What do you think Claudio did wrong?

[fuchsntf]

11 minutes ago, JamesWelshFox said:

A lot of ideas here and probably all valid to a greater or lesser extent.

 

For me his mistake was surprisingly simple. He tried to introduce tactics to a group of players not capable of being able to put them into practice. Hence, as soon as we have reverted to the simple plan of last season, where we chase everything until we drop, the players suddenly know what to do, and what is expected of them, and form picks up. The endless chasing is what this group is not just good at, but is exceptional at and is not something you can then change overnight. If you want to change the ethos of a club you start at the bottom and have to be prepared to wait for your youngsters to come through the club so that your playing style and ethos changes with them. Sadly football being results driven doesn't often afford a manager the time to do that and so they try and rush it, with the inevitable failure as a result.

 

Answer if it ain't broke don't try and fix it.

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[murphy]

I think that first of all you can say what he did right in the first place was to come in and change very little, keep the staff and keep the great escape momentum going.

 

Unfortunately he seems to have done the opposite in year two.  High profile staff leaving, terrible pre season, negative tactics and publicly prioritising the Champions League and basically saying that the Prem would take care of itself was breathtaking complacency.

 

Failure to address the teams glaring weaknesses and dreadful recruitment have also taken there toll.  

 

Finally he lost the players and that was that.

 

 

[ZeGuy]

10 hours ago, Tuna said:

What baffles me is why did he change everything that was evidently so successful last season? Why 'tinker' constantly and overwhelm the players with instructions and keep changing the lineups?

 

Drinky and Vardy have already said that Shakes has kept things simple, and the players have thrived on it. Look at how quickly it has turned around since Shakes took over...days. Days!

 

Why couldn't Claudio see what wasn't working and why did he just continue and not change it? As I've said, it turned around within 4 days of sacking him.

 

Just shows why he had to go. Couldn't see what was going wrong or if he did, was too stubborn to change it.

Already in the second half of the last season, teams figured us out began to sit deep and lead to those 1-0 victories. The momentum and the players on fire helped to win those games but it was evident that we were sussed out.

 

Moreover with the loss of Kanté he didn't believe that we were able to play last like year and high pressing would be suicide by leaving the defense too exposed. That's why he deliberately made the team sit deep and tried to transform it to a possession based one.

 

Problem is that we don't have players able to do that (bar Mahrez, Vardy, Gray and Drinkwater, Fuchs to a certain extent) and we ended with a team that could neither defend nor attack.