06-10-2022, 12:17
Of course, you should act in Mbete's interests next time out. Probably that does mean leaving him out. Just occasionally putting a player back in again works the oracle too - I imagine having hit bottom the player thinks it can't get any worse and loosens up - like a tennis player 6-0 6-0 down after the first two sets, who comes back to win the third 5-7 ..........
You see I just can't believe that a player who has come through Man City and England set-ups does not have good enough ball control for Huddersfield. It IS in his head!
I've never forgotten a young player we had at Chesterfield called Tony Moore. I'd have been in my early teens perhaps. He was a winger, and he just couldn't stop making kfcu-ups and became a target for the crowd. Every game he'd be greeted with us singing, "Send Tony Moore to Vietnam!" Rumours spread that he was only in the team because he was the manager's daughter's boyfriend. Away from home he was a far better player, but we wrecked his career and now he's dead and gone and none of us can even apologise. Don't turn Mbete into Tony Moore.
Everyone seems to praise the loan system but me I'm not so sure. Certainly, it gives game-time to players who might not get that vital experience, BUT it also allows clubs like City to herd all the young talent their way, and because we have no B Team system in Pro Football here, they then use loans so other clubs put the final gloss on players contracted to City. Surely without the loan system the young talent would scatter more widely across EFL clubs too, and young players would be pretty much assured of getting a chance of playing against men rather than shirt buttons ......? If Mbete were a Huddersfield product, do you think you might be seeing an entirely different performance? Coming from Man City, possibly the best team in world, he knows he is facing a "Come-on-show-us-what-you-can-do" world. If he were a local lad, he'd be nervous and excited for sure, but would he be shitting it when called on for 2 minutes against Cardiff?
Be the kind, decent people you are at heart. Otherwise, I wouldn't be bothered writing this. It could be that the pressure of having the golden lottery ticket of a Premier League career dangling in front of his nose, could prevent him succeeding anywhere ...... whatever you say and do. Maybe it's a step he just can't handle. A couple of years ago we had Jerome Binnom+Williams at Chesterfield. We got him from Palace, he'd won age group England caps, he was big, strong and powerful. His first friendly he was a sensation raiding from full back, but he picked up an injury. Everyone expected that as soon as he came back, he would destroy everyone at our level. We never saw that kind of form again from him. He has finally achieved success - as the best player in National League South. A long way from England age-group caps and Crystal Palace. It happens. It's sad and not at all funny.
You see I just can't believe that a player who has come through Man City and England set-ups does not have good enough ball control for Huddersfield. It IS in his head!
I've never forgotten a young player we had at Chesterfield called Tony Moore. I'd have been in my early teens perhaps. He was a winger, and he just couldn't stop making kfcu-ups and became a target for the crowd. Every game he'd be greeted with us singing, "Send Tony Moore to Vietnam!" Rumours spread that he was only in the team because he was the manager's daughter's boyfriend. Away from home he was a far better player, but we wrecked his career and now he's dead and gone and none of us can even apologise. Don't turn Mbete into Tony Moore.
Everyone seems to praise the loan system but me I'm not so sure. Certainly, it gives game-time to players who might not get that vital experience, BUT it also allows clubs like City to herd all the young talent their way, and because we have no B Team system in Pro Football here, they then use loans so other clubs put the final gloss on players contracted to City. Surely without the loan system the young talent would scatter more widely across EFL clubs too, and young players would be pretty much assured of getting a chance of playing against men rather than shirt buttons ......? If Mbete were a Huddersfield product, do you think you might be seeing an entirely different performance? Coming from Man City, possibly the best team in world, he knows he is facing a "Come-on-show-us-what-you-can-do" world. If he were a local lad, he'd be nervous and excited for sure, but would he be shitting it when called on for 2 minutes against Cardiff?
Be the kind, decent people you are at heart. Otherwise, I wouldn't be bothered writing this. It could be that the pressure of having the golden lottery ticket of a Premier League career dangling in front of his nose, could prevent him succeeding anywhere ...... whatever you say and do. Maybe it's a step he just can't handle. A couple of years ago we had Jerome Binnom+Williams at Chesterfield. We got him from Palace, he'd won age group England caps, he was big, strong and powerful. His first friendly he was a sensation raiding from full back, but he picked up an injury. Everyone expected that as soon as he came back, he would destroy everyone at our level. We never saw that kind of form again from him. He has finally achieved success - as the best player in National League South. A long way from England age-group caps and Crystal Palace. It happens. It's sad and not at all funny.