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Quite good piece on Werner in today's Athletic:
Timo Werner needs to play for an optimistic football team - Spurs may suit him perfectly
Tottenham could do with an unpredictable element that allows them to attack space better and become a more forceful side
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Timo Werner needs to play for an optimistic football team – Spurs may suit him perfectly
Sebastian Stafford-BloorTimo Werner’s career has not recovered from his last visit to the Premier League.
When it ended in August 2022, he limped back to Germany and RB Leipzig. If the aim was to reclaim his status in the game, then it did not work. Werner leaves Germany again having made the needle twitch a few times but he has ultimately become peripheral at club and international level.
It makes his loan move to Tottenham Hotspur, perhaps to become a permanent one, intriguing. Ange Postecoglou has a habit of rebalancing players who have lost their equilibrium. Postecoglou’s attacking football is so vibrant and varied that Werner, 27, who has been searching for relevance, should be able to find a home within it. Maybe he can discover some form, too.
GO DEEPER
Can Angeball unlock Timo Werner's potential? We're about to find out
But perhaps that is the wrong lens through which to assess him. Maybe Werner is not someone chasing his yesterdays at all. This idea that he fell from greatness to mediocrity, and is now trying to claw his way back, might be a seductive angle but it’s an embellishment of his talent. He is an eye-catching, dynamic and often effective player, but he is not an exceptional one. That supporters are clear-eyed about that now is helpful.
His new head coach’s attacking vision should suit him, too. Postecoglou has already managed to blend the distilled virtues of complicated players into his team this season. Giovani Lo Celso, Richarlison, Pedro Porro, Yves Bissouma. One of the subtle characteristics of this Tottenham side is how it emphasises the strengths of players, while minimising their weaknesses. They are an optimistic football team in that sense, making this the best possible re-entry point for Werner in England.
He arrives with little pressure, too, and given the terms of the deal Spurs see the move as one with little risk and potentially a good deal of reward. He covers positions they need to reinforce, principally on the left and through the centre of their attack — where they’re currently especially light with Son Heung-min away at the Asian Cup. And he has played in the Premier League and lived in London before so would not need to acclimatise.
He is highly motivated to perform and to win a place in Germany’s squad for the European Championship. If that does not happen, then the finances of the loan agreement would only make it a missed opportunity for him, rather than a serious mistake for the club.
From a technical perspective, though, there is good reason to think positively. Werner’s speed, his waspish pressing and his capacity to distort defences and race into gaps will enhance Tottenham’s existing dynamics. As intricate as their football can be, it is sometimes more blunt in the final 30 yards. Although partly the legacy of this season’s debilitating injury crisis and the absence of James Maddison’s craft, that stutter in their football also describes a forward group that is still slightly conservative.
Most often, that shows when Tottenham counter-attack or skip through a press. There are times when they fashion a numerical advantage only to let it slip away, with a cautious action — a sideways pass, a check infield — allowing an opponent to regroup. Werner’s south-to-north mentality should help with that. His instinct is always to move forward and race towards the defensive line and that should allow Spurs to exploit space more ruthlessly.
His role at RB Leipzig between 2016 and 2020 had similarities and it was ideal for him.
During those years, Werner was a fast-breaking player in a well-coached team that had been built to exploit the Bundesliga’s transitional nature. He was the club’s top scorer in each of his four years. But while that may be the headline of an exceptional goalscorer, his finishing remained largely in step with his expected goals. He took the chances he was supposed to; he finished what he was meant to finish.
It may be unusual to describe a forward in this way, but Werner was just part of that Leipzig team. It just so happened that it was the part responsible for scoring goals. As Chelsea discovered, that is not quite the same as being a goalscorer by trade.
Litigating the Premier League section of his career is as difficult as it is worthless. He can be damned for it and it can be mitigated. He did not play well enough, underperforming his xG in both seasons in England, but the circumstances — the side being rebuilt, the coaching changes and uncertainty — were probably not in his favour, either. Where Chelsea’s responsibility ended and his began is difficult to determine.
What is clear — and nothing which has happened since he returned to Germany has proven otherwise — is that Werner’s game has weaknesses that prevent him from occupying certain positions. He is not a centre-forward, because he is not a reliable enough finisher. His long stride and the speed-skater gait which make him effective in the channels is a hindrance, too, and can often make him look uncomfortable when trying to adjust his feet around a shooting chance.
