Yeah, for sure the coach has input, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise, that was poor phrasing on my part. The GM ultimately says yay or nay, but the coach has varying degrees of input; soccer also arguably has far more managerial input to roster decisions than most sports (tangentially: baseball managers have virtually no input these …
Yeah, for sure the coach has input, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise, that was poor phrasing on my part. The GM ultimately says yay or nay, but the coach has varying degrees of input; soccer also arguably has far more managerial input to roster decisions than most sports (tangentially: baseball managers have virtually no input these days, it's almost all the GM, and that also includes picking game-day rosters).
But whoever brings in the players, it's on the coach to make those players work as a unit. Even when there's injuries, international call-ups, or suspensions, the manager's literal job is to make a team a team. That's not his only role, but it is a very important one. Gio couldn't do that.
Yeah, for sure the coach has input, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise, that was poor phrasing on my part. The GM ultimately says yay or nay, but the coach has varying degrees of input; soccer also arguably has far more managerial input to roster decisions than most sports (tangentially: baseball managers have virtually no input these days, it's almost all the GM, and that also includes picking game-day rosters).
But whoever brings in the players, it's on the coach to make those players work as a unit. Even when there's injuries, international call-ups, or suspensions, the manager's literal job is to make a team a team. That's not his only role, but it is a very important one. Gio couldn't do that.