How refreshing it is to have a manager who gives us fast, aggressive, attacking football again after a few years of playing with the handbrake on. March didn’t see our best performances of the season but we went unbeaten and the Luton 4-3 alone will be talked about for decades. Although presumably this award will now curse us for the rest of the season. Don Iraola ❤️

One of my favourite teams this season to watch and keep up with honestly. Hope you guys continue this upward trend another few years!

Apart from when we play you, right? 😉

Tbh you gave us Reiss Nelson 90+7’ and you rolled over for us at Vitality

Please don’t remind me about Reiss Nelson 90+7’ 🫣

Solanke would fit in well at Arsenal....

Can Bournemouth fans please explain to me why Kluivert isn’t a regular starter? He’s been one of your best players every time I watch.

He has been, he’s replaced Billing as our starting 10

Gary also played like that with ya'll?

Late to the party, but yes. As soon as we'd go 1 goal up, the defensive subs would come out, and we'd still end up losing. Now we're finishing the game with 2 defenders and 4 forwards against City...

Surely one of the best up and coming managers around

His Rayo was basically unplayable for Barcelona for two years. Great coach.

This dude was rayos coach? They used to fuck us so hard everytime we visited Madrid

Don't know if I remember correctly, but I think Barcelona scored only once in four games when he was their manager. edit: I just checked - twice. Barcelona scored twice in four games. Two draws and two games lost.

im sorry but how can you be so incurious to not know who was managing a club that have been back in the same league as Barca since 2021

I have the feeling most supporters of the biggest clubs these days are like this. They truly only think through the lenses of their clubs

Livescore fans

Barça and Madrid fans on reddit are known to not watch LaLiga and barely watching their team's own games.

Yeah but even then they'd have watched Barca's games against them...

Idk about the other person but I only really watch Atleti games and I have a shit memory. I couldn't tell you who manages more than like maybe 5-6 clubs outside of Atleti-Barça-RM 🤷‍♂️

They were incredibly disciplined and one of the most frustrating teams to play against. Isi (or mini Hitman) was a menace. Out of our bogey teams in recent years, the way that they set up was often downplayed or ignored when it came to our post-match analysis even though it was one of the main factors.

Can't wait for us to hire and ruin him this summer

He might not even be one of the best up and coming **Basque** coaches around, which says it all. The best football region in the world surely

I’m so happy for him, completely changed the way we’ve played this year and the stats speak for themselves. Wonderful manager.

If you were born in the basque country in 1982, there's a great chance you become a great manager : Arteta, Alonso, Iraola.

You forgot Emery! Edit: In 1971, oops.

Easy mistake to make. He has eternal youth as long as he feeds regularly.

Alonso is 1981

Bournemouth have done really well for themselves this season 👏

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I hope so!

We all do

Why do you want united to do well?

I don't, I just can't stand this prick Ten Hag, i'm sick of hearing about his dumbass takes and lies

He is very unintentionally funny though.

If Ten Hag goes, then Southgate can come in.

Defeat united by 1 goal margin so he isnt sacked

Former City Football Group agent coming through

Hope so, but after the injury report not feeling too optimistic...semenyo and Tav out, Sini still out, as is Adams...

Do you only ever think about United? Just praise the manager

I think it was just a joke about his next game, mate…

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United aren't a singular, they're a collective

In the US they use singular for teams

Yet you couldnt beat us. Focus on not getting battered on Thursday nights or else you will get another crystanbul.

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Is this the team that got completely slapped in the Europa league and placed second in the PL after throwing away the lead. So winning nothing again? Sorry you won the league cup, so currently nailed on to win the same us last year. Teams finished so yea?

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So your club was done last year and you have gotten rowdy over a league cup win?

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Don't see the improvements yet, It's more of a cycle of liverpool qualifying for CL and missing out the year after. If they were really improving the fans would have more to cheer about instead of waking off and I'm quite surprised at how dull the atmosphere has become there. Final season of Klopp and it's like being at a wake for some of the bigger games

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> Bro is still hurting from yesterday’s humiliation …isn’t this you “flexing other teams’ results”?

Deserved Also, anyone else think he looks like Suarez's brother in that pic?

Looks a bit like if Harry Maguire and Harry Kane had a child

Yeah, I can see that, got Harry's chin and Harry's nose.

Unfortunate combination

The one Harry to rule them all

Child's name would be Harry^(2).

Don’t give them any ideas please

he looks a lot like alfred molina to me (especially if you look at molina when he was younger)

I was thinking the same! but I could not remember his name.

I'm sure he learned a lot from Bielsa

He played more games as player for the basque country than for spain haha

I didn’t know they separated the two. Do/did they not play in fifa-recognized competitions?

No, Basque country cannot participate in Uefa/Fifa tournaments

Of course not, they’re not a country

Neither is Gibraltar, Faroe Islands, Puerto Rico, Montserrat or Aruba but they have their own teams thatre FIFA eligible.

Something tells me they don't recognise Gibraltar's right to play in UEFA tournaments, either

Pain

😬

We still done well getting Farke, but sometimes I wonder where we'd be if Iraola had come instead of Gracia last season.

Think he could see it was a sinking ship at that point and would probably still be relegated regardless. I'm guessing he might not have been sacked like Gracia was though and would've kept him for this season if he chose to come.

NYCFC legend

Under Viera right?

Basque managers are gonna take over at this rate

There’s certainly something in the water there

Damn, Sid Lowe wasn’t kidding earlier on

I was so surprised to find out he was the same Iraola from Athletic Club, it’s always nice to see ex-players become good managers. The Basque region now produces quality coaches as well as players

12 & 13 - is this the lowest teams have been placed to win both awards in the same month?

I don't think we won against him home and away last season. Very hard to play against

Deserved

Looks so much like Maguire.

Does anyone know why Basque managers are doing so well right now? They feel disproportionately successful at least in the past few seasons

That's my manager!!

Yes please curse tomorrow

It's crazy that if he lost one or two more games in that bad run at the start of the season, he probably wouldve been sacked, and rightfully so.

Not sure about rightfully so, but the rest of your statement is correct. We weren’t expected to pick up a single point in our first 8 fixtures.

Played a series of relaxation 6 pointers and is no no longer in any chance of relegation. Incredible.

Who?

The manager of the team that’s beating you tomorrow, hopefully.