He is not really a winger, either, because he does not dribble past players very often, nor does he really cross the ball. One of the issues that appeared at Chelsea, which had never been as relevant at Leipzig, was that he is not incisive with the ball around the box; he cannot play intricately in the way that, for instance, Dejan Kulusevski can.
But Spurs do not need him to do any of those things. Werner is excellent at finding space in a way that allows his teammates to target him as a receiver and move the ball up the field. That is a prerequisite of Red Bull football but clearly relevant at Spurs now, too. In addition, his acceleration mandates that individual defenders cannot be caught in isolation against him; the butterfly effect being that, when an opposing centre-back or deep midfielder lends support, space appears elsewhere.
Most obviously, though, he can run beyond a defence — and in a way that is difficult to contend with. The graphic below provides a good example, showing the build-up to a goal he scored against Borussia Monchengladbach in September 2023.
From a turnover in midfield, Werner made a run which allowed Xavi Simons to play a slide-rule pass through the defence. A simple bit of play, but the speed at which his movement changed the shape of the game characterises his influence. Notice the clock in the top-left corner. Gladbach went from being structurally secure to their centre-backs turning and chasing one of the quickest players in the league within less than three seconds.
Werner rounded the goalkeeper and scored. Where he ran from and how rapidly he altered the passing options would, had that analysis been part of this transfer decision, surely have arched one of Postecoglou’s eyebrows.
It’s a run Richarlison probably is not quick enough to make. It is one that might be in Son Heung-min’s past, too. But it’s a through ball that a player of James Maddison’s calibre could produce easily, so too Kulusevski, Rodrigo Bentancurand the resurgent Lo Celso. The chart below illustrates that Spurs are generating strong counter-attacking numbers, but, per Opta, only one of them has resulted in a goal this season.
So if the challenge in this transfer window is for Tottenham to vary their attack, then they have probably already done so.
That’s only in theory, though, because Spurs are not getting a fully rehabilitated player.
Werner has had good moments back in the Bundesliga. Nine goals in 2022-23 was a fair return given the circumstances. Leipzig sacked Domenico Tedesco just a few weeks after Werner moved back, in August 2022, and then spent the season preparing for a summer of transition. Andre Silva, Dominik Szoboszlai, Christopher Nkunku and Josko Gvardiol all left in the summer of 2023 and while the side performed well enough under new coach Marco Rose, rarely did they gain any momentum.
This season, as well as a troublesome abductor injury, Werner has found himself marginalised. Leipzig rebuilt their attack over the summer, signing Lois Opendaand Benjamin Sesko and loaning Xavi Simons. Sesko and Openda are the club’s future, both outstanding in their own ways, and Yussuf Poulsen has also enjoyed a renaissance, often being used as a foil for one or the other.
Rose is using a 4-2-2-2 formation and there is no home for Werner as one of the No 10s behind the forward line, either. Simons has been wonderful in one of those roles, while Dani Olmo has been just as good in the other.
It left no room for Werner. In the literal sense, because he has no role to play, but also because Leipzig did not lack any of the abilities he possesses, either. Openda is a superior finisher and every bit as quick. Sesko is one of the great all-round forwards in the making. Poulsen has a physical presence and pressing game that Werner could never match. He has played barely 200 minutes in the Bundesliga and, rationally, that makes sense.
He has not played for Germany since June 2023 either, which — for a player with nearly 60 caps — describes his malaise. Even with his former head coach appointed to the national team, players like Stuttgart’s Chris Fuhrich are — rightly — being selected in the squad ahead of him.
And yet, because football will always be about who requires what and when, Werner’s situation is not nearly as important as what he might be able to provide. For all their improvement, Spurs could use a dose of something. An unpredictable element that might, on better days, make them more forceful.
If Timo Werner does nothing more than that, then that would still make this move a success.
Quite good piece on Werner in today's Athletic:
Timo Werner needs to play for an optimistic football team - Spurs may suit him perfectly
Tottenham could do with an unpredictable element that allows them to attack space better and become a more forceful side
Timo Werner needs to play for an optimistic football team – Spurs may suit him perfectly
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor
Timo Werner’s career has not recovered from his last visit to the Premier League.
