It isn't. 4222 is a decades old system (for example Brazil used it) and it is different from a 4222 as it uses 4 central midfielders and leaves the wings to the fullbacks. Of course players move, so in reality the difference isn't huge but it exists.
Considering the circumstances since he has come into the club; mid season, team doing terribly, no money to spend in January, toxic dressing room
It doesn’t. Hence the personnel ragnick used in the roles.
Its not just starting with 5 defenders. Inter start with 5 defenders all the time and are one of the most progressive teams in Europe. Its that at every point in time, two of the defenders are absolute cowards on the ball. Maguire and Dalot. Taking an age to make a decision and then subsequently making the wrong or cowardly decision nearly every time. Yet they are somehow undroppable!!! Even when all defenders are fit. Complete madness.
Then Iraola will flop at Spurs, be gone within a year and we will all forget him and move on to the latest manager. I don’t hear everyone clamouring for DiZerbi anymore (the once shoe-in to take over from Pep).
Doesn't exactly look at Ray of sunshine does he? Understandably.
Probably Inter are progressive because of the opponents. Opposition in Itay is incomparable to EPL. Lukaku and McSauce are doing wonders in Italy.
Brilliantly put.. People keep missing these points.. Pickford, Tarkowsky, Branthwaite, Dacoure, and Beto would walk in to our team.
My point being people are saying that if we buy players to suit HIS system we’ll be wedded to players that can only play a 3-4-3.
What was our form before he came in?
I expect an improvement in our style of play and results as time passes, who wouldn't? However, I will apply some mitigating context to the current underperformance due to the circumstances of Amorim's situation stemming from taking over our dysfunctional cohort mid-season (the details of which has been repeated ad nauseum). People making blanket statements like "a top manager would improve any team immediately" are either just purposely ignoring nuance/context or just plain ignorant.
Your argument is that a pundit told you so. Also if anyone is pathetic it's the person who doesn't watch football and then blocks someone for calling them out
I have said many times that it is at least 80% on the players, but at least Iraola knows the PL and is not playing an unfamiliar system which no top club is using.
There should never have been any talk of relegation in the first place. It was never happening. I don't know why our own fans were willing it to happen.
To the bolded part - Really? So if Amorim gets a couple of wins in the next few weeks (not hard to do, we might get lucky or improve), and we get up to 10th, you'll stop posting this drivel and start supporting him? Also - I like how people are trying their best to discredit him now by lengthening his time here - 3 months, 4 months, 5 months now
Blaming the winter window on him while we have management with no money to spend is quite the take. Are you saying Amorim should have spent his own money to buy players?
You wouldn't have the patience for Iraola to sort us out either.
But there HAVE been cases in history when a broken manager, realising its simply not going to work, also feeling the pressure is affecting their mental and physicall well being, would walk without any (or way less than entitled to if sacked) pay off.
So this season, let’s forget the cups (agreed would be incredible if we could win one but let’s see, if he can pick one up I think it alleviates a lot of the concern/buys him a little time even without a good style of play) and look at the PL.
1 penalty to show for the 1st half in the last 17 games. That’s absolutely disgraceful from everyone involved.
2 and half years of Ten Hag destruction and everything before it is never going to be undone in 2 months. 2 years maybe.
We were good versus City, we were categorically not better than Pool by literally any stat but, let’s ignore that. Cups we will see, the reality is we can play like crap and win one or play like United in 08 and still lose one. We’ll just have to see where that goes.
Iraola's early record at Bournemouth was not good, yes.
Okay perhaps I'm remembering the Liverpool game wrong. I agree cups are more random but the context of the league form matters. The players know they aren't getting into Europe and not getting relegated. There is not much apart from personal pride ( which most of them lack= see the 7-0 for an example ) on the line.
I think the players are either :
Its like groundhog day. ETH fans said, he needs his players, we spend £600m on something like 15 players, and we're even worse. Amorim, only has one fixed system and needs specialist players or more training time. He gets more training time, we are worse and then half the team are injured. A really good manager can improve what he has. Amorim and ETH have failed miserably in that regard.
This year was already fecked thanks to ETH. Unless the difference between 9th and 14th, which will end up being 3-6 points is so traumatic to fans that they want the guy sacked before he's even been given a fair chance.
I think he cleared that little bit at the press before Everton. He is said he won’t compromise on the way he sees football but it does not mean he is not adapting.
