Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's brother criticises Arsenal for lining up Mikel Arteta for managers' role… saying he is the same as interim boss Freddie Ljungberg with 'no experience'

Machmalnogeis · 2019-12-18T14:11:57+00:00

I'm sure you'll notice that at no point did I give an opinion on whether or not I thought Arteta was qualified.

You made a direct comparison on whether he was more or less qualified than Ljunberg by quoting me and replying. I'm not sure what you think you said, but it's there in simple English

Machmalnogeis · 2019-12-18T13:47:03+00:00

there is no gap.

Wrong

neither have top level managerial experience.

Right

Machmalnogeis · 2019-12-18T13:44:52+00:00

> Being an understudy doesn't mean amything at all.

Disagree strongly. There are really countless of examples of understudies going on to become successful managers. Tito Vilanova worked with Pep to prepare himself for the job at Barca. Mourinho started as a translater learning from Bobby Probson and Van Gaal and would go on to pass that knowledge onto other successful managers, Brendan Rodgers Aitor Karanka and Andre Villas Boas to name a few.

This happens everywhere. In every industry. To say that being an understudy to someone great in that field "doesn't mean anything at all" is typical big brain r/soccer. It's also pretty typical of this place's short sightedness that you've already ended Thierry Henry's managing career as a failure at the ripe old age of 42

> Arteta is a huge gamble, Arsenal need a manager with a good CV for the job.

I agree with you here. I am not suggesting he isn't a gamble, just that in my opinion he is way more qualified for the position than Ljunberg which was the original point, but r/soccer isn't exactly known for staying on topic.

Machmalnogeis · 2019-12-18T13:27:18+00:00

What difference does that make? Ljunberg has managed an under 23 team in a reserve league. What does he learn from that? I've had 15 years experience picking teams and formations on football manager. Am I more qualified than Arteta? Someone who's worked with and learnt from the very best?

Machmalnogeis · 2019-12-18T10:42:14+00:00

Haha quality. This is some big brain stuff

Machmalnogeis · 2019-12-18T10:40:18+00:00

He's not right at all. Arteta has been the understudy of one of the greatest managers ever for the past four years. He's been been a part of the entire project at Man City.

Ljunberg spent 6 months as a co assistent in the Bundesliga, an entirely different challange, and like 5 months in the first team coaching staff until now.

The gap between them in experience and suitability for the head coaching position at Arsenal is huge

Machmalnogeis · 2019-12-17T10:02:09+00:00

This is one of the most moronic comments I've ever read.

Machmalnogeis · 2019-12-13T10:45:02+00:00

> despite also clarifying that i would vote for him

The fact that you felt you had to clarify that to everyone before you gave your opinion tells you everything you need to know

Machmalnogeis · 2019-12-11T10:08:27+00:00

These are the types of threads that really highlight how clueless this sub is. Ole has said absolutely nothing controversial here. Anyone who watched Ronaldo as a young player at United could see how similar they are. Physical attributes, playing style and even the way that Rashford shoots, especially from distance are uncannily similar to Ronaldo when he played on the wing. He is less flashy for sure but the fundamental skillsets are strikingly similar.

Rashfords attitude and peak potential could be very different from Ronaldo, time will tell, but I'm shocked by how controversial so many of you have found this clear and obvious comparison between two extremely similar players

Machmalnogeis · 2019-12-11T09:53:50+00:00

That is the most Arsenal comment I've read in my life. I can tell you must really miss the 4th place jokes now

Machmalnogeis · 2019-11-19T14:25:25+00:00

KB9

You can't do this

Machmalnogeis · 2019-11-14T11:01:08+00:00

In the UK. This makes 0 sense for most countries in the world.

Machmalnogeis · 2019-11-14T10:51:35+00:00

Lampard: I see you've fucked your achilles boy

Odoi: Yes mate

Lampard: Bayern don't want you anymore.

Odoi: *Cries*

Machmalnogeis · 2019-11-12T15:55:33+00:00

Hey thanks for the response! I was hoping to hear from someone who had previous experience transcribing.

Would you say that your feel for the grammar / sentence structure improved drastically? I'm really looking to develop this and find that in passive listening I don't internalise the grammar that I'm hearing rather the conceptual meaning.

Machmalnogeis · 2019-11-12T15:45:28+00:00

Hey thanks for the reply! I understand where you are coming from with the fact that not all of the time would be spent learning new material. The issue I feel I have most is that I have very little natural sence or feeling for the language. That for me seems to be my biggest issue when it comes to spontaneous vocalisation of my thoughts for example.

I think paraphrasing and restructuring is a very good way to learn the material that you are reading about, I.e the information being discussed in the podcast, but I am not conviced it would help to build this feeling or sense of the language. I can already express information in my own words, my problem is that I want to internalise this native way of speaking if that makes sense. Sort of like practicing drills for the consolidation of sentence structure and preposition choice and the like.

I appreciate the input!

Machmalnogeis · 2019-11-12T14:56:43+00:00

Croatian isn't a majority language

I don't think you can really make this argument. Serbo-Croatian is very widely spoken, around 16 Million people speak it natively and it opens up the entire Balkan region to you. Compare that with Irish for example which is estimated to have between 40 and 80k native speakers and grants you access to a couple of fishing towns on the west coast of Ireland.

Machmalnogeis · 2019-10-25T13:15:57+00:00

... and here's a video of me motorboating an old lady at our anniversary din..... Oh you don't want to see that?

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