Not much, he’ll still be shielding the back 2, 3, 4 or 5 (hopefully not 8) and breaking up play. It’s what he does pretty well. Someone needs to do it.
It's quite exciting not knowing and being able to speculate isn't it ? We kind of knew what we'd get with CH (maybe he was a bit less 'Dullard' than some predicted, at least for a while), but this is more like anticipating the Sami era...............hopefully the outcome will be different :eek:
Genuinely hope so (and agree re quickest feet etc), but he must have had nigh-on 20 years of coaching already, including maybe 8-10 as a professional, so I'm just not overly optimistic. He hasn't changed in his time with us to any great extent. If Potter can deal with the emotional/mental side...
Going to be fascinating. I'm in the Stat camp (I think) re AK, in that we've seen far more of him at/near his maximum potential than the others - at 27, you'd really think that he'd learned not to try to beat the same man 3 times, turn towards his own goal when defending under pressure and stop...
Think both will feature quite significantly, with Glenn perhaps making some contributions from the bench. I'm thinking (hoping) a lot of Andone's obvious anger last season was due to tactics, support up top/formation not suiting his game at all and being second choice behind a 34 year old. Lots...