Trevor Sinclair: Winners Find a Way, Resilience & Team Spirit

I feel like we're losing that because the way the game's going, the way it's getting more tactical, the way it's getting more data-driven, I think we do run the risk of losing.

It's that psychological side and it's that relationship-building side.

Yes, you can set up tactics and set a team up the best way, but I think when you have a relationship with a player, then they give 110% to those things that you want and they run through brick walls, really.

I think that's somewhat lost.

I think it's lost because there's no objective way to talk about it other than like you've just talked about is just having care from a coach and then getting to know the person.

Like you say, you get so much out of yourself.

But I see a lot of players with doubt as we are as humans, whether we're players or not.

We have doubt and we have low confidence at times.

And it's so underestimated, I think.

having a coach that gives players confidence that's valued enough or seen enough and sometimes we're giving information you've got to change this you've got to do that and a player's going oh am i not good enough for you now and i think you lose them sometimes like that i think that simple relationship taking that weekend taking that time is massively underestimated now from a lot of coaches i don't know if you agree with that or not

No, I do agree with it because I've seen, you know, it's nothing against the FA coaches.

You stick into a module, a precise way that you want to try and develop players with the EPPP, with the system that they've got in place.

And I'm all for that because I think you look at the results for the England team and you look at how many players that we are developing now.

So I think it's certainly working, but once you get to domestic football and you're there day in, day out, you have to be working with the players, getting to know them because the tactical work, the data-driven work, the technical work, I don't think that will have as much of an effect if that relationship's not there.

I think it's huge.

There's a lot of personalities going out of the game.

If you look at the old manager, the racing post, he'd be smoking, he'd be getting drunk at half time or after the game.

I think the game has evolved a lot away from that, which I think is a really good thing for the game.

But then are we losing that relationship between the players and the coach, the head coach? Are we losing that kind of human element to football? I don't think we can.

When I was playing, I had a chat with Tony Pulis when I left Manchester City.

And he'll excuse me for this because I've got a massively different opinion of him now.

I was climbing the wall trying to get out of the room.

It was so dour.

He was like, we've not got the biggest budget.

We're not a flair team.