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Calculated Risks: Step Forward Mauricio Taricco
Written by Kropotkin123 on Thursday, 25th Oct 2012 21:02

Who will be the next Ipswich manager? I don’t know. Who should be the next Ipswich manager? Mauricio Taricco, and here’s why.

For the younger fans, Taricco was a cult hero at Ipswich during our last stay in the championship (Division One), under George Burley. He was an excellent defender, who had a good shot on him. After playing nearly 200 games he was signed by Spurs for nearly £1.775 million, a fee that was way too good to reject, for a club in our financial position.

Fast forward to today. Taricco is currently assistant manager for Brighton – a team that play attractive football, and seem tactically astute. He has been assistant manager for Brighton since 2009 and has helped Gus Poyet to gain promotion to the Championship, secure their position in the league, and challenge for the play-off positions.

So, he has minimal experience, has never managed a club on his own, let alone one in trouble. He has never got a club promoted and has never been directly responsible for the outcomes on the pitch. So why appoint him? Why would he leave Brighton for us? What conditionality should we as fans expect to give? Is there anything we can learn from our history and other clubs' success?

I hear fans lament, “Why are we going for another footballing dinosaur?”, “Another manager with out-of-date tactics”, “Why don’t we unearth a decent young manager?”. Well, the reason is because we don’t make calculated risks.

With Jim Magilton, it was the previous owners that employed him, and it was more of a necessity, due to our finances. He did well for a couple of seasons, before losing it when he got given money to spend. He wasn't tactically fresh and astute.

With Keane, the new owners took a risk, not a calculated risk. They looked at the instant promotion success, but completed ignored the history of our club (doing it the right way), ignored extremely worrying signs from Sunderland’s chairmen, ignored player fall-outs, and ignore massive wastes of resources.

Once bitten, twice shy. We went for experience. A manager with experience of promotion, a manager seemingly deprived of time in his last role. It was seen and sold to us as a safe choice. And he did well, some impressive wins and steering us out of the relegation zone, after a dreadful start.

But experience and safe didn’t work and started to unravel. Newer, more dynamic management and playing styles surpassed us on smaller budgets. Showing that adapting to the new caused a lack of direction, and a lack of ideas.

So my argument is that we weren't calculated in our first choice, and we weren't risky enough in our second.

I feel the appointment of Taricco would be would be a calculated risk. The lack of direct managerial experience is a risk, it is the risk of going for something new, it is the risk of going for something different, and it is the risk we need to breathe a fresh and exciting new era for Ipswich.

It is also calculated. He is a player who played good football, knows the clubs history, know the type of football our fans crave. He has an attachment to the club that goes beyond a mere job. Importantly, he has shown at Brighton that he can be a part of a successful management team. He has not created baggage in his time there.

More than this though, he can bring unity. He has the status amongst fans to bring us closer to the team, closer to the upper management. He is young enough to challenge the status quo with ideas and practises that may be alien to current management. For this, fans will naturally want him to do well. They will give him more time than other managers. But more importantly they will support for longer.

In sum, he is young, dynamic, unifying and is only a risk in so much as he is new.

I feel he would leave Brighton if we are realistic in our initial expectations. He needs a minimum of two seasons regardless of relegation. We don’t know how deep the problem at our club is. He needs time to assess, and fix. And as with George Burley’s appointment, it may not be able to be fixed prior to the end of the season.

We need to offer him a respectful amount of money. It needs to be enough to tempt him to leave his relatively comfy seat in Brighton. Now is not the time to be prudent, and offer insulting figures or argue over pointlessly small differences in expectations of money.

It is a bigger risk for him to come to a team at the bottom of the table where he has cult hero status, than it is for us to appoint someone young, and relatively inexperienced. Our offer should reflect that fact.

Therefore, I feel the parameters of his appointment should be a safety net for him to work within and pay that reflects the risk he will take, not to just recognise our risk.




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taylor15 added 21:19 - Oct 25
no.
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bluethroughnthrough added 21:36 - Oct 25
Terrible argument. Assistant manager/coach at best. Still, better than Megson.
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MattinLondon added 21:37 - Oct 25
If we had little money, if we were fifteenth in the league with only a few games left to play and safe from relegation then yes. BUT we're not and the current job might well be too big for him. If he were a manager of a L2 club and doing really well then it'll be a yes as well...but he isn't.

