After watching the red comedy yesterday and peeing myself, I asked how the hell OGS was given the wheel.how the hell can you put an apprentice in charge of one of the worlds richest clubs. I watch football and even I know that all the top clubs play a version of Bielsaball. Klopp, Pochetino, Pep, Tuchel Conti, Simeoni etc. They all press for a start as they try and win the ball back. Yesterday I watched more Liverpool shirts in the scum box than red shirts with every attack and I saw a falanx of Liverpool shirts in their own box to stop every scum attack. So besides not even knowing his best team or what his players best positions are, I saw a team of lazy unfit ****er superstars who were not quick enough to break down scouse defence or fast enough to get back and defend scouse attacks. It was shoddy garbage and the little twat should have resigned. Why pay nig bucks for Donny Van De Beek and never play him, why pay £80m for Jaden Sancho and never play him and remember he and Alfies lad broke scoring records in Germany together but the little Norwegian doesnt have a clue how to use him. Pogba and Cavani also sat on the bench. I saw Pogba fuming on the touch line before half time and knew he was going to explode when he came on, and then Bruno Fernandes was brought off hahaa. The oil tanker known as Maguire was unfit and shouldn't have been on the pitch, Rashford was coming back from injury and shouldnt have started, Greenwood must suck Norwegian dick as he starts every game. Besaka is like Aidy White ffs dire. Scum deserve everything they get, and maybe Big Mick would do a better job
Check out any website concerned with worlds best coaches and OGS is nowhere near. Hansi Flick, Julian Nagelsman even Brenden Rodgers gets onto it and all are coaching a pressing game, some like Simeoni with a low block. Go back a while and compare to LVG or Wenger and even Fergie all pressed. Look how scumchester came after Leeds earlier this season, they pressed us and passed us off the park because we are Leeds, but didnt have a clue what to do yesterday
Hernan Crespo regarded by 4-4-2 as worlds best coach so far this year? Yet another Bielsa disciple. Hernan Crespo As a player, Hernan Crespo was powerful and tenacious, yet deft and with a velvet first touch and luscious locks to match. Part Messiah, part missile. MANAGER PROFILE How Hernan's taking strides into management As a manager, he’s showing similar shades of contrast. Crespo led Defensa y Justicia to a first-ever trophy, winning the Copa Sudamericana in January - that’s the Europa League equivalent - before hooking up with Sao Paulo the following month. Crespo is influenced by former national boss Marcelo Bielsa, encouraging a high-octane style of play.
Roberto De Zerbi Robeto De Zerbi’s Sassuolo side attack with numbers, cut in to create chances and are resilient in their back four - but perhaps the most promising thing about the young coach is that he seems to be getting the best out of everyone that he works with. The goatee’d genius has elevated the likes of Jeremie Boga and Manuel Locatelli into the kinds of players that we’ve always expected them to be, while playing an entertaining brand of football.
Still no Olly at the wheel Jose Bordalas Five years ago, Getafe were at risk of dropping into the third tier in Spain. Since then they’ve been promoted to La Liga, finished eighth and then finished fifth, two points off of the Champions League. Yet while Spain have the reputation of producing pretty players who pass around you until you fall asleep, Jose Bordalas is the Severus Snape of La Liga (obviously Diego Simeone is Voldemort). Bordalas does not apologise for the dark arts, for sitting off teams and waiting for them to trip themselves up. He famously doesn’t believe in having possession if his team aren’t going to do anything with it; he favours a Simeone-like 4-4-2 with tough midfielders to get stuck in and high-pressing strikers. Bordalas revels in his perceived “negative” style: it clearly gets results.
Another former Bielsa player and colyte Diego Martinez Playing in a compact 4-2-3-1 and taking their chances on the break, Granadahave shot up the table to play their first European campaign. Manager Diego Martinez is just 40 years old too, instilling an effective style of play despite having an extremely modest budget. They play scrappy football - but Martinez certainly gets the job done.
Marcelo Gallardo Marcelo Gallardo is the undoubted rising star of South American coaching. The River Plate boss uses a 4-4-2 with width from full-backs but is capable of switching completely to different formations whenever he wants to surprise his opponents. When River faced Boca Juniors in the Copa Libertadores final in 2018, Gallardo switched to a back five with wingbacks to completely fluster their biggest foes. River play in their opponents’ halves, looking to control possession and counter-press quickly; Gallardo has developed a number of young players and he’s a master of the in-game switch-up. It’s a case of when rather than if, for his big move to Europe.
