Arbeloa First Interview

[Fulham Seaxe]

Not listened yet but must be better than the first interview with Alan Dicks when I realised how dreadful he was.

Dicks out!

A real low point for Fulham. Although we avoided relegation, 1990/91 arguably my least favourite season. Really poor football (less than a goal a game) and appalling atmosphere on a match day. Fans badly divided between those who supported the board signing the Cabra deal and those against.

[sunburywhite]

Is it me or does he look like the Spanish version of Rylan?

[howitis]

  Must be a great chant in there somewhere ...

[gerrys]

He was definitely easier to understand than Silva was.

Yes, the misprununciation of his forename!

Yep.it's definitely Álvaro,with the stress on the first syllable.
I think he came across well. He´s obviously an ambitious,intelligent young coach who was thrown into a fire-fighting role in the first team at Real Madrid and unsurprisingly came up short. It's a good opportunity here for him to bring through younger players into an already promising squad, and make a name for himself as a top head coach by taking us on to the next level.

Yes....in Spanish the stress in on "Al" in Italian on the "va"

[Andrew]

I saw the interview, he seems a perfectly decent person but we learned nothing (I didn't expect we would because it is far to early for anything more and in the end this is a bit of necessary PR).
EXCEPT
We need new players and we need them early... how often have we heard that from our managers?

If we do not support him in a way he wants/needs to be supported this could go wrong quickly and he will have a built in excuse.

[I Ronic]

Just a couple of things to add. He's got four youngish kids. Must have been a difficult sell to them. Leaving their schools and mates. I know managers travel but must have been more than a passing thought when weighing up taking the job.

Second thing Alvaro's got 7.8 million (and 1 now) followers on Insta. Club needs to get him modelling this seasons kit.
Not only will we see exciting football at CC but AA may be the man whose shirt sales  fix the Hammy End Bogs!