Agent reveals Pavlyuchenko problem

Fri, 30 Oct 08:35:36 2009

Tottenham striker Roman Pavlyuchenko's performances on the pitch are being affected by "psychological problems", his agent has claimed.

The Russia forward failed to impress in the 2-0 Carling Cup win over Everton on Tuesday having been handed a rare start.

Agent Oleg Artemov said in the Sun: "His poor performance recently is not due to a lack of match practice but psychological problems. Of course, not getting into the starting line-up, sitting on the bench is not good for any player."

He added: "But Roman is much more affected by the feeling that the manager doesn't trust him and prefers to use other forwards."

Pavlyuchenko, who was brought to White Hart Lane by former manager Juande Ramos, is competing with Jermain Defoe, Robbie Keane and Peter Crouch for a place in the Spurs attack.

And Artemov hinted he may have to leave the club in search of more regular first-team football to avoid harming his international chances ahead of next summer's World Cup in South Africa.

He added: "The World Cup is next summer, to waste another half a year on the bench may be very bad for his international career."

 

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  1. How about loaning him to Fulham?

    From Binky C, on Fri 30 Oct 8:14AM

  2. Pavs a f*ggot he should stay at spurs coz there are­ thousands of f*ggots in the stadium to support the poor­ little boy.

    From neil g, on Fri 30 Oct 8:06AM

  3. he's a good striker and tottenham should let him go­ cause they had crouch as a subtitute

    From SaMiR NaSRi, on Fri 30 Oct 8:04AM

  4. he's never been any good in front of goal ,time to­ go pav

    From NO 1 GARDENER, on Fri 30 Oct 7:10AM

  5. Poor Pav :[

    From elly, on Thu 29 Oct 11:05PM

  6. Poor man Roman Pavlyuchenko's performances on the­ pitch are being affected by "psychological­ problems",
    Stop his wages I bet that will make­ him better soon.
    Come on you spurs lets show the­ arsewipes who's the best on saturday.

    From Phil, on Thu 29 Oct 5:18PM
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    robbie keane big mouth small mind

    From carolwhite671, on Thu 29 Oct 12:57PM

  8. Score a hat-trick against Arsewipes & he'll­ become an instant legend at the Lane!

    From geehart, on Thu 29 Oct 12:11PM

  9. let him go if we get 10+m for him, hes not going to­ settle here. Which is a shame because he is a decent­ forward when he's on his game!!

    From Wayne, on Thu 29 Oct 11:53AM

  10. maybe if harry gave him more games then he would not­ have a confidence problem

    From Tiger, on Thu 29 Oct 11:12AM

  11. Let him go, he's just wasting good bench space

    From Michael, on Thu 29 Oct 10:34AM
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