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This all feeds into the 'no excuses' policy. Are you fit? Yes. Have you forgotten how to play football? No.Then you're good to go, mate.Yeah, I also seem to remember there being a much greater emphasis on getting everyone super fit and learning the system during preseason with Pochettino, and also Conte to a degree. To the extent that if a player missed out on a full preseason with the team, there would be a lot of talk like ‘can’t wait until he gets going next season, once he’s had a full preseason under his belt”.
There seems to be less emphasis on this with Ange. Then again that may be due to circumstances given the number of injuries we have had. But still, VdV, Bentancur, Romero, Werner and Dragusin have all either made debuts just days after signing or have returned from injuries to start matches sometimes weeks ahead of when we expected them to be back.