When it ended in August 2022, he limped back to Germany and RB Leipzig. If the aim was to reclaim his status in the game, then it did not work. Werner leaves Germany again having made the needle twitch a few times but he has ultimately become peripheral at club and international level.
It makes his loan move to Tottenham Hotspur, perhaps to become a permanent one, intriguing. Ange Postecoglou has a habit of rebalancing players who have lost their equilibrium. Postecoglou’s attacking football is so vibrant and varied that Werner, 27, who has been searching for relevance, should be able to find a home within it. Maybe he can discover some form, too.
GO DEEPER
Can Angeball unlock Timo Werner's potential? We're about to find out
But perhaps that is the wrong lens through which to assess him. Maybe Werner is not someone chasing his yesterdays at all. This idea that he fell from greatness to mediocrity, and is now trying to claw his way back, might be a seductive angle but it’s an embellishment of his talent. He is an eye-catching, dynamic and often effective player, but he is not an exceptional one. That supporters are clear-eyed about that now is helpful.
His new head coach’s attacking vision should suit him, too. Postecoglou has already managed to blend the distilled virtues of complicated players into his team this season. Giovani Lo Celso, Richarlison, Pedro Porro, Yves Bissouma. One of the subtle characteristics of this Tottenham side is how it emphasises the strengths of players, while minimising their weaknesses. They are an optimistic football team in that sense, making this the best possible re-entry point for Werner in England.
He arrives with little pressure, too, and given the terms of the deal Spurs see the move as one with little risk and potentially a good deal of reward. He covers positions they need to reinforce, principally on the left and through the centre of their attack — where they’re currently especially light with Son Heung-min away at the Asian Cup. And he has played in the Premier League and lived in London before so would not need to acclimatise.
He is highly motivated to perform and to win a place in Germany’s squad for the European Championship. If that does not happen, then the finances of the loan agreement would only make it a missed opportunity for him, rather than a serious mistake for the club.
From a technical perspective, though, there is good reason to think positively. Werner’s speed, his waspish pressing and his capacity to distort defences and race into gaps will enhance Tottenham’s existing dynamics. As intricate as their football can be, it is sometimes more blunt in the final 30 yards. Although partly the legacy of this season’s debilitating injury crisis and the absence of James Maddison’s craft, that stutter in their football also describes a forward group that is still slightly conservative.
Most often, that shows when Tottenham counter-attack or skip through a press. There are times when they fashion a numerical advantage only to let it slip away, with a cautious action — a sideways pass, a check infield — allowing an opponent to regroup. Werner’s south-to-north mentality should help with that. His instinct is always to move forward and race towards the defensive line and that should allow Spurs to exploit space more ruthlessly.
His role at RB Leipzig between 2016 and 2020 had similarities and it was ideal for him.
During those years, Werner was a fast-breaking player in a well-coached team that had been built to exploit the Bundesliga’s transitional nature. He was the club’s top scorer in each of his four years. But while that may be the headline of an exceptional goalscorer, his finishing remained largely in step with his expected goals. He took the chances he was supposed to; he finished what he was meant to finish.
It may be unusual to describe a forward in this way, but Werner was just part of that Leipzig team. It just so happened that it was the part responsible for scoring goals. As Chelsea discovered, that is not quite the same as being a goalscorer by trade.
Litigating the Premier League section of his career is as difficult as it is worthless. He can be damned for it and it can be mitigated. He did not play well enough, underperforming his xG in both seasons in England, but the circumstances — the side being rebuilt, the coaching changes and uncertainty — were probably not in his favour, either. Where Chelsea’s responsibility ended and his began is difficult to determine.
What is clear — and nothing which has happened since he returned to Germany has proven otherwise — is that Werner’s game has weaknesses that prevent him from occupying certain positions. He is not a centre-forward, because he is not a reliable enough finisher. His long stride and the speed-skater gait which make him effective in the channels is a hindrance, too, and can often make him look uncomfortable when trying to adjust his feet around a shooting chance.
He is not really a winger, either, because he does not dribble past players very often, nor does he really cross the ball. One of the issues that appeared at Chelsea, which had never been as relevant at Leipzig, was that he is not incisive with the ball around the box; he cannot play intricately in the way that, for instance, Dejan Kulusevski can.
