- Jun 7, 2004
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Janssen cannot play in this league as a lone striker
Yet.
He has joined us after 2/3 of a season of success in a league full of patsies, with a much slower rate of play and lower fitness levels.
Like Son, who stepped up from a better, faster league than Janssen, and Lamela, who joined us from a much slower and more conservative league, he's going to need a season to adjust his fitness (physical and mental) and his game-plan to be effective in England. This season, Pochettino will be working on him and with him.
Son and Lamela have turned themselves into effective Premiership players under his tutelage. If Janssen has as much ability as he appears to have, so will he. But it will take some time. He had a great deal less prior experience than Son or Lamela and such experience as he did have was in an inferior league.