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Football has moved on - physicality, stamina and transitions are you rightly say regularly are as key as possession. Rather than the 3Ps, a lot of our football is plodding, pedestrian and passive as we struggle especially with the team pressing us in the middle of the pitch. The likes of Winks and Thomas have technical ability but lack physique so can get bullied. Get more direct, work on set pieces and sort the players' stamina, we should not get bullied.

Meant to post this here. Get him in! https://www.fifatrainingcentre.com/en/environment/interviews/coaching-perspectives/esteban-cambiasso-on-tactical-awareness-communication-and-coaching.php Look at so many of the top managers right now - Guardiola, Arteta, Xabi Alonso, Cesc - were all deep-lying playmakers.

Get him in! https://www.fifatrainingcentre.com/en/environment/interviews/coaching-perspectives/esteban-cambiasso-on-tactical-awareness-communication-and-coaching.php Look at so many of the top managers right now - Guardiola, Arteta, Xabi Alonso, Cesc - were all deep-lying playmakers.

The players aren’t listening to him, the task looks too big for him. He needs to go.

Hopefully it also means 3-5-2 as neither Thomas or Kristensen are at the level, so takes out the LB issue. Aluko could be great but would he last a full 90 minutes? If not, we'd then need to change the shape of the team mid-way through the game. That's why it's important he gets some exposure from the bench so can start easing into the 1st team.

Some messages on Leicester fan channels that he's in line to start tomorrow.

He only stayed on initially as he'd been assured they would change things. But get your scepticism.

Sounds like Chelsea would have also gone for Kompany as they were very impressed with him, but Rangnick changed his mind on the Bayern job, Kompany went to Bayern and Enzo to Chelsea. One of those domino effects! Enzo would likely have transformed the club.

And Wolves set to go back to O'Neil, likely they'll be a Championship club as well.

We need someone who can organise a defence, we haven't had anyone that could do that for some years. We look so vulnerable on transition, so someone who prefers an high press, aggressive, physical counter-attacking style is also key - we severely lack athleticism.

Shame he didn’t resign that season. If he had left earlier in the season, we’d have stayed up. Reading this brings back bad memories, fair play to Celtic on revealing the truth: https://www.celticfc.com/news/2025/october/27/statement-from-dermot-desmond-to-celtic-supporters/ Makes you think that maybe the club were honest with Brendan and he knew earlier he wouldn’t get the reset he wanted?

I like it except we lack a ball-winner in midfield - teams outmuscle us and you can see it's not Winks' game to compete that way by the penalty he gave away. We struggle when teams press up high on our midfield, effectively taking Winks again out of the game. We really miss Ndidi, and you can see why playing Soumare makes sense in theory but in practice, he's too lazy. Skipp would be the alternative but his confidence is very low leaving Hamza .

Independent said he applied for the role as well.

Eh? I said he needs to go if he doesn’t get rid of Rudkin and bring an external DoF in. The buck stops with Top/Aiyawatt.

Watching the PL highlights shows how important set pieces have become. Villa, Spurs and Arsenal all claimed victories through them, as did Brentford who are the masters other than Arsenal. Yet we’ve got people in charge that still see football in terms of five years ago, let alone one. We so need a progressive DoF. The thing about Marti was he was meant to be good at organising set pieces, read he had a good record at QPR.

Top reportedly insisted on this playing style having seen it work under Enzo. But football has moved on, physicality, pace and transitions are now key. Shows how a lack of an external director of football is costing us, Top needs someone to push him and get rid of the yes man that is Rudklin, or he needs to go.

This is spot on, exactly the weaknesses we showed today. Ndidi is a huge miss as you say, football has moved more towards physicality and athleticism and that doesn't suit many of our players - Winks is being nullified as a result. It explains why he put Soumare in but his laziness is a big problem. Either go 3-5-2 or bring Hamza into the middle of the park to give us some bite as he's happy to take on physical duels. We need to go back to the tactics earlier in the season and be more defensive, hitting sides on the counter as we just don't have the right profiles to play a high line as we keep getting hurt on the transition.

Fair play, agree it was one of the worst performances i've seen. What a trajectory, he's gone from marshalling Salah brilliantly to having an incredibly poor performance against a young winger in the Championship. The modern game requires physicality and his lack of attention to building his stamina and strength is a liability.

That 2nd half was awful. You'd have thought the penalty save would inspire the team, but Millwall got better. 1st half was close but they looked dangerous every time Azeez went up against Thomas. And then they got the goal from that contest. Only Stolarcyzk and Vestergaard get any credit from that 'performance', it was dreadful. The difference in effort and physicality was clear to see, too many primadonnas in our team who don't like it up them.

What I don’t get about Thomas is the weaknesses have been there for so long but he hasn’t worked on them. So physically weak.

If Azeez vs Thomas was a boxing match, it the ref would have called a stoppage already. His confidence is shot.

Get Thomas off right now! We’ve got a lifeline we can’t waste.

That was coming from Azeez, he’s dominated Thomas this half who has been the weak link. Their attacks are coming down our left - their best attacker vs. our worst defender and that’s the result.

Looks like Okoli is starting ahead of him! 🙂

In the post-match comments, Marti talked about too many players not doing the basics - the likes of Soumare and Faes simply don’t consistently enough. They may have more ability than other players but they’re not consistent enough and lack the attitude to do the basics. Too many cavaliers, not enough roundheads. His style of football requires energy for the press yet he plays lazy, lethargic players. It doesn’t make sense, but based on his comments post-match, maybe he’s realised? Let’s hope so.