Hmm. Adams was an immense defender, but football was completely different when he was in his prime.

We don't need anymore sentimental throwbacks to the past, we need young fresh coaches who understand the modern game.

I'd rather we brought bk Martin Keown. He is more in touch with defending in the era.

Helenio Herrera claimed that players are 'monuments of presumptuousness...they don't know how to teach what they naturally did with such grace'

I think this is more true in terms of teaching technique as opposed to something more intellectual like tactical positioning, but evidence still seems to suggest that this may be true in Adams' case; none of the teams he has managed have been renowned for having a strong defence.

We need Lauren in there.

Solid as a rock and knew how to wind players up.

Adams Keown etc played a variation of Zonal.
To be fair, there's nothing wrong with zonal marking. It works very well for a lot of teams.

Yeah Keown would make a lot more sense.
Adams was a truly great player but times have changed... And his brain appears to have melted!

"Helenio Herrera claimed that players are monuments of presumptuousness...they don't know how to teach what they naturally did with such grace"
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And that's part of what made Herrera such an observational superpower. I've long been of this particular wave of thinking and believe it's why quite a lot of the best coaches in the game - and in the world of sport full stop - had unremarkable playing careers as it is easier for them to understand why something may not come as naturally as it did for they.

I believe this theory is true in a fair few disciplines in life.

"And that's part of what made Herrera such an observational superpower. I've long been of this particular wave of thinking and believe it's why quite a lot of the best coaches in the game - and in the world of sport full stop - had unremarkable playing careers as it is easier for them to understand why something may not come as naturally as it did for they."

Exactly

We have Steve Bould already, who was a better defender than either Adams or Keown.

Hello??
We have Steve Bould and we still concede useless goals.

We have changed personnel yer we still concede useless goals;.
Whoever we bring in doesn't matter. We will still concede useless goals until the overall method is ammended

"We have changed personnel yer we still concede useless goals;.
Whoever we bring in doesn't matter. We will still concede useless goals until the overall method is ammended"
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As long as Wenger is manager the method will never be changed as the failing is with mentality and priority. There's no pride in the clean sheet at the club - or certainly not anywhere near as much pride as there is in adhering to a philosophy that has long since become an obsession.

Until a similar sense of pride is levelled with defending the goal then the mistakes, concentration lapses and general lasse faire attitude to the game's "darker arts" (and this will never happen under Wenger) then we can forget ever creating any kind of sustained solidity.