What matters more?

[johnnydawg68]

If your 11th best player is better than everyone else's 11th best player you'll win more games than if your best player is maradona in 86 but your 11th best player is worse than the others guys...if he's consistently worse than every other teams you'll get relegated.

In any one given game, no. Over the course of a season yes. Its the question of which is more important...how weak your weak link is or how strong your strong link is?

But many teams won't buy this way because it's not glamorous.

The margin for error in football is by far the slimmest of any sport in the world.

 

[ilikecheese]

If your 11th best player is better than everyone else's 11th best player you'll win more games than if your best player is maradona in 86 but your 11th best player is worse than the others guys...if he's consistently worse than every other teams you'll get relegated.

In any one given game, no. Over the course of a season yes. Its the question of which is more important...how weak your weak link is or how strong your strong link is?

But many teams won't buy this way because it's not glamorous.

The margin for error in football is by far the slimmest of any sport in the world.

Perhaps. Let's look at the debate at an international level though.

The US has consistently outperformed more talented sides for quite some time.

The Euros this year are proof positive that the most talented team from top to bottom are simply not the winners of this idea that the weakest link breaks the chain.

Portugal is average with a couple of stars.

How many of their players would play for Germany? How many Welsh or Iceland players would make the German team?

Back to club...how many Leicester players would start above City players?

 

[The Cowboy]

Perhaps. Let's look at the debate at an international level though.

The US has consistently outperformed more talented sides for quite some time.

The Euros this year are proof positive that the most talented team from top to bottom are simply not the winners of this idea that the weakest link breaks the chain.

Portugal is average with a couple of stars.

How many of their players would play for Germany? How many Welsh or Iceland players would make the German team?

Back to club...how many Leicester players would start above City players?

There's clearly a lot more to it than the perceived quality of each individual player. I think it's too simplistic to look at it that way.