Jesus Christ it’s just dawned on me that we actually had a plan this time. Fingers crossed it the right one, but I’m quite excited by this appointment. Massive task with a demoralised squad but presumably Marti knows what he’s let himself in for.
Just want to say...wtf...was the smoke from the Vatican chimney teaser the offy put out just before the announcement
Apparently Warnock wanted longer than the rest of the season, but that's all hearsay. Here's a link to a podcast with Cifuentes where he discusses his methodology and his time at the Johan Cruyff Institute. Tredjemann - med Marius og Ruben: #5: Martí Cifuentes - Principles of counter-pressing on Apple Podcasts In the fifth episode of "tredjemann" we have Martí Cifuentes as our guest. We talk with Martí about his background from working in Spanish football, his methodology, his study and personal time with Johan Cruyff at the Johan Cruyff Institute and his time studying and working in the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and now in Danmark with Aalborg. He did an excellent job at Sandefjord here in Norway with at small team playing great football and competing way above their weight. Martí and his team implemented a positional style of play and we talked more about his philosophy and how he works on the training ground to achieve this style of play and results with it. - What is “ball tempo” and speed in football for him? - Where does he start in terms of counter-pressing in a team that plays positional play? - What kind of counter-pressing and what principles does he teach his players to be effective in this area? - How important is the rest defence and what are his principles regarding this? - How does the opponent pressing shape and defensive structure affect the way he set up his team’s offensive structure? - How does this look in the training ground – what kind of methodology and exercises does he implement and work with? - How does he set up his defensjve structure and guidelines regarding the different opposition? This and much more are themes in our long chat with Martí that we hope you will enjoy.
Genuinely stunned by this. Master stroke or yet another duff decision by those in charge. Time will tell.
All the best Marti. He has my support for the foreseeable. It actually seems the board may have thought about this one.
He was mentioned as being on the shortlist last time round. The board, in their wisdom, went for Ainsworth instead and Ferdinand resigned.
Would like to wish him good luck and also to enjoy the gardening leave he’ll be on from around April.
I expect we'll be signing a bunch of Swedes in January, let's hope they don't turn out to be turnips...
Imagine going from Ainsworth to that? He had me completely bedazzled after listening for ten minutes.
I fear we might have appointed the right man at the wrong time. He seems to be just the kind of coach we should gave got in when Beale buggered off, but his methods may take more time to bear fruit than we actually have available now. Hope I'm wrong. Good luck Marti.
Gobsmacked..... Who'd thunk it that the board might have a plan this time...... This might be just the thing we need to bring back the QPR way......
