Jon Mackenzie
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464 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 30 Aug
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But the other thing I think is that he's a coach.
He takes players, puts them together into a group that works and they win.
And I think that's a really undervalued aspect of coaching in these days, right?
Where
where the assumption is, well, you need to have the best players.
You need to, you know, you need to have a huge amount of external luck.
I think every season he's lost players, rebuilt that team and they've come out arguably better.
I think this is this last iteration where they lost the whole back line effectively and the goalkeeper.
And as we said, Semenya was probably the best disseration of the lot.
So I think that's also worth saying.
And I think in many respects, he could be the premier option on the market for a club who want a coach who will simply be a coach and won't worry too much about the managerial aspects.
And I think in that respect, he's often quite undervalued because...
the difficulty of these coaches is often that they consider what they're doing in terms of a career trajectory, a career arc.
And you have to sort of balance those competing interests off against one another.
Whereas the impression I get with Iriola is that the thing that you're going to be balancing off with him is going to be, are my family happy?
Is this the best thing for my children, et cetera?
And I think
You know, maybe that's a glib thing to point out, but I think when you have someone with that kind of attitude where the ability to delegate, I think, is incredibly important in that respect.
And again, we could talk about the fact that when he arrived in Bournemouth, he was only able to bring his fitness coach with him and the rest of his coaching staff didn't arrive.
He brought Inigo Perez with him, but he didn't get a work permit.
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