I agree with all of that. I genuinely feel like Ole just told the players to go out and express themselves and that was the extent of his tactics... he even said recently in a press conference that tactics are overrated and you just need to work hard.
I don't want to make it sound like Ole didn't do any tactics but it feels like he probably took more of a Ferguson approach than a Klopp of Guardiola. He would say how he wanted us to play, where the opposition weakness was and where the oppositions main threat came from but he seemed to forget the bit where a team needs to be coached to be able to know
how to deal with those situations and generally how to function on a moment to moment basis.
An analogy might be be the difference between a learner driver and an experienced one. When you learn to drive you spend a lot of your energy a focus on just working the clutch, selecting the right gear, steering the car and checking in your mirrors. Once you are an experienced driver, 90% of that happens without conscious thought and your attention is free to react to other little signals that a driver is going to pull out on you and you have more mental space for other things.
I think Ole perhaps didn't realise that just because Ferguson wasn't overly prescriptive with his tactics doesn't mean that he hadn't already laid the groundwork for years that allowed his teams to function without that heavy hand. When you have players that have been at the club for 5 years, you have a settled squad that has played together effectively for years you don't need to hold their hand as much.
Another analogy might be a child and a parent. A child sees the world as overly simplistic because they don't have to worry about doing the shopping, paying the bills, fixing the boiler etc. So the child thinks that its easy to be an adult because they simply are ignorant of how hard well functioning adults work.
TLDR: Ole is a child and doesn't understand the big picture and the work that is required to manage in his style. A bit of football Dunning Kruger where he thinks football is simple because he doesn't understand the complexity.
