We have just witnessed a season where City have utterly dominated the wealthiest ever premier league with more player and managerial talent than ever before, all done playing Pep's possession based football.
The conventional wisdom from the press, pundits and old boys club of managers that this couldn't be done, that the Premier League was somehow special and what worked abroad couldn't ever work here has been thoroughly destroyed.
In addition, Pochettino at Spurs has had them punching well above their financial weight for several years playing a possession and high press system.
In the Summer, England suddenly start to play out from the back with Stones and Maguire taking the ball into midfield, and try to press energetically and we have a far more successful World Cup than anyone predicted, and get to the semi finals (albeit with an easy run).
Now Bielsa rocks up at Leeds, and starts to introduce similar ideas in the Championship, wins his 1st 4 games with rave reviews, demonstrates that it is not just elite Premier League teams who can adopt these systems
Meanwhile miserable Mourinho persists with his shit on a stick brand of football and is getting pelters from all directions.
I am not arguing for a minute that there is only one way to play football, and these things go in cycles, but it looks like we may be at a point now where English football is about to change completely.
How do you think this will play out in the longer term?
Do we think there will be a seismic shift towards technique and possession based football and a new generation of coaches or will the lower Premier League and Football League clubs want persist with 'traditional' British style football despite the evidence that there are other ways that work?
The conventional wisdom from the press, pundits and old boys club of managers that this couldn't be done, that the Premier League was somehow special and what worked abroad couldn't ever work here has been thoroughly destroyed.
In addition, Pochettino at Spurs has had them punching well above their financial weight for several years playing a possession and high press system.
In the Summer, England suddenly start to play out from the back with Stones and Maguire taking the ball into midfield, and try to press energetically and we have a far more successful World Cup than anyone predicted, and get to the semi finals (albeit with an easy run).
Now Bielsa rocks up at Leeds, and starts to introduce similar ideas in the Championship, wins his 1st 4 games with rave reviews, demonstrates that it is not just elite Premier League teams who can adopt these systems
Meanwhile miserable Mourinho persists with his shit on a stick brand of football and is getting pelters from all directions.
I am not arguing for a minute that there is only one way to play football, and these things go in cycles, but it looks like we may be at a point now where English football is about to change completely.
How do you think this will play out in the longer term?
Do we think there will be a seismic shift towards technique and possession based football and a new generation of coaches or will the lower Premier League and Football League clubs want persist with 'traditional' British style football despite the evidence that there are other ways that work?