So we come to a place where asking highest paid players in the world to increase tempo and more first time passes is a too much? Surely these things aren’t tactical and every player on this level should be capable of doing it.
Why change anything then? If we're all happy with the way things are going we might as well just carry on. Bring Rashford, Sancho, and Antony back. As them how we should set up from now on.
All this just sounds like players who know they can't play to his system fighting for survival. If I was on a big contract, couldn't play to a new system, and I'd just seen Sancho, Rashford, Antony all bombed out, Casemiro not getting a kick, you can can bet your bottom dollar I'd be finding someone else to blame also.
Sorry I'm not sure what your point is. The problem leaked players will be turfed if not already done so. But I dont think it's most the squad thats a problem in that regard.
The previous managers, a mish mash of previous manager players, doing a job for the incumbent manager at the time.
That would assume Ineos are completely bought into the 3 CB setup indefinitely, which seems unlikely. The only real specialist roles are the WBs, and even then it's not like other teams haven't put FB and Wingers into those roles successfully in other cases. As said, I doubt the story is true but I would be surprise din senior players haven't been working with Amorim in terms of trying to better understand what he's looking for.
My post was a follow-up in a conversation about how he won the league with Sporting for the first time after 19 years, not this year.
Fair enough – but that was written 4 years ago!
It doesn't mean anything. Pep keeps signing midfielders and playing them as fullbacks, there's no reason why a WB or DM couldn't play in one of the CB roles that is forced to step up into the midfield.
The squad don't know what they want, they've failed, at this level you don't get multiple go's at being a success. You take it or you don't. Good players are good no matter what, bad players find excuses and people to blame, its the same in any workplace all over the world.
Thats a bit too simple of an insinuation. You think Lindelof, Malacia, Eriksen for example are looking for excuses? They don't strike me as this. Just surplus to requirements for different reasons. They show no resentment to the club.
Not sure which one to believe anymore
Pep does a lot of stuff, a lot of it backfires but your point is weak, in my opinion at least. Of course you 'could' play a DM as a CB and I think that could work as we have seen it occasionally, especially in teams which really dominate the ball as a defensive measure but I challenge you to find a single Wing Back, an actual wing back not a full back, who became a top level CB?
Tbf I feel like all "sports journalisms" are just horseshit and about clicks/sales whatever you want to call it. So I try to stay away from "mainstream" media at least. These "bloggers/freelancers" can be a little better, at least in my opinion, some of them.
Someone said Ten Hag put his own career before United. My point was all coaches do that.
Kompany had brought Burnley back up into the Prem in fine style in his first season. Surely he'd have been viewed even more highly if he'd changed tack and kept Burnley up towards the end of his second season? It's a strange argument to make that someone essentially relegates his own team by deliberately playing a style that he thinks will endear him to bigger clubs? Dogmatically sticking to your principles and ultimately being relegated is one thing, but believing there is a way that you could play that would keep the side up but choosing to play a different way to make yourself look better (even if it gets the side relegated) is a massive stretch. It melts my mind just thinking about it.
My God. What can't you understand??? I was refering to how he won the league that year for christ sake. You're so fecking rude too. Enough already.
He moved to Bayern. The biggest club looking for a new manager that season. It's hard to argue that he could have gotten a bigger job.
And do you think that Bayern wouldn't have been interested if he'd managed to keep Burnley up via a few backs-to-walls defensive performances?
CNN Garbage? Just because you don't agree. You are an aggressive rude poster always replying with some dumb sense of superiority, I would reply to you in a different way but can't be bothered to get a temp ban for the likes if you.
I don't think that would have made a big difference. Bayern looks for managers who can dominate with a (very) good squad. Kompany's work in the Championship showed them how that could look like, his work in the PL didn't add that much useful information in that regard.
Yep, that's my point. I didn't mean he could have got a bigger job than Bayern, just that he'd have probably been more highly thought of if he'd managed to keep Burnley in the Prem rather than overseen their relegation.
Pretty sure even our limp dick offense could put 3 past Boavista and Farense.
Does it really need repeating that we are NOT replacing most of our squad within a year? Ratcliff is axing another 200 jobs to balance the books, there is no money for new players. Out of the starting XI, 8 or 9 of them will still be our players this time next year.
This is factually not true.
At last a normal reply without arrogance.
