Roberto De Zerbi: Is he the man? The debate is on a knife edge….

Which way am I leaning?

Good Evening ladies and gents!

Sorry for an extremely late release tonight.

My article today is a shorter than usual but I want to give my opinion on RDZ and our links with him.

First and foremost the thought of parting with any more money that ends up in Brighton’s bank account fills me with dread!

I was hoping we may be done with having dealings with that club, but with the RDZ li is and the Evan Ferguson links there is a sense of inevitability about further dealings with Brighton and their strict negotiators and even more unfortunately their idiot of a journalist from The Athletic……

On to RDZ, he is undoubtedly a very good manager with a very clear style of play and methodology, something we have lacked for such a long time.

I have a few issues with him though, the first of which is his media dealings and the way he conducts interviews and press conferences, he can be very sarcastic and very secretive as can most managers, that really irritates me.

My other issue stems from his methodology and style of play which is also a plus, but because he has such a clear way and vision there almost never seems to be a plan B in place for if a team manage to counteract his tactics or manage to out play his teams.

There is also a reason the likes of Liverpool and Bayern have been linked with him, he is o e of the highest regarded coaches in the game and not many of his fellow coaches in that bracket would be interested or available to join us as and when Poch gets replaced.

Currently I am leaning to looking at other options but we could do a lot worse than RDZ, I am firmly on the fence and leaning towards the non-RDZ side of that fence

Thanks for reading, please give me your thoughts!

Luke Rushbrook