Birdy
Senior Member
He does good threads indeed!
Some remarks:
1) I think he places too much emphasis on the loss of Busquets.
All of what he says about his importance in linking defense and attack and finding solutions within positional play is true. BUT, he doesn't talk about the downsize of Busi: how much a liability he was in defensive transitions. That was particularly evident in all European games he played in his last season, from Bayern to Inter to Man UTD. This also tells that, WHOEVER the coach was, the model based on Busi should have been gradually replaced, and that includes new solutions and new ideas, apart from new personnel
2) As he says in his analysis, 'Xavi-ball' was much better in his first season, and part of the reason was that Alves, Pique, Alba, apart from Busi, knew how to of positional play
Yet, that IMO is the biggest testament of huge limitations of Xavi as a coach.
If you can't teach basic principles to someone who has not already made them part of their skin through a whole footballing career like the ones above, then you are probably very limited coach
Look at the top coaches, like Pep, like Klopp, there is always a common theme: WHEREVER they go (Italy, Germany, England) they always manage to TEACH their football to whoever they have as a player
Pep doesn't teach his style to whomever he has as a player lol. That is why he only goes at the most elite and/or richest teams around. If he could teach any player, he wouldn't have spitted out Cancelo like a bad falafel.
