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With the understandable excitement in the British press surrounding Gary Neville’s appointment at Valencia churning out overwhelmingly positive spin, it’s worth taking a step back and actually looking at what would actually constitute success in his first job. The most obvious issue Neville faces is whether or not he’s actually much of a coach: being one of the few pundits given the platform to actually go into any real detailed analysis on television doesn’t make him England’s answer to Pep Guardiola, but this is probably the least complicated of his issues – if he knows his stuff, he knows his stuff, and if he doesn’t, he doesn’t. The second issue is the language: even if he does know his stuff, he needs to be able to communicate it to the players and it might be difficult to do so when his contract is ending just about when he should be getting a basic grasp of Spanish. However, it is also 2015 – lots of people speak English and translators are readily available, so the language barrier is likely to be just a bit awkward rather than a genuine headache. The most complicated problem he faces is where he falls in […]
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