But surely the managers set the training plans etc and the warm ups. They dont just pick the teams.
We have had 6 managers in the last few years, are you telling me they all came in and didn't change any of the training plans which are apparently "stone age"?
You've said yourself, benitez sacked many and brought his own in, yet we still had ridiculous injuries last season, including DCL being rushed back, by benitez and his fitness guy.
This pre season, we have done allright generally. Dcl and Gray missed a game as a precaution but both then played the next game fine. We still don't really know much about DCL now in regards as to what sort of injury it is. It might have had nothing to do with conditioning/fitness and might have just been an overstretch, which happens.