Marti Cifuentes has been appointed Leicester manager. He is very much a pupil of the Johan Cruyff school. You don’t need to worry about his fascination playing stylish attacking football.
We have all seen how Enzoball has turned out at Chelsea. Football is about players and a style suited to that evironment. Introducing a style without the correct tools or equipped environment can sometimes go totally wrong.
Football is about style and systems, but in the bottom of it all you need to have the correct tools. If not it can look very different in the end. Enzoball has turned out to be the world ‘s best football, just a season after it was introduced at Leicester.
Will be interesting to see how Marti Cifuentes will set up his squad as he has to get the balance in the best way possible. He had one summer transfer window at QPR, not one to brag much about. His two January transfer windows were relatively quiet. In his last January transfer window he added two loan signings. One made a significant difference, Ronnie Edwards from Southampton.
Last summer we suggested Marti Cifuentes as an alternative to take over from Enzo Maresca. Based on his first season at Lofthus Road, he was surely one to look at. Would have loved to see what he could have done in Premier League. This time it is a very different ball game, pushing for promotion.
Marti Cifuentes was in no way a first choice among Leicester fans, but he is an exciting one. The test for him is what he looks to do with his squad. How he builds it up is important. His skills in managing full international players with tonns of Premier League experience is a vital question.
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To benchmark this with other appointments at Leicester is difficult. With no special playing background to lean on, Sven Goran Eriksson and Brendan Rodgers, becomes the parallel. They are two managers at this football club, since it was Leicester Fosse, without a background from a certain level of playing.
So to have a modest background as a player is no hurdle in being successful as a football manager. Cifuentes is the first Spanish manager at the club. From watching his Sandefjord side in every match at home, he will set up a structure and stick with it. He will hopefully find the correct players to do the job for him.
Will be surpriced if not Hamza Choudhury will be a player in his team. He is actually someone we believe he will like. He is the best player to break down opponents. He likes a player like Bilal El Khannouss, and he would been the offensive player in his three men midfield. Leicester do not have a player at the club at the moment, to play in the box to box job. Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall was never replaced. Leicester do have Page, Joseph, or Golding. However, these players are not finished articles.
Will be interesting to see what this will be going forward. The squad is the most vital. Players fitting the pattern is what needs to be adressed. But in real Leicester have played this type of style over a long period of time. There will be certain minor changes in style. These changes include potentially playing players in different roles. Additionally, players might be pushed in and out of different positions.
Pressing, Possession and Positioning are three vital P’s in the life of Marti. But that is what it is for almost every manager. Football are based on two basics. If you don’t have the ball, try to get it. If you have it, try to use it in the best way possible, trying to score a goal. At this point, we will watch the upcoming games. We will determine if there is a special path or shape to follow. Alternatively, the principles might remain similar to those in possession-based football. Keep the ball at your feet. Play until you find a solution and a breakthrough.
His philosophy frequently involves overloading central areas to leave the opposition outnumbered. Orchestrating coordinated team movements, space is created on either flank to invite switches of play, launching quick attacks.
Some are critical to late arrivals and little time in pre-season. Marti Cifuentes is possibly the latest manager arrival ever, during a summer. He came in on the 16th of July. A reminder could be Claudio Ranieri arriving just three days earlier, on the 13th of July 2015.
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