noodlehair
"It's like..."
I want this word banned from all football related speak forever.
What does this actually mean in football management terms?
I know in the eyes of the internet football artistry experts and various stuck up managers, it's all about a manager's prefered style of play, beliefs, ambitions, tactical nouse, etc...whatever. If you're not being a pretentious gimp though this could just be covered by the term "tactics" or even "management", couldn't it?
It just seems to me to be a word Van Gaal and others (but especially Van Gaal) use as a kind of excuse word. So they can be stubborn idiots about things and it somehow not be their fault when it repeatedly doesn't work.
For example, Van Gaal picks 3-5-2...a formation that doesn't suit his team or allow them to play well, but because the philosophy and the philosophy can't be wrong, it somehow becomes the players fault for not adapting to the formation like a bunch of supermen, rather than the manager's fault for picking a formation he already KNOWS wont work.
It's not Wenger's fault that his philosophy negates the need for any midfield or defensive discipline, it's the players' fault.
It's a load of shite is what it is. Stupid people playing at being clever, or clever people playing at trying to treat everyone else like they're stupid.
A few years ago you'd never hear anyone say it, then Pep popped up at Barca and now everyone has a philosophy, and everyone's philosophy is the right philosophy, which means everyone must by definition have the same philosophy...which they don't. It's completely ridiculous.
I'm sick of it.
What does this actually mean in football management terms?
I know in the eyes of the internet football artistry experts and various stuck up managers, it's all about a manager's prefered style of play, beliefs, ambitions, tactical nouse, etc...whatever. If you're not being a pretentious gimp though this could just be covered by the term "tactics" or even "management", couldn't it?
It just seems to me to be a word Van Gaal and others (but especially Van Gaal) use as a kind of excuse word. So they can be stubborn idiots about things and it somehow not be their fault when it repeatedly doesn't work.
For example, Van Gaal picks 3-5-2...a formation that doesn't suit his team or allow them to play well, but because the philosophy and the philosophy can't be wrong, it somehow becomes the players fault for not adapting to the formation like a bunch of supermen, rather than the manager's fault for picking a formation he already KNOWS wont work.
It's not Wenger's fault that his philosophy negates the need for any midfield or defensive discipline, it's the players' fault.
It's a load of shite is what it is. Stupid people playing at being clever, or clever people playing at trying to treat everyone else like they're stupid.
A few years ago you'd never hear anyone say it, then Pep popped up at Barca and now everyone has a philosophy, and everyone's philosophy is the right philosophy, which means everyone must by definition have the same philosophy...which they don't. It's completely ridiculous.
I'm sick of it.