“For me, he confirmed me learn how to enhance my model of play and what he additionally did within the final years in Amsterdam is he confirmed he may also help skills to develop however he additionally confirmed that he can enhance the skilled gamers like Daley Blind, Dusan Tadic, Davy Klaassen proper now. They play large roles they usually have improved below his teaching. That’s considered one of his skills. He isn’t solely a coach who improves the younger gamers. He’s additionally improved the skilled gamers and improves the group and improves the membership. That’s actually good and now I hope and yearn, in my coronary heart, that he can enhance Manchester United. It can take time to enhance every part and to develop the membership in the fitting route however he’s so clear in every part, in his philosophy, within the particulars, so I believe he may very well be the fitting selection.”
You’ve first-hand information of his teaching classes so what’s he like on the coaching pitch – is he very progressive?
“Yeah, he’s a grasp in coaching classes. I bear in mind we had lengthy coaching classes within the second group and, within the membership, there have been some rumours about lengthy coaching classes within the Below-23s. After a couple of weeks, we recognised why we had been doing lengthy coaching classes. He needed us to be excellent and would cease the coaching session if it doesn’t work and if it was not excellent in any respect. And, infrequently, the coaching classes weren’t that lengthy anymore as a result of we had been higher. We had been improved and, in rondos, in urgent conditions, we had been higher and higher so the time was shorter on the pitch. However, yeah, he was, for me, the primary coach after I felt like a coaching session made sense. Earlier than, coaching classes had been okay – this half, this half after which that half. He was the primary coach, for me, from the warm-up to the final match on the pitch it was like okay, one seam and we’re engaged on that till it’s excellent. That’s an enormous a part of my coaching philosophy as effectively, additionally with the schooling and the UEFA pro-licence I did final season, that’s an enormous half – to have one seam and work in that seam till it’s excellent. Don’t cease till it’s excellent. He’s that man who doesn’t cease till it’s excellent.”
Pep Guardiola was at Bayern Munich on the time so was there an expectation for the Below-23s to play in an identical solution to the primary group?
“It was fairly the identical philosophy however totally different gamers and a distinct degree of gamers, for certain. Nevertheless it was that each like 4-3-3 with ball possessions, each like counter urgent and that’s the primary view, with the ball. That they had quite a lot of talks and Pep was watching Erik’s coaching and Erik was watching each coaching he might with Pep. We had fairly a couple of coaching classes actually the identical on the pitches subsequent to one another. It was humorous after we had the passing drills. The primary group did a passing drill and used one ball for 10 minutes however we used a sack of balls, 10 balls, for a similar drill and the balls had been going there and there. Erik was like, I need my group to play the identical passing drill as the primary group, with perfection, so we educated and educated. In the long run, we used two or three balls, not one ball like the primary group, however we improved. He was like okay, I wish to be taught and he discovered lots from Pep. He had his personal model, the Dutch philosophy and, at Bayern at the moment, it was fairly related. Then it modified a bit when he went to Utrecht and was taking part in one other formation, a diamond in a 4-4-2, then enhancing the model of play in Amsterdam. He began in a 4-3-3 however was going to 2 no.6s and quite a lot of three gamers within the no.10, transferring lots in these areas. He’s enhancing his recreation however there are quite a lot of the identical stuff you see in Pep’s group however you additionally see quite a lot of kinds of different coaches and different membership’s philosophy in it. What I believe is he’s placing the fitting formation and the fitting philosophy on the gamers who he has to work with.”
So he’ll adapt to the squad he has to get the perfect out of them?
“Yeah, that’s considered one of his favorite [things], I believe.”
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