Tactical cycles
I see styles rise and exhaust themselves in response to one another: gegenpressing reached its natural end once everyone absorbed it, and now the Pep paradigm is giving way to an era nobody has defined yet.
The posts
- Opinion End of Pep paradigm and recruitment at top clubs With the tactical era that shaped two decades now fading, sporting heads and managers are far less certain about which direction to build their squads in.
- Opinion Death of gegenpressing Klopp's exit closes the era of gegenpressing as a system in itself, and United under Ten Hag have once again arrived at the tail end of a tactical cycle.