Richard
First Team Player
- Joined
- Jul 3, 2020
- Messages
- 477
- Reaction score
- 3
Speaking after watching goals from Olivier Ntcham and Jamie Paterson sealed the points at Oakwell, Martin said of Obafemi: "He played 60 minutes for the under-23s on Monday.
"We need to get Michael into a place where he is mentally and physically feeling as though he can produce his best performance on the pitch.
"So this one is not about anything else. He's a really great young man who has just taken a little bit of time to settle.
"We all need to help him with that. Me, the club and the players. We're doing everything we can to help him settle.
"He's training much better and much harder but when he comes on he can't have the impact he wants for us and it's affecting him and frustrating him.
"So in the Coventry game and against Blackpool, he can't quite get up to the intensity of the game. So we have honest conversations about it and I've got no doubt he'll be a really, really good player for us over a long period of time.
"Some guys take longer than other to settle. It's a big change for him in his life.
"I think it's really naive for people to think you just sign someone for a bit of money on a good contract and it just clicks.
"That just doesn't happen. The patience and perseverance, I hope, from both of us will pay off eventually."
"We need to get Michael into a place where he is mentally and physically feeling as though he can produce his best performance on the pitch.
"So this one is not about anything else. He's a really great young man who has just taken a little bit of time to settle.
"We all need to help him with that. Me, the club and the players. We're doing everything we can to help him settle.
"He's training much better and much harder but when he comes on he can't have the impact he wants for us and it's affecting him and frustrating him.
"So in the Coventry game and against Blackpool, he can't quite get up to the intensity of the game. So we have honest conversations about it and I've got no doubt he'll be a really, really good player for us over a long period of time.
"Some guys take longer than other to settle. It's a big change for him in his life.
"I think it's really naive for people to think you just sign someone for a bit of money on a good contract and it just clicks.
"That just doesn't happen. The patience and perseverance, I hope, from both of us will pay off eventually."
