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All or Nothing - spoilers

I forgot he dropped Gazzanigga after that Wolves game. You can see he never fancied him. Not a surprise Hart is number 2 now.
 
at 6:23 of Ep 7 he has a printed official THFC sheet of his squad options which reads:

..........................Lloris
..........................Gazza
..........................Vorm
..........................Whiteman
..........................Austin

Aurier..........Toby..................Jan...............Davies
KWP...........Sanchez..............Foyth
.................Dier................Tanganga


..................Wanyama..........Winks
..................Sissoko...........Ndombele
...................Skipp.................


Lamela.................................................Son
Moura..............................................Sessegnon


................................Alli
.............................Lo Celso


..............................Kane
.............................Parrott

Which implies that someone (Mourinho or someone else) has put the players into this order of preference/hierarchy in those positions, at some point in time.

With this sheet alongside him, Mou Mou is laying out a 443 formation starting with Jan Toby San Aurier as his back 4. I wonder at which point he realised 443 is too many players?!




Then he is in the video debrief after Liepzig showing the players that Dele was walking away from the defence, the centre backs were in fact Toby and Davies because Sanchez was challenging over on the right near Aurier, so there was no left back and 3 Leipzig players were standing unmarked at our left back position, criminal that Davies didn't shout out for help.
 
at 6:23 of Ep 7 he has a printed official THFC sheet of his squad options which reads:

..........................Lloris
..........................Gazza
..........................Vorm
..........................Whiteman
..........................Austin

Aurier..........Toby..................Jan...............Davies
KWP...........Sanchez..............Foyth
.................Dier................Tanganga


..................Wanyama..........Winks
..................Sissoko...........Ndombele
...................Skipp.................


Lamela.................................................Son
Moura..............................................Sessegnon


................................Alli
.............................Lo Celso


..............................Kane
.............................Parrott

Which implies that someone (Mourinho or someone else) has put the players into this order of preference/hierarchy in those positions, at some point in time.

With this sheet alongside him, Mou Mou is laying out a 443 formation starting with Jan Toby San Aurier as his back 4. I wonder at which point he realised 443 is too many players?!




Then he is in the video debrief after Liepzig showing the players that Dele was walking away from the defence, the centre backs were in fact Toby and Davies because Sanchez was challenging over on the right near Aurier, so there was no left back and 3 Leipzig players were standing unmarked at our left back position, criminal that Davies didn't shout out for help.
That was after a player had turned the TV off wasn’t it
 
And then fair f*cks to Mou Mou and Joao, they call out the midfield for walking rather than sprinting back to help, as Cheatski had a shot, then another shot, then another... if they had sprinted, they would have stopped the danger. But the walk back and hope someone else will fix it. I guess this is the type of moment when we decided to buy Hojbjerg. For his commitment.

They say that the team should take the same pleasure from stopping a goal, as scoring a goal, which I also believe strongly in. It is the same effect.
 
That was after a player had turned the TV off wasn’t it
He said that they had left a TV running on a loop, showing all the goals they conceded that season, so that as the players put on their boots, they would see the goal and analyse what happened, and that eventually it was too much and a player switched it off. Psychological torture, or juvenile prank, or something inbetween?
 
And then fair f*cks to Mou Mou and Joao, they call out the midfield for walking rather than sprinting back to help, as Cheatski had a shot, then another shot, then another... if they had sprinted, they would have stopped the danger. But the walk back and hope someone else will fix it. I guess this is the type of moment when we decided to buy Hojbjerg. For his commitment.

They say that the team should take the same pleasure from stopping a goal, as scoring a goal, which I also believe strongly in. It is the same effect.
But the players still dont appear to get it IMO
It’s gonna take a longer time to get the players to understand their all acceptable for their own jobs and supporting others
The big change In the last two years has been the actual lack of effort in the pitch. Players seem happy to abscond responsibility
 
He said that they had left a TV running on a loop, showing all the goals they conceded that season, so that as the players put on their boots, they would see the goal and analyse what happened, and that eventually it was too much and a player switched it off. Psychological torture, or juvenile prank, or something inbetween?
It looked to me like player thought he could Be clever
 
The pressing thing is weird. It's obvious he wants the midfield to just sit. That one on one he had with Winks for instance.
And he wants the defense to sit deep.
I cant believe then that he just wants the front 4 or 3 to press, when there will be huge gaps behind them once the press is broken. You cant press like that. The whole team has to push right up the pitch.
 
