He is abandoning his plans. He is no longer playing with the two eights. Tell me why he signed Mount and how he plans to use Mount and Bruno in one team?
Yes, we are making a lot of high turnovers. Non have lead to a goal. Personally, i think we may be winning balls high up the pitch, but there often isnt the support there to capitalize. It is not like when Klopp was gegenpressing and had the team collectively pressing at pace.
He isn't playing two 8's because one of them got injured. You're clinging to that accusation but it just isn't true. The overall style is the same, he's just had to make some adjustments due to lack of personnel.
As for the high turnovers, I disagree entirely with your suggestion why. We're winning balls high with plenty of players free, it's the execution that's letting us down (poor passes, hesitation, etc).
It is subjective. Had most fans, and even Daniel Levy, had a choose of Ange or De Zerbi and the start of this season, most would have picked De Zerbi. Spurs and Levy lucked out on getting Ange. We all know Spurs were turned down by multiple managers.
Luck or not, he was shortlisted by someone who saw what he could bring to the team. Right now there's no comparison between the two, Ange has equalled De Zerbi's best achievement, which is "plays nice football", but he's also won some stuff and done much better so far this season with a less suitable team.
Fair. Brightons analytic system is driving the player selection, but you have to think De Zerbi has a say.
I'm sure he gets a veto, but there's no way he's out scouting and identifying targets. Unfortunately that's something we're still relying on the manager for, and that's a problem no matter who's at the helm - it's far too much for one person to do well by itself, let alone when combined with actually coaching the team.
Agree, Martinez is a lynchpin and he is out. That is big. But he has had most of his other signings this season. Casemiro looks awful and will prove to be a terrible signing as his powers are waning. Anthony is a flop. Mount is on the bench. Onana, the jury is out. Amrabat, early days but looks like he is not top Prem level currently.
Casemiro wasn't Ten Hag's signing though, the club put that together and offered it in lieu of De Jong who we weren't able to get. Amrabat is a loan signing. Anthony I agree with, the problem there is that he physically isn't up to it. Mount you aren't being fair as he's been injured.
Im not calling for ETH to be sacked. And I am not saying De Zerbi would be an instant success. He is an intense character who drills his team. His training sessions are apparently all about positioning and routines and the ball may not come into play for hours at a time. Our players won't like that, but you can't bring in a manager who is just going to resort back to type and play as we have been doing for years. Someone has to break the mold.
I wouldn't mind if you were, as long as you were making accurate statements about the what was going wrong, and had a good idea as to who could replace him. Things may not be working, but he's clearly trying to persist with the change in style. We could go back to the approach of last season and immediately see a more solid setup, but we need to take steps forward.
As for De Zerbi, it's an act of serious faith to expect his intense character and sessions that our players won't like to not cause problems. De Zerbi hasn't demonstrated anywhere near the kind of authority that Ten Hag has, and yet the latter has had to put down multiple mutinies from players who have gotten the previous two managers fired. This isn't an easy bunch to get in line.
I would only be happy to see De Zerbi if he had the DoF above him. No point in bringing in anyone into this current sh1t show.
But likewise, i would like to see ETH continue with structure above him, but at this rate, we may not get to that point.
I agree with you about this, but it's more than just a DoF, we need a department in place that has a style of play to aim for, has identified the KPIs and stats to look for that would indicate a high chance of success, and is able to identify players using that data that we expect to fit in well and contribute. Without that, no manager has much of a chance of success here.
Having said that, based on the various appointments and noises coming out of the club, it does sound like we've started to put something like this together, but it's very much in the infancy stage.
Who would you want to see if ETH was sacked tmrw?
I have high hopes for the approach the Ten Hag seems to be aiming for, to me it reminds me of Klopp's Dortmund and Liverpool, which I've been jealous of for years, so I'd like us to keep heading down that road. To that end, my ideal candidate is probably Nagelsmann - he's got the right profile stylistically, he's had experience of big high pressure clubs at Bayern, and has won trophies within that environment, showing he can cope with it.
