Re: Deeney

MNafti

Like this from Deeney.

You hear a lot of top level managers quite frequently play down systems ETC and instead talk about players and how they apply themselves.

Fed up of the wannabe Gary Neville types bleating on about shape and formation, trying to pretend they know the game more than everyone else.

Of course, tactics are important - but good coaching/leadership and good players win you games.

Reductionism at its finest. Shape, formation and tactics are all just as, if not more important, than leadership and good players. Ask yourself why the great motivators haven't won a Premier League title in yonks. Look at Brighton. Good players, good coaching - and I'm sure De Zerbi is a great motivator - but it's their shape and tactics which have made them almost unplayable currently.

Have an opinion, fine. Yet, this is a blatantly reductionist thesis that you are also hypocritical in ('trying to pretend they know the game more than everyone else').