Sami backs Rafa's rotations

Last updated : 24 September 2007 By Adam Bryant

"The first time the manager tells us about the team is an hour and half before the game," said the Finnish defender. "But sometimes after the meeting at Melwood he'll tell some individual players that they are playing.

"Everybody knows that the manager likes to rotate, and he isn't going to change his style. Nobody said anything about that at the beginning of the season when we were winning games.

"But because we've drawn a few games people have started to talk about it again. It's silly because that's his style and he's not going to change it."