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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article2759648.ece
From The Times
October 29, 2007
New head coach hailed as ‘student of English game’
Peter Jenson in Seville
When Juande Ramos addresses his new players on Wednesday evening before Tottenham Hotspur take to the field against Blackpool in the Carling Cup fourth round, it will not be the first time the names of Lennon, Berbatov, Keane and Chimbonda have been included in his team talk. Andrés Palop, the Seville goalkeeper, has revealed that they formed a key part of Ramos’s dressing-room address before last season’s Uefa Cup victory over Tottenham.
Palop said: “When we had to play Tottenham in the Uefa Cup, Juande spoke very highly about Lennon to us before the game and we talked about Robbie Keane about Berbatov and about Chimbonda – players he knew had the quality to cause us problems.”
The goalkeeper painted a picture of a manager meticulous in his knowledge of the opposition, who passes that information to players in one-to-one team talks before matches. “He talks with each individual player about what they need to be doing on the pitch,” Palop said. “He tries to let each player know exactly what they are going to come up against.”
Palop also describes Ramos as a fanatical student of the game with an in-depth knowledge of the Premier League. “He is going to know the English league perfectly well because he has seen so many games already,” he said. “He likes the idiosyncrasies of the English game, he likes the way they play the game in England and how the people follow the game there.
“We would always talk about the English matches that were going to be on the television and how he was going to be at home to watch them.”
Despite being thorough, Palop said that Ramos’s talks are based far more on what he expects his players to do to the opposition rather than vice versa. “He knows that if we play the way he wants us to, then the opposition are going to end up a lot more worried about us than we are of them, so he doesn’t dwell on their strengths,” he said.
“He normally tells us the four main ‘virtues’ that the other side has and we try to make sure that they don’t do us any harm with any of these characteristics, but the emphasis is on us to stamp our identity on the game.
“He is a coach who never looks to be the protagonist. He prefers to concentrate on studying and analysing the game. He reads matches very well and his players respect him because if he has something to say he will say it to their faces and not in the media or behind their backs.
“For a player, he is everything you want in your manager. Have patience, give him some support and I’m sure Tottenham will very soon be fighting for major honours.”
Sounds promising. Lets hope he can do the business,...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article2759648.ece
From The Times
October 29, 2007
New head coach hailed as ‘student of English game’
Peter Jenson in Seville
When Juande Ramos addresses his new players on Wednesday evening before Tottenham Hotspur take to the field against Blackpool in the Carling Cup fourth round, it will not be the first time the names of Lennon, Berbatov, Keane and Chimbonda have been included in his team talk. Andrés Palop, the Seville goalkeeper, has revealed that they formed a key part of Ramos’s dressing-room address before last season’s Uefa Cup victory over Tottenham.
Palop said: “When we had to play Tottenham in the Uefa Cup, Juande spoke very highly about Lennon to us before the game and we talked about Robbie Keane about Berbatov and about Chimbonda – players he knew had the quality to cause us problems.”
The goalkeeper painted a picture of a manager meticulous in his knowledge of the opposition, who passes that information to players in one-to-one team talks before matches. “He talks with each individual player about what they need to be doing on the pitch,” Palop said. “He tries to let each player know exactly what they are going to come up against.”
Palop also describes Ramos as a fanatical student of the game with an in-depth knowledge of the Premier League. “He is going to know the English league perfectly well because he has seen so many games already,” he said. “He likes the idiosyncrasies of the English game, he likes the way they play the game in England and how the people follow the game there.
“We would always talk about the English matches that were going to be on the television and how he was going to be at home to watch them.”
Despite being thorough, Palop said that Ramos’s talks are based far more on what he expects his players to do to the opposition rather than vice versa. “He knows that if we play the way he wants us to, then the opposition are going to end up a lot more worried about us than we are of them, so he doesn’t dwell on their strengths,” he said.
“He normally tells us the four main ‘virtues’ that the other side has and we try to make sure that they don’t do us any harm with any of these characteristics, but the emphasis is on us to stamp our identity on the game.
“He is a coach who never looks to be the protagonist. He prefers to concentrate on studying and analysing the game. He reads matches very well and his players respect him because if he has something to say he will say it to their faces and not in the media or behind their backs.
“For a player, he is everything you want in your manager. Have patience, give him some support and I’m sure Tottenham will very soon be fighting for major honours.”
Sounds promising. Lets hope he can do the business,...
