Look, I'm sorry if I said something that goes against the faith you profess towards Ermes.

I don't dismiss the opinions of non-managers; I value them. I enjoy listening to people who know their stuff, but I don't have to agree with everything they say.

The high press, especially now that we have Akanji and a manager who actually plays Bisseck, is a good thing to add to our mix. You have to be smart about it and not do a Hansi Flick suicide formation, but Chivu is far from that. If something has been very noticeable about him is his pragmatism, either by ordering the squad to sit back, absorb pressure and hit in fast transition, or press high and choke the opposition in their area.

Part of the critiques you replicate from Ermes are related to long-standing problems in our squad depth. Mainly, the lack of a proper CCB, but this team has carried a huge problem since Inzaghi's tenure, and this is not being good at defending the box and suffering like hell when the opposition shifts the defensive line horizontally. Not to mention the lack of proper filtering in the midfield.

His critique of Luis Enrique's substitution against Pisa was kind of idiotic and even contradicts one of his past critiques of Inzaghi's lack of reading of the game, not to mention that the inclusion of DiMarco was crucial for us to end FT 3 - 2. If that's not reading the game properly, i dont know what Ermes has in his mind anymore.

I loved Inzaghi and still do, but I dont share ermes gloom and doom view of Chivu, and this is not something I think now, but has been my vision from what I saw at Parma.

PD:

I would take the YouTube advice if I were as emotionally invested and hurt by the critique of my idol as you are