Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
….ha, ha, good footballers naturally link together. Baines and Pienaar weren’t coached to play as they did, they are on the same wavelength. Imagine them on the training ground being told; “Bainsey, you pass to Pienaar, and when you receive it Steven, give it back to Bainsey”. It doesn’t happen like that. You buy players because you think they’ll blend.
What you do on the training ground is to give that blend encouragement to develop, the coaches quickly see partnerships that work.
I saw one little interplay yesterday between Ndiaye and Lindstrom that I thought was encouraging but that was about it. As you know, I’ve wanted them closer on the pitch for a while. I saw it against Bournemouth, I thought Ndiaye and Iroegbunam had some terrific interplay between them. It’s what the better players do at any level.
Beto doesn’t know what he’s doing, so what chance has somebody playing alongside him. When Dyche says he hasn’t got the personnel to play 2 strikers, he might just be right, hopefully Broja and Chermiti give him that scope.
"What you do on the training ground is to give that blend encouragement to develop, the coaches quickly see partnerships that work"
-- Poppycock.
Not a single midfielder or attacking player looks like they've been training together before any game this season.
You can also say the same about the defence in comparison to the shape last season.
Not a single person can put forward a favourable comment towards Dyche's coaching this season.
Its like we dont even have a manager.