Digging up
this article on Pep from just after he was hired, because I remembered reading the testimonies of him, which I'm just not seeing evidence of as a manager:
From his time as assistant at Malmo:
“Pep had this great radiance, a charisma. He was more temperamental and
showed his feelings."
“
He used to hand out rebukes left and right,” said the 26-year-old. “But it was always thought out. If he thought we were too complacent in a certain exercise,
he screamed at us. He was very unpredictable, but it kept you listening.”
Tiki-taka was encouraged by dividing the pitch into tiny squares, so congested that no player could move without touching an opponent. Like Guardiola,
Clotet encouraged total discipline in the first two thirds, total freedom thereafter.
With Garry Monk at Swansea:
During matches, Clotet would sit in the stands, dividing matches into five-minute segments and
analysing them to spot developing trends or threats.
When the pair were sacked – just weeks after Clotet spurned Brentford –
they re-watched every single game, determined to identify mistakes.
From that last one I can only assume he is going to wait to expertly rectify our horrific defence until after we sack him.