I’ll never understand how someone can be unhappy with a team that Pep picks, before a game kicks off.
It’s like they think that football managers just get the team sheet out and tick off eleven names like they’re picking Lottery numbers.
Surely it’s not difficult to understand that football managers (especially Pep) watch videos of opposition tactics, work on things in training to see what and who would work best against those opposition tactics and then pick the players they think will enact that best in the match… as well as understanding that there’s a balance of rotation across the season that needs to be taken into consideration?
It’s far more detailed and nuanced than ‘just pick all the best players’ or ‘just pick all the new players, that’s what we’ve signed them for’. Sometimes, even a player in-form is not the right player to pick for a certain game and that there is a skill set of a certain individual in the squad, who isn’t always one of the best players, who will come in and do well against a certain style of tactics from the opposition.
Fair enough, after a game, we can see that some of our tactics or some individuals who were picked didn’t work out. But not before a game because people haven’t seen the tactics Pep’s worked on at that point.
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