That's very true. If only successive England managers had learned that lesson. Sometimes inferior players make the better team and a more successful team, simply because they compliment each other better.
Sometimes you choose players to fit a certain tactic, other times you need change the tactics to suit the players.
As for England, some of these managers should have had the balls to tell Lampard and Gerrard to do a job, not run around trying playing like they would for their club, surrounded by completely different players.