Team Of Champions Or A Champion Team
One of the problems with high profile players with multi-million dollar price tags is that sometimes these players don’t make great team players. I am sure you have heard the saying that a ‘champion team will always beat a team of champions’. This has its roots in that very problem.
Players with high profiles and high price tags often feel they have to justify their positions. English football is a good example. Champion strikers need to score goals on a regular basis or they will lose their appeal. Why spend 20 million pounds on a striker that isn’t scoring goals?
This brings about situations where the striker is trying to hit the back of the net with every opportunity, even if it’s only a half opportunity. A lower profile ‘team’ player will look to promote the ball to another player in a better position, or display a little patience and work themselves into a better scoring position.
Not all high profile, high price tag, players are guilty of this. There are some players that are brilliant ‘team’ players. However, every now and then a individual surfaces. Manchester United seem to be suffering a little from the individual phenomenon at present. If they can get their ‘team’ play back they may well win another championship or two, until then, they will continue to put in lacklustre performances.
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