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Ricky P

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Iwebema

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Huge red flag for me. It's now out of spite from cooper.

I can make peace with the fact he wants a more atheltic full back to defend, but when we are chasing a game like we have every bloody week, it's a no brainer to get a more creative outlet on.

Doesn't sit right with me at all, wreaks of a weak manager out of his depth trying to stamp some miss guided authority on the squad. You see it happen alot with fraudulent managers.

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JimJams

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The worst thing about this is it's a tactical decision and it makes no sense. 

Cooper clearly likes the idea of one of the fullbacks to push up the wing and help out in an attacking sense.

He's chosen to make that VK, despite the fact Ricardo is better than VK in all aspects, especially attacking.  And because he's decided to use VK, presumably because he wants his left winger to come further inside and thinks it's better for Mav/Reid/Ayew to do that than Fatawu, it means the RB has to become an RCB when the LB pushes up.  And so he's obviously decided that JJ is better at dropping in as a makeshift CB than Ricardo.

The other issue with this is that VK has been pretty poor playing high up the pitch, and only looked good (like the rest of the team) in the second halves vs Spurs and Villa. In both second halves Cooper made an adjustment and VK was playing further inside, not as far up, and only occasionally moving into that LWB role but more often sitting closer to the other mdifielders.  Which is similar to the inverted fullback moving in as a DM. Ricardos role last season.  So the high fullback system isn't really working and has been largely abandoned in the second half of games and we've looked better for it.

 

So the other problem is that Cooper is setting up ultra defensive.  We're starting games with 3 DMs.  So if you want that extra assurance in the midfield then surely having Ricardo playing the role he did last season as in inverted RB that drops in alongside Winks makes a ton of sense.  It gives us that DM Cooper craves and hell we could still effectively have 3 DM's with Winks, Skipp and Riccy P dropping in and thus allowing us to add a creative player in the mix.  You could even drop Winks and have 2 attacking players!

 

Cooper seems to be handicapping us by not using him because in his mind his tactical plan is best suited to the other options. But the evidence proves it's not.  The things Cooper wants to achieve, whether it's having a high fullback to help in the attack or a more solid group in the middle of the park BOTH can be achieved with Ricardo better than the alternatives.  But he can't see it.

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FoxTimmy2

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10 minutes ago, JimJams said:

Cooper seems to be handicapping us by not using him because in his mind his tactical plan is best suited to the other options. But the evidence proves it's not.  The things Cooper wants to achieve, whether it's having a high fullback to help in the attack or a more solid group in the middle of the park BOTH can be achieved with Ricardo better than the alternatives.  But he can't see it.

And which knobhead does that remind you of?

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Realist Guy In The Room

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After Maresca having such a stringent system of play, it was always going to be difficult for a manager to come in.

 

However.  Even taking that into account, I cannot see what his game plan is.  On the ball there never seems to be any more than one viable passing option and off the ball, the press is completely disjointed if at all existent.

 

Ricardo would provide a solution to all of this through his general play, game knowledge and leadership qualities all of which we saw in abundance last year.

 

On the evidence of pre-season and the first three games, i’d be amazed if Cooper is still here come the end of the season.

 

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JimJams

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2 minutes ago, Realist Guy In The Room said:

After Maresca having such a stringent system of play, it was always going to be difficult for a manager to come in.

To an extent, but I've said before that he's come into a team playing a system that worked and got the best out of it's best players. There was no need for fundamental changes to the system.  Coopers preferred method of a high fullback could possibly have been the mercurial "Plan B" that so many seem to desire.  Unfortunately the manager has chosen to dismiss what worked last season in favour of his preferred system, which is his right of course. But when his preferred system isn't getting the best out of our best players, as it currently isn't, then he needs to change his methodology.

Questions also need to be asked about why you'd appoint a manager whose philosophy doesn't marry up with the players at his disposal.  If he's not willing to adapt it anyway.  Which he may. 

 

When you come in to a club 9 times out of 10 you're replacing a sacked manager.  Making changes to the play style is generally a necessity.  But with us, that's not the case.  He's choosing to play this way when there is a ready made alternative that this squad of players have shown they are capable of playing to a good standard.  Now he might not think they can play it at Premier League standard, but if you're then changing that to something different that's not achieving any better results, was it worth changing?

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He’s our best player. I’d argue it’s not even close. On form he’s the best footballer at the club by some margin. On top of that he’s always been a model pro and seems like a genuinely good guy. I actually feel sorry for him. Not playing him is insane. 

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Just now, em9999 said:

All an is saying is give cooper a chance he's a football manager 

 

Not a magician 

All we expect is for him to be a football manager. Preferably one capable of keeping us in the premier league 

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