15-06-2021, 03:16 PM
(15-06-2021, 03:04 PM)Sausage Roll Wrote:(15-06-2021, 02:48 PM)GaribaldiRED Wrote:(15-06-2021, 02:30 PM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: This bit stood out, if appointed he will hopefully be given the freedom to do his job.
“It remains to be seen if Vrentzos will continue to hold any influence at Forest, but the plan now is to offer Murphy, regarded in the football industry as a skilled negotiator with an astute football brain, the freedom to stamp his own vision at the City Ground and try to repeat the success he had in Yorkshire.”
For me as well. If Murphy is given the freedom to stamp his vision at Forest and if that vision is the same as at Barnsley then I believe we would have a potential issue. The overall football vision at Barnsley is to play with high intensity and high press - a playing style often called gegenpress. If Forest are to adopt to this playing style then where does that leave CH?
Would the CEO influence the style of football though? I took the 'stamp his vision' bit to relate more to recruitment rather than style of football. If he oversees a vision that's about recruiting smartly and frugally that should be able to fit into any style of play - it's finding the players that fit both criteria.
See your point SR and you might be right. I just got the impression after reading and watching some interviews with Murphy that it all fits perfectly together at Barnsley. The have decided on an overall playing style and recruit players, staff and managers based on that. They want to play with gegenpress and have as a consequence only recruited managers from Germany and Austria. They will not hire a manager that doesn't play with gegenpress. At Forest maybe they decide to go with a different playing style but if we are to follow the "Barnsley vision" then every player, staff or manager hired must fit with that playing style.