But Spurs do not need him to do any of those things. Werner is excellent at finding space in a way that allows his teammates to target him as a receiver and move the ball up the field. That is a prerequisite of Red Bull football but clearly relevant at Spurs now, too. In addition, his acceleration mandates that individual defenders cannot be caught in isolation against him; the butterfly effect being that, when an opposing centre-back or deep midfielder lends support, space appears elsewhere.
Most obviously, though, he can run beyond a defence — and in a way that is difficult to contend with. The graphic below provides a good example, showing the build-up to a goal he scored against Borussia Monchengladbach in September 2023.
From a turnover in midfield, Werner made a run which allowed Xavi Simons to play a slide-rule pass through the defence. A simple bit of play, but the speed at which his movement changed the shape of the game characterises his influence. Notice the clock in the top-left corner. Gladbach went from being structurally secure to their centre-backs turning and chasing one of the quickest players in the league within less than three seconds.
Werner rounded the goalkeeper and scored. Where he ran from and how rapidly he altered the passing options would, had that analysis been part of this transfer decision, surely have arched one of Postecoglou’s eyebrows.
It’s a run Richarlison probably is not quick enough to make. It is one that might be in Son Heung-min’s past, too. But it’s a through ball that a player of James Maddison’s calibre could produce easily, so too Kulusevski, Rodrigo Bentancurand the resurgent Lo Celso. The chart below illustrates that Spurs are generating strong counter-attacking numbers, but, per Opta, only one of them has resulted in a goal this season.
So if the challenge in this transfer window is for Tottenham to vary their attack, then they have probably already done so.
That’s only in theory, though, because Spurs are not getting a fully rehabilitated player.
Werner has had good moments back in the Bundesliga. Nine goals in 2022-23 was a fair return given the circumstances. Leipzig sacked Domenico Tedesco just a few weeks after Werner moved back, in August 2022, and then spent the season preparing for a summer of transition. Andre Silva, Dominik Szoboszlai, Christopher Nkunku and Josko Gvardiol all left in the summer of 2023 and while the side performed well enough under new coach Marco Rose, rarely did they gain any momentum.
This season, as well as a troublesome abductor injury, Werner has found himself marginalised. Leipzig rebuilt their attack over the summer, signing Lois Opendaand Benjamin Sesko and loaning Xavi Simons. Sesko and Openda are the club’s future, both outstanding in their own ways, and Yussuf Poulsen has also enjoyed a renaissance, often being used as a foil for one or the other.
Rose is using a 4-2-2-2 formation and there is no home for Werner as one of the No 10s behind the forward line, either. Simons has been wonderful in one of those roles, while Dani Olmo has been just as good in the other.
It left no room for Werner. In the literal sense, because he has no role to play, but also because Leipzig did not lack any of the abilities he possesses, either. Openda is a superior finisher and every bit as quick. Sesko is one of the great all-round forwards in the making. Poulsen has a physical presence and pressing game that Werner could never match. He has played barely 200 minutes in the Bundesliga and, rationally, that makes sense.
He has not played for Germany since June 2023 either, which — for a player with nearly 60 caps — describes his malaise. Even with his former head coach appointed to the national team, players like Stuttgart’s Chris Fuhrich are — rightly — being selected in the squad ahead of him.
And yet, because football will always be about who requires what and when, Werner’s situation is not nearly as important as what he might be able to provide. For all their improvement, Spurs could use a dose of something. An unpredictable element that might, on better days, make them more forceful.
If Timo Werner does nothing more than that, then that would still make this move a success.
Yup! Ze German hamztringz are really really flexible!!Can we buy a spare pair of hammies at the same time?
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Well I am not trawling through his pre and post match interviews but he said so in the last couple of weeks.
Ange categorically said that no player comes in or leaves without his approval.
Here is just one example of his position on this from earlier in the season.
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/jIfhZMtX0l4?si=TpmUiu70iZGpAbO4
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Thanks, the best article I've read about him.
Quite good piece on Werner in today's Athletic:
Timo Werner needs to play for an optimistic football team - Spurs may suit him perfectly
Tottenham could do with an unpredictable element that allows them to attack space better and become a more forceful side
Timo Werner needs to play for an optimistic football team – Spurs may suit him perfectly
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor
Timo Werner’s career has not recovered from his last visit to the Premier League.
When it ended in August 2022, he limped back to Germany and RB Leipzig. If the aim was to reclaim his status in the game, then it did not work. Werner leaves Germany again having made the needle twitch a few times but he has ultimately become peripheral at club and international level.
