CFA Living Quarters

I don't really get this idea of them spending the night before a game there. If I was a player it would drive me bonkers. Don't they already spend enough time with their colleagues without being cooped up with them the night before a match? Unavoidable before an away game perhaps, but I would argue that I'd sleep a lot better in my own bed. And it must be as boring as hell, waking up there on the morning of a match and having to hang around waiting all morning with a bunch of similarly stressed out blokes. Especially if its a 4pm or 5.30pm ko. It might be good physical preparation for a match but it doesn't seem to me to be good mental preparation.

I can see how it would be a good idea for the single players to stay there. And for the rest to have the option, particularly if they have very young children.
 
Hey have been staying together the night before for years, usually in the Lowry hotel. Having your own 5star hotel makes sense as you have all the other facilities on tap plus the privacy.
 
Gaudion M said:
Hey have been staying together the night before for years, usually in the Lowry hotel. Having your own 5star hotel makes sense as you have all the other facilities on tap plus the privacy.
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But why? I've stayed in plenty of plush hotels on business trips and always felt that I would rather have been at home. And their homes are much more luxurious than mine. I could see it has an option if they've got screaming babies, just not as something they should have to do. Isn't there some benefit from just getting away from a work environment and switching off for the night? The days of footballers going out on the beer the night before a game are long gone, so why is it necessary?
 
cibaman said:
I don't really get this idea of them spending the night before a game there. If I was a player it would drive me bonkers. Don't they already spend enough time with their colleagues without being cooped up with them the night before a match? Unavoidable before an away game perhaps, but I would argue that I'd sleep a lot better in my own bed. And it must be as boring as hell, waking up there on the morning of a match and having to hang around waiting all morning with a bunch of similarly stressed out blokes. Especially if its a 4pm or 5.30pm ko. It might be good physical preparation for a match but it doesn't seem to me to be good mental preparation.

I can see how it would be a good idea for the single players to stay there. And for the rest to have the option, particularly if they have very young children.
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It's to do with focus.

City's support staff have a philosophy of removing any and all thoughts in the player's brain than playing football. At home they have wife, kids, shopping, friends, and all the trivialities of the modern life to deal with before getting in their car then working their way through traffic to get to the stadium (or the meeting place for the bus in). At the Campus they have nothing to think about other than the next day's game, what their specific job is and how they can heighten their performance.

As Gaudion said, they've stayed in a hotel pre-match for years so having an onsite facility that they can personalise a little and allow the club a little more control over their diet and behaviour makes a lot of sense.
 
Pep actually removed the hotel stays from Barca.
From Pep Confidential:

He also bucked the Spanish tradition of getting the team together in a hotel the day before a match. As Guardiola explained at the time, ‘People don’t spend the day before they go to work locked up in a hotel. We just try to make things the same for them. If they don’t rest, they’re not looking after themselves and that means they’ll play worse and lose their jobs. I judge my players on the work they do, not on their private lives. I’m not a policeman. I’m in bed at ten o’clock and I’ve got no urge to go and check up on my players. That’s why I’d rather have them at home and not cooped up in a hotel with nothing to do. We’re just trying to use common sense.’
 
PJM1891 said:
Pep actually removed the hotel stays from Barca.
From Pep Confidential:

He also bucked the Spanish tradition of getting the team together in a hotel the day before a match. As Guardiola explained at the time, ‘People don’t spend the day before they go to work locked up in a hotel. We just try to make things the same for them. If they don’t rest, they’re not looking after themselves and that means they’ll play worse and lose their jobs. I judge my players on the work they do, not on their private lives. I’m not a policeman. I’m in bed at ten o’clock and I’ve got no urge to go and check up on my players. That’s why I’d rather have them at home and not cooped up in a hotel with nothing to do. We’re just trying to use common sense.’
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Interesting
Does he use this same practice at Bayern?
 
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