...we need continuity, there will be enough change happening without this upheaval.
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...we'll have to cross that bridge if the situation arises but every appointment carries risk and none more so than somebody untried in league football. We need to put sentiment to one side.
ianefc
Player Valuation: £70m
£6.8m I read earlierStraight swap for Messi?
Being serious for a second, surely we'd be commanding a significant fee if they took him one year into his contract?
Can't see it happening though.
bluejim95
Player Valuation: £1m
Seems low that, guess that might be one of the reasons he keeps the contracts short.
ianefc
Player Valuation: £70m
I think 3 is standard practice at most clubs. Guardiola is on 3 at City. It's stupid to give overly long contracts. The three most ridiculous that spring to mind are Moyes getting 6 at UTD, Pardew getting 8? At Newcastle and worst of all Martinez getting 5 at Everton.
bluejim95
Player Valuation: £1m
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
Klopp is on a 6 year deal.
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
Never really noticed that tbh. Pardew getting 8 of anything is amazing.
Allegedly, that contract was sort of involved in Ashley "helping" with some gambling debts. Apparently, someone said once, I think. Allegedly.
AaronTheBlue
Player Valuation: £60m
Allegedly doesnt save you anymore
Thought the whole point of it was to keep the ball moving with quick short passing to pull the opposition out of their organizational shape to create space which can then be exploited?
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...aka-its-rubbish-and-completely-pointless.html
In a new book profiling the work of Pep Guardiola, journalist Marti Perarnau reveals the Spaniard's true feelings about the 'tiki-taka' term associated with the football played by his brilliant Barcelona team.
Pep Guardiola tucks into a starter of pureed potatoes, with obvious pleasure. He looks like he hasn't eaten anything since last night and, when I ask, he nods. He can't eat a thing on matchdays.
We are having dinner after Bayern Munich have beaten Nürnberg in a bad-tempered Munich derby.
Bayern were dreadful in the first half. It's as if the players want to please Pep by making sure they pass the ball, one of the group remarks, which immediately sets the coach off.
"I loathe all that passing for the sake of it, all that tiki-taka. It's so much rubbish and has no purpose. You have to pass the ball with a clear intention, with the aim of making it into the opposition's goal. It's not about passing for the sake of it."
The following day, he expands on this message in a meeting with his players.
"Be yourselves. You need to dig into your own DNA. I hate tiki-taka. Tiki-taka means passing the ball for the sake of it, with no clear intention. And it's pointless.
"Don't believe what people say. Barça didn't do tiki-taka! It's completely made up! Don't believe a word of it! In all team sports, the secret is to overload one side of the pitch so that the opponent must tilt its own defence to cope. You overload on one side and draw them in so that they leave the other side weak.
"And when we've done all that, we attack and score from the other side. That's why you have to pass the ball, but only if you're doing it with a clear intention. It's only to overload the opponent, to draw them in and then to hit them with the sucker punch. That's what our game needs to be. Nothing to do with tiki-taka."
In a new book profiling the work of Pep Guardiola, journalist Marti Perarnau reveals the Spaniard's true feelings about the 'tiki-taka' term associated with the football played by his brilliant Barcelona team.
Pep Guardiola tucks into a starter of pureed potatoes, with obvious pleasure. He looks like he hasn't eaten anything since last night and, when I ask, he nods. He can't eat a thing on matchdays.
We are having dinner after Bayern Munich have beaten Nürnberg in a bad-tempered Munich derby.
Bayern were dreadful in the first half. It's as if the players want to please Pep by making sure they pass the ball, one of the group remarks, which immediately sets the coach off.
"I loathe all that passing for the sake of it, all that tiki-taka. It's so much rubbish and has no purpose. You have to pass the ball with a clear intention, with the aim of making it into the opposition's goal. It's not about passing for the sake of it."
The following day, he expands on this message in a meeting with his players.
"Be yourselves. You need to dig into your own DNA. I hate tiki-taka. Tiki-taka means passing the ball for the sake of it, with no clear intention. And it's pointless.
"Don't believe what people say. Barça didn't do tiki-taka! It's completely made up! Don't believe a word of it! In all team sports, the secret is to overload one side of the pitch so that the opponent must tilt its own defence to cope. You overload on one side and draw them in so that they leave the other side weak.
"And when we've done all that, we attack and score from the other side. That's why you have to pass the ball, but only if you're doing it with a clear intention. It's only to overload the opponent, to draw them in and then to hit them with the sucker punch. That's what our game needs to be. Nothing to do with tiki-taka."
JLW
Player Valuation: £60m
This is true
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