A new way of playing....

[Keeper!]

Yes Kevin keegan. You’re right.

Tactics are part of it but the most important thing his having top players, happy, motivated and playing for each other, if you have that your well on your way to success.

Man management is no1 for me, all the great managers were/are masters of it.

 

[Bobby the blue]

We only need to press when we don't have the ball. We are employing higher quality footballers year on year. More brains less wasted energy. Now for the fans ;-)

As much as it does seem it some times we don’t ever have 100% ball possession. And when we do lose the ball we press better than most sides in the world to get it back.

 

[Bobby the blue]

Tactics are part of it but the most important thing his having top players, happy, motivated and playing for each other, if you have that your well on your way to success.

Man management is no1 for me, all the great managers were/are masters of it.

I hear what you are saying. Some of the best managers of all time have been great man managers without necessarily being great tacticians. Look at Ferguson. Not a master of tactics but obviously was a man manager. However nowadays the likes of bruce/warnock/pulis etc are seen as very outdated.
Players no longer want the manager to be your mate and to organise team bonding days and days out on the lash. They want tactics. Shape. Working on spaces. Working on the opposition.

Owen coyle by all accounts was a great man manager and tried to create a happy positive group. However he had no tactical nouse about him and never did any work on the opposition or on team shape. The players quickly fired off him and took it upon themselves to do shake and tactics. Eventually he was sacked.

I think pep is a genius and keeps on reinventing how we play. I also think he’s a very good man manager and that’s why the players do what they do for him time after time. But without his Brain and tactical knowledge there’s no way he would command the level of respect he does.

 

[blueish swede]

Saw this graphic in an article about Sterling going to Chelsea

( https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/62050049 )

We're going to need to do something different!

 

[ancoats]

I have heard that the Premier League have allowed teams playing city this season to bring their own ball

 

[Keeper!]

I hear what you are saying. Some of the best managers of all time have been great man managers without necessarily being great tacticians. Look at Ferguson. Not a master of tactics but obviously was a man manager. However nowadays the likes of bruce/warnock/pulis etc are seen as very outdated.
Players no longer want the manager to be your mate and to organise team binding days and days out on the lash. They want tactics. Shape. Working on spaces. Working on the opposition.

Owen could by all accounts was a great man manager and tried to create a happy positive group. However he had no tactical nouse about him and never did any work on the opposition or on team shape. The players quickly fired off him and took it upon themselves to do shake and tactics. Eventually he was sacked.

I think pep is a genius and keeps on reinventing how we play. I also think he’s a very good man manager and that’s why the players do what they do for him time after time. But without his Brain and tactical knowledge there’s no way he would command the level of respect he does.

Ferguson was the epitome of a great man manager, probably by far the best manager of his generation but his biggest weakness was his tactics, especially in Europe,

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Ferguson was the epitome of a great man manager, probably by far the best manager of his generation but his biggest weakness was his tactics, especially in Europe,

In the same way Stalin and Mao were.
It's called bullying, I think, by this generation.

 

[Keeper!]

In the same way Stalin and Mao were.
It's called bullying, I think, by this generation.

It may be bullying but it was effective, sadly.

Some thrive on bullying, some thrive on the softly, softly approach, that's what makes a great man manager, like the one we have.

 

[Jazzyblue]

Exciting

To have someone tall at front at the very least. (I say that as someone who likes to think he can pass for 5ft 9 on a good day and loves the current side). Disallowed goal but Delap's appearance at Fulham showed how we've been missing that.

 

[blueparrot]

As much as it does seem it some times we don’t ever have 100% ball possession. And when we do lose the ball we press better than most sides in the world to get it back.

All Pep teams do, that won't change. In fact I see very little changing, except maybe the wide forwards playing more inside and full backs giving the width.