Updates From Wilder

[Pinchy]

I think it's quite old school to play young players out of position. You're not measuring their technical ability, you can do that by watching them train and play in the U-21s (or 23s as it is now), you're testing their character. A professional doesn't moan when he's asked to do a job for a team, he gets on with it and does his best.

Any young player should be delighted to play in the first team, whatever position and should try their utmost to make a success of it. If they don't have the mental strength to do that then they haven't got the mental strength to play in difficult games, when things aren't going well. They have no ability to dig in.

As Pinchy has said, they have an underserved sense of self entitlement that needs to be knocked out of them. It's not school sports day and life is far from fair. I can't see CW having a lot of patience with kids who whinge that they're being played out of position. I suspect his view would be 'you're lucky to play for us, get on with it or fuck off.'

Spot on. De Juve being the classic case in point.

 

[Revolution]

This is true and in fact goes further with the clubs imposing tailored diets/nutrition plans. The screening of players is very comprehensive, aside from the backpacks they all wear now to monitor distance covered and heart rate/pulse, they also get regular blood testing covering loads of different stuff you'd think wasn't important. And of course the scrupulous checking of oral/dental hygiene. Guardiola likes all that stuff, and plenty more allegedly!

There are supposedly some interesting lists from labs in Spain that WADA has their hands on but are as yet unpublished.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

There are supposedly some interesting lists from labs in Spain that WADA has their hands on but are as yet unpublished.

I might have been alluding to that list.