That is the extreme claim: take it or leave it, no compromise. Either my way all the way, without any room for adaptation, or nothing.
Oh, and yes - somewhere down the line there's the promise my system will yield something really nice. I'd compete with the big ones.
Haven't we heard this tune somewhere? like 15 years of it?
I said from the start - maybe if we decide the season is a write-off, in the hope we can make our first team a one season Unai-demy and next season the graduates will compete with city and Barca - there's some sense to it. It's not impossible, nor ridiculous.
I just don't buy it.
I don't buy (almost) any system or coach that doesn't compromise, that has just long term goals and no real life adaptation, that treats all opposition the same - we'd have to be really special for that.
Instead I'd like to see this implemented in a more sensible way: our first team needs to compete. Always. Now it's not like I'm expecting them to win the league, but not even trying for top 4 seems defeatist to me.
Most important, as I've already claimed - start by playing your best players, take risks in a measured way, don't exclude "grinding a result" (any system which does is an illusion anyway), and no shame in implementing things in steps (eg. - Cech doesn't need to impose suicide positions on the team as a necessary step for the full "playing out from the back" way).
But yeah, I accept you could see it as an all or nothing method. As I said - I don't think like that.
