I did actually rate agree for your post. Just noticed the bog bit and thought it was funny.Ref Longtimespur There is nothing like a well thought out argument on someone else's opinion and indeed your reply is nothing like a well thought out reply.
Might give you a bit of a run on the age front but think you're about 10 years older than I.Sorry Longtimespur I got the wrong end of the stick you get crotetchy with age and in my case fire bullets before fully thinking things out
No excuses now
We need to play a counter press, not a counter attack. We don't have the defence to absorb extensive pressure as it stands. No point in playing counter attack if you're already 1 or 2 goals behind.With all our forwards back and looking fit and sharp, and having watched the training videos with interest, I expect to see some rapid counter attacking football from us when the season resumes.
That's exactly what we were doing in José's first run of games, the last time everyone was fit.We need to play a counter press, not a counter attack. We don't have the defence to absorb extensive pressure as it stands. No point in playing counter attack if you're already 1 or 2 goals behind.
We have all of our players back likely in good physical shape after extensive rest. We also have 5 subs per match. Our defence isn't great so why not play to our strengths and go back to a high press? It makes a lot more sense now than it did 3/4 months ago. Our current strategy should be to outscore the opposition in every game until circumstances change.
He's got a young assistant in Sacramento too so one would imagine that progressive ideas will find their way to the fore.I would expect Jose to have found ways to deal with what the league has to offer. I think that whilst his ideas may be old school compared to others, he is still a great tactician. I think he needs a few specific tools added to the box to allow him to really make the most of his skills.
I wouldn’t bet on it. The highlights of the training game today looked like the same old shite - Serge up high on the right, wide open space in midfield.I've been out of the loop since the season ended and if this question has been done forgive me and ignore.
Have your expectations changed? While I don't expect us to get top 4, I am expecting us to play a MUCH better style of football, he's had time on the training ground and has everyone back from injury (right now).
I was always willing to give him until the middle of next season, but he'll essentially have had 2 preseason, I want to see us hit the ground running next season, i won't have much patience if we don't.
Um... uh... might there be a tiny chance that highlights from a first training game are not necessarily a true reflection of how we may play or may not play when the season resumes?I wouldn’t bet on it. The highlights of the training game today looked like the same old shite - Serge up high on the right, wide open space in midfield.
Hey, I’d love to be surprised, but due to the COVID-19 protocols Jose hasn’t been able to do a “proper” preseason anyway.Um... uh... might there be a tiny chance that highlights from a first training game are not necessarily a true reflection of how we may play or may not play when the season resumes?
But based on that video at least Aurier and Davies are world class at crossing now... ?I wouldn’t bet on it. The highlights of the training game today looked like the same old shite - Serge up high on the right, wide open space in midfield.
But based on that video at least Aurier and Davies are world class at crossing now... ?
I would expect Jose to have found ways to deal with what the league has to offer. I think that whilst his ideas may be old school compared to others, he is still a great tactician. I think he needs a few specific tools added to the box to allow him to really make the most of his skills.
Very good well rounded post mate, can’t argue with any of that. Hope we can add LB, RB and ST and DM if needed and Jose will have some squad to play with.If the players, fans and board trust him enough to follow his leadership, he will lead us to trophies. He is a ridiculously talented manager. There's a lot of rubbish written about him, he has made some pretty ugly gaffs through his career and we all enjoy a bit of schadenfreude but his trophies outweigh the gaffs tenfold.
I've never seen him as a negative manager per se. The Chelsea team he built first time round I remember too well as a spurs fan :-(
The only boring thing about them was they just kept winning. (Duff and Robben, with Drogba were a front three that played some awesome stuff).
Inter was a weird one, an ageing team who he turned into title winners, played some good stuff (How many of us wanted schnejder?) But he was defined as negative because of the champions League final against some of the greatest Barcelona players in history. How he managed to win that game is a question of some beauty.
Then Real. Against that Barca team again. The players of that team you mention above are good but no where near the peak Barca of the time. They won the league (record points if I recall) but again they played defensive against Barca - I can't think of a team that could of beaten them going open.
He is pragmatic. He does have a win at all costs approach, which is galling for the opposition, and your own fans if you don't win but he is not lacking in talent nor is he a negative coach.
His time at utd was weird. It seemed to be the job he had waited for and wanted but he wasn't loved or trusted there and the rot had set into that club way before he joined. It seemed to affect him more than it should have done. He was grizly, gnarly and acted as if the criticism of him was disrespectful of his achievements. How he got that team to trophies is another mystery to me, especially over the team we had. And here he is. Leading us.
Poch was a genius for us but by the time he left our winning spirit seemed broken. The players seemed to play this season as if the past 4 years were luck. That they didn't deserve to win. The fight had gone, the teamwork, the giving everything, the belief was gone. For me that's what made it so difficult to watch. How could, for example, Dele and Toby and Dier and Eriksen play so ordinary when we had seen how extraordinary they could be?
Mourinho knows all this. He also knows the game has changed. He will get us competing again. The style of play will also improve as his coaching begins to kick in. I'm hopeful. I don't think CL qualification is feasible this year, think we've given ourselves too much to do but we will win most of our games and next year, you're right. We don't need much but we do need to add to the squad.