- Aug 25, 2011
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He's not stupid. He can see the coach is not getting the best out of the team and himself.I can’t speak for any inside information, but he definitely played yesterday as if he couldn’t be bothered any longer. 90 minutes of going through the motions. Just a shadow of the ruthless, shoot on sight striker that showed up every weekend a couple years ago.
Everything at the club feels stale at the moment. No effort, no desire, no fun, and no idea how change it. No one involved seems to be enjoying the game any longer and that’s a huge problem.
At the end of the day the players are the ones applying the actions so if you believe you can't do what your coach is asking you will initially think "I can't do that" but go and give it a try. But at some point they are going to question it or disagree when they feel they have been proven right.
If you go to your coach or manager with this concern and he brushes it off or tells you to keep doing it, even if you have a good relationship, you're going to get tired of them.