The problem with Roberto De Zerbi's football

This is taken from The Spectre of Pep: How Guardiola Haunts Modern Football by Jon Mackenzie. This was adapted for video, so is much shorter than the original, which contains far more detail and is worth reading! Buy the book here: http://geni.us/TheSpectreOfPep The football that Roberto De Zerbi likes to implement at his clubs has a lot of similarities with the football Pep Guardiola likes to implement. The problem with trying to imitate Guardiola’s style is that you need an incredibly high level of technical and physical players in your squad in order to play this way. So coaches started to