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If Mourinho can move Lamela along in this transfer window it will have to go down as his greatest managerial achievement.
Serie A is completely different to Premier League. Much slower. Less intense.
Lamela was not a grafter for Roma. He was a silky wide forward who had a good positional sense to score goals.
In his first and majority of his second season at Spurs, it was blatantly clear that his style of play was completely incompatible to the Premier League. Through a combination of Pochettino's persistence and brilliant coaching, coupled with Lamelas own incredible work rate and desire, he drastically altered his play style and physique to become a competent Premier League player, through nothing more than grafting and hard work.
Lamela is a very average player technically. Injury or not, this would not have changed. The theory that injury prevented him from become a superstar for us is romantic revisionism and wide of the mark
Quite possible, however I don’t think he would have had to work as hard or alter his play style quite so drastically if he was still in Italy.Football is football sure some players suit some leagues but the reality is Lamela would never have made it as a top player regardless of what league he was playing in because he's not good enough and we had our pants pulled down well and truly.
I said this as soon as we signed him. A rabona and a couple of NLDs aside. He's been so meh we should've shipped him years agoQuite possible, however I don’t think he would have had to work as hard or alter his play style quite so drastically if he was still in Italy.
Wheelchair! That's hilarious.Same problem West Ham have getting rid of Wheelchair nobody wants to pay a bang average permanent crock 100k a week , Pamela is underwhelming 9 games out of 10 even when fit unless it's against useless opposition. He has stolen a living for years and should do the decent thing and take a paycut to go and play somewhere more his level like Feyenoord.
One of ENIC's worst transfers post Redknapp - absolute wage thief of noteSame problem West Ham have getting rid of Wheelchair nobody wants to pay a bang average permanent crock 100k a week , Pamela is underwhelming 9 games out of 10 even when fit unless it's against useless opposition. He has stolen a living for years and should do the decent thing and take a paycut to go and play somewhere more his level like Feyenoord.
We definitely didn’t get Roma Lamela, there were time at 2016 when he looked good but far too inconsistent. Tbf for him he always tried his best, no one forced the club to sign him on a second contractOne of ENIC's worst transfers post Redknapp - absolute wage thief of note
Serie A is completely different to Premier League. Much slower. Less intense.
Lamela was not a grafter for Roma. He was a silky wide forward who had a good positional sense to score goals.
In his first and majority of his second season at Spurs, it was blatantly clear that his style of play was completely incompatible to the Premier League. Through a combination of Pochettino's persistence and brilliant coaching, coupled with Lamelas own incredible work rate and desire, he drastically altered his play style and physique to become a competent Premier League player, through nothing more than grafting and hard work.
Lamela is a very average player technically. Injury or not, this would not have changed. The theory that injury prevented him from become a superstar for us is romantic revisionism and wide of the mark
We definitely didn’t get Roma Lamela, there were time at 2016 when he looked good but far too inconsistent. Tbf for him he always tried his best, no one forced the club to sign him on a second contract
Exactly! I don't know what happened to him since he left Roma, but there he was a much better player that did these things, he was so much objective and got a lot of goal. That's what he should be doing here, the english football give the player so much less time to think and dribble, either he adopted that kind of play here, hard to undestand.Sad sign today when Coco dribbled / rolled the ball from RW across to LW and then realised he'd forgotten to do anything with it, so had to turn back into the traffic rather than shoot. Bale may be a greedy trigger happy bastard, but at least he'd have tried to score.
Played well today. We're all sick to death of him and you can't rely on him to be fit for long stretches, but he's a creative attacking player who adds a bit of spark to the game and I'm betting he'll be central to our cup campaigns this year because we don't really have other places to look for that.