Arsenal loanee Ainsley Maitland-Niles “is just not completely ready” for to start with-crew action at Southampton according to Ralph Hasenhuttl, and did not even make the matchday squad on Friday.
Maitland-Niles joined Southampton on a season-long loan from Arsenal on transfer deadline day, and made his debut in the 1- loss at Wolves in early September.
But he was nowhere to be found on Friday as the Saints fell to an additional 1- defeat, this time absent to Aston Villa.
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“We have with Ainsley a whole lot of perform to do also because he has to adapt to our game, and this is a thing that takes time a small bit,” Hasenhuttl described.
“We see also all through the week what we talk to him to do and specially in the midfield posture it can take a small little bit to recognize how we want to do it.
‘Doesn’t make sense to throw him in’
“It will not make sense to toss an individual in who is just not completely ready for what we want to do. When he is prepared and on the stage we feel he has to be then he will support us for sure.”
“I consider he’s a incredibly very good player on the ball, but he has to discover that our recreation starts when the ball is not with us.
“I believe this is a thing he had by no means essential to do in the golf equipment he was participating in in.
“But meanwhile it truly is contemporary football, this is a pretty critical aspect, you can see this is continue to some thing he has to learn hence we are investing our time to make him improved.
“He is not the loud speaker, if you want, he normally takes duty on the pitch when he has the ball, absolutely, he needs to clearly show his traits there.
“But I imagine to have a large effect in the long term in soccer he has to increase a number of areas to his recreation he has not experienced so far, and we will help him performing this.”
