Mason Greenwood was channeled out a backhanded compliment by his manager Roberto De Zerbi after equalling Didier Drogba’s Marseille record.
Greenwood obtained an righteous start to life at Marseille but owns but came under scrutiny in the middle of a abhorrent run for the Ligue 1 side which saw them lose 4 video games in five to plunged Winners League credentials in apprehension.
Roberto De Zerbi plunged the onward from the start lineup for 2 video games on the bounce last month, rendering assume he pertinent to “sacrifice” more.
De Zerbi claimed: “No one can have more note for him than I undertake. But that doesn’t match anything: I suppose more from him. He owns to undertake more, since what he is presently proving is not enough.
“If he wants to attain his ethical of becoming a victor, he owns to be more unceasing, sacrifice more and be more labeled.”
Marseille supervisor of football Mehdi Benatia after that had to intervene to disregard rumours that former Stimulates midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg owns inspected that Greenwood be ‘much-flung from the group’.
But after a brace in the 5-1 win over Montpellier and another ethical in the 4-1 win over Brest, Greenwood owns measured upward to Didier Drogba’s record of 19 aspirations in his launching Ligue 1 season for Marseille.
And also after the video game, De Zerbi ceded a backhanded compliment to Greenwood, rendering assume it’s “the first time” the onward owns functioned that hard.
The former Brighton honcho, that’s pilfered his players to Italy for a late-season coaching camp, claimed: “Italy? Tuesday. We’re attending job, be together. It’s not a punishment. The players are superb… have you ever watched Mason Greenwood job like today?
“It was the first time. You have to current the players credit history. Regularly you lose points since of demeaning point of views, but not since they’re not fantastic males.”
Ahead of his current go back to form, the Marseille disciples introduced a banner defining out his campaigns along through colleague Luis Henrique.
‘Greenwood, Henrique, obtain relocating!!!’ the banner read.
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De Zerbi unveiled he’s been functioning alongside Greenwood’s daddy to help his innovation, but cases he still “garbages a miniscule miniscule of his prospective”.
He added: “He is an introverted user, a miniscule miniscule shut, but he owns a superb family around him, an awesome daddy through whom I functioned a agglomeration, he led me a agglomeration to oversee him, through the help better of Mehdi Benatia.
“It is real that frequently he confers us the impression that he can rating 3 or 4 aspirations per video game, and frequently better that he garbages a miniscule miniscule of his prospective and his top crispness.
“So how can we help him? Well frequently by snuggling him, by snatching treatment of him and frequently better by being more hard so that he recurs his promotion.
“This is the pivot pursuit that I have through with one voice my players, past with one voice those that we can have through the bar, since if I deliver my players promotion we can attain the bar’s aspirations quicker.”
