Juanma Lillo leaves to become Al-Sadd Head Coach

Pep Guardiola said:
I'm so sorry because I dont speak english well but i'll try my best.

Juanma Lillo is considered a clown in Spain. A clown and a loser. Really 100%.

In fact, just can hear a old joke about him. His name is Juan Manuel "Juanma" Lillo. And people here do a wordplay with his name saying Juan Malillo, wich means "Juan Little Bad".

He just did some good succes 30 years ago in a little spanish team.

From there he falls in oblivion, 30 years or training 3rd class teams, just little villages teams, or even not geting a job.

Pep Guardiola was "in love" with him since 90's years. Because Juanma Lillo is a man who speak very "psychologist", very philosopher, and Lillo in those years sounded very different than spanish trainers like Camacho, Aragonés, Clemente... wich were educated in Franco regime, wich means just "con dos cojones ahí, joder!", wich means play football with your two balls and your big spanish dick!, football is for men, come on, and the football is testosterone and all is testosterone and be a fucked man and you will win and bla bla, all this shit.

It's just a change of generation, because Pep was a boy who could not understand Camacho, "be a man!! Be a fucked man with 2 balls and win those 11 mother fuckers!", he needs technical arguments and a modern mentality working and thinking, and Lillo represented that.

But objectively, Lillo's carrer was failures, failures and failures.

And he signed Lillo as his 2nd to help him because Lillo is his friend.

I hope it has been understood.
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Calling your mate a **** Pep is a term of endearment in the UK.

We all have that one mate who's shit at everything but we love them for being shit.
 
BrazilianBlue (Gus) said:
I think you are mixing things up a bit. Yes, Lillo’s career as a manager has been a disaster, but he is extremely respected among everyone who understands football because of his reflections, more on the academic side. In a way, you could compare him to Bielsa or even Rangnick in how they’re more known to influence other than for their own careers. To claim Pep got him a job to help him doesn’t seem fair. Lillo was assistant manager to Jorge Sampaoli in the Chilean national team and won two consecutive Copa América titles against Argentina half a decade ago. Pep himself is a bit of a philosophical manager, with an academic side, so having Lillo there if anything helps these last two seasons be more academic than the ones with Torrent and Arteta. Lillo basically invented the 4-2-3-1, for those who don’t know. You also forgot to mention that Pep’s final season as a player was under Lillo in Mexico. I’ve seen interviews of players who were in that team saying that Pep would often discuss and challenge him tactically openly in the dressing room and that those discussions were a marvel for other players to watch.
I’ve also been able to read the book below which was released in 2018 and talks about their styles and convictions by comparing them. It’s not a great book per se, but a very interesting read nonetheless. Unfortunately only available in Spanish. It was written long before they got to work together at City. I suspect Pep’s read it too…

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People like Lillo and Bielsa are the managerial equivalents of Dimitri Payet, or Balotelli or Gascoigne. They have a touch of genius about them that lead to great innovations or incredible styles of play that influence loads of aspiring managers and coaches but lack the other skills necessary to be an elite football manager.

Bielsa has lost his job because he insisted on having a squad of about 15 players for 4 years straight and wouldn't buy anyone. Pep loves working with small groups, but he's pracitcal enough to know it needs to be more like 20 just to survive a season.

That's why Lillo is perfect as a number 2 for Pep. He can chime in with his insights but Pep can temper it with his own pragmatism and experience of the more practical aspects of management.
 
I loved when the camera panned to them both for the Wolves game whine Jimenez got sent off and they were both having a laugh and gesturing.

I love them both, Spaniards love a good gesture as they talk and these two have that down to an art.
 
domalino said:
People like Lillo and Bielsa are the managerial equivalents of Dimitri Payet, or Balotelli or Gascoigne. They have a touch of genius about them that lead to great innovations or incredible styles of play that influence loads of aspiring managers and coaches but lack the other skills necessary to be an elite football manager.

Bielsa has lost his job because he insisted on having a squad of about 15 players for 4 years straight and wouldn't buy anyone. Pep loves working with small groups, but he's pracitcal enough to know it needs to be more like 20 just to survive a season.

That's why Lillo is perfect as a number 2 for Pep. He can chime in with his insights but Pep can temper it with his own pragmatism and experience of the more practical aspects of management.
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You can't compare Lillo or Balotelli with Gascoigne.

Balotelli is just an ok player, Gascoigne was an absolute talent technically great, wich could have been where Maradona, Zidane, Platini... both are crazy men having an unhealthy life, but being this true, assuming were both normal people, Gascoigne would have been a top in history, and Balotelli not.

And not even can compare a player with a trainer like Lillo. I don't see nothing special of Lillo, I don't feel "he could have", because he never showed nothing.
 
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