CarheeX, I think the post was about whether the Tiki Taka stuff work for us. Agree that AC did not have good season for us, though according to me he was improving towards the end of the season.
Coming back to Tiki Taka, do you think that this would be our future and we will be seeing improvement quickly enough for us to have a better sesason than the last one (finishing better than 8th and winning at least one cup)? What's your feeling?
Well, it only works for Barcelona/Spain because they have exceptional players in every position. Our players aren't even as good as Swansea's so I'm not expecting to see much success yet.
Clearly the 'philosophy' can work, but for LFC to be successful with it, we will need much MUCH longer than anyone thought, or new owners who are prepared to buy the players that benefit the system.
Exactly,and I can't see this succeed for us, for me it's dreamland. Let's just make a recap, it know it's early days (only a few matches) but let's look at it.
Our main problem last year was to score goals - I think everybody agrees. Andy C was not good enough until the end of the season, Jordan H did not perform as expected playing most of the time as a winger/right midfield and Charlie A started all right for a 8m investment for me, but his performance went down until he got injured for about a third of the season (we had to play the very weak in technical terms Ray S and a still young Jonjo S - Lucas L was injured and so was Stevie G for long spells). We all agreed that we needed a good striker and a winger (Downning played ok on the left (not as expected probably) but not on the right). Now there is a budget cap (the manager knows about this). What is our priority? - according to me, 1st priority is to buy a GOOD striker, 2nd a winger and 3rd a midfielder.
Even if players were not performing to expectation in the midfield, I rarely noticed people complaining about our midfield as we created loads of chances which were either saved, hit the bar or missed (very often by our forward players). Now we appoint a new manager who wants to bring in his philosophy, so he will have different priorities not only based on our weakness of not scoring goals.
Does anybody here thinks that we have performed better against City this year compared to last? I don't. The point is, the new philosophy has changed the whole game structure and it will take time for it to work, MAY BE. I unfortunately do not believe (from the day I heard that BR wanted to play Tiki Taka)that this system will be successful for any team in England for the next at least 10 years, because it's not in the footballing culture of younsters in UK. Yes, you can get one Joe Allen, but probably most coaches at younger level will tell the potential Xavis and Iniestas that they are too small to play football.
The one thing I would definitely complain about FSG is, they don't understand football. we'll see
