sullydnl
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It's important to remember that you have all sorts of characters in locker rooms, our youngsters depending on their own character will look up to different players. You need players that are quiet, players that are always too serious, other that are balanced and also the jokers, the players that always maintain a certain level of enthusiasm. The only thing that you want from all players is that they train at a high level on a daily basis and that they perform in games, as far as I know Pogba and Lingard are players that have been praised for their quality on the training pitch and set a high standard.
Their videos make me cringe most of the time but it has no incidence on the quality of their daily work, I would actually worry if any of them changed during tougher times, being even tempered is a quality in a potentially stressing situation.
Indeed. It's not like it takes a particular amount of effort to post those videos, or demonstrates an attitude towards our struggles that wouldn't be shared by those who don't.
Take Mata for example and his decision not to write his blog after our recent poor results. Surely nobody in their right mind thinks he made that decision because he's emotionally bereft by our poor form? He's done it because he is an experienced player who is savvy to the way fans are likely to react based on his career playing in front of what are now the older age cohort of fans.
Younger players don't have that experience, nor are fans their age as likely to see these videos as some lack of commitment. There's a generational gap for sure but that doesn't mean someone like Mata is being more professional or having less fun in the face of our poor results than someone like Lingard.