Risby wrote:
If it works like you think it will, I will be delighted.
I understand the purpose and necessity of a structure/philosophy, especially at youth level. But at senior squad level, that flexibility you talk about and the options we have in the squad will be extremely important. We have lacked that this year.
We have lacked it because for some reason we allowed Mancini to bring in players who could only ever fit one two very different sets of tactics, a 433 sort of attempt without wide players. and a radically different second one with wingbacks.
But those two tactics were like chalk and cheese, revolution from game to game rather than evolution. If the club want a 433 or variation thereof, then the director of football can implement a transfer strategy with the manager which gives the club flexibility to have defensive stability of 4 at the back (the biggest problem with our 2nd tactic under mancini), and ahead of that to have a group of players who can transition through a passing attacking style of 433, a defensive style of 451, or even a standard 442 with wingers.
Those options have been more than flexible enough for the most successful manager of our lifetime.
I see no reason why any manager couldnt operate successfully with that sort of framework, provided he and the director of football are on the same page with regards the positions and types of players the club needs at a given time.
