[quote author=Squiggles link=topic=38950.msg1055532#msg1055532 date=1266424271]
[quote author=Redshrek link=topic=38950.msg1055497#msg1055497 date=1266413585]
I'm sorry but you just need to scratch beneath the surface, and it's there to be seen how mediocre his record is. The guy has never in his career won a major leauge title. He won the Dutch leave and the dutch cup. He won the euro cup over 20 years ago. He went to real Madrid and was sacked within 6 months. He then went to another Spanish club and was sacked again by the end of the season. He then failed to gt a very good Russian side to he world cup. Ye but he won the fa cup, come on look at chelseas run to the final, coincidently Portsmouth won it the season before.
Look at it like this Liverpool appoint a manager. His record is this, bare in mind he's been in mangement for nearly 30 years.
Dutch leauge 6 times
Dutch cup 4 times
European cup 1
fa cup 1
I'm sorry but that's pretty ordinary. Yes his teams may play pretty football,unfortunatly you don't win trophys for that. The record he's got does not justify the reputation he has.
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You're clearly wound up about Hiddink for whatever reason so I'm not sure why I'm bothering, but you ignore several key reasons why people wanted him here.
Firstly his international record in the last 8-10 years has been impressive, over-achieving with both Australia and South Korea, with both teams playing decent, spirited football.
However it was mainly because 12 months before he stabilised a sinking Chelsea ship and achieved a more than respectable finish. You can try and taunt the FA Cup all you like - although I wish any football fan wouldn't - under the circumstances the cup win coupled with a second place finish in the Premiership was a notable achievement and was the best Abramovich would have hoped for when the appointment was made.
A month or so ago we were in a very similar position, the lowest of the low, no light at the end of the tunnel, etc. If someone had come in and won us the biggest domestic trophy - do you actually think we'd be saying: "Well, who gives a shit? Portsmouth won it a year previous. Meh" Of course we wouldn't.
I'm not even Hiddink's biggest fan - part of me agrees largely with what you say; he does tend to be slightly over-rated at times. But you ruined a good point by overstating it.
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A bit of an exagguration. Chelsea had a few terrible performances under Scolari (Anfield and OT spring to mind), but they were still in with a shout of the league and had qualified comfortably for CL last 16. Also, we finished second last season, not Chelsea.
