Simon Thomas
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1,762 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2016
last heard 11 May
Simon Thomas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's got the lot, hasn't he, this kid?
But it's just the little bits that he needs to polish.
The thing that Ronaldo had, he's obviously a great technical player, but the work rate behind all of that was to improve.
Now, if this lad can improve on that technical ability, his defensive work, his knowledge... Yeah, but Ronaldo didn't have it when he first came out.
Just picking up on what Jamie said there, polishing this diamond.
As a manager, how do you go about doing that?
Still only 20.
I'd be sitting in front of the video on Monday and talking to him in the nicest possible way over a nice hot cup of tea and he'll have a nice juice and say you've got an incredible talent son, let's get it all right and you'll be a big star here.
Less than 20 minutes to go and Antonio Conte and Chelsea were trailing Watford by two goals to one.
The substitute of Batshuayi worked a treat, he scored two.
Azpilicueta got a goal as well and the champions took all three points.
Delight for the boss, let's hear from him now with Greg Whelan.
Antonio, congratulations.
Give us your assessment of your team's performance overall today.
How much satisfaction as manager can you take from seeing the substitutions that you made in the second half effectively change the game?
Alan, when you look at what a defeat could have meant for Chelsea today in terms of that gap to City, it could have been as big as 12 if City beat Burnley later today.
How significant was that win today?
Well, it was significant in terms of the previous results, two defeats and a draw in the Champions League.
He needed to win and it didn't matter how it come today.
And when you're at a top club, you have the luxury sometimes of getting 60, 70 million off your bench.
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