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Not sure what you're getting at. I am Hallenbeck. I am the mod of the [email protected]. There is no ”Hallenberg". Not sure what you're saying.
I still don't see moderation options on my posts from Mastodon.
This community: https://lemmy.world/c/coys
Most of my posts are from Mastodon. None of them can be removed from Lemmy from within Lemmy, even though I am a mod of that community.
Feels like we’re approaching the point where rules about minutes played per week/month/year might need to be regulated.
It's complicated to legislate for, though. It's not just about limiting time played as a blanket policy across leagues. Context is important. Have a listen to this podcast with performance manager I posted a link to a few days back:
https://lemmy.world/post/8310123
Specifically the part starting at 33:15. It's not a straightforward problem to solve, sadly.
Hamstring injuries are up 96% compared to last season
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Sources:
- https://theathletic.com/5068440/2023/11/20/premier-league-injury-latest-news/
- https://www.premierinjuries.com/injury-table.php
Why are Premier League injuries at a new high?
The Premier League currently has 196 injuries recorded in just over three months, with Newcastle and Manchester United suffering more than most - so why this many?
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- Injury crisis: The Premier League has seen a record number of injuries this season, with 196 in just over three months. Newcastle and Manchester United are the worst-hit teams with 14 players injured each this season.
- World Cup effect: The 2022 winter World Cup in Qatar may have contributed to the increase in injuries, as players had to play more games in a shorter time before and after the tournament. The average length and severity of injuries also rose after the World Cup.
- Hamstring injuries: Hamstring injuries have seen a 96% increase this season, with 53 incidents. This may be related to the longer added time and the higher tempo of the Premier League games.
- Cost of injuries: Injuries have a significant financial impact on clubs, as they have to pay wages to unavailable players. The cost of injuries across the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 was £617.8m in 2022-23, a 27.3% increase from the previous season.
- Festive period: The upcoming festive period will see more games in a short span of time, which may lead to more injuries. The Premier League says no club plays within 60 hours of another match, but some experts suggest 72 hours is the optimal recovery time.
The Biggest Danger To English Football, Salary Caps and How Much Money Do Football Clubs Lose? - The Rest Is Football
What is the biggest threat to the growth, or even survival, of domestic football? Would salary caps help level the playing field? Is it ok for football clubs to continually lose money? Crystal Palace co-owner and chairman Steve Parish joins Gary and Alan on today’s episode to discuss what it’s reall...
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cross-posted from: https://mastodon.online/users/hallenbeck/statuses/111438924092907782
> The Biggest Danger To English Football, Salary Caps & How Much Money Do Football Clubs Lose? - The Rest Is Football > > REALLY interesting episode with Crystal Palace co-owner and chairman Steve Parish. > > https://pca.st/episode/5b0d8ca8-0013-41cf-b158-0451672b0190 > > What is the biggest threat to the growth, or even survival, of domestic football? Would salary caps help level the playing field? Is it ok for football clubs to continually lose money? >
The City and Chelsea cases are much bigger, so it's understandable that it will take longer. But it nothing comes of it, what message will that send?
Everton’s deduction is a tremor – City and Chelsea may face the earthquake
Everton first to be punished for breaking profitability and sustainability rules – others can only wait to see what comes next
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Summary
- Everton verdict: The Premier League has docked Everton 10 points for breaching its profit and sustainability rules. Everton is the first club to be punished for breaking financial fair play rules.
- City and Chelsea cases: Manchester City and Chelsea are also under investigation by the Premier League for alleged financial wrongdoing. They face more severe charges and potential sanctions, including relegation.
- Premier League's stance: The Premier League is keen to enforce its rules and regulations and deter clubs from circumventing them. It also wants to retain some of its regulatory powers amid the prospect of an independent regulator.
- Everton's appeal: Everton has said it will appeal against the verdict and the finding that it failed to act with the utmost good faith. However, experts believe it is unlikely to succeed.
- Other clubs' claims: Leeds, Leicester, Burnley and Southampton have 28 days to inform the commission if they want compensation from Everton. They are not allowed to take separate legal action through the courts.
Does this mean we all get to sue City and Chelsea too?
Agreed! Interesting content, in-depth analysis, great goals, highlights from extraordinary or notable matches. 👍
I've found some content I've posted along these lines gets downvoted (e.g. https://lemmy.world/post/8042698) for no given reason, which is always a bit dispiriting. In that example, it's always good fun to get an insight into how top coaches think, even if you don't support that team. Sky's Monday Night Football great for that - Gary O'Neil and Thomas Franck being notable examples recently:
Hello!
Would be great if highlights and goals could be kept in a single matchweek thread or similarly organised somehow. They often crowd out and rapidly push down other content making it hard to see. I've sometimes logged in to find a wall of scores and match updates for stuff I'm not interested in (e.g. the wall of Copenhagen v Manchester United goals recently - would those not be better served up in a single thread rather than a post per goal?). Highlights are fine, but I can usually find extended highlights pretty easily on the many highlight websites out there (including YouTube). Posting scores here seems a bit redundant too - there are so many apps and websites now that provide live scores and in-depth stats.
But I appreciate these things might be useful to others so just appealing for perhaps a bit more organisation around them.
Tifo Football Podcast: Is too much football causing injuries?
Jon Mackenzie is joined by performance manager Callum Walsh to talk about the problems associated with player fitness. What does an average week look like for a fitness and conditioning professional in a football club? How much of an influence does the team’s game model have on the strength and co...
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cross-posted from: https://mastodon.online/users/hallenbeck/statuses/111416599829567870
> Tifo Football Podcast: Is too much football causing injuries? > > If you only listen to one thing this international break, make it this. A fascinating and absorbing deep dive into the many aspects and problems associated with player fitness. > > It's much more complicated than a binary fit/not-fit decision. > > https://pca.st/aw90kigz
We Spurs fans had three defensive coaches in succession (Mourinho, Nuno, Conte) and those seasons were pure misery and without any progress, despite at least two of those coaches being proven "serial winners". There's a reason why top clubs in the Premier League aren't defensive – fans and the media hate it and it doesn't suit the league. The clubs at the bottom of the league tend to adopt more defensive low-blocks and mid-blocks out of necessity. Some clubs like Brentford and Wolves have had some success and are dubbed "giant killers" for adopting a low-block and counter-attacking style. But they're not top-4 contenders.
West Ham were steered to victory in the Europa Conference league by David Moyes and he is a notably defensive, pragmatic coach.
Also, in the 22/23 Champions league, 3 of the 4 Premier League clubs in the competition have lower GA/90 (goals against per 90) stats than Atletico:
- Atletico: 1.50
- Liverpool: 1.50
- Chelsea: 0.90
- Tottenham: 0.88
- Manchester City: 0.38
The eventual winners of the Champions League last year was of course City, with a total number of goals conceded of just 5 in a total of 1170 minutes of play. Atletico conceded 9 in only 540 minutes.
I don't think Simeone knows what he's talking about.
Chelsea FC face new questions over how Roman Abramovich funded success (summary of article below 👇)
Leaked files reveal secret payments that may have breached football’s strict ‘financial fair play’ rules
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Leaked files reveal Chelsea FC received a series of secret payments worth tens of millions of pounds over 10 years from former owner Roman Abramovich. These may have breached football financial rules.
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The payments appear to be connected to player transfers and contracts for Eden Hazard, Willian, Samuel Eto'o, and manager Antonio Conte among others.
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The payments were routed through offshore companies and some may not have been properly declared to football authorities. This could violate financial fair play rules and regulations on accurate financial reporting.
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Experts say the Premier League could punish Chelsea with point deductions if rules were broken to gain an unfair advantage. The league, FA, and UEFA are investigating.
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There are also revelations around Abramovich secretly funding efforts to challenge financial fair play rules in court. And suspicious payments to the owner of Anzhi Makhachkala before Chelsea bought Willian and Eto'o from that club.
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Chelsea says the allegations pre-date the current ownership, which has voluntarily reported "incomplete financial information" from the Abramovich era to authorities. The club says it is assisting investigations.
Same for me but using Geddit. Also finally exploring Mastodon for a replacement for match threads.
Both are part of the fediverse so not mutually exclusive.
You can start a match thread on Mastodon and mention the handle of this community in the post (@[email protected]) and it'll not only start a thread on Mastodon, but also here. Comments added on Masto will appear in the thread here and vice versa. Likes on Masto will appear as upvotes here and upvotes here appear as likes on Masto. It's quite cool. You can tell when a post originated from Mastodon because it has that little rainbow fediverse icon on it.
If you follow a Lemmy community on Masto, the posts will appear as boosts in your timeline.
Here's a thread I started on Masto but is also on the [email protected] community:
https://lemmy.world/post/8197032
All the comments were added from Mastodon, not Lemmy.
This is a thread I posted here directly from Mastodon:
https://lemmy.world/post/7968059
More details on how all this works here: https://vijayprema.com/using-lemmy-from-my-existing-mastodon/
It's not the calls that are the problem. In the Tottenham Chelsea game the decisions were all correct in the end (pretty much). It's all the waiting around that's the problem. It ruins the flow and enjoyment of the game. I don't know anyone at this point that thinks VAR has improved the game. Fans of clubs in the Championship often tell me they prefer no VAR.
Yeah, experience from moderating over at [email protected] is that you've just got to keep posting and posting and posting and gradually, very slowly, the numbers creep up. Same on Mastodon on the #MastodonFC and #COYS tags (can't speak for other clubs). You've got to give people a reason to come back.
Personally, I'm not sure the individual posts containing a single goal from a specific match is helping much. Makes the community seem very noisy. IMO would be better to have one thread per match with goals posted as comments. But I'm not mod here and others may feel differently, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
FWIW, I don't see the community as dead. I post a few things here and there's often a good number of votes and some good discussion. Seems far from dead to me.
They’ll need to come up with some strategies for keeping warm while waiting an indeterminate amount of time while waiting for VAR.
In American Football they use stationary bikes to keep warm.
https://bikehike.org/why-do-nfl-players-use-stationary-bike/
Yeah, he did say, "I was half-tempted to throw some balls out there for them to kick around". It's right there in the quote I posted.
They'll need to come up with some strategies for keeping warm while waiting an indeterminate amount of time while waiting for VAR.
So not bullshit at all then.
Ali Gold asked Postecoglou: Is there a chance that the amount of waiting around players are doing now with VAR can lead to more muscle injuries?
Here's every single word the Tottenham Hotspur head coach said ahead of the Premier League match at Wolves on Saturday afternoon
![Every word Ange Postecoglou said on Van de Ven, Maddison and January transfers](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fa0f77e8-90f2-4b97-932e-e9d2dbb5726b.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8065229
> Postecoglou: "Absolutely. I am not going to draw a direct correlation to Micky's injury but I was half-tempted to throw some balls out there for them to kick around. It's the reason we have warm-ups but if you're going into a game, the fact there was only 47 minutes of game time the other night in whatever it was, 110, that is not ideal for the type of athletes we have out there" > > That's the disgrace right there. All this waiting around is likely harming the players.
Ali Gold asked Postecoglou: Is there a chance that the amount of waiting around players are doing now with VAR can lead to more muscle injuries?
Here's every single word the Tottenham Hotspur head coach said ahead of the Premier League match at Wolves on Saturday afternoon
![Every word Ange Postecoglou said on Van de Ven, Maddison and January transfers](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f327230d-fa9c-4a93-b9f2-157e4866855c.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Postecoglou: "Absolutely. I am not going to draw a direct correlation to Micky's injury but I was half-tempted to throw some balls out there for them to kick around. It's the reason we have warm-ups but if you're going into a game, the fact there was only 47 minutes of game time the other night in whatever it was, 110, that is not ideal for the type of athletes we have out there"
That's the disgrace right there. All this waiting around is likely harming the players.
Is the argument trash, though?
Interview: Vicario reacts to his incredible display against Chelsea
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MADDISON and VAN DE VEN INJURY UPDATE ANGE POSTECOGLOU PRESS CONFERENCE // WOLVES V TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
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EXCLUSIVE: Tottenham star Dejan Kulusevski suggests Ange-Ball is the "future of football" 🔮
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Rio Ferdinand's Between The Lines ft. Ange Postecoglou | Media Training, Tactics and Harry Kane Void
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Rio Ferdinand's Between The Lines ft. Ange Postecoglou | Media Training, Tactics and Harry Kane Void
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100% agree the discourse should be public. Good point.
Flav on TalkSPORT on Arteta's outburst. Is he right? What do you think?
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He makes a lot of sense. Unless managers (and fans) proactively act together, and have a calm and ongoing dialogue nothing will improve. Instead, managers rant and rave post-match in a knee-jerk way and only when it goes against them. Get together and deal with it like adults. Less of the drama.
Why Spurs struck gold when they signed Guglielmo Vicario – Charlie Eccleshare
Some saw Vicario as a budget goalkeeping option for Spurs in the summer, but the Italian has excelled and is already an integral figure
![Why Spurs struck gold when they signed Guglielmo Vicario](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/aadfb68f-c745-4627-8d19-9f442153d2cc.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Summary
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Vicario was signed by Tottenham this summer from Empoli in Italy for £16.3 million. Head coach Ange Postecoglou made bringing in a new goalkeeper a top priority.
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Vicario has impressed with his shot-stopping ability, saving over 3 more goals than expected based on shot quality faced. He has a high goals prevented rate of 1.4, meaning he concedes fewer goals than expected.
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A big part of Vicario's appeal was his personality - he is humble, hard-working, and eager to learn and improve. He adapted quickly to the Premier League and gelled well with the squad.
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Vicario is comfortable playing as a sweeper-keeper, coming off his line to clear balls and support Spurs' high defensive line. This allows Spurs to play higher up the pitch and press opponents.
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His distribution by passing short to midfielders rather than long kicks represents a change from former keeper Hugo Lloris. This helps Spurs build up play from the back.
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Vicario has been a transformative signing for Spurs, allowing manager Postecoglou to implement his tactical approach. His shot-stopping and sweeper style have made Spurs' defense much stronger this season.
Yes, the big league with their multiple camera angles led to so much scrutiny after the games, VAR felt somewhat inevitable. I'd like to see it radically scaled back. Goal line technology is fine. But get rid of the ridiculous offside checks and the debatable handballs and let the game flow. There's an argument emerging too that all the standing around waiting for decisions can lead to injuries as muscles cool and stiffen.
'One of the most mind-boggling Premier League games ever'
Tottenham's unbeaten Premier League run came to an end in chaotic fashion but the loss leaves Ange Postecoglou with a mountain of unexpected problems, writes Phil McNulty.
!['One of the most mind-boggling Premier League games ever'](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d7010c90-2609-4d05-a45e-e667a86dade1.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7914713
BBC Chief football writer Phil McNulty pieces through the carnage.
Interested to know what the neutral's view of this match was, especially Ange's comments after the game.
“It’s who we are, mate. Even with five men, we’ll have a go.”
https://www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/news/every-word-ange-postecoglou-said-28057867
Have you been involved in as crazy a game as that before?
> No, but I think it's going to become the norm. It's where the game's heading. Unfortunately it's how we're going to have to watch and participate in football from now on because... look I've said it before, I don't like it. I don't like the standing around. I don't like the whole theatre around waiting for decisions. > > But I know that I'm in the wilderness with that. I'm on my own. In my 26 years I was always prepared to accept the referee's decisions, good, bad or otherwise, and I've had some shockers in my career let me tell you. I've had some go my way as well but I cop that because I just want the game to be played. > > When we're complaining about decisions every week this is what's going to happen. If people are going to forensically scrutinise everything to make sure that they're comfortable that it's right and even at the end of that we're still not happy. So what does that mean? It means that we're going to see a lot of standing around. > > I just think it's just diminishing the authority of the referee. You can't tell me that referees are in control of the game because they're not. The control is outside of that but that's the way the game is going so you have to accept that and just try to deal with it.
When you say you're in the wilderness, the fans seem to dislike it so is it other managers or club execs?
>I don't know but it seems like there isn't a great call for us to go back to accepting the referee's decisions for the majority of it. I understand goalline technology because that's a simple one. That came in and no one's complained about it. > > But in searching for this utopia of no wrong decisions in a game, that doesn't exist. It never will but that's the road everyone wants to go down. > > It's self-inflicted because we all complain about decisions every week. That's not new. We've been complaining about decisions...I've been doing this for 26 years and I've heard managers, me included, complaining about decisions in the past, but we've got on with it. We didn't feel the need to find some miracle cure for it. > > I don't think that that's a viable option because we've opened that door, allowed the technology. Now we want transparency. I guarantee the next thing is we'll have referees mic'ed up and explaining decisions. > > There's plenty of other sports where you can watch referees do that. I don't think it's better for football, but like I said I think I'm in the wilderness with that one.
Do you think that the Premier League managers should get together through the LMA to teach the referees how to referee a game?
> See that's the problem. That's the problem. Premier League managers should just manage their football clubs. I've never and I never will talk to a referee about the rules of the game. > > I was taught that you grow up and you respect the officials. You know what managers do? I tell you what managers do. We, me included, try to find ways to bend the rules and get around them. Tell me what the rule is and I guarantee you'll have a room full of managers processing 'how can I get around this?'. > > They're not the right people. We're not the right people and I get that people keep saying that. I don't agree with that. What I want is the best officials always being upskilled to officiate the game. > > I think that it's so hard for a referee to officiate the game nowadays. Their authority is constantly getting diminished. I grew up afraid of referees. They'd be like policemen. Nowadays I guess we talk back to policemen as well. > > I'm old school mate. I'm from a bygone era and I just like the purity of the game but that's not what's going on. > > Part of this is my problem. I've got to embrace it and find a way to work with it but it goes against everything I want to work with my team on. I want my team to play fast, attacking, high tempo go at it football. > > If we get a red card, a penalty against us, so what. Let's cop it, let's go again. But we have to stand around for two minutes trying to figure out if something is offside or not. Let the linesman make the decision. Remember it used to be the benefit of the doubt to the striker. Remember that? We all lived with it. The game didn't collapse, but like I said I'm an old man shouting at the clouds mate. I'll cop it for that but that's who I am.
'One of the most mind-boggling Premier League games ever'
Tottenham's unbeaten Premier League run came to an end in chaotic fashion but the loss leaves Ange Postecoglou with a mountain of unexpected problems, writes Phil McNulty.
!['One of the most mind-boggling Premier League games ever'](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5f245075-ce17-490d-8360-4f3076acdedb.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
BBC Chief football writer Phil McNulty pieces through the carnage.
The final was a great match for sure. It's just all else associated with that tournament was terrible.
What Rob Mackenzie will bring to Postecoglou and Spurs' new recruitment team (tldr summary below 👇)
Tottenham Hotspur are changing things behind the scenes with their new-look recruitment team set to complement what Ange Postecoglou is doing on the pitch
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Summary:
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Tottenham have overhauled their recruitment department, hiring Johan Lange as technical director and bringing back Rob Mackenzie as chief scout.
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Mackenzie previously worked at Spurs in 2015-16 before moving to Derby County. He has an analytical background and worked with Lange at Aston Villa.
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The new recruitment team will aim to use data and analysis to unearth undiscovered gems in the transfer market, as well as identify players who fit Postecoglou's system.
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Mackenzie is known for his thorough scouting and for advising against players who won't fit a manager's tactics. Postecoglou is expected to have a big influence on transfers.
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The new setup aims to improve on recent recruitment issues at Spurs. Paratici's role may be diminished with his ban, while Postecoglou drove transfers in his first window.
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The hope is the new team brings efficiency and minimizes risk in signings, avoiding past mistakes like Ndombele. Providing tailor-made players for Postecoglou's system is the priority.
Summary of Ange's 2023-11-02 presser
Here's every single word the Tottenham Hotspur head coach said on Thursday ahead of the Premier League match against Chelsea
![Every word Postecoglou said on Lange, January transfers, Pochettino and Udogie](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3e95eeba-e7d2-4fba-b4f1-5853427262bb.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Quote of the day:
Did you go to the team meal, it looked fun?
The reason it was fun was because I wasn't there.
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Team news: Davies still has ankle issue and is touch and go for Chelsea game. Udogie also 50/50 with injury. Everyone else available apart from long-term absentees.
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Focused on the present and next challenge of Chelsea game, not dreaming about anything further ahead.
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Next few games against Chelsea, Villa, Man City, Newcastle will be defining but only focused on Chelsea now.
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Gave players couple of days off after Palace game then intensive training this week to make up for lack of midweek games. Used it to work on things physically, tactically and keep squad fit.
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Not focused on league table position, just on tackling each challenge and focusing on improving.
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Pochettino had huge impact at Spurs and his work is unquestioned. Will only be respect from club for him but won't get guard of honour as we want to win.
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Styles have similarities in wanting to play progressive, attacking football but more nuance than just saying two managers/teams are alike.
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Players equally culpable for last season, had to take responsibility and embrace new direction. Changed environment, training, way we do things.
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Son seemed right choice for captain at the time with Kane leaving. Knew he would embrace it and fill leadership void. Helped rejuvenate him.
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Lange now in building interacting with people. Important he and Mackenzie joined early before January window. Aims to get business done early in window.
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Sarr's versatility to play 6/8/10 a strength currently. Will refine game but provides enormous energy now.
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Romero been rock in defense, guides others with winner mentality. Van de Ven partnership working well but down to individual quality.
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All managers have unique challenges outsiders can't understand. Pochettino will get Chelsea right, has great track record.
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Success not about unlimited spending. Needs right chemistry and players committed to cause. Wouldn't want £1bn and 24 best players.
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Didn't worry about inheriting Pochettino's legacy. Focused on what environment needed. Once managers become exes, they're exes.
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Attack clicking through players understanding roles more, becoming clearer in approach. More upside but takes time. Goals vs Palace came from training work.
Most? According to what survey? I don't know of a single person that thought it was, overall, a good WC. I'd wager most people would put it down as one of the least memorable in living history. It was dreadful, and players came back to the Premier League knackered and injured. Worst WC ever.
He's not related to Tifo's Jon Mackenzie is he?