Ignoring elvin and any of his "points"/fantasies, I do have to address how supposedly Gui's defeatism and his tendency to praise his opponents and downplay his team's chances in the media has influenced the team's results, since even some other Turkish posters have brought this up.
Maybe this past year, but then again I think 2022 Guidetti was fundamentally different from 2017-2019 Guidetti, in more ways than one. Huge scrutiny from enormous popularisation of volleyball in Turkey in the last several years coupled with a psychologically crushing defeat against Korea in 2021 Tokyo (and everything that resulted from that) soured Guidetti's enthusiasm and will. After that, he was a man simply floating, going through the motions, and as far as that goes, meatballs and those like him who chastise Gui for that are right...but only for 2022. Prior to that, I contend that all his statements about how opponent is simply too good, much better than his team, but they will try blah blah...those were nothing more than mind-games designed to hopefully lull his opponents and get them to lower their guard. A classic case was 2017 ECH SF, where Terzic recognised the tactic for what it was, and descibed it as such in his subsequent statements to the Serbian media.