D-day for Dembele
It will soon be decision time for Mousa Dembélé, whether he wants to improve himself as a footballer and develop a winning mentality or whether he just wants to stay in his comfort zone and amble along doing what he does.
He doesn't put in bad performances really, only once in a while, but he doesn't put in the performances his ability should be capable of either. With him I always have his words to the press after we lost to Leeds United in the FA Cup in January 2013, 'I wasn't motivated for the game'.
That smacks of someone with the wrong mentality, any player should be able to get himself motivated for any game, if he knows what truly motivates him, most people don't know despite thinking they do. A sports psychologist would drag the real reason he is motivated out of him and he could then use it but alas that looks destined not to happen.
He has a choice now, stay at Spurs and fight for a place by improving and tailoring his game to Pochettino's requirements or move on. The club are happy to keep him bit other clubs constantly eye him up. The latest are Chelsea report The Sun.
The Sunday papers, being transfer silly season, all have to have a major story, whether it actually be true or not. I had to laugh when I see The Sun coming up with Chelsea want £12 million (US$19.06m - AUS$24.52m - €16.78m) rated Mousa Dembélé.
A certain Mohamad Salah, who hasn't proved himself in the Premier League has grown in value during his failed spell at Chelsea by around £7 million (US$11.12m - AUS$14.30m - €9.79m). Fiorentina took him on loan and did well, they have a £1.5 million (US$2.33m - AUS$3.02m - €2.07m) loan option with a purchase clause at the end of the season but Salah has a veto on that and is reported to want to stay in the Premier League.
Chelsea want £18 million (US$27.54m - AUS$36.02m - €24.51m) for him, yet in 2014 only paid £11.79 million (US$18.04m - AUS$23.59m - €16.05m). There is rather a disparity in price notwithstanding Chelsea don't actually want to sell anyone to us for not giving them Modric on the cheap.
What does Dembélé actually want, only he will know, but he isn't a player the top four need to buy and try to improve so it's doubtful there is much in this. He'd be swapping benches with even less chance of game time unless he was deployed as a more defensive defensive midfielder, rather than the link man.
He simply doesn't offer the range of passing needed, he isn't going to replace someone like Cesc Fàbregas.
He doesn't put in bad performances really, only once in a while, but he doesn't put in the performances his ability should be capable of either. With him I always have his words to the press after we lost to Leeds United in the FA Cup in January 2013, 'I wasn't motivated for the game'.
That smacks of someone with the wrong mentality, any player should be able to get himself motivated for any game, if he knows what truly motivates him, most people don't know despite thinking they do. A sports psychologist would drag the real reason he is motivated out of him and he could then use it but alas that looks destined not to happen.
He has a choice now, stay at Spurs and fight for a place by improving and tailoring his game to Pochettino's requirements or move on. The club are happy to keep him bit other clubs constantly eye him up. The latest are Chelsea report The Sun.
The Sunday papers, being transfer silly season, all have to have a major story, whether it actually be true or not. I had to laugh when I see The Sun coming up with Chelsea want £12 million (US$19.06m - AUS$24.52m - €16.78m) rated Mousa Dembélé.
A certain Mohamad Salah, who hasn't proved himself in the Premier League has grown in value during his failed spell at Chelsea by around £7 million (US$11.12m - AUS$14.30m - €9.79m). Fiorentina took him on loan and did well, they have a £1.5 million (US$2.33m - AUS$3.02m - €2.07m) loan option with a purchase clause at the end of the season but Salah has a veto on that and is reported to want to stay in the Premier League.
Chelsea want £18 million (US$27.54m - AUS$36.02m - €24.51m) for him, yet in 2014 only paid £11.79 million (US$18.04m - AUS$23.59m - €16.05m). There is rather a disparity in price notwithstanding Chelsea don't actually want to sell anyone to us for not giving them Modric on the cheap.
What does Dembélé actually want, only he will know, but he isn't a player the top four need to buy and try to improve so it's doubtful there is much in this. He'd be swapping benches with even less chance of game time unless he was deployed as a more defensive defensive midfielder, rather than the link man.
He simply doesn't offer the range of passing needed, he isn't going to replace someone like Cesc Fàbregas.
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He has gone backwards since joining Spurs so much so hes allowed the average Bentaleb and Mason to keep him out of the 1st team.