BOYSIE31 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 10:39 am
You tell me Zlatan as plenty of poor games this season from the select 8 but hey ho they appear the next game.
Its only this season that he has swopped and changed his full backs but hopefully Taylor stays injury free - but right back neither are good enough
Plenty of people have tried and failed to tell you more accurately how it is, what makes you think I'm special enough to inform the
enlightened BOYSIE31 about football management...
...but as you asked.
Our team is based upon a clear framework where players know their roles in the team and perform that role to the best of their abilities. Our management team see each and every one of our players during training and have all sorts of statistics from sports scientists who can inform them who is best placed to play in each position. The management team select the best team from the squad to fulfil the requirements of each game, and it is no surprise to me that a regular set of players are selected, primarily because they happen to be the
best players.
When a player has a bad game (Taylor for instance when he lost the ball recently that led directly to a goal) that may be a factor against the player, but there are many more parameters available that the manager has at his disposal which can affect his team selection. The fans (you and me) see a mistake and some think said player should be dropped for the next game. The management see a mistake, and instead of dropping said player decide that it is an opportunity to learn from and may add that aspect to the requirements for the position and assign it a value against which to be measured.
The fact that our 2 central defenders has performed relatively consistently in the joint best defence in the Premier League if you exclude Liverpool means that our £15M signing who was given a fair chance (assuming he turned up to training week in week out) to demonstrate his strengths and show that he can displace one of the current 2. The fact that he did not do that is a testament to the current 2 players and is no slight on him, but you fail to understand that because some fans see it as a waste does not mean that it was in fact a waste. Having a high quality player pushing the current 2 players in that position in training meant that as a team we got stronger - that is what having a squad is all about.
But no, you see one mistake here, and another mistake there and call for heads to roll. That's fine, I respect that opinion, but I think it is wrong and I think you are deluded to think many others think like you.