Redknapp said:
“I had a chat to him last Monday because I took him off and then he wasn’t in the best of moods and didn’t behave in the best of ways. But I had him in the office on Monday morning and had a good heart-to-heart chat with him and he’s responded to that. I’m not going to make out I put my arm around him, because it wasn’t really like that. I said to him ‘don’t throw your arms up when you lose the ball and don’t stand with your hands on your head. Just get after the ball when you lose it, otherwise everyone sees you’ve made a mistake and you’ve highlighted it to everybody'.
He’s hard work! It’s no use me saying otherwise – he is what he is. He can be a bit of a nut at times but his heart’s in the right place and he wants to do well. He’s temperamental but he’s an amazing talent. He’s my type of player – I love people with that ability. Paolo was difficult to handle too but he was genius who could win you match and Adel is the same. He’s like Di Canio, who I thought was a fantastic player - one of the all-time greats at West Ham. This boy’s the same. He can do things nobody else can do. He nutmegs people and he goes past two or three and they’re hanging on to him but they can’t get the ball off him. It’s amazing.
Getting Adel in the right position is important. He has played off the left but he’s not as effective out there, so I freed him to play in the hole. We try to get the ball to him at every opportunity because he can do damage to anybody. He’s as strong as an ox on the ball, people can’t knock him off it. He’s not a lightweight with skill, he’s a strong, powerful player with the ball. It was a great performance.”
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“I had a chat to him last Monday because I took him off and then he wasn’t in the best of moods and didn’t behave in the best of ways. But I had him in the office on Monday morning and had a good heart-to-heart chat with him and he’s responded to that. I’m not going to make out I put my arm around him, because it wasn’t really like that. I said to him ‘don’t throw your arms up when you lose the ball and don’t stand with your hands on your head. Just get after the ball when you lose it, otherwise everyone sees you’ve made a mistake and you’ve highlighted it to everybody'.
He’s hard work! It’s no use me saying otherwise – he is what he is. He can be a bit of a nut at times but his heart’s in the right place and he wants to do well. He’s temperamental but he’s an amazing talent. He’s my type of player – I love people with that ability. Paolo was difficult to handle too but he was genius who could win you match and Adel is the same. He’s like Di Canio, who I thought was a fantastic player - one of the all-time greats at West Ham. This boy’s the same. He can do things nobody else can do. He nutmegs people and he goes past two or three and they’re hanging on to him but they can’t get the ball off him. It’s amazing.
Getting Adel in the right position is important. He has played off the left but he’s not as effective out there, so I freed him to play in the hole. We try to get the ball to him at every opportunity because he can do damage to anybody. He’s as strong as an ox on the ball, people can’t knock him off it. He’s not a lightweight with skill, he’s a strong, powerful player with the ball. It was a great performance.”
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