Everton: 3 things Ralf Rangnick can bring to Everton
Ralf Rangnick is known as the father of modern German football
Identity
Now, Ralf Rangnick doesn’t boast a huge trophy cabinet as a manager but what he brings to a team is something very few managers on this planet can offer. He’s popularly known as the father of modern German football. Back in the ’90s, German coaches and teams thought that the sweeper system would allow them to dominate the game for eternity.
Rangnick went against the highly successful method, in a bid to introduce a futuristic system. He worked closely with Helmut Groß, inspired by Arrigo Sachhi’s AC Milan and Valeriy Lobanovskyi of Dynamo Kyiv, building an advanced and innovative system that focused on zonal marking and pressing.
Rangnick arrives at any club with his main aim to instil his philosophy in the team. He’s done it at a Hoffenheim side that lingered in the third division of German football when he took over and he’s also done it at RB Leipzig where he had adequate money but instead focused on injecting his ideas and building the team instead of just buying suitable players for his system.
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The German’s sides play high tempo, aggressive pressing football with the focus on recovering the ball within five seconds of losing it. His sides rely heavily on transitions and quick movement on and off the ball. There should be vertical passing towards the opponent’s goal rather than the patient build-up through a closely-knit array of pass networks, as we see in Pep Guardiola’s tiki-taka. Rangnick demands intensity and wants to take the opponents by surprise.
Identity and distinctness reign supreme for Rangnick. Something that Everton have lacked for what feels like an eternity. Ancelotti never instilled a style or system. And when you look back, Ancelotti’s teams do not have a common, distinct style. They are known to win things but each side he managed played separately.
Everton are in need of a clear direction and a philosophy that can be infused in the current crop of players as well as the budding youngsters who would be the players for the club in the future. Rangnick can bring that to Everton.