- Feb 5, 2018
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Disagree. A truly great manger will make the sum greater than the individual parts, just a Poch did for 4,5 out of his 5,5 years at the helm. Or what the likes of Klopp, Guardiola, Potter, Wilder and possibly Rodgers are doing right now. The manager is by far the most important cog in the wheel for a club. Look at Brighton, they are perfectly set up with clear lines of play from the back. They have gone from Hughton playing terrible longball football to Potter who in just a few months has a clear system in place that goes beyond which of his players are actually playing. The same can be said for Liverpool/Man City/Barcelona etc. When a team has a clear philosophy that's ingrained in the core of the team the individual players are not as important as the group as a whole following the plan/philosophy of the manager. Once this is in place, of course, it doesn't hurt to have technically gifted and world-class players, but in the end that is second to the entire system in place. That's why the likes of Mooy under Potter suddenly look like he's a bald Iniesta, while he would be the championship player he really is if he would be a Tottenham player under Mourinho.Change it for who?
Come on, a few people are saying change this and change that, but the players being suggested have taken part in as many shitshows as the ones on the pitch, so I'd like to know, change it for who, that would actually suddenly transform their performances as well as the teams.
All this bring another player on is just fluff and rot. We need new players, everyone knows that. And until we get them this is what we're going to get, it's not tactics, it's not the manager it's 5 or 6 players carrying the rest.