The Fenômeno from Palmeiras - The Endrick Felipe de Sousa Thread

Not really a fan of that.

 

Schalke gave a zweite Bundesliga a "talent" with a similar clause and as soon as it became known that the kid is supposed to be forced into the lineup he got his head rocked in training sessions so badly that Schalke abandoned the loan deal.

The players live off the game. If you're taking away their ability to make money by executive order, they will take matters into their own hands.

Endrick needs to experience the regular profootball life.

 

Because they need results now and the player presents a reinforcement that is good enough for him to get on the field. Coaches don't care about next year's roster, they know they are unemployed if they fail.

If Bobbi cant get on the field on merit at Lyon, he doesn't belong anywhere near our roster.

Two, is it rewards him for just being famous when the exercise here should be to get him the full experience of competition and reward.

Unless we think he's not the guy and we figure Lyon will stick him to the bench and we'll swindle a couple bucks out of them that way.

 

I wouldn't sign a player with a "playing requirement" clause. You're setting the guy up to be treated like shit by the vets who are already looking at the guy as the silver spoon Madrid luxury buy. Seen it happen before.

Whole situation doesn't give me a good vibe.

 

If we have to slap a financial penalty for him not playing (aka not being good enough to do so) then maybe we don't believe in him as much as I assumed we did.

 

Which means that he becomes an enemy within his own team taking away reps from people that rely on them to make a living. What i want people to understand here is that a child with zero european football experience gets a financial incentive for the club to play rather than for it to come from an honest place - at a competitive workspace that's not a good spot to put a guy in. Feels like a bad mark to put on him, but for now i've written Endrick off until i can have an idea that he can be a week to week contribution to a team like Real Madrid which is very far away given what we've seen.

This truly might just be a way for the club to maximize what they can get out of this.

 

I'll remind you of that when he gets injured but it doesn't happen on field and everybody wonders "huh?" and somehow blames Xabi for it when the reason for a training ground "touch up" is obvious.

 

Every single report so far that leaked is that Xabi puts positions up for grabs.

We've never had such turnover on the field from game to game since Lopetegui, and it's interesting to me that the idea is that several players are upset about the "uncertainty it causes".

True competition for minutes is either total, or absent. A competition whereby a player is "a little bit judged by performance" and another is "given opportunity" creates a chaos.

We've had an old school "those are MY GUYS" mentality for an eternity under Carlo and Zidane, so I am certain a lot of commonplace things look exotic to us.

I truly think this is a moment for players to show they have the right mentality, and the right mentality isn't "oh I did my homework TODAY can I get the PS5 now" sort of OK I made a small step in the right direction now reward is due, it's what you do every single day even when it's not required.

I want to see a struggling player be in razor sharp shape, on the bench Lazer focused on the field. This stuff is NORMAL.


When a new player sits on a table we mix it up and set the deck up from the beginning. You don't deal him the hand of the guy that played before him and tell him those are the cards he has to play.