IronsideKozuch
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Cherki could easily have had four assists, and besides that he even had a very good shot (although here he probably could have passed a few seconds earlier to Marmoush, who would have been left only with the goalkeeper) and the action at 12:38 – a beautiful through ball to Nunes, who hit the ball too hard across the penalty area. It’s easy to praise Cherki endlessly. And everyone does it. The media, the fans, and his teammates.
Pep will choose to praise Cherki when others are getting angry. And he will try to teach Cherki the hardest lessons at the moment when everyone is telling him that he is the best ever.
Pep knows that in the long run, statistically for the team and for the match result, a rabona < a non-rabona.
That’s why he will insist on a non-rabona tendency. From time to time it’s okay, but you, Ryan, have to build automatisms, and the rule is: no rabona. Messi is probably the best footballer in history and he never had an assist with a rabona – look at that clear example, Ryan, and answer for yourself.
Pep was not criticizing Cherki when he spoke about Messi or the assist, he was analyzing. At the top level you have to develop. People more often and faster develop through constructive comments and their analysis, not through praise of non-optimal solutions. But yeah, its much easier to praise then, its more emotionally logical, isnt it? Sometimes you talk on the training ground and pitch, sometimes in the canteen, but sometimes the message reaches the player most strongly when it is delivered publicly in a post-match statement. That whole thing is smart – that is man-management that is not easy or obvious, but at an elite level.
Ryan is a good and intelligent boy. Pep will turn him into a colossus. The fact that so many City fans think otherwise speaks badly of their intelligence, because they should know better – that is, they should know that Pep knows better. There are half a world of people who for the last 18 years have constantly and gleefully doubted Pep’s solutions. And for 18 years they have constantly been getting destroyed for it, sooner rather than later.
Pep will choose to praise Cherki when others are getting angry. And he will try to teach Cherki the hardest lessons at the moment when everyone is telling him that he is the best ever.
Pep knows that in the long run, statistically for the team and for the match result, a rabona < a non-rabona.
That’s why he will insist on a non-rabona tendency. From time to time it’s okay, but you, Ryan, have to build automatisms, and the rule is: no rabona. Messi is probably the best footballer in history and he never had an assist with a rabona – look at that clear example, Ryan, and answer for yourself.
Pep was not criticizing Cherki when he spoke about Messi or the assist, he was analyzing. At the top level you have to develop. People more often and faster develop through constructive comments and their analysis, not through praise of non-optimal solutions. But yeah, its much easier to praise then, its more emotionally logical, isnt it? Sometimes you talk on the training ground and pitch, sometimes in the canteen, but sometimes the message reaches the player most strongly when it is delivered publicly in a post-match statement. That whole thing is smart – that is man-management that is not easy or obvious, but at an elite level.
Ryan is a good and intelligent boy. Pep will turn him into a colossus. The fact that so many City fans think otherwise speaks badly of their intelligence, because they should know better – that is, they should know that Pep knows better. There are half a world of people who for the last 18 years have constantly and gleefully doubted Pep’s solutions. And for 18 years they have constantly been getting destroyed for it, sooner rather than later.
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