I love reading most of the posts here,but sometimes I have to giggle.
I realise and appreciate the passion people have for our club, yet I have to say there is no coach (successful) in the country that would try to organise a team/stratagy to play as described on here.
I love the 4232 3232 442 3421 numbers mentioned (as totally not the way anybody plays.)
Yes give a formation to start or to fall back to but that is it.
All 10 back or 7 forward can occur regular in any game.
The coaching/manager role is to blend a team to play well, which two players gell together, which players create, defend, keep the ball, move away from defenders, close down on attackers, this kind of thing.
Today City had a better midfield group..... end of!
We were outplayed in midfield not because any were crap but they were against better players. I know some on here see,like Klopp does,how to play to overcome better individuals in teams, but sometimes we will get outplayed.
I think we are criticising our players a little harshly, just look at the run we are on, with a squad full of good players (not great players). If we spent the kind of money City ,PSG, Man U, Madrid and Barca can then maybe we would be more critical.
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