Crystal Palace coach, Patrick Vieira has come out to say that it is not ideal to have so many senior players absent from his club’s tour of Singapore and Australia. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he would not discuss the players’ COVID-19 vaccination status, but it is definitely not the ideal situation for a manager to leave several players behind.
Vieira added that it has surely prevented his team from playing games together and working on a tactical basis as a group.
His words, “It is not the ideal situation for a manager to have so many players behind,”
“It is important to understand players have stayed behind for different reasons. We are not going to talk about the private situation of players and whether they are vaccinated or not. Some players stayed behind because they needed to have more training and play more games.”
“It is difficult. It hasn’t allowed us to play games together and work on a tactical basis together. It will take a couple of games before the team starts to gel.”
On the players that are present, “Some of the young players never went outside of Europe. Now they may play United in front of 75,000/80,000 people.”
“That is an excitement for them. We will learn a lot from them. We have some senior players here who need to play games.”
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