Originally Posted by Owen
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.
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I'm not being funny Owen, but I do understand football and i've played to a decent standard myself.
I realise that it's not just about eleven 'Glacticos' being on the pitch at the same time. Different players compliment each other in different ways and as we've seen with the formation change, different shapes can suit different sets of players.
I don't see what that has to do with me comparing saying that we need to have a player on the right of our front three, who is more like Ronaldo than Kuyt, which is the point I made. You can dress it all up about systems, shapes etc all you like but i'm talking about ONE player in a system which is already set.