Julien Laurens
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I agree with Ian completely on that.
And the problem, you're right, is more the form at club level of some of those talented superstars that England have, like Bellingham, like Palmer, like Foden, like Saka to some extent.
And that would be the biggest worry if I was Thomas Tuchel.
He said, where are the points going to come?
I think it's hard to tell because you could also look at this Sunderland game, where Sunderland, away from home, it's not easy, it's a tough place, blah, blah, blah, all of that.
We know already all those clichΓ©s, but they also have nothing to play for.
They can't qualify for Europe, let's be honest.
They're that kind of mid-table team right now that if you show a different mentality from Spurs, if you go there with a different mentality, and De Zerbi has two weeks, it's very easy.
slightly less than two weeks, but to get that, at least, and we explained yesterday, he will have to be pragmatic.
For somebody who's so dogmatic as him, in terms of tactics, in terms of identity, style, DNA, it might be very difficult for him to move from being very dogmatic to being very pragmatic, but he will have to do, he'll have to be, because it's not in the space of 10 days that this first team, that by the way, not many of those players are suited to the deserby ball style of football that we know,
So it's not in 10 days that he will implement that to the team.
He can have that going home mentality of like, we have to go, we have to fight.
I think he's got the charisma to transmit that to the players.
And that's how they will have to play between now and the end of the season.