Except that it is. Overlapping fullbacks always need some sort of a covering system. Alves had Abidal tucking in. If you have 2 overlapping fullbacks, midfielders either cover out wide or drop back to allow center backs to cover the wings. It’s tactics 101, really, and everyone does it. What this article seem to ignore is that this system, that is based on attacking fullbacks and mobile covering players, is implemented in a team, where fullbacks are pretty much useless in attack and one of the covering players is either Matić or Maguire, a duo with the combined pace of a lumping turtle.
I’m not an Ole-out fanatic, even though I hope that we’ll hire a top manager soon. But that article is a bunch of nicely-formatted and illustrated pointless sentences.
Ole actually implicates some interesting ideas, like a strong focus on playing the ball out of defense with short passing — even against City (hey, it worked... once). He even forced De Gea to accurately pass with his feet, I can’t remember the last time I saw him doing that and not just goofing the ball forward.