I hear what you are saying. Some of the best managers of all time have been great man managers without necessarily being great tacticians. Look at Ferguson. Not a master of tactics but obviously was a man manager. However nowadays the likes of bruce/warnock/pulis etc are seen as very outdated.
Players no longer want the manager to be your mate and to organise team bonding days and days out on the lash. They want tactics. Shape. Working on spaces. Working on the opposition.
Owen coyle by all accounts was a great man manager and tried to create a happy positive group. However he had no tactical nouse about him and never did any work on the opposition or on team shape. The players quickly fired off him and took it upon themselves to do shake and tactics. Eventually he was sacked.
I think pep is a genius and keeps on reinventing how we play. I also think he’s a very good man manager and that’s why the players do what they do for him time after time. But without his Brain and tactical knowledge there’s no way he would command the level of respect he does.
