Tottenham Talk on Wednesday 15th Sept - Parrot Players
Tottenham Talk on Wednesday 15th Sept
Parrot Players
Good morning to all the positive Spurs folk once again on another fine day to be a Spurs fan, well that's every day isn't it.
At least that is how the successful see it, the rest just demand change, often wholesale change.
You saw it during the summer transfer window yet again, with Spurs fans clamouring for sales and purchases, assuming everything will instantly be better, but many many transfers don't work that way.
It took Son a year to adapt, Federico Fazio didn't.
Things are usually not as bad as the negative fans paint them.
They don't see solutions, doesn't fit the agenda, only problems and the only way they know to solve them is spend spend spend, often with money the club doesn't have.
Yes there are always improvements that can be make, but the basis, the foundations, must be being built first and that must happen with each new manager.
Perhaps before you shout to dismiss a manager, you should look at the players and determine whether we would have to start again under a new Head Coach.
To tell players not to something is one thing, but then the player has to be intelligent enough to control his own mind, his own thought patterns, his own emotions.
To tell players not to something is one thing, but then the player has to be intelligent enough to control his own mind, his own thought patterns, his own emotions.
He has to push aside the fear of conceding a goal and continue to play the way that has led to the side being in front.
It is that mental control that the players are lacking, that needs to be developed.
You see it in many games with Spurs, we don't attack because we are too frightened to concede and thus have a defensive minded approach.
It is that mental control that the players are lacking, that needs to be developed.
You see it in many games with Spurs, we don't attack because we are too frightened to concede and thus have a defensive minded approach.
You can call it pragmatic but it isn't the game that took Liverpool to second place (should have won the title) under Brendan Rogers.
That was based on attack, that was based on going in front by a couple of goals in the first half and holding onto it or increasing it.
If you have too many players who can't mentally do that then the team is dragged into a defensive mindset.
As we saw last season, eventually something gives and if that is a mentally fatigued defence, the team is in trouble.
I have mentioned it many times, when under pressure, anxiety take over, your default actions take over, decision making is affected and mistakes occur.
When a manager says a player doesn't have the ability, that is what he is talking about, he isn't mentally strong enough.
All players have the footballing ability or they wouldn't have made it into elite level sport.
Players have the fitness, they have the skill but you need the mentality to produce it consistently, not sporadically.
A winning mentality will ruthlessly ditch these people, whoever they are, to find those with the right mentality.
There are stacks of players who get to a level and then don't keep progressing, the hunger goes and they like on what they have got.
As we have seen with Tanguy N'Dombele, a player can change his mindset and therefore attitude and performance, but that comes from within.
Unfortunately he has changed it back again, will he now change it again?
Players have the fitness, they have the skill but you need the mentality to produce it consistently, not sporadically.
A winning mentality will ruthlessly ditch these people, whoever they are, to find those with the right mentality.
There are stacks of players who get to a level and then don't keep progressing, the hunger goes and they like on what they have got.
As we have seen with Tanguy N'Dombele, a player can change his mindset and therefore attitude and performance, but that comes from within.
Unfortunately he has changed it back again, will he now change it again?
If he wants to play in the World Cup next summer he will have to.
We are seeing it with too many players.
If you are faced with a hard puzzle in your area of interest, do you give up and do something else or see it as a challenge?
Do you practice it a little or do you practice it for extended periods until you master the task?
The majority do something else, the majority make half-hearted attempts, decide it is too hard or too time consuming and do something with quicker gratification.
The few see it as a challenge to solve.
The few have that winning mindset.
The right mindset towards failure is not to see it as failure at all, but to see it as learning.
An opportunity to figure out and understand what went wrong and work to change it, to learn from it and improve.
I repeat the story of myself after a cricket game sitting in the dressing room looking at the floor running through the game in my head wondering what we could have done better to affect the result when we had lost.
My winning mentality meant, as a captain, I could see tactics working that others wouldn't have dreamt of using. I was able to think outside the box, to innovate.
My team won several games where I employed successful unusual tactics to specific players that others wouldn't dream of.
You see cricketers cutting the ball over slips and the keeper now, well I was playing those shots regularly 30 years ago.
I was renown for it.
It is not just for Nuno and his coaching staff to figure out what causing us to drop points (when we do).
It is not just for Nuno and his coaching staff to figure out what causing us to drop points (when we do).
Every player should be taking time to think for themselves about their own game, what they are doing right and wrong.
It isn't good enough for a player to simply wait to be given a video of aspects he needs to do differently and then do it.
Parrot players I'd call them.
A player has to have that hunger to improve all the time, like Harry Kane and Heung-min Son.
Everyone is different but they need to have the mind frame of Pierre-Emile Højbjerg.
It isn't good enough for a player to simply wait to be given a video of aspects he needs to do differently and then do it.
Parrot players I'd call them.
A player has to have that hunger to improve all the time, like Harry Kane and Heung-min Son.
Everyone is different but they need to have the mind frame of Pierre-Emile Højbjerg.
How many of our new recruits have?
It's too early to tell yet, but we should already know.
Nailed on certainty, Nuno Espírito Santo, has been named as the Premier League Manager of the Month for August.Snippets
Nuno on new signing Emerson Royal:
"He's very talented. We bring him because we believe he can help us. He is an offensive full-back and we know he has things to improve."
This fits in with the club policy of buy young to improve and gain value and I best add, while striving to win trophies for the boring negative lot.
Well that's it folks.
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