It is just past 9am on a weekday... there is a big match this Sunday, you are personally playing pretty poorly and your (new) team are languishing near the bottom of the table. Can you bloody well stop tweeting and get on the training pitch and actually try to improve? Is it too much to ask ????
In one fell swoop Harry could change the bitter feeling that we are all part of right now - he could judge his players on their actual performance, drop Mr. "it is so much easier to run a testimonial season/ book tour from London" Ferdinand, pick players like the Chief that would put their lives on the line for the club and were busy getting their hands dirty in the lower reaches this time last year, ban all these good for nothings from social media and actually get them prepared to play a match in the Premier League!
Instead on Friday we will get a press conference about how nice it will be on Sunday for him and Rio to go back to where it all started, he will trot out the regular excuses about how 'ard the PL is and what a great job Sam Allardyce is doing there, no one will dare ask him why he is complaining about lack of full backs when he sold Simpson, was prepared to sell Traore, consistently ignores YSY and used a squad spot on SWP rather than Harriman. We might even get the fitness excuse again as if players from other teams get magic dust sprayed on them at the beginning of each season making them fit and he will bitch about the WC affecting his players (because no other team in the PL sent players to the WC). We might even get the "Remy left us a little short up front" when every person on this board could have told you that he would jump if he could before Sept 1.
Maybe, just maybe, if it doesn't affect all their other social engagements, we can see a team and manager that look like they want to be here, that look like the trained together during the week (including crazy things like "how to defend a corner") and that actually are put out on the pitch with some sort of coherent and cohesive shape and plan.
At the top level in other sports, players and coaches spend hours poring over videos of opposition and prior games even when they are not physically training (can't expect these guys to be out on the pitch all the time), they know strengths weaknesses, where they are likely to place corners, how they set up for set pieces etc. Do we do any of that? Because all I ever seem to see/ hear is Arry on Talksport, Rio promoting his book, other players watching hours of TV shows.....
Rant over for now
In one fell swoop Harry could change the bitter feeling that we are all part of right now - he could judge his players on their actual performance, drop Mr. "it is so much easier to run a testimonial season/ book tour from London" Ferdinand, pick players like the Chief that would put their lives on the line for the club and were busy getting their hands dirty in the lower reaches this time last year, ban all these good for nothings from social media and actually get them prepared to play a match in the Premier League!
Instead on Friday we will get a press conference about how nice it will be on Sunday for him and Rio to go back to where it all started, he will trot out the regular excuses about how 'ard the PL is and what a great job Sam Allardyce is doing there, no one will dare ask him why he is complaining about lack of full backs when he sold Simpson, was prepared to sell Traore, consistently ignores YSY and used a squad spot on SWP rather than Harriman. We might even get the fitness excuse again as if players from other teams get magic dust sprayed on them at the beginning of each season making them fit and he will bitch about the WC affecting his players (because no other team in the PL sent players to the WC). We might even get the "Remy left us a little short up front" when every person on this board could have told you that he would jump if he could before Sept 1.
Maybe, just maybe, if it doesn't affect all their other social engagements, we can see a team and manager that look like they want to be here, that look like the trained together during the week (including crazy things like "how to defend a corner") and that actually are put out on the pitch with some sort of coherent and cohesive shape and plan.
At the top level in other sports, players and coaches spend hours poring over videos of opposition and prior games even when they are not physically training (can't expect these guys to be out on the pitch all the time), they know strengths weaknesses, where they are likely to place corners, how they set up for set pieces etc. Do we do any of that? Because all I ever seem to see/ hear is Arry on Talksport, Rio promoting his book, other players watching hours of TV shows.....
Rant over for now
