Unfortunately when the likes of Dembele and Rhodes go at the end of the season we're going to be stuck with that early season style, possibly for the whole of next season and that is really depressing
We need a good summer window, which is perfectly possible.
I'm not confident in NC being able to get us to play the football required.
That could be wrong, it could be the players, but for me we see lesser sides more capable of passing and being set up to pass effectively. He sets up and motivates the players.
They don't look a coherent unit or with any idea of what to do.
His last 3 jobs have failed, Villa he was heavily involved, those ex players with experienced number 2's are almost a co manager. Better players didn't respond to his and Gerrards tactics and he'll have been the one implementing them, doing the training etc. Look at them now.
QPR was a disaster and a mess anyway but he didn't solve it and they've actually begun to turn things round more recently.
Here he has a squad of players, many with championship experience, some great signings like Rhodes, Dembele who's at times too good for league 1, the most expensive forward maybe in the league...
We have a good capable squad, the home form shows us that, we can beat most sides in the division on our day, but fold like a deckchair away, not even having shots on target, incapable of being able to put a few passes together without hoofing aimlessly. Even at home at times we haven't looked to play the sort of football that'll be needed to get us up and to stay up. We wear teams down no doubt with high energy, but at times there could be a better brand of passing football that sets us up and gets us used to doing that away.