He is my favourite ever Town player, skill, technique and a desire to win at any cost. We need todays players to have these characteristics. But I have no idea what he is like as a coach or tactician. Is he hiding behind Poyet?

Saying that Curbs, McLeish blah blah blah do not excite me at all. My heart says Taricco but my head says no
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GeorgiDoundarov added 21:45 - Oct 25
There is nothing "calculated" in getting a manager who has no managing experience at all. "Calculated risk" for me is Alan Curbishley. "Risk" being he has been off from management for a while and he is not personally attached to the club and if he does great (which I am sure he will) he may just go for a job at a bigger club. "Calculated" will be because he is very experienced, he has proven track record of getting Championship clubs promoted but not only this - he is also able to keep the club up in the Premiership safe and far from relegation. This is what we all want – to get promoted but also to stay there!
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markytitfc added 22:03 - Oct 25
couldn't agree more! Tarrico would be my choice, go get him pleb i mean clegg, sorry
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Kropotkin123 added 22:08 - Oct 25
@ GD

There is nothing "calculated" in getting a manager who has no managing experience at all. - that is the risk.

"It is also calculated. He is a player who played good football, knows the clubs history, know the type of football our fans crave. He has an attachment to the club that goes beyond a mere job. Importantly, he has shown at Brighton that he can be a part of a successful management team. He has not created baggage in his time there." - that is the calculated. It was written pretty clearly

If the risk is too great for you to promote and employ someone from the position of assistant manager to manager, then that's okay, but it is still experience. It is not like you have pulled john smith off the street and given him the reigns
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TimmyH added 23:21 - Oct 25
Hmmmm - I can understand why his name has cropped up, but it's one thing to 'manage' a team, like Venus I'd say the job is too big for. Yes we would be looking at a different sort of manager but not sure with his Argentine temperament he'd get on with ol' Cleggy. Yes I believe it would be more than a 'calculated risk' and there probably are other candidates in the same bracket who are closer to getting the job than him i.e. Robinson
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PutYaBootsOnKeano added 23:53 - Oct 25
a very well written and argued piece, sir - that anyone would suggest otherwise is incredible, agree with the sentiment or not. I would add, that i would rather take MT any day, than one Mr Shearer, who, unlike many managers, has steadily proven to the entire nation most saturday evenings that he is a very, very thick man indeed.
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Arthur added 00:07 - Oct 26
As serious risk but much better than some of the the clowns mentioned on here and in the betting lists.
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Illinoisblue added 00:43 - Oct 26
I doubt it will happen, but would be more than happy to see us take a risk on someone like Treacle as opposed to a clown like Shearer or Alan 'five years out of work' Curbishley.
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Blue_Poison added 09:10 - Oct 26
I would be happy with Taricco.
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Ipswich24 added 10:05 - Oct 26
Great blog I would love Poyet and Tartico with a p,an to play the beautiful game and give ITFC the passion it deserves.
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bleedblueandwhite added 14:06 - Oct 26
I like it. We need young blood. And he's a town man. Mourinho had no managerial experience before becoming Benfica boss and look at him.
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Sorry added 19:22 - Oct 26
It'd be a massive risk, a stab in the dark, but I'd be happy anyway. Plenty of managers do well in their first proper role and Taricco seems like one who would have the character, the intelligence and the personality to be one of them. It'd bring a lot more enthusiasm back to the club than some of the names being bandied around anyway.

(nice username by the way Piotr)
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Blueray added 14:11 - Oct 29
Like others who have posted, I think it may be too soon for Taricco to take the helm when so much is riding on an immediate impact that is no doubt required. That doesn't detract from the respect and fondness I have for him..and I'd love to see him at the club at a later date....

For those who deride Curbishley and constantly point out his years out of the game...Please...check his record......he deserves not only respect, but some serious consideration. And years out of the game is by no means a negative...especially when he was fighting a court case (which he won) and also holding out for a worthy appointment...we would be lucky to have him
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marcus9 added 20:40 - Oct 30
good blog it would definately be more interesting than mcarthy and gates would shoot up for a while but would it be more succesfull than the above who knows but i dont think we can take a risk at moment
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