Berenger
Player Valuation: £8m
This topic has permeated a few discussions including Allardyce, replacements for Allardyce, Steve Walsh, Moshiri's tenure, and almost every match thread this season. Since Moyes we've flip-flopped between various styles, and the signings have flip-flopped accordingly. Even pundits and journos are onto us, so things must be bad. For instance, Jenas said this weekend that we are the only team in the league whose style of play he couldn't predict pre-match. Hard to disagree. Imagine being a player in that environment.
The main thing on Moshiri's to do list right now should be picking a style, a manager who suits that style, and shipping out the players in the squad that don't suit it this summer. It's an absolute indictment of the last two years under Moshiri that we can't even evaluate whether his on-pitch strategy has been successful, simply because it doesn't exist! If you asked him, he'd probably say 'winning football' before launching into some nonsense anecdote about Tarot cards or something.
So what should our on-pitch identity be in your opinion, both in the short-term and for the next 3-5 years? Interested especially in people's views on the short-term, i.e. next season, given that we'll inevitably still have many of this season's players here. But also where we should be aiming to get to.
For me, a deep defensive, counter-attacking style would suit the current crop best. Over time, I hate to say it but I'd love us to transition from that to the aggressive style of football Liverpool play.
(Apologies if there's already a thread or decent article on this. I don't tend to start threads but haven't seen anything on this issue alone.)
The main thing on Moshiri's to do list right now should be picking a style, a manager who suits that style, and shipping out the players in the squad that don't suit it this summer. It's an absolute indictment of the last two years under Moshiri that we can't even evaluate whether his on-pitch strategy has been successful, simply because it doesn't exist! If you asked him, he'd probably say 'winning football' before launching into some nonsense anecdote about Tarot cards or something.
So what should our on-pitch identity be in your opinion, both in the short-term and for the next 3-5 years? Interested especially in people's views on the short-term, i.e. next season, given that we'll inevitably still have many of this season's players here. But also where we should be aiming to get to.
For me, a deep defensive, counter-attacking style would suit the current crop best. Over time, I hate to say it but I'd love us to transition from that to the aggressive style of football Liverpool play.
(Apologies if there's already a thread or decent article on this. I don't tend to start threads but haven't seen anything on this issue alone.)
