Mason Greenwood was given a backhanded compliment by his manager Roberto De Zerbi after equalling Didier Drogba\u2019s Marseille record.<\/p>\n
Greenwood<\/a><\/strong> enjoyed an excellent start to life at Marseille but has but came under scrutiny amid a shocking run for the Ligue 1 side which saw them lose four games in five to put Champions League qualification in doubt.<\/p>\n Roberto De Zerbi dropped the forward from the starting lineup for two games on the bounce last month, claiming he needed to \u201csacrifice\u201d more.<\/p>\n De Zerbi said<\/a><\/strong>: \u201cNo one can have more respect for him than I do. But that doesn\u2019t change anything: I expect more from him. He has to do more, because what he is currently showing is not enough.<\/p>\n \u201cIf he wants to achieve his ambition of becoming a champion, he has to be more consistent, sacrifice more and be more determined.\u201d<\/p>\n Marseille director of football Mehdi Benatia then had to step in to dismiss rumours<\/a><\/strong> that former Spurs midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg has asked that Greenwood be \u2018removed from the squad\u2019.<\/p>\n But after a brace in the 5-1 win over Montpellier and another goal in the 4-1 win over Brest, Greenwood has matched Didier Drogba\u2019s record of 19 goals in his debut Ligue 1 season for Marseille.<\/p>\n And after the game, De Zerbi delivered a backhanded compliment to Greenwood, claiming it\u2019s \u201cthe first time\u201d the forward has worked that hard.<\/p>\n The former Brighton boss, who\u2019s taken his players to Italy for a late-season training camp, said: \u201cItaly? Tuesday. We\u2019re going to work, be together. It\u2019s not a punishment. The players are happy\u2026 have you ever seen Mason Greenwood work like today?<\/p>\n \u201cIt was the first time. You have to give the players credit. Sometimes you lose points because of bad attitudes, but not because they\u2019re not good guys.\u201d<\/p>\n Ahead of his recent return to form, the Marseille fans unveiled a banner calling out his efforts along with teammate Luis Henrique.<\/p>\n \u2018Greenwood, Henrique, get moving!!!\u2019 the banner read.<\/p>\n MORE MAN UTD COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 De Zerbi revealed he\u2019s been working alongside Greenwood\u2019s father to aid his development, but claims he still \u201cwastes a little of his potential\u201d.<\/p>\n He added: \u201cHe is an introverted person, a little closed, but he has a wonderful family around him, an extraordinary father with whom I worked a lot, he helped me a lot to manage him, with the help also of Mehdi Benatia.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is true that sometimes he gives us the impression that he can score three or four goals per game, and sometimes also that he wastes a little of his potential and his value.<\/p>\n \u201cSo how can we help him? Well sometimes by cuddling him, by taking care of him and sometimes also by being harder so that he continues his progression.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the main objective that I have with all my players, beyond all those that we can have with the club, because if I make my players progress we can achieve the club\u2019s objectives faster.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mason Greenwood was given a backhanded compliment by his manager Roberto De Zerbi after equalling Didier Drogba\u2019s Marseille…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,98,20073,12,20074,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-59421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-front-page","9":"tag-manchester-united","10":"tag-mason-greenwood","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-roberto-de-zerbi","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114419694483416525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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