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Yves Bissouma
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braineclipse
Vic Buckingham
Will be interesting to see if and how he's reintegtated now. With Bergvall and Bentancur out injured we still have Gray, Palhinha, Sarr and Gallagher. But feels to me like Bissouma could be a useful player for us this season.
Very much looked eager to impress and impose himself against West Ham. His inconsistency and off the pitch issues probably means that he's gone sooner or later, but motivated and on form he's a really good player.
Very much looked eager to impress and impose himself against West Ham. His inconsistency and off the pitch issues probably means that he's gone sooner or later, but motivated and on form he's a really good player.
clownfoot
Steed Malbranque
Obviously we’re not privy to everything that goes on but him being banished seems strange with hindsight. What was it for again, being late and doing laughing gas?
I imagine he’ll be involved Saturday in some capacity with him not being eligible for midweek and our current injury list. Would be an ironic twist if his redemption arc was the spark that ignited Frank’s
I imagine he’ll be involved Saturday in some capacity with him not being eligible for midweek and our current injury list. Would be an ironic twist if his redemption arc was the spark that ignited Frank’s
SteveAWOL
Erik Thorstvedt
Bissouma must be thinking why on earth did he have to miss out on playing in a Super Cup (which we probably would’ve won had he been available to come off the subs bench when we needed fresh legs at the end of regulation time) when the likes of Romero are getting away with similar levels of indiscipline without any punishment…
It should not be brushed over that Frank faced serious issues in terms of player behaviour and dynamics that he was not able to solve. Discipline and time-keeping were always a concern. After Spurs lost so painfully to Arsenal, Frank lectured his players in the dressing room about standards dropping. The next day, multiple players — including Cristian Romero — still turned up late.
It should not be brushed over that Frank faced serious issues in terms of player behaviour and dynamics that he was not able to solve. Discipline and time-keeping were always a concern. After Spurs lost so painfully to Arsenal, Frank lectured his players in the dressing room about standards dropping. The next day, multiple players — including Cristian Romero — still turned up late.
Bullet
Jimmy Cantrell
I don't think you can compare these 2 scenarios:
a) Biss doing balloons and consistently turning up late with his nonchalant air giving off vibes of "who cares"
b) Arse absolutely destroying us and Eze scoring 3 goals from zone 14 with nonchalant ease, because Frank set us up poorly and refused to ever defend zone 14 properly throughout the entire season, resulting in several players thinking "Fk this, let's all come in late to show Frank we think he is an idiot"
a) Biss doing balloons and consistently turning up late with his nonchalant air giving off vibes of "who cares"
b) Arse absolutely destroying us and Eze scoring 3 goals from zone 14 with nonchalant ease, because Frank set us up poorly and refused to ever defend zone 14 properly throughout the entire season, resulting in several players thinking "Fk this, let's all come in late to show Frank we think he is an idiot"
Mikey10
Rafael Van Der Vaart
If that is even partly true then we need to get rid of a load of our squad. Not only are many of them bang average but they don’t seem to have a professional bone in their bodies.
“The players ran through brick walls for Postecoglou…” Makes you wonder how they still lost 22 PL games. Doesn’t say much for their quality.
braineclipse
Vic Buckingham
There are managers who will impose their authority through fear. Doubt that was Frank - and I respect him for that.
One other way of imposing authority is through mutual respect, belief, the players really believing in the manager and what he's doing.
A manager not finding a way to have that authority in any way should always be seen as a red flag. Can always blame the players I guess, but I also think that's just what happens.
tommysvr
Pat van den Hauwe
The fact that only 3 players have come out with any sort of thanks probably says quite a bit about his authority.
braineclipse
Vic Buckingham
Yeah, they did run through brick walls for Ange. Says a lot about Frank that he couldn't get the same out of them.
SteveAWOL
Erik Thorstvedt
Also don't help that our club has lost 2 legends in the space of 24 months, both of whom were consummate professionals that no doubt inspired everyone to do their utmost in training plus enticed some of the best managers in world football to come to our club.
Now our squad is mostly full of injury prone journeymen along with some talented youngsters, must of whom will inevitably not live up to their early hype. So no wonder the quality of head coach we are able to attract has diminished, thus perpetuating this negative spiral we appear trapped in.
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