Chinese - Chicken omelette and chips please
Chinese - Chicken omelette and chips please
1. The Harry Kane interview after the game
Harry Kane was interviewed after the Brighton game and asked about Antonio Conte where his most telling remark was that Conte has changed the mindset of some of the players in the squad.
As I keep stressing, mindset is everything, your mentality determines the outcome of any event or skill you act out.
I look at Dele with all his tattoos now, what are they for?
It is all about image, an image he wants to portray.
Turning up to his first Everton training session in a Rolls Royce just gives the wrong impression too...
It shouts that his mind is not 100% on his football...
More on his image and desire to be accepted.
He is like the guy on social media who keeps logging in to see if he has got another like yet...
Wanting social acceptance.
Too many young footballers fall prey to this and it's just one reason why I have been demanding a 1st team sports psychologist for all these years...
To stop just this happening and retain the focus on being the best footballer you can be.
That is how a winning mindset thinks, that is how Harry Kane thinks...
But how many of the others have been thinking that way?
That is what Conte is and has to change with the help of the 1st team psychologist, when they are appointed.
2. Steven Bergwijn isn't confident enough
I have spoken about this before with Bergwijn...
When in sight of goal, he isn't confident he will score.
The fact that he misses so often proves that.
Again he had a sitter, laid on by new signing Kulusevski and he blasted it over the bar.
That was because of the thoughts going on his head, the emotions running through his body, the anxiety taking over.
He needs, at these moments, to automatically switch to the emotions he felt when he grabbed the winner against Leicester.
A sports psychologist would teach him to do that.
It is all about having positive thoughts, emotions at the crucial time.
3. Bentacour is better than Winks and Skipp
Even in a 15 minute cameo, new signing from Juventus, Rodrigo Bentacour showed he is an upgrade on Oliver Skipp and Harry Winks.
He is certainly going to strengthen us...
But he'll need another newcomer beside him.
He showed the nouse of someone who has played in Italy and a cool head when in defensive positions, exactly what Bergwijn needs.
4. The game was a further demonstration that it takes a season to learn to play a system to a trophy challenging level.
Each time Spurs have a break, the team comes out and puts in an improved showing.
Practice makes perfect.
When learning something new, repetition sinks it in and improves your skill.
Learning a new football system is no different and when you consider there are eleven moving parts that all have to align to maximise how a system works, it's obvious that isn't achieved/perfected in a few months.
The more football intelligent you re the faster you will learn, hence why your squad needs the type of player Sir Alex Ferguson used to look for.
I would suggest that both Bentacour and Kulusevski are of that ilk.
The remainder of the season and a pre-season should see us have a solid core to add to in the summer.
The winter transfer window was building for next season, not this season.
We try to achieve the short term goal while buying for the longer term goal, many fans haven't grasped this.
5. Who is Heung-min Son?
None of you had heard of Heung-min Son when we signed him and many of you wanted him sold after the first season...
Now look at him.
Players coming to the Premier League can often take a season to adapt, not only on the pitch, but off the field too, it's a different culture over here than it is in Europe.
We took a player and developed him into a high quality and consistent performer, a player with the right mental attitude.
That is how most football clubs operate, buy to develop and Spurs are no different.
Of course we want to win trophies while we develop and that's why Conte is now our boss.
If you build a team of finished 27-year olds then in a couple of years you'll need to replace them with younger players or you'll end up losing a fortune in the transfer market and there isn't a club in the world who operates like that consistently.
Have a great day.
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