Kane, Son, Lamela, Moura, and Alli have all retained their expressive style of play. Son is criticized for being selfish, Alli for his flicks, Kane has started to show a more creative side , Lamela has not changed his style of play, Moura does not defend much. That's 5 players Poch has not had a detrimental effect on. Eriksen has another agenda of his own, I dont believe Poch has coached creativeness out of him. Sissoko has been transformed into a virtually unique player whereas before he was a liability.
IMO, there are subtleties involved here. Being coached out put in to context if you like.
Kane is NOT the player of 2/3 years ago. His natural style of past is no longer there due to injuries, flogged to death and dross around him. Effectively he is no longer able to express himself fluently in our current setup. Dropping deep etc, imo, is to compensate our failure to find upcoming forward thinking midfielders. Furthermore, he is an anomaly and should not be a benchmark for others. Without him, we'd be up a creek.
Dele is no longer the player what caught the world by storm. His flicks and tricks style was complemented by his trademark forays and goal scoring. Again, hampered by injuries, off field issues, overhype(?) and not well complemented in the setup. Coached out - adapting to another forced style.
Lamela, yes, exception, But making infrequent appearances as he's done all his career at Spurs. We persevere with it and replacements were shite (N's are examples)
Sonny, arguably still the same as when he arrived, not necessarily a good thing as IMO he should've, like others, been coached to improve on decision-making.
Moura does not defend much?. Well, had we got our freaking defence & DM recruitment sorted may be our AM's can do more damage up front than being constantly demanded to help our creaking backline.
My conclusion is that had we addressed our squad needs on a continual basis, the players with natural talent could've be allowed to focus on developing their skills further. IMO, they have all stagnated and some regressed in the setup that we have descended to.
I haven't even mentioned how we have also overlooked that teams have sussed out our one-dimensional play and players and thus negate our so called talent. If they are not coached to the next level, then as per the team, they have either stagnated or regressed. The world, including Sheffield United, has moved on. Kane was in United defenders' pocket at the weekend and I don't think they were even int'l standard?.
And highlighting Sissoko as an example in this debate....just shows what a joke we have become.
