I said to my oldest lad that this Arsenal team right now reminds me of the one I first started supporting in the late 70s through to the mid 80s - a collection of individuals but lacking in any sort of ruthless, win at all costs mentality and defensively and mentally weak. There were plenty of talents over that ten year period or so - Brady, Petrovic, Rix, Woodcock, Nicholas, to name but a few. But the team never got close to competing for the title and were a UEFA Cup team at best (until the vile, scummy Mickeys took away that pleasure too)GoonerMuzz wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 4:25 pmThis, this, this.... nearly every manager out there with a few exceptions try to play some variation of Wenger ball where the intent is to out score the opposition. Very few of them are actually capable of coaching their teams to do it but it is so common these days.SteveO 35 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 4:15 pmNot a shred of improvement in the last 2 games since Emery was sacked and nor will there be until we hire a manager who looks at the game totally differently, and instils a whole new defence first mentality. Ljungberg won't do it, Arteta won't do it, questionable if Rodgers will do it.......definite that Allegri will do it
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If we can't afford him then you might as well give Freddie the job as opposed to any of the others who will only try playing Wengerball with the same stiffs we've got now
We need a Manager/Coach with a different view of how to play football and a different set of players to be able to play it.
One of my favourite football books was Kenny Sansom's insight into the 1986/87 season and in particular how GG changed the entire focus of the team. One of his opening addresses to the team supposedly was "You are good players - why haven't you won anything?" and questioned their mentality. What then followed was a series of big name charlies flushed out of the door - Rix, Nicholas etc - and a core built around young players from the academy and a set of tough as old boots defenders. In that book it describes how GG almost drove them crazy with relentless drills of six forwards attacking four defenders, and stopping them every time they were out of shape until such point as it became second nature
I feel that is what is needed now. Pochettino won't do it either. From the list of credible candidates only Allegri would introduce such a radical change as the one GG did. If we can't afford him then much to the disgust of the trendybeards, I would opt for Sean Dyche because he is the cheaper version and would set about getting rid of the non-team players.