Lazio Lounge Awards 2023/24! 

Happy 7 years! Been following for at least 4 of those years - thanks for everything

Good points from our northern friend 48:23

thanks for the Episode & happy with the 7th year

Great to hear from you all! Forza Lazio!

Great stuff with these 3 together

Just to note on what was mentioned, we beat Man U. in the Euro Supercup.

Forza Lazio❤

Maybe all the old core players focused too much on the Champions League, as that was the adventure, and Serie A was just the regular days at the office, and then players were not properly motivated for Serie A? Look at where Ciro scorede his goals... Look at where everyone played well. It has for me been a running theme that Sarri could not motivate the team to care about anything but the big stage. And this season we did not even care much about games against other top8 teams. Sarri is an amazing trainer, but I feel he is too disconnected from modern professional players. Inzaghi and Tudor did not have the same problem with motivating players for games. Sarri might have been better at training the team, and a tactical genius, but when you get into those situations, where tactics are out the window, and only grinta is left, then you need someone like Tudor. What is special about Inzaghi (and the other top tier managers) is that they are both football academics and practitioners. Tudor can tell a player that he at 40-something could do a better job, and maybe should sub himself in. You need a manager, who has both the pen and the sword, and in a crazy gang setup (which comes with Lotito), then you need a fitting manager. Now I do not think the hammer of Tudor is the solution, but neither was the book of Sarri, we need a football engineer. Therefore, we need someone like Conceacao. Someone who played for Lazio, someone who won with Lazio, but also someone who has a winning record as a manager. He has all the relevant qualifications to succeed in Lazio. As I see it, the perfect manager team might have been Tudor as an assistance for Sarri. When you have an academic manager like Sarri, then you need a hammer assistant. Someone yelling at his players to get their shit together. I personally like Tudor more than Sarri, because I like dynamic football. But that is a subjective preference of style. In terms of what is best for Lazio, then we need a manager, who can motivate players to perform in irrelevant matches, who can train a team to be a unit, who has a strong idea of football theory, and who can diplomatically manage Lotito's ego (so he gets the right players). I think Sarri failed in the motivation department, while Tudor struggles with the unit, as he gets into pointless conflicts with players. But maybe Tudor also is getting into conflict with Sarri-players, because Sarri-players overthink football, and Tudor wants a team that just plays football.