It's false memory syndrome or sixth sense " I see pressing everywhere"
Ajax play possession from the back and a loaded midfield. They don't press in the way Liverpool do. If you see our squad given belief and the defence sorted out you will see what they can do. This pressing mantra is the 350 million pounds a week to the NHS equivalent guff.
We cannot get a manager because of Ronaldo is total rubbish. We need a pressing manager is total rubbish. This , nothing will change unless Ronaldo presses is rubbish.
Seriously, given Poch or hag or a couple of dozen other managers in charge when you see what happens you will finally realise just how bad Ole and the present staff are.
I love the crazy pressing is the equivalent to Brexit. You act like I'm saying pressing is the only way to play or get success which is not what I'm saying at all. If I was saying if we press we will be great, then you may have a point but I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying there are different ways of playing and we want a manager whose style complements the players we have. And a manager who wants to play with a striker who will close down the opposition as a key or significant part of his strategy would not be a good fit for a squad that is committed to having Ronaldo upfront. If you think that is the same as saying leaving the EU will allow us to give the NHS 350 million pounds then I'm a bit lost for words. If you want a silly comparison hiring a manager who wants to play pressing football with Ronaldo upfront is the equivalent of booking a holiday to Manchester hoping to get a tan. Maybe you will be incredibly lucky and get the odd day of sunshine, but that isn't why you come to Manchester.
No Ajax doesn't press like Liverpool, their press is more equivalent to man city, who again like a possession-based game with an overloaded midfield. Not an exact comparison but more similar than Liverpool. You look at the pressing stats of Man city forwards and Ajax forwards and again very comparable as why both teams like to play possession-based football they work very hard to get it back as soon as they lose it. One of the reasons I would have been intrigued to see what happened if Ronaldo had gone to City, Pep a manager who fell out with Zlatan at Barca cos he wouldn't press, dropped Aguero when he first came to City because of his lack of work rate and then again towards the end of his career at city as he couldn't cover the ground needed. What was he going to do with Ronaldo, whose out-of-possession work rate is below those two? Would have been fascinating to watch. Personally think Ronaldo would have been a plan B style option like Pep wanted Zlatan to be at Barca. I don't expect that would have ended well. But anyway I'm getting off-topic. The point is saying Ajax strikers don't close down and the press opposition isn't true you see it when they play and it is reflected in the stats. So if you suddenly took that out of the Ten Hag's team would they be as effective? I doubt it, you obviously don't think it would make any difference. I would argue the removal of strikers who will close down has had a massive negative effect on Poch's style of play at PSG, You bring in a manager who wants to play one way with players who prefer to play another and you don't get the best out of either, that's not saying one is the right one is wrong. They just are diffrent.