Tactics don't win games, players do
Thats completly wrong
Obviously the better standard of player the more likely it is to win games regardless of tactics, but for your average team tactics are very important.
Use Man United and City as an example. I for one think City have a better squad than United, in fact Uniteds is nowhere near as good as some previous squads. Yet Ferguson has them with a big lead in the league. Sure, having RVP helps but the way they can grind out so many victories without being as good a team as their points tally suggests comes down to his use of tactics to get the absolute most out of that team, as opposed to relying on the players quality like Mancini does to a bigger extent.
Its about using your squad fully, getting the best out of players, playing to your strengths, yet its also about stoping the opposition, about making little adjustments during the match, about making players play 10 yards deeper/ more advanced when needed and lost of other things.
I think with
Moyes, yeah it isn't his strong point. Obviously compared to the likes of you and me he should be far better at it, yet compared to his peers its an area where he doesn't seem to do as well (but in others he excels).
Take 2004/5 for example : a huge part of us finishing 4th was him installing the hard work ethic into the team, but it was also using thr 4-5-1 and the players we had in that system, suited us perfectly at the time.
If you've got 2 squads of players of equal ability then the one who's manager has the bets grasp of tactics will perform better than the other.
