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I am new here sir, I have been observing your comments on nairaland.

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When footy clubs seek to buy Spanish gaffers they need to understand that the great Espana is split into two prominent, competing cultures, the Castilian and the Basque.

Moreso in football where these two horses have been led into battle by prominent generals, Vincente Del Bosque for Castillia and Johan Cruyff for the Basque country.

These icons have defined what Spanish soccer is today by their distinct, competing patterns of play that has affected a generation of gaffers today.

So distinct it is that your identity as a coach, your philosophy as a player is firmly bedded in one or the other. You are enamoured by one and totally repulsed by the other.

The expansive, tech heavy, total football of the Del Bosque game or the possession football, aka tiki-taka or the Cruyff game. Almost all Spanish gaffers subscribe to one or the other exclusively.

The few Spanish league games I watch you can observe that, teams either try to play like Barcelona or try to play like Real Madrid. And those who are unfortunate to switch coaches frequently find out the price of this discordance.

One season they are doing well the next season with a new gaffer they crash since the players they bought earlier find the adjustments hard to follow. Villarreal for instance is presently in this quagmire.

So if you sit in England and seek the football mastery of the Spanish gaffer, look at your team first as to whether they have the seeds, the elements of Basque football or Castillia in them.

If it is a hodge-podge of talents then know that it will take extreme patience, the kind Arsenal gave Arteta to rid his team of Madrid like players such as the Ozils of the world in favour of his kind, the kind that play like Barcelona or Man.City, tiki-taka, false 9, short passing midgets like Saka and Odegaard.

Chelsea will have to go full Galactico and give him time to purge the team if they want Alonso to bring trophies. I look at that team and immediately see the kind of players that don't fit this philosophy but most Chelsea fans will not take theur ejection....

I like your brilliant mind. I would like to engage further with you.

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Well, that is how it should work.
But do the people themselves believe they can be governed impactfuly....doubt it.

A people that don't even know what an economic recovery should look like...

A people that sit by and watch their lives degrade year after year yet cannot make the linkages between their choices and their experiences....just give them a strong man or a money man to think for them and they follow loyally.

Nigeria is crazy