Bayern's pre-season results are interesting. Thing is, if Nagelsmann is trying to drastically change how they play, the best time to knock the kinks out of that is pre-season. You can lose every game in pre-season and it doesn't matter too much. Plus as a coach, you can easier Image
address problems and solve them from defeats than victories.

For example - see Rafa talking to Robbie Keane and trying to change his positioning and movement for us. Keane's attitude was 'we just won and I scored 2 goals, what the fuck are you on about'.
Now I don't think every player is as averse to the idea that improvements can always be made. But still, everyone is a little keener to take on board feedback when things aren't working.

It is the same thing with Liverpool's problems last season. Some people didn't see them
when we were top of the league around the half-way point. Yet others like myself were highlighting problems in October & November in how we were unable to rotate anybody in the spine of the team and at some point that would just lead to a collapse.

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When I started working for a financial services company aged 18 I really struggled with managing problems and my work. It is another of those skills that would be useful to learn at school but we just never did.

I was lucky that I had some fantastic bosses who wanted to help me
grow rather than criticising me for being a fuck-up.

One of them taught me to categorise all my work that comes in and problems I need to solve into 4 simple categories.

Important & Urgent
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Urgent but not Important
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This advice from one of my bosses just completely changed my life as I could apply it to
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Grealish and Kane's values halved overnight.

All jokes aside, it is very clear that English get the benefit of the doubt from their fellow countrymen while certain latin/african players do not. @thetomkinstimes has done great research in the past highlighting. But e.g.
Grealish had as many freekicks given his way in the opening 6 games of the season as Salah did in the entire campaign. Grealish was 'fouled' 110 times last campaign. Salah just 22. This isn't a blip, it was the same the season before last too. Firmino = 16
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Maybe he does sign but the club has no interest in data & analytics. Maybe they don't recruit Edwards, Graham, etc and give them a prominent role in building up the club. Maybe left solely in charge of transfers as well as managing the playing staff he struggles with both roles.
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🔸the spending made the season you win the league tends to be irrelevant. It is what came before that tends to be more important. I looked at all league winners a while back and on average >80% of minutes played is from players already at the
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