Nobody here is doing that and I don't recall anyone doing that in the season we had no senior CBs available for most of it
Pretty simple what is happening, the planned evolution hasn't worked and won't work, but pretty much everyone here is getting exactly what they've been moaning for and crying out for all the while we were the best pressing and counter pressing team in world football
Gini and Hendo were never good enough in most people's eyes and we won the Champions League and Premier League despite them according to most here and according to Jurgen to be fair given how he has treated both in one way or another
What we're seeing is we need midfielders of their type to support our defence and attack and to enable our forwards and full backs to play with the creativity and devastating directness at times that made us Champions League and Premier League Champions, while most here constantly knocked Gini and Hendo, it was always clear to me how integral they were and we wouldn't have won either of those two big pots without them or got anywhere close to doing
What have I been moaning about:
The drastic drop off in our pressing and counter pressing, and trying to be direct at times and succeeding in that or winning the second ball from that through our astute positioning in the press and counter press and where we won it providing a new less predictable and defendable point of attack we score from through being direct again - You can't do that at the levels we did at its best with Fab in the side, he doesn't read the game well enough
Lack of runs in behind - Where've they gone? Even those 2 know nothings Carra and Neville were commenting on it in last night's game - They have always been vital even against defences camped on their own 18 yard box, they take defenders with them and open up space for players to arrive into and different possibilities
Loss of ability on the counter and to be devastatingly direct through overplaying - Entirely evident so far this season and at crucial points of last
Complete loss of all automation through throwing the baby out with the bath water
So everything that made us Premier League and Champions League winners
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