I saw some discussion (copy and pasting of the article's abstract and first two paragraphs) in the Swansea match thread...figured it deserved its own small thread...could lead to interesting conversation.
aka home on wednesday night with too much kalik gold.
While I admittedly only bought my copy today and have yet to read through it in its entirety, one aspect that I found interesting right off the bat is how despite being a perceived squad of "the best" talent in the game, management is still capable of designating stars vs. "other players" (as depicted in the telegraph article picture of the lecture hall). I had been under the impression, which is most likely based on my foreign interpretation of the game, that teams like Man City, and Man U, had somehow bred a "holier than thou" culture where all players were "key" and management didn't, or couldn't, interfere with their diva status on the simple basis that they were contracted to the clubs they were contracted to.
While its easy to say RVP and Rooney are "star" players, is Fergie going rogue when he would categorize all but 3-5 players as "others"...making them entirely expendable? I completely understand that the sport is a business and you have to take emotion and player sentiment out of the management structure..so while im not entirely surprised that players like Kagawa and Scholes can be and are viewed as expendable products it still seems like pretty a pretty bad ass way (takes guts) to shape the locker room of a top flight organization.
aka home on wednesday night with too much kalik gold.
While I admittedly only bought my copy today and have yet to read through it in its entirety, one aspect that I found interesting right off the bat is how despite being a perceived squad of "the best" talent in the game, management is still capable of designating stars vs. "other players" (as depicted in the telegraph article picture of the lecture hall). I had been under the impression, which is most likely based on my foreign interpretation of the game, that teams like Man City, and Man U, had somehow bred a "holier than thou" culture where all players were "key" and management didn't, or couldn't, interfere with their diva status on the simple basis that they were contracted to the clubs they were contracted to.
While its easy to say RVP and Rooney are "star" players, is Fergie going rogue when he would categorize all but 3-5 players as "others"...making them entirely expendable? I completely understand that the sport is a business and you have to take emotion and player sentiment out of the management structure..so while im not entirely surprised that players like Kagawa and Scholes can be and are viewed as expendable products it still seems like pretty a pretty bad ass way (takes guts) to shape the locker room of a top flight organization.
