Promise you his coaches would have given him plenty of jokes for taking himself too seriously. If there is one thing teenage boys need, especially talented ones, it's to be kept humble and feet firmly on the ground.
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Promise you his coaches would have given him plenty of jokes for taking himself too seriously. If there is one thing teenage boys need, especially talented ones, it's to be kept humble and feet firmly on the ground.
Definitely!
I wonder if that’s what went wrong with John Bostock, and I certainly don’t think Poch’s Mini-Messi comments helped contain Marcus Edwards’ ego!
He’s overrated and doesn’t fit Ange’s system
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I remember a Spurs youth watcher years ago said that the youth coaches at the time tried to completely remodel Bostock’s game. He was this wide playmaker type, a bit like a Spanish midfielder - David Silva or Carzola - and they were obsessed with making him this Steven Gerrard type box to box player because he was quite tall and leggy. His confidence went to shit and he faded away. He managed to rebuild himself and have a decent little career, which shows he had some talent and strength of mind.
No idea who this bloke is but guess it’s good news.
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I live not far from Newcastle and albeit hearsay, fans like ourselves with access to their own form of ITK stated they knocked back a £105m bid from Chelsea earlier in the window out of hand and they’ve not returned with a higher bid. If this is the case then I can’t see them entertaining £110-120m. He’s arguably their best player and now that they’ve sorted their PSR issues, it would only take a ridiculous offer for them to sell. We would be better testing Leipzig’s resolve for Openda given he can walk next summer is his mediocre (in the current market) release clause of circa £75m is met.
The unfortunate thing here is, agents and agencies will often tell young footballers (and other young folk in the public eye who are looking for high level employment) to look serious in their photographs. Then if you're a 14 year old white kid you're often told you look determined, but if you're not white you're a gangster.Ok junior gangsta vibe!
Which is a bit shit, really
Don’t believe that for a second. He said himself a few weeks ago he’s not interesting in Saudi and he’s staying
Things change. He does a lot of good things in Brazil and could do even more.
But who though, there’s no cunt out there. Offer Villa £80m for Watkins? I’m not convinced that would be money well spent either.
That seems really crappy advice as they just look like they’re taking themselves far too seriously and would scream diva to me!
BTW the colour thing didn’t even enter my thinking, and I would have said the same irrespective, as there seem to be plenty of wannabe white hoodlums about.
Not convinced by Openda one bit
Yup striker market is flawed, people genuinely think there's an abundance of quality of the market
Apart from one man...
I'm the same with the Swedish striker that plays for Sporting
There just don’t seem to be any stand out candidates available where you think, ‘Yep he’s the man!’
To top it off what type of striker does Ange even want?
Fans will never agree on every target.
Yeah but every striker we are linked to is completely different