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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3




They just hired Pedro Marquez as technical director of football who was at City a few years back. He'll be reordering the way they play throughout the club; less back to front and more possession.

With Slot coming in as manager to fit in with that, Liverpool look like they're making a decision to get away from the type of reliance they've had on long balls they've had for two decades.

Big culture shock coming there.
 
davek said:
They just hired Pedro Marquez as technical director of football who was at City a few years back. He'll be reordering the way they play throughout the club; less back to front and more possession.

With Slot coming in as manager to fit in with that, Liverpool look like they're making a decision to get away from the type of reliance they've had on long balls they've had for two decades.

Big culture shock coming there.
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The issue with this is unless you are at the top of the tree e.g City or 09-11 Barcelona, you end up losing to teams who are better at this style than you. Arsenal under Wenger in the latter years were a very good possession team but did nothing in the league and got battered in Europe most seasons, and I’d argue he’s a far better manager than most at it.

It’s an extremely difficult form of football to pursue and tbh it’s one the Kopites have never embraced. They’re not a possession team, it’s not in their identity, kick and rush, long ball, counterattack is what they’ve all been brought up on. Would love for them to fall between two stools with Slot.
 

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