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Cooper doesn't like skilful players obviously. Someone who can beat a man with guile not speed. Yan Dhanda is small I agree, but he can beat a man and has the skill to send the ball forward. First half today was wasted by taking the easy way out by playing the ball back all the time. No-one with the skill to turn and play it forward. I'm struggling to think of two skilful players out there today. I'll give Ayew the benefit of the doubt, and maybe Gallagher, who seems to have had the skill coached out of him and he too has started playing backward football.
Cooper has an inferiority complex when dealing with talented players. He’s been infected with the England “can’t beat an average trier” mindset. Graham Taylor must have been his mentor
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Celina is much better when he has an intelligent runner to thread through. I’m not sure he’s got that in this side, Having said that, there’s no way he doesn’t make a squad of 20 with Dyer, Routledge, Garrick and Dhanda on the bench. We could have done with him when we were well on top but couldn’t break them down.
Potter managed fine with him. I think he was class for Ipswich too, so that would have been with Mccarthy. So two more experienced managers who know how to get the best out of players and get teams punching above their weight. Cooper's used to dealing with the best in their age group, so this year's probably a massive learning curve for him.
Coopers system doesn’t really suit him. Shoehorning him out wide is never going to get the best out of him and he doesn’t have the tenacity to be in a 3 man midfield. Worked better for Potter as McBurnie was back battling in midfield a lot of the time and teams were scared to leave James one on one so there was more space.
He needs to be in the squad at the very least though. I’m hoping nothing has happened behind the scenes and he’s back on Tuesday
Yep. As it happens we play the same way every game, home or away, regardless of who we are playing. I doubt Bielsa will bother hiding anyone in a bush when we play Leeds.
Same system, same style of play, broadly the same substitutions.
The sheer lack of imagination and innovation about him is something to behold.
Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.
Cooper's response re Celina said it all (7:04 onwards on link). Initially not making eye contact with the camera, then talking about commitment, focus, consistency (finishing not just starting a game etc.).
There's obviously something happened and both are to blame imo - Cooper not having the man management skills (is he really to blame though if he doesn't possess the qualities?), and Celina should knuckle down, fight for and retain his place - e.g. even when he tries to win a game all by himself, Ayew's commitment on the pitch is undoubted. Celina needs to learn to manage the manager.
Sterling and Mahrez don’t play very wide for them. They’re always very inverted with the full backs offering width outside them. They essentially play with five up front a lot of the time, it’s ridiculous.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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