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Is this common? I've never really heard of something like this.
I don't think it is that common, namely another Club but there are loads of cases of players going to specialists to get treatment away from the parent club. Dembele has a guy he goes to in Belgium. Guardiola has just sent a couple of his players to a Barca doctor. Then some players do things themselves, Chadli booked himself into a place that changed his diet. Townsend brought out his own physios during the World Cup in Brazil in an effort to get fit.Is this common? I've never really heard of something like this.
Didn't they do something similar to this previously with Lamela, when he had that back issue not long after he joined us. Think he went back to River Plate. Or Sherwood was just holding him back...
Give me someone who's that desperate to be on the pitch over an Adebayor or Assou-Ekotto any day.It makes a lot of sense.
You know it's just killing him to not be out there. I can see him pushing himself too hard on the training ground just to get back.
Very unfair on Ekotto...very unfair.Give me someone who's that desperate to be on the pitch over an Adebayor or Assou-Ekotto any day.
Is it? I didn't call him a cunt, I implied he was laissez-faire.Very unfair on Ekotto...very unfair.
He plays for money...shock horror.Is it? I didn't call him a cunt, I implied he was laissez-faire.
Benoît Assou-Ekotto: 'I play for the money. Football's not my passion'
I think 'the way it ended' can still have a reasonable bearing on what we think of his attitude towards the game.He plays for money...shock horror.
When he was in a spurs shirt he gave his absolute all despite his laid back atitude. There was never a time you thought he wasn't putting maximum effort in when on the pitch for us and i think the way it ended for him here clouds peoples opinion and judgment
I remember the reaction from spurs fans when that piece came out and Ekotto was being praised galore for it. Do you know why? Because he showed on the pitch he was a good player and he showed on the pitch that he would give 100% effort and commitment when playing for us.I think 'the way it ended' can still have a reasonable bearing on what we think of his attitude towards the game.
I liked Benny a lot, but he wouldn't fit into what we've got now at Spurs, whereas Lamela fits very well.
And yes, someone talking about their motivation being entirely financial is a bit of a red flag. That interview would go down like a ton of bricks if it was from a current team player and you know it.
Look, I'll admit that Adebayor is the best example of what I was describing, but I still maintain that BAE worked in the "fucking run about a bit" era but wouldn't be well-suited to it now.I remember the reaction from spurs fans when that piece came out and Ekotto was being praised galore for it. Do you know why? Because he showed on the pitch he was a good player and he showed on the pitch that he would give 100% effort and commitment when playing for us.
It's very understandable that Pochettino has drawn attention away from the family issues and towards his injury, but it's a shame in the sense that I'd have thought the vast majority of Spurs fans would wish Lamela well and want him to have the time to gather himself physically and mentally.Think I figured out the family-problem Poch was talking about. If you look up Axel Lamela on twitter/instagram, that's his little brother who seems to have broken his neck and was hospitalized for some time. Perhaps paralyzed now?
Maybe Erik, in connection with being out injured, is suffering mentally at the moment. Hope to see him back soon, he's a great lad.
Rumours of Erik returning to Roma for recovery.
Tottenham's Erik Lamela Set for Return to AS Roma in Attempt to Solve Current Injury Problems