bigblue wrote:Tokyo Blue wrote:Nigels Tackle wrote:Wonderwall wrote:Yes me too. Mr Ranieri plays his players in their best position and keeps it simple. Amazing isn't it.
the tinker man hasn't tinkered
He might when he has had money to spend next season.
It will be quite interesting to see how they develop over the next twelve months actually. Many of his major players are in their thirties and will need replacing at some point.
They also have had the least amount of injuries and no European competition to worry about. All the stars aligned to make an extraordinary season for them.
Unless you have a solid 25 man squad, there'll be a big hangover from winning the league. Big question will be how much does their owner invest now. Leicester shirts must be selling like hot cakes at the moment and the owner was never poor to begin with. Even if they do invest, a bundle of transfers at the same time is very difficult to get right
I'm guessing they finish top half but outside of Europe next year. Not a bold prediction, I know
i'm guessing they'll be closer to relegation. They'll lose their two best players for sure in Kante and Mahrez. And then they are fucked. End of story. This isn't a movie we've never seen before.
Anyway, back to the point about Pep and ball-playing defenders...it's not a "complexity" imho, but a style of play that dictates how you have to be and where you have to be when you have the ball and what you do to win it when you get it. If you're playing like Leicester then a ball-playing CB would be a massively fucked up luxury which would be like a marzipan dildo for a side playing tight at the back and looking to break.
Pep isn't going to stand for hoofing the ball around like i've seen us do way way too much this season, and i frankly cannot fucking wait.
Call these "in vogue" defenders anything you want, but Pep wants people who can play football and not just a massive clogger to win some aerial duels. You've got to have more than that.
cheers