WINFRIED SCHAEFER Appreciation Thread!!!

[Iranianarsenal11]

I would say Kranjcar when at Sepahan was a better manager than Branko

He easily was... Look at how well he did with them with a much poorer roster.

[naderb94]

Branko is a solid coach, especially for iranian standards. His problem is his tactics are too one dimensional and he is not very flexible. But as we saw with PP, especially last year, and still this year, he has built a fundamentally sound team. They are solid defensively and dont concede many goals. He has brought new talent up ( and got them performing at high level) like Moharrami, Alipour, to an extent Taremi, and really helped players like Beiranvand, Ansari,etc. The issue now is with the departure of Taremi PP look like they lack offensive threat, which is compounded by the fact that Branko wont use the like of Resan, Mosalman, etc enough and together (stubbornness).

Still for iranian standards he is a solid coach and a good fit for PP bc he brings stability. We shouldnt downplay his achievements. Just last season he went to the semi final of ACL, and if not for Taremi being a retard he very well may have led his team to the final. They won the league two years in a row, and have been solid in ACL again this year (so far) despite transfer ban and clear shortage of talent.

With branko, you know what you are going to get, and this is the maximum. Tbh, that is good enough for PP, but not good enough for TM.

I would say Kranjcar when at Sepahan was a better manager than Branko

[AsOen5]

Branko is the best foreign coach in Iran right now. At least results wise.

Schäfer has more Points per game than Branko

[inarsenewetrust]

Branko is a solid coach, especially for iranian standards. His problem is his tactics are too one dimensional and he is not very flexible. But as we saw with PP, especially last year, and still this year, he has built a fundamentally sound team. They are solid defensively and dont concede many goals. He has brought new talent up ( and got them performing at high level) like Moharrami, Alipour, to an extent Taremi, and really helped players like Beiranvand, Ansari,etc. The issue now is with the departure of Taremi PP look like they lack offensive threat, which is compounded by the fact that Branko wont use the like of Resan, Mosalman, etc enough and together (stubbornness).

Still for iranian standards he is a solid coach and a good fit for PP bc he brings stability. We shouldnt downplay his achievements. Just last season he went to the semi final of ACL, and if not for Taremi being a retard he very well may have led his team to the final. They won the league two years in a row, and have been solid in ACL again this year (so far) despite transfer ban and clear shortage of talent.

With branko, you know what you are going to get, and this is the maximum. Tbh, that is good enough for PP, but not good enough for TM.

[naderb94]

Branko is the best foreign coach in Iran right now. At least results wise.

Looool. Branko is fortunate enough to have good players to make him look. Other than that, I take Winnie in a heartbeat.

[tooleh khers]

Branko is the best foreign coach in Iran right now. At least results wise.

[Ararat Tehran]

Reports from Iran indicate that he will be signing a 3 year contract with Esteghlal.

[Tehranto]

Schafer is perfect for SS.

Let's not ruin the one good club coach we have by promoting him to Team Melli. He's perfect at where he is. Iranian football needs to stack itself (at National Team level and club level) with great coaches.

So far, we have CQ and Schafer. Let's build on this. I hope Persepolis and Sepahan can be the next to get a great coach.

As Nader said, we need to look for a good coach that needs to redeem himself with redemption. That's the perfect opportunity for Iranian clubs/team to get someone of high caliber.

[naderb94]

He's legit. Should be our number 1 choice for when CQ leaves.

I love Winnie but he is perfect for SS.
It will be hard to choose a replacement for CQ. If its someone on his caliber, it will likely be a former national team coach that failed elsewhere and is looking for redemption like CQ did.
Let says Didier Deschamps gets canned after the World Cup, someone like him could be a possibility?

[KeonKish]

Did you watch Jamaica prior to his takeover? They were in the worst state they had been in for a long time he got some real respectable results with them and got to the gold cup final. Thailand is not a team any cosch would be able to do anything noteworthy with so i dont see how he can be looked at as a disaster there either. He's not on CQs level but he is not someone to look at and say oh no.

It may be true, but national team coaches need to be of a much higher caliber( CQ level)

Not the level of guys like Winnie, zlatko, branko, etc


Don’t get me wrong though, they should sign this guy Long term for SS, the turnaround of the team has been phenomenal.


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[Ghermez Agha]

Please no. He was a disaster in Cameroon, Thailand and Jamaica.
We need to aim way higher. Someone who hasn't been touched by Iranian football yet.

Did you watch Jamaica prior to his takeover? They were in the worst state they had been in for a long time he got some real respectable results with them and got to the gold cup final. Thailand is not a team any cosch would be able to do anything noteworthy with so i dont see how he can be looked at as a disaster there either. He's not on CQs level but he is not someone to look at and say oh no.

[Ghermez Agha]

Bord-e-sorkh dooset darim!!!

[Mr Pouya]

Please no. He was a disaster in Cameroon, Thailand and Jamaica.

We need to aim way higher. Someone who hasn't been touched by Iranian football yet.

Beggars can’t be choosers unfortunately.

We got lucky with CQ.

[Nokhodi]

He's legit. Should be our number 1 choice for when CQ leaves.

Please no. He was a disaster in Cameroon, Thailand and Jamaica.

We need to aim way higher. Someone who hasn't been touched by Iranian football yet.

[Mr Pouya]

He's legit. Should be our number 1 choice for when CQ leaves.