Daizen Maeda

Don't like the amount of attention he's getting now, need a press release telling everyone how * he is, no point in taking interest in him.

 

"We like his kids that's the only reason he's the top earner"

 

I don't know about a holiday, but has Daizen Maeda earned a mini-break after his exploits this week?

He's remarkable, isn't he? Yeah, he's just an incredible player. You see the energy on the back of me talking about the three game I played him for 90 minutes and he goes into it. He's having a remarkable season. Such a joy to work with.

Yeah, you'll see tomorrow.



He doesn't seem like a guy who'll come and say he could do with a break?

No, no, he's an incredible... It's as much the will to do it, because there's lots of players that can actually run and run fast, but to do it repetitively and have the will and the desire to continually do it.

I'm so happy for him. He's getting the rewards now of the goals. His pressing and the energy is great, but you look at his numbers, you look at his finishing and you look at the calmness now.

He's taking his goals. He's a player that's really, really high in confidence, but we also have to be mindful that he is still human as well. We don't want to break players.

That's what I've tried to manage right the way through this whole season. And I've said it again, there's times I've rotated when I haven't wanted to, but I know to keep the fitness and health of the team I've had to. But the players, to their credit, they've still got the results and some brilliant performances.

So we've just got to keep pushing onto our next game now and we're at home. We love to play there and hopefully have a great atmosphere and get the energy from the crowd to help the players and keep pushing in all these games

 

I think we will some offers for him in the Summer. Wonder where he fits on the scale of happy to stay vs wants a move if offers do come in.

 

We’ll sell him for £25 mil and sign him again in 18 months before his kids start school

 

He’s got to be the number one striker for Japan now, not even a question about it IMO

 

We now need to make him the highest paid player at the club, I'd go as far as the £50K a week range given how unique he is, especially now that he's about to become our No.1 striker