It makes his loan move to Tottenham Hotspur, perhaps to become a permanent one, intriguing. Ange Postecoglou has a habit of rebalancing players who have lost their equilibrium. Postecoglou’s attacking football is so vibrant and varied that Werner, 27, who has been searching for relevance, should be able to find a home within it. Maybe he can discover some form, too.
GO DEEPER
Can Angeball unlock Timo Werner's potential? We're about to find out
But perhaps that is the wrong lens through which to assess him. Maybe Werner is not someone chasing his yesterdays at all. This idea that he fell from greatness to mediocrity, and is now trying to claw his way back, might be a seductive angle but it’s an embellishment of his talent. He is an eye-catching, dynamic and often effective player, but he is not an exceptional one. That supporters are clear-eyed about that now is helpful.
His new head coach’s attacking vision should suit him, too. Postecoglou has already managed to blend the distilled virtues of complicated players into his team this season. Giovani Lo Celso, Richarlison, Pedro Porro, Yves Bissouma. One of the subtle characteristics of this Tottenham side is how it emphasises the strengths of players, while minimising their weaknesses. They are an optimistic football team in that sense, making this the best possible re-entry point for Werner in England.
He arrives with little pressure, too, and given the terms of the deal Spurs see the move as one with little risk and potentially a good deal of reward. He covers positions they need to reinforce, principally on the left and through the centre of their attack — where they’re currently especially light with Son Heung-min away at the Asian Cup. And he has played in the Premier League and lived in London before so would not need to acclimatise.
He is highly motivated to perform and to win a place in Germany’s squad for the European Championship. If that does not happen, then the finances of the loan agreement would only make it a missed opportunity for him, rather than a serious mistake for the club.
From a technical perspective, though, there is good reason to think positively. Werner’s speed, his waspish pressing and his capacity to distort defences and race into gaps will enhance Tottenham’s existing dynamics. As intricate as their football can be, it is sometimes more blunt in the final 30 yards. Although partly the legacy of this season’s debilitating injury crisis and the absence of James Maddison’s craft, that stutter in their football also describes a forward group that is still slightly conservative.
Most often, that shows when Tottenham counter-attack or skip through a press. There are times when they fashion a numerical advantage only to let it slip away, with a cautious action — a sideways pass, a check infield — allowing an opponent to regroup. Werner’s south-to-north mentality should help with that. His instinct is always to move forward and race towards the defensive line and that should allow Spurs to exploit space more ruthlessly.
His role at RB Leipzig between 2016 and 2020 had similarities and it was ideal for him.
During those years, Werner was a fast-breaking player in a well-coached team that had been built to exploit the Bundesliga’s transitional nature. He was the club’s top scorer in each of his four years. But while that may be the headline of an exceptional goalscorer, his finishing remained largely in step with his expected goals. He took the chances he was supposed to; he finished what he was meant to finish.
It may be unusual to describe a forward in this way, but Werner was just part of that Leipzig team. It just so happened that it was the part responsible for scoring goals. As Chelsea discovered, that is not quite the same as being a goalscorer by trade.
Litigating the Premier League section of his career is as difficult as it is worthless. He can be damned for it and it can be mitigated. He did not play well enough, underperforming his xG in both seasons in England, but the circumstances — the side being rebuilt, the coaching changes and uncertainty — were probably not in his favour, either. Where Chelsea’s responsibility ended and his began is difficult to determine.
What is clear — and nothing which has happened since he returned to Germany has proven otherwise — is that Werner’s game has weaknesses that prevent him from occupying certain positions. He is not a centre-forward, because he is not a reliable enough finisher. His long stride and the speed-skater gait which make him effective in the channels is a hindrance, too, and can often make him look uncomfortable when trying to adjust his feet around a shooting chance.
He is not really a winger, either, because he does not dribble past players very often, nor does he really cross the ball. One of the issues that appeared at Chelsea, which had never been as relevant at Leipzig, was that he is not incisive with the ball around the box; he cannot play intricately in the way that, for instance, Dejan Kulusevski can.
But Spurs do not need him to do any of those things. Werner is excellent at finding space in a way that allows his teammates to target him as a receiver and move the ball up the field. That is a prerequisite of Red Bull football but clearly relevant at Spurs now, too. In addition, his acceleration mandates that individual defenders cannot be caught in isolation against him; the butterfly effect being that, when an opposing centre-back or deep midfielder lends support, space appears elsewhere.
