{"id":293704,"date":"2023-09-23T22:37:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T22:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=293704"},"modified":"2023-09-23T22:37:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T22:37:23","slug":"adam-lallana-calls-roberto-de-zerbi-the-big-brother-ive-never-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/adam-lallana-calls-roberto-de-zerbi-the-big-brother-ive-never-had\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Lallana calls Roberto De Zerbi &apos;the big brother I&apos;ve never had&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Adam Lallana believes Brighton&#8217;s squad is as mentally &#8216;strong&#8217; and determined as his title-winning Liverpool team and calls Roberto De Zerbi &#8216;the big brother I&#8217;ve never had&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Adam Lallana loves life at Brighton under revolutionary boss Roberto De Zerbi\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He shadowed De Zerbi while injured and is impressed with his attention to detail<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mail Sport spent a week behind the scenes with Brighton to see how they tick\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adam Lallana\u00a0is among a cohort of hugely experienced, over-30, proven winners at Brighton and has forged a particularly close bond with manager Roberto De Zerbi.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018My relationship with Roberto is like he\u2019s an older sibling, an older brother I\u2019ve never had,\u2019 says Lallana, who joined the club from Liverpool in 2020 and turned 35 in May. \u2018He\u2019s demanding as hell but I just always want to impress him and make sure he\u2019s not disappointed in me.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He\u2019ll have that effect on every player in the group. His demands are extremely high. As de-manding as Jurgen [Klopp] I\u2019d say, but in a different way. My manager now is obsessed tactically whereas Jurgen was obsessed with emotional footie. They\u2019re different, but both work.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Lallana\u2019s six years at Liverpool included winning the Champions League in 2019 having also picked up a runners-up medal in 2018, and a Premier League title in 2019-20, among other honours.<\/p>\n<p>When injured for the final four months of last season, Lallana shadowed De Zerbi, attending every planning meeting and acting in effect as a bridge to the younger players. He is also a mentor to the Under-21s.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/23\/20\/75766985-12553349-image-a-24_1695499094757.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Adam Lallana has found a new lease of life at Brighton after joining from Liverpool in 2020<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/23\/21\/75767197-12553349-image-a-25_1695500005623.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He has a great relationship with Roberto De Zerbi and shadowed him while he was injured\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The manager\u2019s demands are, well&#8230; there are times you walk off the training pitch, there are times I\u2019ve had to speak to lads and say don\u2019t worry [about the intensity of what\u2019s just happened]. It\u2019s coming from a good place.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/23\/22\/75766535-12553349-image-a-82_1695502935132.jpg\" height=\"295\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>\u2018He wants more from you because he believes in you. He wouldn\u2019t be bothering with you if he didn\u2019t think you were in his plans or could be better.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But there are moments when you\u2019re out there when you think, \u201cWOAH!\u201d. Just the obsession with the detail if you\u2019re not getting it right. Maybe young players, or players with different languages haven\u2019t seen that before.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Roberto does say, \u201cI\u2019m breaking your balls for a reason!\u201d. It\u2019s because he believes in you.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Lallana says the culture of Brighton has changed a lot since he joined in terms of the \u2018attitude and application of the players\u2019 and \u2018the demands of the head coach\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/23\/21\/75767495-12553349-image-a-26_1695501154298.jpg\" height=\"451\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>With players like James Milner in the dressing room, Lallana compares it to the culture at Liverpool when they won the Premier League and Champions League\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is fully invested in De Zerbi. \u2018It\u2019s not just me, the whole group is. It runs itself, that dressing room&#8230; it\u2019s easily as strong as the Liverpool dressing room when we won everything. Milly [James Milner] will back that up.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Lallana is quick to clarify he doesn\u2019t mean Brighton are anywhere close to Liverpool in terms of overall player quality, yet. Rather they have an ethos every bit as dedicated to excellence, and are on an upward trend.<\/p>\n<p>Brighton\u2019s ambitious infrastructure and a consistent model has long been there, he says. \u2018The culture within the group of players is at a different level from when I walked through the door.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Do you have a good person on the football pitch with a good attitude and good application? That\u2019s my recipe. That\u2019s what I believe. That\u2019s how you win.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Did Brighton bring Lallana in for that reason, to create a culture like that, with Milner and the other older players helping too? \u2018Without a shadow of a doubt,\u2019 he says. \u2018That was part of my job.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019d just come off the back of winning the Premier League and the Champions League. I had a rough idea of what a winning formula was like. It wasn\u2019t rocket science.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/23\/21\/75767511-12553349-Brighton_qualified_for_the_Europa_League_for_the_first_time_and_-a-29_1695501267845.jpg\" height=\"478\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Brighton qualified for the Europa League for the first time and Lallana thinks the culture is at a &#8216;different level&#8217; compared to when he arrived<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m not going to come here and score 20 goals a season. But I know how the best operate day in and day out.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Lallana \u2018knew straight away\u2019 that Brighton \u2018was a perfect fit for me\u2026 it really excited me, the project, it really excited me. [Brighton] wanted my experience, an England international, and there was a pathway too for me at the end of my career.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Lallana is doing his coaching badges, but for now his attention is on this season, for which he signed a one-year contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12553349\/Adam-Lallana-believes-Brightons-squad-mentally-strong-determined-title-winning-Liverpool-team-calls-Roberto-Zerbi-big-brother-Ive-never-had.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Lallana believes Brighton&#8217;s squad is as mentally &#8216;strong&#8217; and determined as his title-winning Liverpool team and calls Roberto De <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Adam Lallana calls Roberto De Zerbi &amp;apos;the big brother I&amp;apos;ve never had&amp;apos; 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