![]() I’m going to stick up for 2016 briefly, on a couple of counts, but it’s major back-of-the-box/bullet-points-on-the-Steam-page features really aren’t very exciting at all. It felt like a much more human game than its predecessors. It consolidated a lot of the tactical instructions and emphasised that management was about communicating with players - by providing them with roles and instructions - rather than ticking boxes on spreadsheets. From a distance, it looks like the last significant addition was the new Classic mode, which is a more streamlined approach that lets managers play through a season without dedicating half of their waking hours to press conferences and transfer negotiations.īut 2014 was a strong year as well. Graham: I think I'd be pretty disappointed if I spent £35/$50 on Football Manager 2016.Īdam: It’s definitely one of those years that plays into the argument against annual releases. At worst it’s a “neutral” series of tactics, and to my thinking - is likely brining the positive outcomes we are seeing on a more consistent basis.Football Manager 2016 is out this Friday, but before we publish our review, Adam and Graham decided to gather in the RPS dugout to discuss this year's tactics, transfers and press room meltdowns. So I don’t see this report as a negative in any way. If that’s indeed the case, then the club will indeed be far better off in the long run with him at the helm. It also helps if Arteta indeed recognizes that he needs to manage individual players better than he has the last ~2 years. They seem to respect and follow him - which says a lot to me.Ĥ. Even when results weren’t coming on the pitch, I don’t recall the players ever “quitting” on Arteta. I realize there are notable exceptions like Guenduzzi and Saliba, but those clearly seem to be outliers (and for differing reasons). ![]() So if this bothers the players, then I would think we would have heard/noticed it by now. Since Arteta took over, there has been very little dissent of frustration by the players. Even the greatest players must be surrounded by other great and supporting players in order to win trophies.ģ. So I think that part of what Arteta is trying to instill in the team is a sense of our club motto: Victoria Concordia Crescit. Also in today’s era, most athletes (not just soccer/football players) are in it for themselves first (and only). ![]() In an era where titles can be somewhat easily bought, a long and deep tradition of winning is a differentiator and something that deserves mention for any player who wears our club crest.Ģ. Only ManUre and ‘Pool are the only domestic clubs who can logically claim a longer, deeper, and winning tradition greater than ours. Here are a few random thoughts to support my thinking:ġ. ![]() I’m not trying to argue they are inherently “good,” but I think I understand the intent and purpose with what he’s doing around our facilities to instill a deeper, richer culture to build a stronger club. Personally, I take a different view to these off-field tactics that Arteta seems to be taking. ![]() I don’t have a subscription to The Athletic, so I’m basing my opinions largely on what has been shared in previous posts. I can't imagine Pep thinking there was any need to put slogans on a wall. I think where Pep/Klopp are very interesting is they brings key elements of an elite performance culture with him - so called performance leadership. When you look at the current Utd, there is essentially no core of old heads who have been part of an elite performance culture with the exception of De Gea (Pogba with France and Juve). When Moyes gutted the brains trust on the training side, SAF and Gill left and the transition to a new generation was left too late, the intellectual property of "how to win" was gone. There were so many leaders in the team, you don't have to go around shouting the whole time - it is them you learn from. It's an area that fascinates me because this is the stuff Ole was trying to create at Utd by rediscovering the traditions of the Ser Fergus era.īut to me that stuff can be quite two dimensional if done wrong.Į.g with the All Blacks (which i find similar to the Roy Keane/Fergus era of Utd) there were huge expectations, traditions, and standards that come with the jersey, or to be part of the management team.īut that "DNA" stuff tends to be passed from player to player - so Keane himself talked about how there were big misconceptions about how he and SAF operated. ![]()
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