The whole football community seemed to be in disbelief when it was revealed that Burnley had approached Alan Pardew about the vacant management position.
The 62-year-old has made appearances for ADO Den Haag, CSKA Sofia, and Aris after he stopped managing in England in 2018.
In addition to those roles, he has made appearances on radio punditry.
Pardew is too archaic for today’s games.
Although it wouldn’t be fair to call him a dinosaur, he has been out of the English game for so long that he is definitely deficient in terms of contemporary management footballing concepts.
Stan Collymore gave a great explanation for why players like Pardew, Sam Allardyce, and others are overlooked these days in his exclusive essay with CaughtOffside.
The Premier League need to be about distinct styles and systems, he claimed, but old school managers have no place in the modern game.
“Most clubs, coming off a Premier League season in which they scored three or more goals per game, want a manager who has all the bells and whistles and whose squad defends on the halfway line, whether it is longer ball vs Pep ball or 4-4-2 versus 4-3-3. who ensure three or four goals per game, allowing the clubs to lure bettors in.
“It’s surprising in a way that Alan Pardew would be given a chance to lead Burnley, as I don’t think his style of play will help the team achieve anything remarkable in their quest to return to the Premier League.”
When you consider the clubs they will face off against, the most of them are likely to be elite performers. They will be teams that play football.
“Perhaps Burnley has realised something and decided to become a little more industrial. We’ll use a somewhat more practical approach. We’ll have to employ traditional management to engage them more, and perhaps they perceive a bit of Sean Dyche in him, but in my opinion, excellent on-deck football was ultimately what propelled Burnley from the championship into the Premier League.
“While the likes of Sam Allardyce, Neil Warnock, Harry Redknapp, and Alan Pardew are fantastic at appearing on podcasts and narrating the great stories of the past, I don’t think they actually have the energy or attention to detail that a modern coach has.”
Pardew and the other former school managers were rightfully given their moment in the spotlight. They should all be able to reflect on their careers with some pride.
But they also need to know when to gracefully end things, much like the fighter who constantly wants to go one more round.
Burnley’s situation is exacerbated by the fact that Vincent Kompany is an outstanding man-manager and a contemporary thinker.
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