- May 5, 2005
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I'd prefer to watch a player worth the £25m...or £30m we paid for Lamela ...rather than one requiring extensive coaching.
Extensive?
How much coaching does it take to take him to one side for 5 minutes every day in training and say:
- Try and look for an earlier pass when the opportunity's there
- Keep your head up a bit more and try and avoid running down a blind alley a couple of times each game
- When defending, focus more on covering the attacker goal-side rather than always commiting to winning the ball which is risky
- We need you to be a little bit more disciplined in general - express yourself, but aim to only do it when it won't put us at too much risk defensively
There you go, I've just single-handedly coached Lamela's biggest faults out of his game. Let me at 'im!
By the end of the season I'm confident we'll see him much improved as he's adapted to the league - he's already our top assister this season and according to some on here he's apparently struggling. Not what I see.