Man. Utd.´s DNA var vel tilbage i tiden talentudviklingen.
Det har Liverpool ikke som sådan været udpræget kendt for. Det var i stedet "pass and move" og "boot room"-kulturen. Et koncept og en kultur, som Shankly udviklede. Det var relativt sent i hans tid som Liverpool-træner, at han fandt frem til den helt særlige Liverpool-spillestil. Indlæg, de direkte udfordringer på kanterne og duellerne i felterne blev mindre vigtige og gradvist afløst af mere tålmodighed, boldbesiddelse og bevægelighed under Shankly. Især tabet imod Røde Stjerne i Europa Cup-finalen er blevet fremhævet som afgørende for den videre udvikling af spillestilen, selvom Liverpool var uheldige med at tabe finalen.
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"The Shankly tactical legacy is usually summed up in one phrase – “Pass and Move”. But there is so much more to it than that. What Shankly gave Liverpool was an identity as innovators in the English game; an identity that displayed the best of football thinking – simplicity, skill, socialism and shape. The ideas that Shankly implanted into the Liverpool FC DNA were furthered, gloriously, by his able Lieutenant, Bob Paisley, for the following 9 years. His parting gift, apart from an FA Cup and a team ready to take on the best of Europe, was a player who would typify the new patience and possession of Liverpool FC. His last signing – Ray Kennedy - was to be a player he would never manage, but a player who Paisley put to work developing the tempo of the game that still had its roots in those great teams that Shankly produced. The culmination of these ideas was undoubtedly the team of 1977-1978, starting with a European Cup victory the previous season, and following it with another win that typified the highest level of football consistency and efficiency. The team of 1977-78 had a defender who understood how to play football, a fullback who could spend as much time up front as in defence, a midfield that covered iron with silk, and a legendary player who could create goals out of nothing. If there is anything to be said about Shankly’s tactical progression from 1959 to 1974, it is best said by pointing to how the team progressed without him, rather than just the team he left behind. Everything Liverpool achieved post-Shankly owed everything to the ideas and templates he laid down with his trusted staff. The hard road back to the First Division, all those years previously, became – through sheer force of will, wit and innovation – the simple road to excellence. Without Shankly, Liverpool may never have taught the world how to play."
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