Jon Mackenzie
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7,567 appearances
22 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Sep
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And you know, the the way that De Zerby wants to play is more complex than than a lot of coaches are playing in the Premier League right now.
And there's an argument to be made that actually complexity is much less functional than it once was.
Used to be the case that if you had a complex system that could sustainably um and and consistently arrive in the final third and generate chances, then you were you're probably gonna be in the Champions League conversation.
You were king.
Yeah.
Whether or not that's true.
is up for debate right now because I think there's a lot of teams now who are, you know, playing quite simple approaches where you don't need to spend ages getting the ball from one end of the pitch to the other.
There's a lot of people.
You can be direct.
You can just sit in in blocks and absorb pressure.
Um Oliver Glasner's been doing it, he did it again against Villa at the at the weekend, um, where for most of that game, especially in the first half, they, you know, they didn't really seem to be doing a huge amount of football in terms of the um in in in possession
Mm.
side of things.
So the b the g big question is like where is the needle swung to for me?
Right.
Run.
It's still going to be a functional way of playing football, I think, but he's going to have to find solutions to what he what his in instinct is to do.
Um and he's also going to have to deal with the fact that teams are much, much better at stopping him from doing the things he wants to do anyway.
Yeah, and it's it's a big narrative of the chapter on Deserbi in my book, right, which is Oh here he goes.
Which is always
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