Poisoned Slice
Bionic Poster
I might have to pull Tony Soprano into a post later now that Ten Hag's ''good ideas'' have finally run out. No doubt, Johnny Sack is complaining about City again.Haha yeah, it is a funny one! Can’t be helped now though, but I’m guessing you’ll need to sign someone. What’s more interesting is what does it mean for Mainoo? Ugarte and a McTominay/Hjulmand/Gallagher type is more Amorim.
Guess it comes back to what I was saying about managers surprising you, because getting the best out of Mainoo should be one of the top priorities for the new manager. Right now it doesn’t look good, but maybe Amorim has some ideas we haven’t seen yet.
Yes! I think it was Carragher who said Arteta is like Mourinho, which is a bit of a lazy comparison imo. I mentioned last season that I was starting to wonder if it was actually Moyes who had a bigger impact on Arteta than Pep.
Obviously he was at Everton during the best years of his career, Moyes’ team was very organised and physical. It’s a Mourinho hallmark, but Moyes was the same. Interestingly I heard some City fans saying how the whole City 4 CB’s thing was an Arteta thing from his time there. Pep obviously put his twist on it with inverting them into midfield or attack, signed players with technical ability like Gvardiol, Akanji etc.. but the 4 CB’s, more height and physicality thing was an Arteta influence.. which I think he probably got from Moyes.
Amorim at Chelsea? It didn’t interest me much. The system isn’t one that I see being a title challenging one, and the midfield issue was a dealbreaker for me. They’re not really involved in build up, the team is quite direct etc.. under Poch the big issue was Enzo and Caicedo weren’t involved, their only job was to run around like headless chickens putting out fires and covering oceans of space. Which is a total waste of their ability and a non starter when you’ve spent £200m on them.
Just wasn’t a good fit for the squad and the way we want/need to play going forward.
Couldn't agree more on Mainoo, that's what is always on my mind when I'm thinking about the coach. Forgive me for still being like Mike Bassett, a 442 traditionalist, but damn, I've had to do my research on Amorim's 343. I was even checking out the FM downloads for it, how the masters tweak it to make Sporting unbeatable. How Inside forwards > wingers etc Will our wide men succeed? Not like they were succeeding in whatever they were previously doing anyway. Can he get it done at United? Only time will tell, Sir, Please surprise us, Mr. Amorim.
I'm thinking about Star Wars randomly, now that I think about Arteta's dark arts, turns out that he learnt it all under dark Jedi Moyes. Somebody needs to bring that up on Sky next time.