So the only way to compete is to be sheep? No I don’t agree. An innovative coach will find another way to play. Football works in cycles. Something else will be the new fad in a few years.What argument is your example backing up though? That because Liverpool's tactics worked in the 80s they'll work today? Football moves on, otherwise that approach would still be dominating.
There is more than one way to play, but when one way is the approach taken by the vast majority of teams that have any success at the moment, then in order to share in that success we need to get with the program.
we clearly can’t play out from the back very well, we don’t see real benefits so in the longer term I’d like my goalkeeper to be dominant and have a high level in his basics. That will win us more points than a keeper who can pass the ball