Originally Posted by
llan bluebird
DJ was an old-school romantic 442 that played like a 424, we did spend (wages) on decent players but ultimately didn't achieve the goal of the premier league. Football was still under the spell of Mourinho's anti-football and Malky was a disciple, the rot starts there.
Pep then starts exporting Tikki Taka and Klopp's 433 all-out attack heavy metal football pushing out Mourinho's anti-football.
IMO, Warnock is closer to Klopp 433 getting the ball forward quickly with a higher dependence on physicality over pure football skill but we hired Mad Mick, Harris, Morison, then Hudson when we should have got a German manager well-versed in 433 as we had that DNA already there and a fanbase used to speed on the flanks and the ball going forward.
We chose the wrong model to copy, Peps slow, deliberate, highly technical passing as we just didn't have the players, or the fanbase, but importantly hired managers and coaches who were known as scrappers, not technical tacticians.
I know there is a constituent on here who say they'd prefer to lose playing good football, but Championship football is just about winning. Losing beautifully got us 14K at Ninian Park, winning ugly sold out the CCS
It's all a bit fake to me. There are big decisions for the hierarchy, all in on Bulut and get more technical players because this lot can't execute what he wants to do but they will be expensive and may see us in pretty much the same position if it doesn't work out, with a lot of foreign players wanting to go home but under contract