Rio adds next to know insight into the game unless hes talking about a defender or the defense in general.
He is extremely biased and ignorant to coaching methods in my opinion. How anyone can think we haven't changed materially in our play or that Rangnick hasn't improved certain players is just beyond me.
Fred looked better, McTominay had looked more consistent, Dalot and Telles are obvious examples too and he also brought Elanga into the fold.
Yes, also with all due respect to Rio he said things like about AWB "He has all the natural ingredients you’d want in a modern-day full-back"
Kudos to him on calling for Ole's dismissal last autumn, but I am curious what he said about our coaching under Ole in late spring 2019 when we were playing crap and losing left, front and center or when were languising midtable over the following Christmas.
Game vs Middelsborough was 11th under Ralf and was the best football we played under him. You can clearly see that players are a lot more comfortable with what they are asked to do than a month ago. Yes, the quality of opposition should be taken into account but the trend is encouraging.
It is absolutely fair to doubt Ralf's credentials or whether he is good enough for a full time job. After all, he does not have a stellar coaching CV (although still considerably better than Ole) and of course he still can fail. But at the moment he is not planned to be a full-time manager and so far with him we are improving, albeit from a low point - and are looking more and more, well, coached and our play a lot more cohesive. Under Ole as interim we played well over first 10 games, then next 5 we did not play well but still got results and then for the last 12 games of the season we were God awful which continued in the following season, whilst players still looking like they never played together before. I do not remember any huge criticism of Ole from former players then, but with Ralf knives were out as soon as he was hired basically.