Oliver Glasner - Welcome To Nottingham Forest

[Jimmygordon]

Glasner claimed he doesnt always play 5 at the back. Then plays 5 at the back.

I hate 3 at the back and it has never worked at Forest. Jerkan anyone? Its boring to watch. Lets face it. He is boring too

I can see what's going to happen. Sacked by Feb and Nuno comes back and all is forgiven.

[Marinakis Red]

Nuno took a lot of time to grt a tune out of the squad, we were awful in a lot of games when he first came in, things take time and Oliver should be afforded it.

[BomberBowyer]

Oliver Glasner:

Favorite Formation:

"He openly calls 4-4-2 his favorite system, which he used successfully earlier in his career (such as during his promotion in Austria).

Player Suitability First:

Glasner stresses that the system itself is secondary. What truly matters are the player habits, patterns of behavior, and tactical clarity on the pitch.

Fluidity:

He has used many different formations throughout his career depending on the squad, including a 4-2-3-1 (reaching the Champions League with Wolfsburg) and a back-three/3-4-2-1 setup (at Eintracht Frankfurt and Crystal Palace").

I suppose the issue is he has decided on a style he thinks will work best and trying to implement that. It will take time to bed in.  In the meantime it’s ok people asking him to be fluid and change in match because the style he’a trying to build isn’t working but say he does that, wouldn’t that cause more issues/confusion for the players asking them to swap and change? Maybe he’s trying to get the players settled in this style first and will then work on ingame management and options to switch up/around if needed.

[Username]

Find it weird that OG is bemoaning fitness given that they’ve pretty much had a full pre season under him and it was his choice to do the “teams play 45 minutes” approach

[JWJW]

Find it weird that OG is bemoaning fitness given that they’ve pretty much had a full pre season under him and it was his choice to do the “teams play 45 minutes” approach

He said in one interview to the effect that some players came back from summer holidays in "not very good" conditiion.

After 10 games we will see where we are, dont judge anything until then.

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

Find it weird that OG is bemoaning fitness given that they’ve pretty much had a full pre season under him and it was his choice to do the “teams play 45 minutes” approach

Pretty sure he was referring to 2 or 3 individuals who are coming back from injuries and not the squad as a whole.

[BomberBowyer]

Find it weird that OG is bemoaning fitness given that they’ve pretty much had a full pre season under him and it was his choice to do the “teams play 45 minutes” approach

A fair point but for me it’s key players like Murillo, Wood, CHO who haven’t had a full season and still coming back from injury as well as Diomande who hasn’t had a full preseason and so having to be managed/eased back that is perhaps the concern. It means we are having to play some out of position which doesn’t help.

Once all up to speed and with Delap and hopefully a couple of other new additions I think we will look much better.  Something like
                        
                          Sels
  
RWB Diomande Milenkovic Murillo Williams

                 Sangare   CM

              Jesus              MGW

                          Delap

With New GK, Aina, Netz, Cunha, Morato, Schlager, Yates, McAtee, Dominguez, Ndoye, Hutchinson, Kalimuendo, CHO and Wood/New ST to cover.