At last Njie at centre-forward
Mauricio Pochettino has indicated that at last Harry Kane may well get a rest. No coach gets everything right and in my view he has mishandled Kane this season.
After the European Undre-21 Championships he needed a rest and should have missed the start of the season. That would only have happened if Pochettino himself had decided Kane would need a rest and asked the club to buy a striker by a set date. Clearly he didn't do that or we would have made greater efforts to do so, the fact we didn't speaks volumes.
It is rather nieve just to shout it's Levy's fault because Pochettino makes the playing decisions, not Levy. To compound his error he then keeps starting him, there was absolutely no need for him to play in the UEFA Europa League and particularly not against Monaco.
In France last season Clinton Njie started 13 games as a centre-forward and just 1 as a wide attacker. He should have been used as a striker before now, particularly the Monaco game so with Chadli out injured we might actually see him up front.
His finishing has not been great, one shot went for a throw-in and he has shown some promise from wide with one assist to his name already. In front of goal though he needs work and the only way he is going to develop is if he is given the responsibility of goalscoring. The UEFA Europa League is the ideal opportunity, we should always qualify regardless of which team we put out so having him sit on the bench for these games has been a strange decision.
We have to know what we have and see how he is going to react to the situation. Away from home win tend not to win in Europe and we are on a draw run at the moment. As with all the games in the current sequence and so often in Europe our finishing will determine the result.
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After the European Undre-21 Championships he needed a rest and should have missed the start of the season. That would only have happened if Pochettino himself had decided Kane would need a rest and asked the club to buy a striker by a set date. Clearly he didn't do that or we would have made greater efforts to do so, the fact we didn't speaks volumes.
It is rather nieve just to shout it's Levy's fault because Pochettino makes the playing decisions, not Levy. To compound his error he then keeps starting him, there was absolutely no need for him to play in the UEFA Europa League and particularly not against Monaco.
In France last season Clinton Njie started 13 games as a centre-forward and just 1 as a wide attacker. He should have been used as a striker before now, particularly the Monaco game so with Chadli out injured we might actually see him up front.
His finishing has not been great, one shot went for a throw-in and he has shown some promise from wide with one assist to his name already. In front of goal though he needs work and the only way he is going to develop is if he is given the responsibility of goalscoring. The UEFA Europa League is the ideal opportunity, we should always qualify regardless of which team we put out so having him sit on the bench for these games has been a strange decision.
We have to know what we have and see how he is going to react to the situation. Away from home win tend not to win in Europe and we are on a draw run at the moment. As with all the games in the current sequence and so often in Europe our finishing will determine the result.
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