Quote Originally Posted by Amigo View Post
Thoughts on Erik Hamrén, Maz? He's supposed to be the next coach of Iceland and it seems like opinion over him is divided.

I've seen a lot of Swedish fans saying he's inept and doesn't know how to handle the press, but then again everyone said pretty much the same about Lagerbäck.

Hard to tell in my opinion. He inherited a team where Zlatan had "resigned" but was basically in his peak at the time, so his whole reign became about bringing Zlatan back and building the whole team around him, and Zlatan is an amazing player but not the kind of player that carries a team on his own the way some midfielders can do.

He tried to make Sweden play a bit more "modern" - basically not a defensive 4-4-2 all the time. But it didn't work out amazingly. At the same time, I think it might have been quite hard for any coach to have to handle that team that was so blatantly inbalanced because Zlatan was in it. Without him, you can get the team working as a unit and "over-performing" like Sweden often did under Lagerbäck as well. He also basically was the coach during a major generation-shift in Sweden that has now to some extent happened. Ageing players like Svensson and Källström who just got worse with the years.


I kind of think he would be a decent coach for maybe a Spanish side. But I'm not convinced he'd do a good job for Iceland. But, maybe he learned a bit from being Sweden coach as well.