Can we please just stop with this nonsense about a player's value? We have a 85m defender in our back four, who can't dominate or defend properly. We have a 39m pund bench warmer, that Ole dont trust. We have a 40m pund teenager without barely any first team matches from Atalanta, we have an superexperienced Cavani, a great frontman. According to that tweet, Maguire should be better than Stones, Dias and Laporte, since he cost more than them? That's not the point. Our problem, when Rashford or Bruno dont perform, that the other players dont know what to do or work a cohesive unit.
What makes City works so effortlessly are their maniac of a coach, who works constantly with improving their tactics. A modern coach, who knows, in order to overcome obstacles, injuries, and other unseen future problems, you have to have a system, that the players understand and where the roles on each position is clear. That's why KDB can get injured, and the next man comes in and the team barely drops in performance. I would bet everything I had, that if Ole was the manager of City's current squad, and KDB got injured, you would experience his absence. Because Ole is a bad coach. Our system is based on Bruno doing his wonder, and when he doesn't, everything falls apart. That's bad coaching.
Ole cant coach properly for United's level. Do people remember the time from february 2019 until january 2020, where we had no Bruno? We played some absolutely horrendous football. Bruno came in, and his energy and positive mindsind in terms of offensive football was contagious. But now the honey moon are over.
Football shouldn't be just through a necessary excel-sheet. This americanization of football needs to stop man. You can judge football through constantly numbers. I can take stats and make Maguire look like Vidic, or I can take numbers and make Darron Gibson look like Andres Iniesta. Remember Iniesta's stats was barely anything. But for me, he is the best midfielder, I've ever seen. Scholes scored more than him, De Bruyne assisted more than him, Carrick covered more space than him, Fletcher intercepted more than him. But none of them could do what Iniesta did in terms of utterly controlling the whole midfield with his presence. Scholes was of course close, but Iniesta just had another gear in terms of that.
Football fans truly believe that if you buy al the best players, you instantly get the best team. Football stars are massive egos. You have to settle them in and understand, that football is a team sport. You have to point things out for them.
I promise you, if you give Ole Mbappé, Messi, Varane, van Dijk, Kroos, de Bruyne, we wont necessarily win the games. Football coaching is about to manipulate the players into a cohesive team and understand the bigger picture. It either requires coaching skills or managerial skills. Coaching skills is someone like Pep. He is the main coach at City. Constantly at the training ground and each and every day coaching the players.
Managerial skills is someone like Sir Alex was. Barely at the training ground, but headhunted those competent people, who could create the team out of his vision and the way, he wanted to play and stand in the background and watch over it all like a Godfather from his desk.
With Ole, we have none of that. His coaching skills is nowhere near the requirements of United, and his managerial skills is to bang average. He's probably a good bloke, but you need to have that inner psycopath to make it all click. Sir Alex had that. Like Evra use to say. "I wasnt afraid of Sir Alex. I was afraid of dissappoint him".
I don't understand football fans sometimes. If you truly believe, that all Pep is doing is go to the front office, ask for players, just get the players and they just come into the City' training ground and they win everything, you simply misunderstand the professional world of sport. You have to create a synergy between 25 players, you have to make them understand, what you want on the team. You have to take 11+3/5 subs every third day to work as a cohesive unit and compete still. You have to take 11 individual minds and melt them into one.
Therefore, of course, City have great players, but I promise you, if we had Pep as our coach with the current squad, and City had Ole with the current squad, we would be closer to City and player better, while City would player worse and far from that good.
If you really think football is just plug-and-play type of football, where anybody can coach supremely gifted players with huge, huge egos, you are sadly mistaken. Athleles are truly different people. Most of the think they are gift from the gods to mankind and every should just follow them. And to have a squad of 25 players of that, you are some work at our hand.
The disrespect for Pep and his work is truly incredible. The bigger the stars, the bigger the work you have as manager.