He's Ryan Mason, not Charles MANSON!
I get the feeling that IF Poch comes back, Mason stays (in some capacity)
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I get the feeling that IF Poch comes back, Mason stays (in some capacity)
Did you mean Mason's treatment ?
Flipping burgers ?
Might have to argue with that first point. Coaching is largely creating muscle memory and conditioning behaviours in certain situations. It's making sure your body knows what to do, even if you don't. The panic doesn't take hold when you have a 'downhill' route to take. Coaching should be about getting the player to that point in ALL scenarios, which is impossible in some cases. Maybe this is one case you're referring to.
I'd go as far as to say that these problems are caused by the poor coaching. Ledley, as great as he was, might not be a good coach. Studies have shown that there's zero correlation between ability and management/coaching ability in the same domain.
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As long as he has no say on who plays, I don't mind. He clearly plays favouritism.
Unless of course Levy told him to "showcase" certain players to help a summer clear out. Then his hands were tied. But shame on Levy for doing that.
If anything, the correlation is negative.
Wasn't that the story about Hoddle? That he was a miserable manager because he was so much more talented than the players that he didn't know how to instruct them or relate to them.
That makes a lot of sense. What you really want is someone who turned themselves/was turned into a great player by great effort.
What seems to work badly is good players turned managers who aren’t smart enough to see the difference. Shearer, Hoddle, for example.
Think Kane would be a good coach, in this regard.
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Your hate for Mourinho has made you not see things in a rational way.
Henry has had similar struggles apparently with turning his own playing ability into coaching.
Conte also describes himself as the worst midfielder in the Juventus side he played in. But has turned out to be a splendid coach.
Mind you, Kevin Keegan was one of the former type of players; guess he made a career of management alright, but it was a bit of a mixed bag.
Our players did NO FITNESS sessions under Mourinho! There was no Sports Science under Mourinho!
This is what any manager post-dino has to deal with. At Utd he actually closed down the sports science dept.. thankfully he didn't get to do that in Hotspur Way. It has taken OGS 1.5 seasons to get the Utd players fit enough to compete properly.
Your irrational hatred for Mason has prevented you from even entertaining the most basic of facts that our players were arguably the most unfit in the league.
Dumb comment
His attitude to sports science was almost as inexplicable as bringing on Sissoko when we were a goal down. I couldn't (wouldn't) believe it for a long time.
The whole 'elite sporting gods worth millions in paychecks' is a much easier sell when they bust their nuts to look the part (in action, as well as selling the shirts).
Watching them trundle round for the last hour was probably the hardest thing to take after 5 years of Poch.
I think all managers over the past couple of seasons had to be mindful of the loads placed onto players, so it goes someway to explain the shit that we've been watching from 90% of the games played across Europe in COVID times. But yeah, to be one of the worst of those 90% didn't sit well with me.
All the top pressing sides are way, way down on previous seasons but watching his Chav & Utd teams plod about was bad enough (I'll never forget a video of the Utd team doing a rondo session that went viral because they looked like 5yr olds doing it) but seeing us looking so dead was horrible. It actually was more evident in the games under Mason against Leeds and Villa as Mason was trying to get us to be less risk-averse and play higher up the pitch, we couldn't catch their players!!
It still beggars belief that he would be obsessed with using the word "press" in all of his filmed team talks!!! He honestly had no idea.
it really was Mason's mates
5 birds 3 blokes..
it really was Mason's mates
Mason birds?
