I agree with the broad strokes, but I don't think he needed a full on, proper, rest midseason as much as he needed just to not play every game until he fell off a cliff. Pep is the greatest, obviously, but we've had a real blind spot to squad rotation for some positions in recent years.
Yeah that's fair enough, and I guess Domalino was hinting at the same. I still think a summer rest is hugely undervalued, particularly in a mental sense.