monmouth
Roger Freestone
- Joined
- Jul 9, 2020
- Messages
- 12,541
- Reaction score
- 3,978
Edited
“The slogan was to ‘trust the process’. At moments it looked OK but the problem was if there are good young players they have to let them go because they need the money. That's a very difficult thing for him: to try to realise something with young players while knowing if they did well they would have to sell them.”
The desire is to to play good football but performances are inconsistent. There iss reliance on finding the next talent from the academy whenever a rising star is sold. He is not the finished article as a manager – to reach the top he will need to be more pragmatic, especially in a league as competitive as the Championship.
“I don’t think he made big mistakes, but I think the big difference for him is that he has a philosophy of playing the game. If you try to play that way you need quality players and if you do not have that level of player you have to change your style a bit because you are playing more against yourself than your opponents. Sometimes his own team is a bigger problem than the opponent.”
“The slogan was to ‘trust the process’. At moments it looked OK but the problem was if there are good young players they have to let them go because they need the money. That's a very difficult thing for him: to try to realise something with young players while knowing if they did well they would have to sell them.”
The desire is to to play good football but performances are inconsistent. There iss reliance on finding the next talent from the academy whenever a rising star is sold. He is not the finished article as a manager – to reach the top he will need to be more pragmatic, especially in a league as competitive as the Championship.
“I don’t think he made big mistakes, but I think the big difference for him is that he has a philosophy of playing the game. If you try to play that way you need quality players and if you do not have that level of player you have to change your style a bit because you are playing more against yourself than your opponents. Sometimes his own team is a bigger problem than the opponent.”
