Pochettino let's slip a telling remark
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After the uplifting AC Milan victory, Mauricio Pochettino gave his usual after-match press conference in which he made a very telling statement.
Out go the shirkers, those here for the money and in come players who believe. Belief can take you places in life, without it you will achieve nothing, you will exist, no more. If you have the belief anything is possible then it is, you simply have to work out how.
Players who believe in a system put their heart and soul into it, they give it everything, especially when they are hungry for success themselves, the trick is harnessing it all and channel it all in the same direction. The more force you channel in one direction the stronger and more effective it is.
A player must know how he fits into a system, what his cog does and he must also know what the other cogs do. If he can picture how his role fits in the overall picture then he can understand the importance of it and the importance of him giving it his best each game. It's easier to motivate a player who understands his role than it is to motivate one who doesn't.
Does Mousa Dembélé know his role, does Érik Lamela truly understand the importance of his role? Is he weighed down by that? Andros Townsend, another with big question marks over him, is he still going to do what he wants and not what the coach wants? If he is then he clearly doesn't understand why he has to do as he is instructed.
Belief and understanding, two key factors, one is there, I'm not sure the other is totally there yet.
Further Tottenham Reading
Where would you play Dembélé
The defensive area Ben Davies must work on
Friedel: Hugo Lloris leaving Spurs is not even worth talking about
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"I think the players showed, and this is the most important thing, that they believe in our way, they believe in our philosophy."Belief, that is exactly what I have been promoting to my readers, If a player doesn't buy into the system then regardless of who he is you have to get rid of him as he will not perform to his very best. Several of our players didn't believe in the system and tried to change it to suit them, two are no longer at the club and the other two don't train with the first team.
Out go the shirkers, those here for the money and in come players who believe. Belief can take you places in life, without it you will achieve nothing, you will exist, no more. If you have the belief anything is possible then it is, you simply have to work out how.
Players who believe in a system put their heart and soul into it, they give it everything, especially when they are hungry for success themselves, the trick is harnessing it all and channel it all in the same direction. The more force you channel in one direction the stronger and more effective it is.
A player must know how he fits into a system, what his cog does and he must also know what the other cogs do. If he can picture how his role fits in the overall picture then he can understand the importance of it and the importance of him giving it his best each game. It's easier to motivate a player who understands his role than it is to motivate one who doesn't.
Does Mousa Dembélé know his role, does Érik Lamela truly understand the importance of his role? Is he weighed down by that? Andros Townsend, another with big question marks over him, is he still going to do what he wants and not what the coach wants? If he is then he clearly doesn't understand why he has to do as he is instructed.
Belief and understanding, two key factors, one is there, I'm not sure the other is totally there yet.
Further Tottenham Reading
Where would you play Dembélé
The defensive area Ben Davies must work on
Friedel: Hugo Lloris leaving Spurs is not even worth talking about
Pack yourself off to the Football-Shop.net for all your football gifts and signed shirts.
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