Pochettino has to rejuvenate Adebayor

Have rejuvenated Mousa Dembele after his early season performances, Mauricio Pochettino now has to rejuvenate Emmanuel Adebayor.

Pochettino has to rejuvenate Adebayor


Dembele was playing his game early season rather than the game Pochettino anted, he has for a while been stuck in his comfort zone when he should be a world class player. His ability has never been in question but he hadn't improved on it and that is a mental issue. He has had to grasp that unless you work, unless you do as the boss requires you don't play. Now he beats his man just outside the penalty area instead of indulging himself on the half-way line. The result is a more exciting Dembele who now needs to bring his creative talents to bare.

Rejuvenating Mousa Dembele is child's play to rejuvenating Emmanuel Adebayor though. Ade talks about confidence but doesn't seem to do himself any favours though. When you see him play now it's almost as if he doesn't know what to do in the system, yet we all know he is talented and be a handful for anyone if he wants to be. That's the thing though, we never know when Ade wants it and therefore he can't be relied upon.

Tim Sherwood got the best out of him because he had a point to prove and to be fair to him, he proved it but then he was back to going through the motions again, playing football but not actually being a threat. If you were going to list strikers who have a determination to score, he wouldn't be on it, which is criminal when he has so much going for him.

He seems to have forgotten what the strikers job is, to score goals first and foremost. He spend too much time knitting play together without actually ever getting a shot away. You have to be part of a team but you have to score goals as well or all the team play has been a waste of time.

It's not good enough just to run around, which is the impression he has given lately, there has to be a purpose to the running. Teams defend from the front, especially ours. He can't close on his own he has to close as part of a unit but he didn't seem to know what the unit were supposed to be doing, which is crucial if you are a part of it. To me he looked a long way off being able to claim a starting berth and he'll have to put in a lot of work on the training ground to rectify that.

He needs to learn the will to win from Harry Kane, the will to improve, the will to score because at the moment he isn't justifying the high wages he is being paid. It's going to take some skill to massage his ego and get him producing the way we know he can but don't see often enough.

I don't envy Pochettino the task, should it start by being on the bench for the North London Derby? If he wants to prove a point or impress is their a better game for him to do it in or is it too soon, is he ready? The interview after his aborted attempt to go to |West Ham when it was already known he wouldn't be loaned to a top half team didn't impress..

It's almost as if he attempt to move was one upmanship and now it's failed he is going to go to work to do his job. Well that's what someone does who doesn't enjoy it and they go through the motions, there was no spark in what he was saying, no life, almost no emotion. That doesn't sound like a motivated employee about to give his best, without motivation a player is only half a player.

We have him now and we'll need to use him and Soldado, he has a lot of bridge building to do, not just with the fans. He needs to start giving some answers on the pitch because life is not a charity, it's not a question of show me love and I'll score, it's score and then you'll be shown the love. In that respect he has his wires crossed so he had better unwind them fast.