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Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

Ace Face said:
I have found it so baffling that every player in our squad has known how to the do the footballing basics for years (you don’t get to this level otherwise) and has then appeared to either forgotten it completely or had it trained out of them.

For the past two seasons we have looked like a team of strangers instead of a cohesive unit. Utterly bizarre.
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Injuries not helped to build cohesion. That’s what has really fudged us over 2 seasons.
 
K.D.D.D.D.Soc said:
I believe players are coached to play a system and not to think for themselves. Managers have always had a philosophy of how to play and picked the best players available allowing them a degree of freedom. Week after week we see lots of teams trying to play out from the back with players who are not suitable to do it and failing. In the managers dreams this works. I much prefer the Jol, Redknapp style of management let the players play. Football a very simple game pick good players, give them an equally simple plan and let them play. There's an industry been created for analysts (people with hindsight) to explain why teams won, I figure it out when I was 5 or 6, you scored the most goals.
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We are fudged with De Zerbi then :tearsofjoy:
 
Robspur12 said:
Injuries not helped to build cohesion. That’s what has really fudged us over 2 seasons.
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Exactly. The players aren’t blameless here but, for me, they’re deserving of much less blame than so many others.

I think some people in the media have been unnecessarily harsh on them. They’ve been thrown together as a group without any cohesive strategy, they’ve been ravaged by injuries for 2 years straight, they’ve had multiple managers with different styles and, when they needed it most, the club did fudge all to help them.

That doesn’t wipe away their own part in this but the margins are fine at this level and the club has repeatedly set them up to fail and they’ve taken the brunt of fan anger.

However, the time for blame, excuses and finger pointing is not now - it’s May 25th. Right now, whatever has gone on, these players need to show some bottle for the sake of the club and their own CVs/careers.
 
DeanoAustin said:
Exactly. The players aren’t blameless here but, for me, they’re deserving of much less blame than so many others.

I think some people in the media have been unnecessarily harsh on them. They’ve been thrown together as a group without any cohesive strategy, they’ve been ravaged by injuries for 2 years straight, they’ve had multiple managers with different styles and, when they needed it most, the club did fudge all to help them.

That doesn’t wipe away their own part in this but the margins are fine at this level and the club has repeatedly set them up to fail and they’ve taken the brunt of fan anger.

However, the time for blame, excuses and finger pointing is not now - it’s May 25th. Right now, whatever has gone on, these players need to show some bottle for the sake of the club and their own CVs/careers.
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Exactly indeed. Still, if I could speak to them this minute, I'd be saying, "In GHod's name, show some grit, will ye? I mean, If not now, when?"
I think RDZ has said it. The group mentality is the be-all-and-end-all of this thing. They're either going to believe in themselves, or we're going to be playing 2nd division football in August.
 
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... or the 3rd place we held on the 31st of October.

Code: 
Table 31/10        P  W  D  L  F  A  GD Pt
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01 Arsenal         9  7  1  1 16  3  13 22
02 Bournemouth     9  5  3  1 16 11   5 18
03 Tottenham       9  5  2  2 17  7  10 17
04 Sunderland      9  5  2  2 11  7   4 17
05 Man Сity        9  5  1  3 17  7  10 16
06 Man Utd         9  5  1  3 15 14   1 16
07 Liverpool       9  5  0  4 16 14   2 15
08 Aston Villa     9  4  3  2  9  8   1 15
09 Chelsea         9  4  2  3 17 11   6 14
10 Crystal Palace  9  3  4  2 12  9   3 13
11 Brentford       9  4  1  4 14 14   0 13
12 Newсastle       9  3  3  3  9  8   1 12
13 Brighton        9  3  3  3 14 15  -1 12
14 Everton         9  3  2  4  9 12  -3 11
15 Leeds           9  3  2  4  9 14  -5 11
16 Burnley         9  3  1  5 12 17  -5 10
17 Fulham          9  2  2  5  9 14  -5  8
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18 Nottm Forest    9  1  2  6  5 17 -12  5
19 West Ham        9  1  1  7  7 20 -13  4
20 Wolves          9  0  2  7  7 19 -12  2
 
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See the toxic BBC are still running with RDZ/Greenwood stories even today. They can't even create a headline about West Ham winning without using our name in it.

There's clearly no media agenda against Spurs :mad:
 
DeanoAustin said:
Exactly. The players aren’t blameless here but, for me, they’re deserving of much less blame than so many others.

I think some people in the media have been unnecessarily harsh on them. They’ve been thrown together as a group without any cohesive strategy, they’ve been ravaged by injuries for 2 years straight, they’ve had multiple managers with different styles and, when they needed it most, the club did fudge all to help them.

That doesn’t wipe away their own part in this but the margins are fine at this level and the club has repeatedly set them up to fail and they’ve taken the brunt of fan anger.

However, the time for blame, excuses and finger pointing is not now - it’s May 25th. Right now, whatever has gone on, these players need to show some bottle for the sake of the club and their own CVs/careers.
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Agreed with everything you’re saying.

I think it’s interesting that RDZ is talking about bringing back a style of football like Ange. Not because his style is going to be exactly like his, but I think he has correctly read the dynamics of the squad, in that they were comfortable with that style and didn’t need to so drastically move away from it.

I think it’s a motivational tactic to get them comfortable and bought in to something they know they can do until the end of the season, and then recalibrate.
 
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