Daniel A. Hi Daniel, it depends on the player's position on the ball. A wider position leaves little room for overlap and would suggest (though not always) that an underlap is better suited to the scenario. Likewise, if the player on the ball is on the inside of the pitch, the space is on the outside for the overlap.(see image from the game last night) 

Hi Tyler,

We have quite a lot of footage on him, we will try and get this out just after the World Cup

Bumping this before it closes in a few hours.

Ian Barratt Hi Ian, we have sent you a DM

In your library now Daniel. 👍🏻

Hi Yagiz.

We have two projects that we are working on behind the scenes. The Bielsa one will follow, and we are looking at the first releases around September. 

One thing I didn't mention is that Domenec Torrent's definition literally includes the concept of relation within it: PP is positioning your players RELATIVE to everyone on the pitch to generate advantages. Where Guardiola and Diniz differ is in conceiving of how you structure these relationships - not in one disregarding relationships altogether.

It's worth remembering that all relationships on a football pitch are impossible without a concept of position. In that respect, relationism HAS to be positional.

They can still have their own unique existence. But they are still a subset, in my opinion, of a broader category: positional play.

By suggesting PP as a more general term is "useless", it seems as though you're saying "well we still have to differentiate between Guardiola and Diniz!" - absolutely! But the differentiator isn't PP - it's the way that these two coaches are using positional ideas in very different ways.

4)"If you define positional play as being all football it's a useless term. Hybrid play can also be some players have rigid positions and some are floaters. It's not only spoken about in relation to phases."

I completely disagree with this. My argument is that by restricting PP down to "what Guardiola does tactically" is unhelpful. Guardiola uses PP as a tool to achieve what he wants to strategically on a football pitch. In that sense, Guardiola's football and positional play are in different categories entirely. PP is basically a higher category of thing: like "animals" is to "dogs". The category "animals" is useful because it explains to us what kind of things "dogs" are. But it doesn't mean we then collapse "dogs" into other species of animal. "Dogs" and "spiders" are very different things but they are still animals. In the same way, Guardiola's football is very different from Fernando Diniz's football. 

3)"Could the rise in more chaos lead to the decline in so called specialist and instead lead to the Ascension in clubs recruiting and platforming more generalists"

Yes! I think this is exactly what we could see happening. The game will become less controllable and so rather than optimising for a one-size-fits-all approach (which is what Guardiola was able to do in many respects) it has to be much more ad hoc. This makes generalists far more valuable than in the past.