The pressing thing is weird. It's obvious he wants the midfield to just sit. That one on one he had with Winks for instance.
And he wants the defense to sit deep.
I cant believe then that he just wants the front 4 or 3 to press, when there will be huge gaps behind them once the press is broken. You cant press like that. The whole team has to push right up the pitch.
So why is he saying it

also why did he tell the players at half time and before the game vs United that when Pogba comes in we have to step up and be aware, yet they didn’t heed the warning

yesterday he roostered up with that sub But there are example on this doc that show the players are incapable of listening to their manager
 
The pressing thing is weird. It's obvious he wants the midfield to just sit. That one on one he had with Winks for instance.
And he wants the defense to sit deep.
I cant believe then that he just wants the front 4 or 3 to press, when there will be huge gaps behind them once the press is broken. You cant press like that. The whole team has to push right up the pitch.

But then the tactics for Leipzig away he wants the midfield two to go with the 3 pressing. The complete opposite of what he told Winks in the previous episode.
 
The intro to Ep7 shows us losing to Red Bull Leipzig without Son nor Kane and Jose describes us as a gun with no bullets... so I guess on Sunday we had the bullets, we had the grip, but no barrel.

Can we turn that gun on ourselves and put us out of our misery
 
It's really rather dull. And tedious.

OPEN:
Jose spouts some gonad*s about philosophy or where would be without injuries

MAIN TITLE:
Thank Hoddle for the 'skip' button

THEN:
Exterior training ground
Players eat
Players chat
Players run about a bit
Tom Hardy bleats on about league position or Sissoko's knee
Thick, muscular, oiled up legs get rubbed by strong male hands
Jose scribbles on a bit of paper with a football pitch on it
Players eat and have a kick about
Levy has a chat with Jose
More Tom Hardy Welsh chat about league position
We learn about some player and how thick they liked their ham sliced
Pre-match team talk about brotherhood and an inspirational team talk - let's fackin win, boys.
Disjointed game footage
Tom Hardy reads the phone book
Half time team talk - don't be disappointed when you make bad pass, apart from all the mistakes we play good
End of game and someone throws a tiny water bottle or shakes a hamper
Exterior training ground
Players eat
Players chat
Levy looks at his phone
Jose tells us something that barely keeps us awake.


And why the fcuk are they eating Haribo? No wonder Debbie Alli plays like brick. He eats fackin Haribo!
 
And then fair f*cks to Mou Mou and Joao, they call out the midfield for walking rather than sprinting back to help, as Cheatski had a shot, then another shot, then another... if they had sprinted, they would have stopped the danger. But the walk back and hope someone else will fix it. I guess this is the type of moment when we decided to buy Hojbjerg. For his commitment.

They say that the team should take the same pleasure from stopping a goal, as scoring a goal, which I also believe strongly in. It is the same effect.


Given everything, it is going to be interesting to see how much longer he persists with Dele's amazing talent and potential versus his, errr, life?
 
Some random thoughts I had:

The show seems to really be an advert for how great the stadium is (i.e. increasing “Brand Value”). Fair enough, but a bit lacking for fans.

It’s interesting how Levy seems to want everyone in his pocket. Telling Ndombele the story of when he was 16 Was pretty cringeworthy lol

Otherwise surprised how quiet the players are and how the whole thing seems a bit like being at school. Some of the younger players could pass as 6 formers in their behaviour.

Why does Tanganga talk so slowly and look so unhappy at his contract signing :) :)

Episode 9: One of Kane’s daughters looks exactly like him.
 
So why is he saying it

also why did he tell the players at half time and before the game vs United that when Pogba comes in we have to step up and be aware, yet they didn’t heed the warning

yesterday he roostered up with that sub But there are example on this doc that show the players are incapable of listening to their manager
Just a thought, but wasnt a lot on here commenting on how much more we were pressing in the pre season games?

And the majority playing in those pre season games weren't players who would be considered first Xi players, the preparation pre season really was a joke.

So could it be that the actual first XI havent had the chance to work enough together at pressing like those who were actively playing during pre season? Or, a lot of our first team just aren't prepared to do the hard yards anymore for whatever reason.....
 
Just a thought, but wasnt a lot on here commenting on how much more we were pressing in the pre season games?

And the majority playing in those pre season games weren't players who would be considered first Xi players, the preparation pre season really was a joke.

So could it be that the actual first XI havent had the chance to work enough together at pressing like those who were actively playing during pre season? Or, a lot of our first team just aren't prepared to do the hard yards anymore for whatever reason.....

I don't think the players listen. Or at least they don't process what he's actually saying.

They sit there while Jose drones on, eyes glazed over like primary school kids.

The message doesn't get through, the entire squad look thoroughly disengaged in my opinion.
 
I don't think the players listen. Or at least they don't process what he's actually saying.

They sit there while Jose drones on, eyes glazed over like primary school kids.

The message doesn't get through, the entire squad look thoroughly disengaged in my opinion.
Agreed
It’s IMO because the majority were here too long
 
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