Kevin Muscat take a bow. 
There have been plenty of upset coaches this year, often for understandable reasons.
However, I think everybody needs to recognizse how well Kevin Muscat is doing as displayed during the Berisha non red card on the weekend.
I think all of the other coaches would not have handled this situation as professionally as he did - so well played Kev.
The Victory are on fire and have clearly been guided in the right direction.
He was inexperienced when he started at Victory but has clearly developed significantly.

There are too many people out there that remember how Kevin played and now need to move on to how he coaches before having a go at him.

P.S. - Yes Arnold is doing well at SFC and is the only other coach in Kevin's league at the moment.

You having a laff?

Get off his dick ASAP.

He has managed to twice rebuild teams and team structure. This latest undertaking started slowly but is looking quite promising at the moment. 

It's odd to think of all the stick and comments on here from people saying he can't coach and is useless - despite his trophy cabinet and achievements.

As for 'the best' - not sure that exists. Horses for courses. 

One area where Muscat has excelled is players - man management, attracting players and scouting. Every player he has signed has performed, with the only one standing out being beister which is way too early to make a call on. 

I think you make a good point.

In press conferences Muscat often displays quite a deal of diplomacy and appears statesmanlike, nothing like his angry playing persona.  Maybe he has learnt from the impassive Ernie? LOL!

Victory and Sydney aren't even that good, the rest are just shit. 

Earlier in the season I identified a malfunctioning MV midfield as the problem.

As soon as Troisi came back, and obviously from  specialised work focusing on the middle of the pitch in training, it has started to fire. Troisi is close to the best player in the league ATM. Where he is better than Finkler is his speed, athleticism and linking of  the defence and attack when the other team has the ball.

I think Troisi should be a starter in the Socceroos.

Victory's first 30mins on Friday was good - very good.
Troisi and Rojas are building and by end of year will potentially be the best partnership the a-league has ever seen.
Muscat needs to be praised for getting both players back into the a-league.

In terms of value adding to mediocre, inexperienced squads, Okon and Jones are doing  great jobs with CCM and Jets.

I had no faith in Muscat but glad to be proved completely wrong again, the football is the best since Ange.

I love Muscat. We've always tried to play attacking football, no matter the cattle. His recruitment (bar maybe Beister but who knows) has been absolutely on point. Think he has learnt a lot from last year which was especially tough in losing Valeri and Millsy. 

Two criticisms I've had are with his substitutions and no plan B. His subs have been a lot better this year, often contributing directly to goals and helping close out games. 

With the Plan B, I think he's well and truly from the Ange school of preferring to make sure that we always do Plan A better.

bloke at the Jets obviously

There's been this ridiculous idea that Muscat is an inferior manager despite his success and has only achieved what he has so far because of lucky rexruitnent.

He's one of the best squad builders in the league, has a firm grasp of how exactly he wants his team's to play and his finger right on the pulse of the squads attitude.

That might make him appear stubborn and tactically inflexible compared to others but it gives his squad clear goals of what they need to achieve and makes his players want to go out to spill blood for him.

Nothing like a Victory wank thread to start the week. 

Victory fans crave attention, kind of like you posting in Victory threads.

Adelaide fans are always welcome to share and discuss the many great aspects of their club, if they can think of any.

Nothing like Flexy moaning in a Victory thread. 

Good to see one Victory fan with common sense. 

The burn in here when he is offered a gig in Europe.

I expect he will be offered the natianal coach role once Ange finishes at World Cup.
(Many people are stuck on his past and not looking at what he is achieving now).
Aloisi is probably the next best option.
Maybe JG.

Hahahah fuck, can you imagine the salt if that came true?

-PB

Also, if MV continue to do well, with his profile and network in the UK I could easily see him being offered something from Championship down or Scotland.

Was thinking the exact same thing...

@i know best
I love the butthurt... they cant handle it. Thug turned tactician... record breaking domestic coach..
One of the main qualities hes carried over from his playing days, is his leadership. Hes a great leader of men.

The reality is - he is a good coach (and getting better).
Many can just not handle it.

Weird way to spell Guillermo Amor.

Butthurt, salt, burn... What are you guys 12?

You do know one comment is from a Victory fan, genius. 

In terms of points per match, Muscat has overtaken Ange and now sits in 2nd place overall;
http://www.aleaguestats.com/ALeagueStats_9CoachingHistory.html
This is all the more impressive considering he's coached 125 matches (obviously it's harder to maintain a high average over a long period of time), only 8 other coaches have coached more matches. 

Interesting aspect to KM's statistics relating to his "hard man" character...
http://www.aleaguestats.com/ALeagueStats_41_32CoachingHistory.html
... His team averages about 1 more foul committed per match than the A-League average, but it also averages about 1.5 more fouls committed by it's opposition than the A-League average. In other words, expect more fouls than average in a match when Muscat is coaching, but his team is generally fouled more often than they commit a foul.

The telling stat (IMO) for KM is the shots from inside the goal area. His team averages 7.48 per match (on par with the A-League average) but restricts his opponents to 6.84 per match. Switching over to the "Winning Stats" page (http://www.aleaguestats.com/ALeagueStats_38StatisticalImportance.html#Averages), you can see that shots from inside the goal area is one of the few statistics where there is a noticeable difference between the winning and losing sides.

In short... Even though I'm not a Victory fan, I can agree with the assessment of Muscat being the best coach in the A-League.

You know why i hate it when everyone says youre a shit poster?  

Becuase they never give you credit for how many times you repeat the "are you 12" joke.

Ange coached at two clubs so you cant really compare the stats, I doubt Muscat would be so successful switching to another.