BusiTheKing
Senior Member
1. Personal relationship biasOK.
If he is that bad. Someone give me a reason of why he is a starting player, not only under Flick but was also under Xavi.
No contract in the World could be designed in such a way that a player performing as bad as he does, as you claim, in a detrimental way to the overall team effort, if not outright sabotaging, is guaranteed a lineup spot each game.
You really must think you know better than Flick. Is Flick dumb ? Then look at the table and see who has the leader spot.
2. Historical performance bias. Fallacy of used to be great = still great, just needs to regain form.
3. Decision optics. Benching a star player and top scorer exposes you to public criticism and internal distrust if the replacement doesn't immediately yield results.