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Published 07:58 8 May 2018 BST
“I even threatened him because he became more famous for making videos than playing, but he doesn’t do that anymore because I told him I’d knock his teeth out. “In recent months he’s improved some things in training and we decided to let him play in the Primavera. “The train has passed but he’s not 50 years old, he’s 20 years old [in June] and I think he has to take stock of his mistakes. “He needs to play consistently, because we can see he’s lost some match sharpness. I’ve noticed a few improvements though.”While there are likely more nuanced ways of encouraging young players to reach their true potential, it is heartening to see that the old footballing tradition of threatening physical violence to motivate underperforming players has not died out just yet.
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