Read it and weep....Trap stays!

Just came across this story: http://www.tribalfootball.com/articl...1#.UNwgWW_symN

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Republic of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni admits he came close to joining AS Roma last year.

Trapattoni revealed “Roma wanted me as their Coach 18 months ago,” when Luis Enrique was still on the bench.

“Around 18 months ago I was contacted by Roma and they wanted me as their Coach,” 73-year-old Trap told Radio Manà Manà Sport.

“It wasn’t the first time I had been close to the Giallorossi, but the negotiations did not end with a positive outcome.

“In all honesty, it disappointed me a little, because Roma are a great club with passionate fans.”

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18 months ago would have been around the time of the Nations Cup games against NI/Scotland and our away Euro 2012 qualifier against Macedonia.

Wow, that's something else.

Because he's probably getting 3 times the wages here.

I'd be fairly confident a Serie A club would pay more than Ireland, particularly for someone of Trap's experience.

He's not up for a full time job, health wise. He can make the same money here working six or seven weeks a year.

why would he come out and say that. go, dont go. Whatever.

He's seriously childish in a lot of ways. The point seems to be "count your blessings Ireland, there was a big Italian club interested in me".
Then again, a lot of managers who have operated at the highest level are the same. Ferguson, Mourinho etc

We are lucky to have a manager such as Mr Trapattoni.

Where else are we going to get someone that good and experienced?

In Trap we must trust!

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Originally Posted by the doc

We are lucky to have a manager such as Mr Trapattoni.

Where else are we going to get someone that good and experienced?

In Trap we must trust!

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Trap took over Stuttgart in 05-06, when they were one of the top Bundesliga teams. They sunk down the table with Trap in charge, and he got sacked half-way through the season. His style of play did not fit the players at the club. Armin Veh took over, and the following season, they won the Bundesliga.

Trap has a great pedigree, but his style is too rigid to be successful with every team he manages. Like with Stuttgart, he clearly doesn't know how to get the best out of the resources available to the Irish team at the moment. I wonder if Armin Veh could be swayed from Eintracht Frankfurt? I'd like to see a Dutch or German manager take over after Trap, to hell with British managers.

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Originally Posted by Supreme feet

Trap took over Stuttgart in 05-06, when they were one of the top Bundesliga teams. They sunk down the table with Trap in charge, and he got sacked half-way through the season. His style of play did not fit the players at the club. Armin Veh took over, and the following season, they won the Bundesliga.

Trap has a great pedigree, but his style is too rigid to be successful with every team he manages. Like with Stuttgart, he clearly doesn't know how to get the best out of the resources available to the Irish team at the moment. I wonder if Armin Veh could be swayed from Eintracht Frankfurt? I'd like to see a Dutch or German manager take over after Trap, to hell with British managers.

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Veh wouldn't take the drop in wages to come to Ireland, no sane person would want to manage Ireland. All they have to do is see how the umbilical cord has been strengthened to the mother country and they'd run a mile. Eintracht are going great guns this year because they're throwing money at players and doing well, much as I love them, they'll probably drop off the pace in March and struggle for a Europa League spot.

A Dutch or German coach would only work if there was the work done lower down the ranks. And that the coaches of the underage teams buy into the same philosophy, in Ireland, how likely is that?

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Originally Posted by Spudulika

A Dutch or German coach would only work if there was the work done lower down the ranks. And that the coaches of the underage teams buy into the same philosophy, in Ireland, how likely is that?

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It's already happened. Every underage side plays progressive football using the same adaptable system. The only outlier is Trapattoni.

Has Trapattoni actually been over to England to see games in the last while? Didn't he say he would, or did I imagine that?

It was reported that he attended one or two Norwich games, I think. Not sure if he's been to any others.

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Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

It's already happened. Every underage side plays progressive football using the same adaptable system. The only outlier is Trapattoni.

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Will this continue without the technical director? How long will it continue before the usual self-collapse comes in irish football? When the young players come through in abundance Trap won't be there, we're 20 years away from a consistent senior side.

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Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

It was reported that he attended one or two Norwich games, I think. Not sure if he's been to any others.

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Clark said he came to see him at one of the Villa games

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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

Clark said he came to see him at one of the Villa games

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Hopefully not any of the last three!

One of the few Irish sportswriters that I respect, Liam Mackey had a piece in the Examiner over Christmas - well it was really was of an end of year sporting piece with the other sports journalists from the paper. Liam's view was that Trap has performed a very good job with a limited Irish team. The Euros aside, he has performed very well, almost qualifying in his first campaign and delivering on qualification the second time around. This campaign has been relatively disappointing but results wise, we are where most would have expected.

Yes but the performances have been terrible. Even when we have won we haven't deserved to. We don't have the players to play direct football. We have the players to play possession football. We are actually limited at Traps game plan.

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Originally Posted by squareball

We don't have the players to play direct football. We have the players to play possession football.

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I'm absolutely stunned you've managed to come to this conclusion.

I think a lot of us need to accept the relative success of the Irish team is also based on cyclical factors.

As in there are certain eras when our pool of players are less good than others. This is one of those times...