Jones: I expect Besic to make a bigger impact next season
Everton assistant manager Graeme Jones has predicted that combative midfielder Muhamed Besic will have a much bigger impact in the Premier League next season now he has experience under his belt.
Jones also praised the character of Besic and says that he is a very intelligent player and he can use the information he has gathered from the season just gone to help him this season.
“Mo has adapted very well,” Jones told evertonfc.com. “He’s an intelligent boy and technically he is very, very capable. We knew early on that we had signed a top character in Mo. We did our work. He has been brought up in Germany and a lot of his behaviour reflects that.
“Sometimes in your first season you accumulate so much information and experience that you only really manage to use it in your second season when you have digested and reflected what has happened. I expect Mo to make a bigger impact next season.
“We have been very pleased with him but Muhamed, like everybody else, need to improve and kick-on next season. That’s something you look forward to as a coach – looking at the areas where improvement has been made.”
“Mo is very specific – he is a defensive midfield player and sometimes you can’t have too many defensive midfield players on the pitch at Goodison Park where teams put 11 men behind the ball and you have to break them down,” he added.
“From Mo’s point of view, he will be frustrated that he has had limited opportunities but Gareth [Barry] and James [McCarthy] were so strong the season before that they had earned the right to be starters.
“Mo has not let anybody down when he has come in. He needs to kick-on, enjoy the competition next season and make sure he is out of the starting blocks before anyone else.”
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