Well he has been forced into this step 1 into a long phase of not being a moron.
- Play somebody that likes to actually pass forward and move in midfield.
Now there is still a long way to go:
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Realise that the young CB you got, highly rated across all of Europe, might be better than a guy who has been shit his entire time here.
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A RB that can defend is better than a RB that can’t defend.
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If you paid £60m, and are paying £300,000 pwk for a guy you consider your best player, you should tailor things more to get the best out of him.
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Buying old bums on free transfers is not a good long-term transfer strategy.
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If you want to keep a highly rated young striker who wants assurances of playing time, show him if he performs well he will play, and don’t keep playing badly performing players ahead of him.
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In general, players that are good at football win you more football games than players that are worse at football
I’ll feel better about him again if he can continue this learning process.
Until then this was just like one of those Office episodes where somehow Michael flukes a result out of nowhere (like when their big client happened to like chuck e cheese just as much as Michael iirc).