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"Players' power" seems to be the trending topic, so here are my 5 cents about it:
There is nothing strange about that. Players' power exists in each and every team. In fact, any group that goes beyond 3 people, starts to generate members' power dynamic. This is not a problem.
There is nothing strange about that. Players' power exists in each and every team. In fact, any group that goes beyond 3 people, starts to generate members' power dynamic. This is not a problem.
Players' power is neither a negative nor a positive thing. It is just there. And at the elite level, any manager's success or failure depends on how he manages it and get it to his side. Managers control their squads by making their key players believe in the manager's ideas.
Targeting players as being the problem is just another way to answer the wrong questions. The most powerful player on earth is Messi. He is 33. The only thing he is obsessed with is winning titles before retirement. Convince him that your ideas can do it and you are the boss.
Do players have the right to evaluate managers? Puig doesn't have that right. But players like Messi, Pique, & Busquets, who have a lot more experience than Setien at the highest level, do. So, at the elite level, a manager actually does his job interview in front of his players.
I am not talking about Setien & whether he failed or succeeded. And I'm not talking about whether his players believe in him or not. We do NOT know.
I'm just tackling that growing snowball of "Players' power" rants. Again, that's all about finding answers to the wrong questions.
I'm just tackling that growing snowball of "Players' power" rants. Again, that's all about finding answers to the wrong questions.
The reason why Lucho ended up winning the players over, and the reason why he survived long enough to win titles was that he recognized that his initial approach didn't work. He changed. He didn't change because he is a puppy (Really? Lucho?). He changed because he knew football.
Of all that we are reading, it seems like Sarabia is trying to act the way Lucho tried to at the beginning of his time managing Barcelona without having the credentials Lucho had as a player.
Setien may need to reconsider his approach, or he won't survive. And rightfully so.
Setien may need to reconsider his approach, or he won't survive. And rightfully so.
This tweet is a baseless guess: Messi's reaction Sarabia in one of the videos was like: "He talks too much"
One of the main lessons we learn in management courses is exactly that. Fight the urge to talk more than you should.
Less you talk, the more powerful your words are.
One of the main lessons we learn in management courses is exactly that. Fight the urge to talk more than you should.
Less you talk, the more powerful your words are.
To copy a reply I made to a tweet, that sums things up I guess: we live in a different world now. Even teachers can't demand the same authority on their students as they did 10 years ago. So, no one should expect a "You order, and we obey, boss" climate at the elite level.
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