I cant think of one team that has won the league in recent years being direct.
Manchester United - even in the days of Yorke and Cole were playing football and putting crosses in for them. Giggs was making mazy runs, Neville making overlaps and Scholes playing well crafted balls through the middle. Then Ronaldo and Valencia ran the wings with both powerful explosive runs and so forth.
Arsenal - they basically walked it in and counter attacked teams to oblivion with Pires and Ljungberg. The most direct they ever went really was passing it into Bergkamp to play off. In fact, I'd say since going more direct with strikers like Giroud they've been emphatically worse as a team whereas when they had Henry, who'd turn and go at the opposition and link up better, they scared teams to death.
Man City - they played football with possession being the main point - they controlled in the middle of the park and then released players with the right pass when the time was right. It was often boring but allowed players like Toure to dictate the flow of the game and keep control of it. This has been proven time and time again, because when Toure cannot dictate the flow of the game and Man City lose their midfield control and dictation, they fall to pieces, as they did to us this season.
Chelsea - perhaps more direct than the others but still not that direct. Drogba did well at holding it up and feeding others into play. The alternative for them was Drogba falling over like he'd been shot multiple times and surrounding the referee until he gave them a decision. However, they still played some good counter attacking football at times, much like Leicester are doing now.
Personally, even though he's bagged us winners this season, I still think Benteke was a major screw up of a signing by Rodgers, but hopefully he can adapt. Rodgers was a domestic level manager at best, we hoped could keep rising in the game, and elevate us at the same time. It didn't work out yet people kept wanting his mediocrity to turn into something more. It only ever did when we went on incredible runs of form and to expect that week in, week out is insane. We need enough quality to be able to play sh*t and still come away with the points.
Benteke was proven domestically but to replace someone like Suarez you need someone proven on world level, and for a manager like Rodgers, its no easy task to replace him. With all due respect, no world class player is going to come and play for Rodgers. You need a well respected manager in the world to bring in these top players and make them believe. Even if you are average now you make these players buy into your vision. Klopp will be able to do that. The media furore over him is no hype job, its because he's respected for his achievements, most notably at Dortmund, and that is infectious.
I hope Benteke works out, and if it does, it'll be more to do with Klopp's nurturing and mentoring of him, and Benteke's ability to adapt to Klopp's way, than anything else. Under Rodgers, Benteke looked completely lost. He was not a player that fitted Rodgers system and Rodgers just simply didn't have the answers. He should have signed Tevez or went all out for a hungry striker who chased down and caused problems. Instead he replaced a bloodthirsty pitbull with an elegant labrador. It just didn't make sense. Klopp either needs to get Benteke to adapt or he needs to replace him, but he shouldn't waste too much time on him or it'll be his undoing.
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