The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.
It is important to understand what your team can do.
Teams are often pretty clear about what they can do or are willing to do.
The perception is that the Stoke players were one-dimensional: that they could only play in a certain way, and that was the top and bottom of their capabilities.
I think the fitness of players is the key to success. I believe that there should be no place of unfit players in the team because the fit players also start becoming lazy seeing their routine. Having teamwork capabilities is also very important as there comes a lot of times where you have to think beyond your own interest to upkeep the national interest.
To train a national team, you have to know what team you have at your disposal and what this team is capable of. You need to get the best out of them and take them as far as possible. Yet, sometimes, you can't achieve your goals.
My teams have never been supposed to be able to do the things that they do.
You have strengths within your team every single year and sometimes they stay the same, sometimes they change.
