23/08/2026
🔴⚫️The CORE of the team determines how the team plays.
Let’s say for instance, Mainoo is the main man of this team, we’d see a lot of Mainoo-style football in the most important moments of the game.
Same logic applies to Bruno.
If Carrick is to establish a fully functional possession based style, Bruno will not be a major part of it….
Why?
Because to get the most of your key man, you allow him a certain level of freedom to dictate what to do on the pitch. That freedom is used to express his innermost footballing desires & default style, which in Bruno’s case means reverting the team to a vertical, quick, transition style…..
This in itself is not an issue because it has proven that it can work, and it has worked, the problem comes when the key man’s STYLE determines how the team plays…..
I once told Presley Ikenna Ikonne that Bruno is not part of the system, Bruno Fernandes is the SYSTEM…..As long as he’s the key man at United, you almost certainly know what to expect from United in possession.
Of course everything goes through him.
He’s the team’s best player, so you can’t bench him, he’s over 30, so you can’t change how he plays, so the best thing to do would be to mould the team to get the most out of how he plays, which means abandoning the idea of patient possession in the mid-block or you sell him.
