Those tactics are all well and good in theory but say nothing about his ability to cope when things aren't going smoothly. He's only 34 and his only experience of trying turn around a big club when thinsg started to go wrong culminated in receiving his P45. There's a common claim that he only failed because of terry, lampard etc. I'm not sure how anyone knows this but we have our own troublemakers whose loyalties lie elsewhere in gerrard and carragher.
AVB gives me many reservations:
1) at 34 I think he is too young to be managing a club the size of Liverpool regardless of our recent drop down the table
2) he has succeeded in one season only throughout his career and that was in his home country
3) whilst his season at porto was good, it wasn't spectacular and doesn't tell us anything about how he would cope with the pressures he would get at LFC.
4) Porto have won 14 of the last 20 seasons so he is hardly acheived what no man had achieved before.
5) You have to go back 20 years to find a manager that DIDN'T win the portuguese league with porto!
6) In a nutshell, as became evident at Chelsea, there's a big question mark over him when the going gets tough. It never happened at Porto but it happened at Chelsea and would be a big part of his everyday life at Liverpool.
For me it's a no - it's too early in his career for him.
I feel however that he suffered the same as Dalglish did. He was sacked too soon.
Chelsea were still in touching distance of the top 4, still in the FA Cup and was still in the Champ League.
It was not god awful and that squad eventually went on to win things with not that much changes just some players hitting form.
I think Mateo had it easier also as he is buddies with most of the old guard and will have hit little resistance.