Most obviously, though, he can run beyond a defence — and in a way that is difficult to contend with. The graphic below provides a good example, showing the build-up to a goal he scored against Borussia Monchengladbach in September 2023.
From a turnover in midfield, Werner made a run which allowed Xavi Simons to play a slide-rule pass through the defence. A simple bit of play, but the speed at which his movement changed the shape of the game characterises his influence. Notice the clock in the top-left corner. Gladbach went from being structurally secure to their centre-backs turning and chasing one of the quickest players in the league within less than three seconds.
Werner rounded the goalkeeper and scored. Where he ran from and how rapidly he altered the passing options would, had that analysis been part of this transfer decision, surely have arched one of Postecoglou’s eyebrows.
It’s a run Richarlison probably is not quick enough to make. It is one that might be in Son Heung-min’s past, too. But it’s a through ball that a player of James Maddison’s calibre could produce easily, so too Kulusevski, Rodrigo Bentancurand the resurgent Lo Celso. The chart below illustrates that Spurs are generating strong counter-attacking numbers, but, per Opta, only one of them has resulted in a goal this season.
So if the challenge in this transfer window is for Tottenham to vary their attack, then they have probably already done so.
That’s only in theory, though, because Spurs are not getting a fully rehabilitated player.
Werner has had good moments back in the Bundesliga. Nine goals in 2022-23 was a fair return given the circumstances. Leipzig sacked Domenico Tedesco just a few weeks after Werner moved back, in August 2022, and then spent the season preparing for a summer of transition. Andre Silva, Dominik Szoboszlai, Christopher Nkunku and Josko Gvardiol all left in the summer of 2023 and while the side performed well enough under new coach Marco Rose, rarely did they gain any momentum.
This season, as well as a troublesome abductor injury, Werner has found himself marginalised. Leipzig rebuilt their attack over the summer, signing Lois Opendaand Benjamin Sesko and loaning Xavi Simons. Sesko and Openda are the club’s future, both outstanding in their own ways, and Yussuf Poulsen has also enjoyed a renaissance, often being used as a foil for one or the other.
Rose is using a 4-2-2-2 formation and there is no home for Werner as one of the No 10s behind the forward line, either. Simons has been wonderful in one of those roles, while Dani Olmo has been just as good in the other.
It left no room for Werner. In the literal sense, because he has no role to play, but also because Leipzig did not lack any of the abilities he possesses, either. Openda is a superior finisher and every bit as quick. Sesko is one of the great all-round forwards in the making. Poulsen has a physical presence and pressing game that Werner could never match. He has played barely 200 minutes in the Bundesliga and, rationally, that makes sense.
He has not played for Germany since June 2023 either, which — for a player with nearly 60 caps — describes his malaise. Even with his former head coach appointed to the national team, players like Stuttgart’s Chris Fuhrich are — rightly — being selected in the squad ahead of him.
And yet, because football will always be about who requires what and when, Werner’s situation is not nearly as important as what he might be able to provide. For all their improvement, Spurs could use a dose of something. An unpredictable element that might, on better days, make them more forceful.
If Timo Werner does nothing more than that, then that would still make this move a success.
I'd believe this. Ange seems more interested in players that will suit his team rather than just wanting big name players and hoping it works out. I can see levy being happy about that
Hun Min Son.
Maybe Levy finally has appointed a manager he trusts with spending his money
He certainly talks more sense than all of the previous combined
I have, its a bit like the Breaky Creek Hotel in Brisbane on a Sunday morning, serving to the all-nighters!
Sounds like he needs a bit of love!
Yes, he has now! Part 1 of his Medical was to sky-dive out of the Easy-Jet plane we laid on for him, just to see if he could land safely without breaking/pinging/tweaking something...
My main concern with that clip, is Ange looks so much younger!
We've started to age him already, haven't we?
I'm sure Jol had hair like Leo Sayer, Jose was dark haired, and Conte had a full head of his own hair when they all joined!
...and Richie has #9Werner likes the number 11 at club sides but number 9 when playing for Germany (which he will be again in time for the Euros).
Gil has the number 11 at the moment.
You know what this means....
