Fair enough...but as with everyone else it's impossible to know what anyone means unless they say it. As for "Changing football" ...apart from the staggering finances underpinning some clubs, and of course the introduction of VAR....I can't see where football has changed at all....apart from perhaps the implementation of the high press?
The only thing I would take from "Changing Football" is the interchangeability of players.
Breaking the framework of what each role is dictated to be.
Just as examples:
Firmino - False 9 role
Trent - Wingback changing to an Inverted Wingback.
The inverted wingback is one most people associate with Guardiola.
A defender stepping into midfield and creating a box midfield also predominately linked with Guardiola.
Creating game intelligence within the players that they are comfortable changing from
4-3-3 to 3-4-3 in possession or 3-5-2 that becomes 5-4-1 without the ball.
All these things take incredible discipline and understanding from the players.
If we associate the False 9 with Klopp then at the end of this season he became more Guardiola like
in his use of Trent.
This is what I mean by changing the game.
You can't just ask any team or players to play the way that City and Liverpool do.
It helps to have the best players but also they must have the best coaches.
We see ex LFC and Barca man Rodolfo Borrell is part of City's backroom staff.
So anyway to get back to "Changing the game".
I see it as the introduction of fluid systems and structures that change depending on phases of play.
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