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He's now being credited of something that has been started by, yes, Rafa Benitez. Frankly absurd if you ask me. Nonetheless, it's something that has happened in Holland and Spain for over 15 years (Cruijff advocated this) and now the British are starting to cotton onto things.

I think the guy is probably an ok manager but he's getting away with murder. If any other manager had gotten the LFC job they'd be under siege with the record they have.

From here I am sure if I can be arsed to read all reports that half of them will mention a remarkable comeback in the second half, instigated by his inspired half time talk.

Whereas a lot of reports saying he was tactically naive and made the change in the game/formation too late

Everyone is expecting a change in style and as such it's going to be a hit and miss season and expectataions are as such lowered (just get peaked a bit with a good result/performance)

wrt to the youth setup, yes Rafa set things in motion but I don't know the style of play that was chosen there.

For me he's a young and promising manager who is probably too idealistic but experience should tempter that. Most importantly he gets time, he get the fans and coming out to see the fans yesterday when they were shut in for ages after the match was a really nice touch