Omar Marmoush

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Bluearmy said:
You’d hope that by this time next year, Savinho/Doku/Bobb would all be a bit more experienced and settled and the team would be able to cope with this…!!
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I think the bigger concern will be having no Haaland alternative for that month. It's nothing major though.
 
ninjamonkey said:
A fair point that I had forgotten about. I think we've made a conscious decision over the years to at least be wary of how many African players we buy because of this. I think we can cope just fine when its 1 or 2, its only when theres 3/4 or more that it then becomes a problem, we'll be okay with just the one as we were with Mahrez.
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As I said above, it’s just an observation, and not a great concern. Because he’s going to be absent, I presume we’ll use him a lot in the first part of the season.

All I want is for the club to have worked on and have its alternative striking option before he leaves for AFCON 25. We’ve been ploughing Haaland into the ground all season, and we’ve seen from other players that the consequences of such can sometimes only manifest the year after. If a title challenge is beyond us this season, then it would be prudent to use the coming months to try different systems and deployments ahead of next season.
 
Txiki Txiki Bang Bang said:
But he does have a point. Individual brilliance is being sacrificed for a more cohesive team play and while that has been successful in terms of titles won, it hasn't been the best policy for player development, even now Phil seems to have fallen victim to this.

The idea that individual brilliance has to be sacrificed for the good of the team isn't always right, RM and Barca have won numerous titles while at the same time allowing their players maintain their style of play. Adapting to the team is a great idea but you don't have to strip off all the exceptional quality of a player and just turn them into another bland footballer churned out from the conveyor belt of total football
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Real & Barça aren't faced with an 11 man armoured defensive wall, filled with cloggers & psychotic axemen every week. Pep relies on tactics for us to overcome these situations, with a flash of individual brilliance when able.

Take Cole Palmer. He's being lauded as the second coming & City's biggest transfer error. He's flourishing at Chelsea where he's essentially got a free role in attacking midfield, & regularly produces moments of individual brilliance, producing some impressive stats.

HOWEVER, when playing 26 times for City (13 as starter) the previous season, & faced with armoured defensive walls, he was deeply underwhelming. Tactical rigidity mixed with individual brilliance was required. Was Pep coaching the individual brilliance out of him, or trying to teach him how to overcome brutal defensive low blocking teams?
 
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