Tottenham Hotspur boss Mauricio has opened up on the difficulties of managing a super excited player like Danny Rose.
Pochettino said: “There is no doubt about Danny Rose’s quality, there is no doubt. He is a great player. But, like with all the players of great quality, you need to be focused in your job. If you are focused, and you train and care about yourself – and don’t think too much. Danny is a thinker.
“I always say to him ‘Danny you are thinking too much. You need to stop, and work. You need to deliver the job that we want, don’t think’.
“He arrives here (at the training ground) and asks ‘what are we going to do? One lap, two laps? Training session or tactical session? And then I need to go to the gym? Have a shower or not have a shower. Eat or not eat?’
“Stop and relax! He needs to stop thinking. Sometimes he tries to think for us too. He spends too much energy thinking about everything. He needs to arrive here and stop thinking. ‘We are going to manage you, do this, do that, go to the shower and then have lunch. Then when you go to your car you can start to think again’.
“But for the four or five or six hours he spends here, he needs to let us manage him. If not he wants to manage himself, us and everyone. He spends too much energy and he doesn’t have the energy to do what he is supposed to do. That is a very dangerous situation.
“He is a lucky man. When I arrived, I don’t know why, I connected with him and he felt my love. He was out (of the team) when I arrived and was on his way out of Tottenham. That is why now he has to pay it back.”
A strange analysis of the Spurs star indeed but we do hope we get to see the best of the explosive full back soon again!
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