Ian Holloway said that he is always keeping up with the times in both fashion and football as he looks to continue his evolution of Swindon Town.
When asked about the direction of travel for the game, Holloway said that there were always core fundamentals to what a team needs but stressed that it was key to keep up with what is going on.
He said: “I think that if you look at what Sir Alex Ferguson did with his teams, he always evolved and he always had wingers and absolutely exceptional wingers.
“But he also changed staff a lot and kept up with things and you have got to look at things like that.
“Football has a way of coming around and it has really important elements that never really change.
“I think that being able to head the ball in both boxes is absolutely vital and be able to defend and attack aggressively – you can’t get away from that and if you look at Pep [Guardiola]’s team they are not exactly midgets.
“It is great to see other teams counter-attacking them but it is not that long ago that you saw someone win the league by doing that in Leicester [City] with Jamie Vardy and [Riyad] Mahrez and a bunch of people you have never heard of.
“You have to find your own style and at the moment it is people trying to do what Pep does but there are lots of good managers doing something else.
“Football will always keep evolving, it is very much like fashion. I saw the big baggy jeans coming in and I have got some of them. I am not out of fashion at all.”
Holloway added that there are certain things that he always wants his teams to have but a lot of it was about adapting to the players you have.
He said: “It has got to suit your team. I would not want to be Ruben Amorim at the minute trying to get my way of playing into a group of people who haven’t been bought for that. You have to try and adapt to what you have.
“Pep has set the bar for all of us but I don’t think you have to do it his way.
“I am enjoying looking at what I can get out of this group. I think that having pace in a wide area is vital, having someone who can drive away from people with the ball.”
