Mailbag: Have managers lost their flexibility?
Football Ramble
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4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
A trend appears to have emerged in recent years of managers coming to the Premier League and, despite everyone thinking they should change their system, sticking to their guns.
Marcus, Jim & David are here to pick apart the reasons behind the inflexibility of modern managers. Plus, would we back a relegation play-off where the league's worst go head-to-head in a death match? And who should win the Premier League's manager of the season award?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome to the Football Ramble Mailbag. Managers styles a play, |
| 0:05.3 | relegation players and Keith Andrews are the orders of the day. It's Tuesday 14th of April. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Marcus Speller. I'm Jim Campbell. And I'm David Carledge. |
| 0:29.4 | Hello everybody. Welcome to the mailbag on this terrific Tuesday at the Football Rumble. |
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| 1:21.0 | on to the mailbag. We're going to start with this from Max Stevens. He's emailed us, Jim, |
| 1:26.1 | and he's asking this, A modern managers more wedded |
| 1:30.4 | to a style of play than ever before. We've seen a lot of managers take over at big clubs with |
| 1:36.1 | seemingly no tactical flexibility. They have a set style they won't deviate from regardless |
| 1:41.4 | of players and then normally try to just sign players who have worked in their system before. |
| 1:46.0 | Fans also know what a manager will bring before they arrive, |
| 1:49.0 | and therefore judge the appointment on previous playing style |
| 1:52.0 | rather than experience slash achievements. |
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