Thierry Henry
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You have journalists voting sometimes for player, best player, you have players voting.
And if you ask any individual player who has been one of the most consistent or the best striker in the league recently, Kenny's coming along obviously as we all know, they will all go Aguero.
But if you name
If you ask them to name one of the best players recently or maybe during that season and they had to vote, they don't put Aguero.
When usually the striker gets the little age on votes.
But somehow he doesn't when all the numbers are showing us that the guy is a winner, a great goal scorer.
And by the way, like I always say, he put a stamp on it.
He won the league.
They were not goals for the sake of scoring goals, although Dzeko came along, Tevez was there, but he won the league with those goals.
What he does ever so well there, Jamie, is to put his body in front of Smalling.
He goes in front of Smalling, so that makes it always awkward for him.
First and foremost, it's kind of a weird one at the beginning because... So, for example, if I take it to some of the players that started early at 17, sometimes you don't get the development that you should get at an early age because you were that good or you got a chance to play because some people were missing so you got called into the first team and suddenly...
First game you score, second game you score, and you have to learn your trade while you're playing with the first team.
So that's very, very difficult.
But having said that, one of the most important things for me is to play.
You have to play, wherever it is.
If it's a reserve, you can't be on the bench sometimes sitting and not playing games and missing games, missing learning about the game, stopping that momentum.
For example, for me, an example is Rashford.
Michael Owen had the opportunity to back up what he did the year before because he played and he played and he played and he played.
I can give you other examples of other players.