Read quite an interesting post on LFW from a guy whose name I’ve forgotten but he writes well predicting we’ll try and do all the progressive ball out from the back, through the lines stuff as it’s the club model to try and play this way and essentially replicate how bigger clubs play so they see value in our players. Maybe JS achieves this where MC couldn’t. Logically you’d think not but it’s the ‘ethos’ he’s signed up for.
Cifuentes fairly quickly realised it’s a better team when it sticks to the basics, earns the right to play, nothing silly and any other Championship cliche. Maybe the likes of Poku and Mbengue change that (both seem real coups). Maybe we keep Varane who continues to improve, Chair flourishes in a new role, Larkeche is less **** than our glaring weakness at left-back appears to be, someone up front scores now and again, Mbengue and Morrison proves to be the partnership I think it can be etc.
For the little it’s worth from a friendly, with better players at his disposal Leicester apparently played the way he preached here and did extremely well on Saturday v Fiorentina.
These first three games will tell us quite a lot IMO. Preston (like us) predicted to be a poor side, Watford always bedding in new players and then Cov who haven’t had a lot of upheaval and should be nearer the top than bottom. The fixtures look for now like it’ll be far harder in Oct/Nov than Aug/Sept so while I’ll be heart over head, my honest prediction is it starts a bit like but not quite as bad as last season, always being crap against the crap and quite good against the slightly better.
