I don't think they have anything against the manager at all and to be honest, the ones not confident in him or his beliefs should be moved on quite swiflty in the summer.
It's evident that Ange expects in every game that these players are willing to take on a lot of risk and not flinch regardless of how the game is going. I actually think van de Ven alluded to this too in his post match interview after Chelsea.
However it's quite obvious that after we get attacked once or twice, we have a squad full of players that basically try to be safer and avoid making mistakes.. I also think that's why he specifically called out Romero after the Woolwich game - you know he's not going to back down, even if he's made a mistake. He's always going to try and be brave.
The attitude round the club has been rotten for 5+ years now. Turns out, that is a much more important (and harder) fix than pretty much everything else. We have a bunch of players who have such a weak mentality that they can't even seem to follow simple instruction out of fear of themselves making mistakes.
And I was quite disappointed that Sarr and Porro seemed to be two of the players who weren't brave enough last night - because both have been pretty good throughout the season but the amount of times they both played sideways or backwards when they had acres of space in front of them was infuriating.
However, I would still persist with both. Vicario, Porro, Romero, van de Ven, Udogie, Sarr, Maddison are the only players we have that seem to be brave on the ball (Even though Maddisons confidence seems shot) and tbh the only players I'd be willing to persist with. The rest can go if a decent fee comes in.
Last edited:
