverkusen, Brighton, Zürich).
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
The style he tried to play needed very quick “total” footballers, he needs a top team for this style to have a chance.
Slow fullbacks playing on the halfway line....doomed
The pre season against Saints exposed the fragility and it carried on going downhill from there. Worst manager (and dullest post match interviews) in living memory imo
el punal
Well-known member
He’s finnished.
You know that is a very generous analysis. I kept waiting for the moment his tactics would come together and reveal the master plan. Shocking appointment, decent bloke and all that.
Not necessarily. Yes, in Championship you are going to need top quality players to make that strategy work but in a league like Allsvenskan it could work with a smaller team since i.e. high pressuring opponents are far less common.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Couldn’t believe Bloom made that appointment, a summer of brief excitement thinking we would get someone decent.
Tbf he had done a decent job in Leverkusen except for the horrible run before getting sacked, while he also had great knowledge of English football and great connections which is good if you want to bring in some decent loan players etc, so it doesnt sound like the weirdest of appointments (at the time).
But sure, I agree. Should have just gone for Potter immediatly!
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Bloom admitted he got the wrong man, and should of employed Hypia’s no. 2 at BL. We didn’t get any decent loans in and to be honest I could of done a better job
Bloom admitted he got the wrong man, and should of employed Hypia’s no. 2 at BL. We didn’t get any decent loans in and to be honest I could of done a better job
Evidently he was the wrong man yup, and maybe you're right that his assistant Sascha Lewandowski (r.i.p) would have been the better option, as I recall he was quite appreciated by fans and players.
Please stop the "could of" though.
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
Waxing chumps like candles since ‘75
- Oct 4, 2003
- 11,046
He did ok at Leverkusen when he and Sascha Lewandowski shared managerial responsibilities. It fell apart after Lewandowski went back to managing the youth team. Hyypia just had no idea how to turn around a losing run, constantly sticking to the same tactics even though it was glaringly obvious it wasn’t working. We weren’t helped by trying to replace Leo Ulloa with Chris O`Grady and Shamir Fenelon.
We should have actually just gone for Chris Hughton straight away as he was available after being sacked by Norwich. I’m sure I read somewhere he’d applied for the job.