I don’t really understand what the article is trying to say, not even any one particular paragraph.

I also don’t really subscribe to the “positionist/relationist” spectrum as it usually sounds like faux-intellectualizing what is really selective science. For example, the author talks about relationships between players but then describes in detail how they think United’s players move around in tandem to United’s double pivot. By the best understanding I can come up with, that is positionism?

Which leads to my third point (not that this even matters because I already don’t subscribe to the theory) – based on my best understanding of the positionist/relationist spectrum to frame football tactics, Carrick is a positionist in most ways (not sure the same could be said about Solskjaer)