| Obafemi 23:23 - Nov 7 with 1229 views | SaintNick |
Disciplinary problems with Obafemi at Swansea, nothing major, but a repeat of what ralph said here, he has to behave like a professional footballer
"But there are certain things you have to make sure you do to be in the squad. You have to behave every day like what you are, a professional footballer.
"He's done nothing major but there's stuff we need to help him with.
"He's disappointed. I'm disappointed he's not here, but performance doesn't come before culture, it's the other way around. He'll get there and I'm sure he'll be back involved soon.
"It's just a few disciplinary things in terms of the way we train, time keeping and it does matter, unfortunately.
"If it was Joel Piroe doing the same, even though he's our top goalscorer, it'd be the same consequence.
"That's where we're at. He understands and he respects it. He will be better for it because he's a really brilliant lad who hasn't been shown enough care or love for a while because of the position he's been in."
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| Obafemi on 08:09 - Nov 8 with 1097 views | Heisenberg |
Disciplinary problems or not he isn’t good enough and is at best a Championship player. |  |
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| Obafemi on 09:42 - Nov 8 with 1010 views | saints__fan__73 |
Interesting last sentence. I would agree that Ralph's treatment of him was poor. Saying at a fan's forum that he needs to work on his professionalism when he's talking about a teenager just getting started in the senior game as very poor.
That sort of conversation should have been taking place in private not in front of the press/fans. |  |
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| Obafemi on 09:50 - Nov 8 with 1001 views | SaintNick |
| Obafemi on 09:42 - Nov 8 by saints__fan__73 |
Interesting last sentence. I would agree that Ralph's treatment of him was poor. Saying at a fan's forum that he needs to work on his professionalism when he's talking about a teenager just getting started in the senior game as very poor.
That sort of conversation should have been taking place in private not in front of the press/fans. |
I'm sure he had been speaking to him behind closed doors for some time before he went public on it, if a manager goes public it is usually the last resort to try and wake the player up before it's too late.
Hasenhuttl gave Obafemi every chance to use his talent and now as Swansea are finding out there are issues, the fact there manager is speaking about it after only having him there 3 months perhaps tells us something | |
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| Obafemi on 09:50 - Nov 8 with 999 views | DorsetIan |
I watched the Coventry Swansea game recently that Swansea won. Obafemi was on for the final 30 minutes and was as anonymous as when he came on playing for Saints. |  |
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| Obafemi on 10:07 - Nov 8 with 991 views | Heisenberg |
| Obafemi on 09:42 - Nov 8 by saints__fan__73 |
Interesting last sentence. I would agree that Ralph's treatment of him was poor. Saying at a fan's forum that he needs to work on his professionalism when he's talking about a teenager just getting started in the senior game as very poor.
That sort of conversation should have been taking place in private not in front of the press/fans. |
If he’s on thousands of pounds a week but can’t turn up on time and train professionally then he should be called out. Two managers have said the same so clearly Obafemi needs to realise how fortunate he is and start taking responsibility. As I said earlier he’s simply not good enough anyway. He will end up playing in League one or two. | |
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| Obafemi on 10:12 - Nov 8 with 987 views | saints__fan__73 |
| Obafemi on 09:50 - Nov 8 by SaintNick |
I'm sure he had been speaking to him behind closed doors for some time before he went public on it, if a manager goes public it is usually the last resort to try and wake the player up before it's too late.
Hasenhuttl gave Obafemi every chance to use his talent and now as Swansea are finding out there are issues, the fact there manager is speaking about it after only having him there 3 months perhaps tells us something |
No. This was at a fan's forum a few years back when Obafemi had just broken inti the 1st team. He wouldn't have been working with Obafemi long at all. | |
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| Obafemi on 10:45 - Nov 8 with 947 views | Sadoldgit |
| Obafemi on 09:50 - Nov 8 by SaintNick |
I'm sure he had been speaking to him behind closed doors for some time before he went public on it, if a manager goes public it is usually the last resort to try and wake the player up before it's too late.
Hasenhuttl gave Obafemi every chance to use his talent and now as Swansea are finding out there are issues, the fact there manager is speaking about it after only having him there 3 months perhaps tells us something |
I was going to say the same thing about it being a last resort. The behavial problems must have been there for a while for Ralph to say something publicly. The fact that he didn’t take the comments as a wake up call and is still having problems speaks volumes. It is a shame but it is his own fault that he isn’t behaving professionally and giving himself the best chance to progress as a professional footballer. As said, he is probably Championship level at best but there is no shame in that. If he fails with Swansea it is down to him, not Ralph. |  | | |
| Obafemi on 10:54 - Nov 8 with 941 views | SaintNick |
| Obafemi on 10:12 - Nov 8 by saints__fan__73 |
No. This was at a fan's forum a few years back when Obafemi had just broken inti the 1st team. He wouldn't have been working with Obafemi long at all. |
The fans forum was in 2019 shortly after Ralph joined the club, on the face of it things looked rosy for Obafemi at that time in that he had burst in the side but had a few injury problems, the manager could see off field issues then, and felt that he had to go public about it.
Obafemi later publicly thanked the manager for supporting him during that time
For a while he knuckled down and 18 months ago looked to have a future again after coming into the side after lockdown and scoring at Old Trafford, but it seems that he went back to his old ways and that has continued at Swansea | |
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| Obafemi on 22:10 - Nov 8 with 729 views | kernow |
What are his issues?
Anyone know? | | | |
| Obafemi on 23:07 - Nov 8 with 690 views | Bicester_North |
| Obafemi on 22:10 - Nov 8 by kernow |
What are his issues?
Anyone know? |
Allegedly he had an addiction to looking in the mirror.
If he doesn’t watch himself he could relapse. | |
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| Obafemi on 09:47 - Nov 9 with 575 views | kernow |
| Obafemi on 23:07 - Nov 8 by Bicester_North |
Allegedly he had an addiction to looking in the mirror.
If he doesn’t watch himself he could relapse. |
I see now, on reflection. | | | |
| Obafemi on 10:31 - Nov 9 with 532 views | SaintNick |
| Obafemi on 22:10 - Nov 8 by kernow |
What are his issues?
Anyone know? |
Allegedly his lifestyle, he was swanning around a bit with the likes of Lemina thinking he could do what he liked when he liked, he thought he had already made it. | |
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| Obafemi on 13:09 - Nov 9 with 475 views | TimSaint |
| Obafemi on 10:31 - Nov 9 by SaintNick |
Allegedly his lifestyle, he was swanning around a bit with the likes of Lemina thinking he could do what he liked when he liked, he thought he had already made it. |
He also (allegedly) had issues with his time keeping and arriving late for training etc.
I guess Mane must have given Oba his watch when he departed for Liverpool !! :-) |  |
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| Obafemi on 20:56 - Nov 9 with 377 views | Newdawn2014 |
| Obafemi on 09:42 - Nov 8 by saints__fan__73 |
Interesting last sentence. I would agree that Ralph's treatment of him was poor. Saying at a fan's forum that he needs to work on his professionalism when he's talking about a teenager just getting started in the senior game as very poor.
That sort of conversation should have been taking place in private not in front of the press/fans. |
Maybe Ralph had that conversation with him and it never worked so he called him out ? | | | |
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