It seems to be a trend football is moving more and more towards in this country, and the FA have to take a large share of blame for the way even grass roots football is approached.
They have missed a crucial aspect imo and have taken "well drilled" into "automaton" territory.
We've seen previously how FA idea's can flourish and infect the whole game during the long ball period debacle in the 80's, where some suit worked out that the less passes you played and the quicker you got the ball forwards, the more goals you score.
It looked good to them on paper, and so it was put into practise, with results we all know too well.
As teams started getting back into Europe, it became more and more apparent that the long ball philosophy simply didn't work, so managers started to look for other systems, as did the FA.
We saw then throughout the first decade more and more "technocrat" managers like Rafa as monitoring equipment became more sophisticated, and players were micro managed or "micro coached".
Now this "technocrat" approach works well in one on one sessions, and combined with other coaching techniques, but the fact is that it is just another tool to be used.
Unfortunately, the FA (as usual) take something, look at it the wrong way and then F**k it up, which is what we now see with young players being told "when x happens, you must do y", but crucially with no instruction or coaching to allow freedom of expression, so we see the players on the pitch; "OK, x has happened, I'm supposed to do y, but that leaves me out of position because the opposition have changed what we expected, so what the F**k do I do now? I'll just do Y anyway because I won't get a bollocking for sticking rigidly to instructions".
In short, it's become a mess, a farce even, with kids being over coached, stifled and confused.
The really unfortunate part of this is that you now have 2 types of manager: the foreign managers who look around, think "what the F**k is this sh*t", and implement their own plans, and the career managers found in mostly lower leagues who stick to FA "guidelines" to qualify for development money and other extras. Of course there are a few British managers who buck the trend, and play the way they want to but curiously they are nearly always described as "mavericks" or some other nonsense.
I think what we saw with BR was a man who wanted to play a certain way (very much like Klopp) but was either ineffective at communicating what he wanted or being so involved in technical details that he literally micro managed players into confusion.
My own feeling is that it was the latter which was the problem.
So we come full circle to LFC players and the question of whether we have instinctive players.
Yes, we do, but it's going to take some time for them to realise (subconsciously) that the shackles have been loosened, and that's when we'll sort the wheat from the chaff: over coached players reliant on managers instructions (and don't forget we still need them as well), and "street footballers" like Coutinho who aren't necessarily better players but are quicker in the mind because they haven't had it coached out of them at a young age.
If I was Klopp, I'd be tempted to take young players who have played internationals (U16, U18 etc etc) to one side when they come back and stress to them that they should forget what the FA coaches have been telling them, and concentrate solely on what the club is telling them because in the long run it will make them better players in the physical and the mental sense.
For instance, it's clear to me that Ibe has flair, and lots of it, but he gets a bit stuck sometimes because he's done "x" but "y" hasn't happened so he needs a moment to think.
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