Niko Kovac When the walls crumbled around Nico Kovac’s Bayern Munich, he must have wondered where the next opportunity would present itself. At Monaco, the Croatian tactician has helped rehabilitate a fallen giant from relegation battles to title skirmishes, taking the principality back to their rightful place in Ligue 1. Only Paris Saint-Germain press more aggressively than Monaco in France. Kovac has retained the principles of his Red Bull Salzburg days while looking to build in a 3-2-5 set-up and look for midfielders in between the lines. Attackers Wissam Ben Yedder and Kevin Volland have taken advantage of Monaco’s desire to overload the wings and release the danger-men in the channels. The Monegasques are still a work in progress - but Kovac has already transformed them into a strong side who look superb in possession.
OGS is nowhere near and nobody successful sticks to a system that OGS uses. i listened to the Wolves skipper on Saturday say Bielsa has a system you cannot counter unless you teach your team to copy his tactics for one game which is impossible to do. We knew what we were up against but the intensity and aggression was relentless and we couldn't break out and ended up just taking punch after punch on the chin. No team can match Bielsa tactics unless you copy or have a team who are as fast and mean and also have better quality players who can punish misplaced passes and counter fast. Bruno Lage was just happynto get a point
It’s what happens when a director of football brings in big named stars and you have zero say on their arrival. Ronaldo obviously has something in his contract to say he plays, OGS isn’t a good coach but I do think even Bielsa would struggle to get anything out of them. If they don’t buy into the system and they’re not willing to put the graft in you end up with dressing room mayhem and they’re all big names with too much attitude
Post of the day Gessa I remember well Revies team landing in a new wally trolley every week. They were only around the corner on Gelderd Rd too
Don't particularly like the red Scouse but they are a well oiled machine with a very good manager and a striker at the very top of his prowess, compared to a bunch of show pony's they faced yesterday, no heart,no passion,clueless tactically and a inept coach.....Fernandes,pogba,rashford and cr7 are all up there own arses and although it was magic and well deserved they should be ashamed at looking at any fan.....when we got beat 6-2 we where still driving forward and looking to score,what a total difference to the pony's......at least show you care in your performance and to the fans who have paid good money. Mercenaries and long may they suffer
Remember many years ago, we played away at West Brom, a fleet of WA making their way to the ground from the M5, a sight to behold.
Of all the coaches named above this is the guy that Bielsa really rates and funnily enough has followed in Bielsa’s shoes. He was manager of Argentina and also managed Chile and now hes at another Bielsa club OM where he chasing PSG for the French title. Never forgot what Bielsa said about him last season when Bielsa approved his appointment in the South of France. “jorge is better than me, no two ways about it. If I see my tactics failing I must push them harder. Sampaoli can change tactics fast and reorganise his players, I dont have the facility to do that but Jorge coaches his players with 3 plans for each game, I do one” Nietzsche thought while walking too,” said Marseille coach Jorge Sampaoli to explain why he constantly paces up and down the touchline. “I analyse things better while on the move.” Following Sampaoli’s arrival in March, Marseille lacked the ferocity and intensity of their coach. Now, however, they are playing with intensity and dynamism, embodying their manager’s snarling, prowling touchline presence. Club and coach are a perfect match and, after years of underachieving, Marseille may have finally found the right formula. Known as a Marcelo Biesla “disciple”, even if he quietly rejects the comparison, Sampaoli has based his success this season on a gung-ho outlook. It is working, with four wins and two draws from Marseille’s first six games. Their asymmetrical setup falls somewhere between Bielsa’s preferred 3-3-1-3 and Hungary’s 2-3-3-2 formation from the 1950s, with Dimitri Payet playing Nándor Hidegktui’s withdrawn striker role, albeit with a holding midfielder dropping in at right-back when needed. This seemingly unwieldy team has worked perfectly so far this season. All three centre-backs are technical ball-players and the midfield is a fluid diamond full of creativity, while wing-backs maraud down the flanks.
