There are two types of coaches, the team coach and the goalkeeping coach, there is no such thing as a defensive or attacking coach, they all do both. Some will be more attack minded as in Brendan, some will be defense minded as in Mourinho, it all depends on their style of play but there aren't seperate badges when you're qualifying.
Of course we all want our defense to be better, we need them to be better if we want to achieve anything but expecting Brendan to change how he plays is never going to happen. He will always spend 80-90% of training time on the attacking side of the game and as he only has a couple of days between matches to work with the players we will continue to struggle unless the players themselves start to take more responsibility on the pitch.
Individually they aren't bad players, our 3 main CB's are all internationals, the problem for me is that Lovren and Sakho are front foot players who like to attack the ball high up the pitch, whereas Skrtel naturally drops deep and our keeper stays glued to his line.
What Brendan needs to do is decide which way he wants to play, high line or sit deep and get the players who fit. Personally I think he wants to play a high line hence buying Sakho and Lovren and now also Moreno, we've got Ilori and Wisdom for the RCB position when they're ready and Flanno and Manquillo when Glen leaves so we just need a different keeper.
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