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Will he want his own signingsEnrique is arguably the perfect choice - renowned name with big club experience, has a progressive model of football which can compete with Pep, Arteta, De Zerbi etc and is unemployed
Will he want his own signingsEnrique is arguably the perfect choice - renowned name with big club experience, has a progressive model of football which can compete with Pep, Arteta, De Zerbi etc and is unemployed
Show me a manager that wontWill he want his own signings
Enrique is arguably the perfect choice - renowned name with big club experience, has a progressive model of football which can compete with Pep, Arteta, De Zerbi etc and is unemployed
He isn't possession manager, Pep called his style "best counter-attack football". His Barcelona team had much less possession than Pep's but scored more goals and conceded less goals. He adapts to what he has. He was criticized at Barcelona for NOT playing possession football.I'm not keen on Luis Enrique at all, I think everybody has been tricked into thinking Possession is the holy grail and it's not, Spain were absolutely terrible to watch under him.
I think to crystallise my point, I'd contrast it with Liverpool, who yes have high possession but it's a symptom of their style, not the cornerstone of it. What really matters is the intensity at which you win the ball, your speed of play in the turnover, how quickly you overload the box and the speed of your touch and pass i.e the directness but not simply smashing the ball long but directness in your ability to play each pass quickly. Spain was side-ways utter tedium where the goal is to exhaust the other team and if the other team get's the ball, scythe them down as quick as possible but in areas that ref's don't give yellows. It's also what Pep does and it's cynical.
Possession is the biggest misnomer in football, the stat isn't even based on how long your team has the ball, they calculate it based on passes. So you can technically have more of the ball but your team utilises it more directly through forward passes and dribbling but because the stat is a fabrication, the team whose passing sideways is statistically shown to have more of the ball. Then people look at that stat and base their opinion on the game around it. Incisiveness is what matters, that's why Klopp's style succeeds and Spain had little.
He isn't possession manager, Pep called his style "best counter-attack football". His Barcelona team had much less possession than Pep's but scored more goals and conceded less goals. He adapts to what he has. He was criticized at Barcelona for NOT playing possession football.
Hot lap on the karting track?Alrighty Poch v Enrique in the stadium for the job so. Winner gets it.
Will he want his own signings
He'll want technical quality, and outside of Kulu, Kane, Romero, Bentancur... we do not possess much of it.
He loves Olmo so would probably try to bring him. Definitely needs Rakitic type for his transition style (key player for Barcelona other than MSN). That would be hardest position to fill correctly IMO.He'll want technical quality, and outside of Kulu, Kane, Romero, Bentancur... we do not possess much of it.
Sarr, Danjuma, Porro and Udogie I think fit the bill there. We definitely have more physical-types at our disposal, though.