Learn how Phil Foden’s short-term memory sets him apart from the rest. Explore the transformative power of quick transitions in football, with insights from Pep Guardiola, lessons from Barcelona's iconic counterpressing era, and training considerations that will start to create the transitioning mindset.

Embark on a journey through the evolution of coaching development, from traditional methods to innovative approaches that shape the future of the sport.

Let’s uncover Manchester City’s Game Model, Game Plan, and Game Prep.

You'll often hear coaches, especially youth coaches, say something like "Get it off your feet" as if dribbling is the riskiest action to take. But is it?

The future of football requires footballers who can score goals in less space and time. Rondos and Positional Games do not provide players with the opportunity to experience these finishing moments. Let me provide alternatives…

In 2012 Spain played the Euro Final without any true strikers. The result one of the finest most free flowing displays of football.

Saskia Giebl is a Human Learning and Performance Scientist at UCLA's Bjork Learning Lab. More importantly, she’s passionate about sports and how we can improve our methods to coach sports.

Re-Position Play: Players are moving in relation to where the opponent is, where they can best the teammates with the ball in relation to other teammates who are also trying to support the ball carrier, and where they want to go. The result is constant Positional Play which is highly relational.

I finally figured out Relationism vs. Positionism. 

I have to admit it has taken me many months. Looking back at it, perhaps it was my ego that prevented me from seeing what was there all along. Eventually, the lightbulb moment came all at once in one quick swoop. 

We’re going to break down the 5v2 rondo. But to make this even more practical, I’m going to show you how using game constraints we are going to logically build up the 5v2 rondo towards the kind of third man combinations we are seeing with Roberto De Zerbi's Brighton in the 22/23 season. 

There’s no way around it. There is an inherent problem with this rondo as it is. Don’t lose hope my friends, there are some benefits from this training tool.

Rondos and Positional Games are problematic. They are not realistic enough. They lack direction. They don’t provide enough of the game. This is tiresome and I want to end the madness once and for all. I want to strip down Positional Play Training Methodology to show the logic, reason, and purpose behind this type of training. I want to show how Rondos and Positional Games do not have to be binary.

Unrooting yourself is scary. You realise everything you know about yourself lies within the familiarity of our home, our routine, familiar faces. The different surroundings of an unknown place serve as mirror. You think you are experiencing a new place, but in reality you’re forced to see yourself in a new way like you’ve never had to do before.

I have written extensively on numerical, positional and qualitative, but I have never detailed what the socio-affective superiority looks like and how you might approach further developing it. This is most likely the topic I receive the most questions about: what is socio-affective superiority? Jordi Alba and Messi can teach us a few things…

The British philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein said, “The limits of my language are the limits of my world.” Our language can either expand or diminish our ability to think. An expansive, descriptive football language can expand our ability to describe, explain and solve football.