Pick up any modern football book that’s in a bookstore or one that pops up when you google best books on football — it could be an autobiography, something on data analytics or tactics — and you’re likely to find the author eulogizing about Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona side at some point. There’s the odd one that detests the reverence but for the most part, people seemed to like that team. If they didn’t like them, they at least admired them.
It’d be really interesting if Guardiola fielded that 4-2-3-1 featuring their new signings. I think Cucurella and Phillips could be - as you say - “just making up the numbers”, but it’s a possibility.
As a Liverpool supporter it really seems to me that we are looking to move to a 4-2-3-1 as well, with the out-and-out pure striker in Darwin. Pep and Klopp have mirrored each other at times in tactical innovation (playmaking fullbacks for sure).
I think both may be looking to play more directly in Premier League games and try to get ahead earlier to conserve energy later in games when they have control.
Why I'd like to see Marc Cucurella at Manchester City
It’d be really interesting if Guardiola fielded that 4-2-3-1 featuring their new signings. I think Cucurella and Phillips could be - as you say - “just making up the numbers”, but it’s a possibility.
As a Liverpool supporter it really seems to me that we are looking to move to a 4-2-3-1 as well, with the out-and-out pure striker in Darwin. Pep and Klopp have mirrored each other at times in tactical innovation (playmaking fullbacks for sure).
I think both may be looking to play more directly in Premier League games and try to get ahead earlier to conserve energy later in games when they have control.