Roberto Martínez
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You need to have a bit the opportunity to work on tactical aspects.
And you do it with games.
You don't do it with training.
So then you've got players that if they are fit, they're coming back because of what they did already.
Then you've got another group that is the players that they've been in the national team, but they need to be in a good moment of form to come in because there are a lot of competition.
And then the third group is a group that they've never been in the national team, but they've got something that is different.
Or maybe something that we played in Germany and we didn't have that.
And how can we find it?
Or if we wanted to play another shape.
So those three groups.
The first group doesn't need much attention.
You don't need to be following the captain of Manchester United because he's an important player.
But that group in the middle needs a lot of attention.
And the other group even more.
Because you need to anticipate if they're going to...
be able to cope with being an international player, if they could be themselves in that environment.
And that's what I enjoy, because you need to follow them in the five top leagues.
We've got players in Saudi Arabia.
It's a global market, really, and it's fascinating what you learn when you see them.
That's so funny, Jill, because when I was manager at Everton, he used to upset me a lot when the international manager would come in.