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Player Xavi Simons
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Hopefully Tudor lets him off the leash a bit.
5 days off after yet another embarrassing defeat.
My serious big club.
It doesn’t state that he was training for 5 days though. Could have trained for 1 or 2 days from the 5 day break.
How could he have spent time at the training ground if he was in Dubai?
It was agreed a while back as reward for getting into the CL top 4, saving the play off game which would have been this week
I dont mind that
Given our injuries a bit of R&R seems like a good idea
And given the change in manager, a clean break/fresh start seems reasonable too
Players at this club have way too much power. Couple days off is the most they 'deserved'. When you're that shit on & off the pitch, your ass oughta be at training running hard miles.
Tbf I need 5 days off after watching
the fuckers.Im not even sure its a player power thing, clubs often take the chance to give players time off midseason if the opportunity is there
And considering the state of injury in our squad, I dont mind them resting a bit
They still have a solid week of training before the next game
Frank agreed to the days off before the Newcastle Game. That on top of the manager search was why the players got the time off.
I wish my employer would give me 5 days off for screwing up every week.
That’s how good he is . Try marking player who can be in two places simultaneously
He might give you a lot longer than that
5 days off more likely because there was nobody to take training after sacking the coaches
what power do they have?
They clearly had doubts about Frank for months and yet Frank was allowed to stay until it became obvious we were in danger of relegation.
Did they openly defy his tactics? No
Did they express his beta energy on the pitch? Yes.
The closest we’ve come to player power was Kane completely losing faith in Nuno.
Needs to find a way of linking the defence to Xavi. Until now, he's looked too far ahead of them to get the ball, or too close to them to do anything with it.
Squad is on its knees with injuries. Players dropping like flies in fairly innocuous incidents.
A rest is worth more than over training IMO.
Yeah I actually think the players did put in decent effort for Frank throughout his entire tenure. They never stopped trying to implement his ideas and they did run for him - until the Newcastle game it never felt to me like they actually gave up or downed tools.
I think the issue was his ideas were shit and he was an uninspiring leader that they didn't believe in. If the manager can't get the players up for it and can't get buy-in, I think that's on their failure as a leader than the players. Our dressing room has some dickheads but it's not Real Madrid - they're mostly nice enough lads tbh.
It's like trying to shag someone you don't remotely fancy. You can do it but it's gonna be unpleasant and you're not gonna be that up for it or giving your all
Let's hope the players can get hard for Tudor.
In many ways, players downing tools when it's obvious a coaches ideas will harm the team is the best thing to do, not the worst.
I would disagree with some of your sentiment though. The first half Vs Newcastle was no worse than City, Spam, Villa (FAC), Arse, Chelsea. There was just nothing there at all. Players all looked vacant and disinterested.
They may not have actively have downed tools, but I strongly suspect that they were so de-motivated that subconsciously, they weren't trying.