Originally Posted by Brownie
I'm not even discussing systems Owen, i'm talking about players. At the end of the day, football is mainly about getting eleven good players together. Kuyt is a good player but we could get better, it's as simple as that.
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You can't separate one from the other and still have a grown-up discussion about why we didn't win the league and Man Utd did.
Did you read that article someone put up the other day about Saachi? With his Milan side of the last 80's he took five well organised defenders and let ten of the best players in the world at the time try to score and they couldn't.
It's about the right player for the system, and the system that best suits the players. It's about tactics and a game plan, and how best to use your own players to overcome the opposition players. To say football's just about getting elevn good players together is horribly, horribly over-simplistic. Sure, you need the 'spark' from players, and that can make all the difference in tight games, but the vast majority of the time it's not about the players' skill levels, rather their ability to play to a system and to the game plan.