Rose confirms you have to earn the right to play

Winning breeds winning, losing breeds losing, we see is often in sport and the reason is blindingly obvious. It's not a winning mentality because that is more but winning makes you feel good, it makes everyone feel good and if everyone feels good that is infectious.

Rose confirms you have to earn the right to play


If you want the most from an employee then they have to be happy, an employee that enjoys their job will do a better job than the employee who doesn't. Football is no different, if players are enjoying themselves they perform better with more confidence, losing creates the opposite.

A confident player will expect a difficult piece of skill to work and as a result he'll perform it better and increase the chances of it being successful. A negative mind is hopeful the same piece of skill will work and thus isn't performed as well and less likely to be successful.

When you are winning you feel you can beat anyone, even if you are behind as Danny Rose recently pointed out, although not to the extent it happened in the Chelsea game.

“It’s amazing what a bit of confidence can do, especially after going 1-0 behind. In the past when Tottenham have gone 1-0 behind to bigger teams we have sometimes crumbled. But we showed great character against Chelsea on Thursday. 
“People say they never saw that result coming and after the first goal neither did I. It looked like it was going to be a long evening. But it shows how far we have come from a couple of months ago when we were winning one and losing one – especially at home when we were struggling against so-called lesser teams. 
“But we’ve had a great Christmas period. We are getting there slowly but surely under the new manager. We are understanding his philosophies."

Pochettino has consistently talked about changing the mentality at Tottenham and he has applied that when picking his teams. If you work hard and try to improve you get selected, if you go through the motions you don't. Some players have taken a little longer to grasp that, Mousa Dembele being a case in point.

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Harry Kane worked his socks off, kept taking his chance in midweek games, had cameo role in the Premier League before making the striker role his own. Dembele was not performing, not doing what Pochettino wanted and therefore not selected. he is now getting the cameo roles after the internal power struggle was resolved. His future is in his own hands and if he follows the advice of Rose then he may still have a contribution to make.

“Let’s just say if you don’t work hard under the manager, you’re not playing! You better make sure you give 100 per cent each day in training, which is very hard and intense. 
“But I really enjoy it. As the long as the manager sees you are willing to work hard and want to fight hard for your team-mates then you will go far with him.”