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Reece James is a good choice for captain. He is a young lad and has a ton to learn. His heart is in the right place which is important. He is also a fighter what you need to be a captain. 

My concern with him is he is sort of a quiet person in terms of speaking vocally. He speaks in volumes on the pitch and he has a mean streak to him.

I bet after getting the armband he will get a red card when we have trouble on the pitch. He has shown signs of it many times. Where I love the idea of protecting your flock till the end a la Terry there is the flipside to it. It almost cost us the Champions League 2011. And JT is very vocal.

When you are unable to vocalize your thoughts you use your body. And Reece has a massive one. He needs to be able to control his emotions not to get sent off. You could see his sister been thrown off just a few days ago. There is that sort of mean streak. 

Now he's not sent off before for violent things the armband will up the ante. Hopefully he is able to control these emotions. 

Another problem him being captain is he is very injury prone. Hopefully our medical/physiological team gets their sh*t together and make Reece get a bit leaner so there isn't this mich strain to his legs. 

Anyway I think he is the right captain for us. He is clearly one of the most talented footballer we have. 

 
dermott said:
That's the key. Leadership is more than about armbands. The James-Chilwell combo is the future, which Thiago isn't, regardless of his outstanding attributes.
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Just for one season would've been fine though while Silva wraps things up at Chelsea. Work closely with him during that season and take in all his words and experience. Anyway, its neither here or there now, nice one to Reece, I'm sure he'll handle it all well!

 
Mod said:
Just for one season would've been fine though while Silva wraps things up at Chelsea. Work closely with him during that season and take in all his words and experience. Anyway, its neither here or there now, nice one to Reece, I'm sure he'll handle it all well!
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Thiago's main job along with playing well is to teach the young up and comers such as Colwill, who already sang his praises on Silva. 

I am pretty sure Silva has said the captain should be Reece or someone else. 

That dude is a backbone in so many ways.

 
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Always prefer captains to be a defender or a keeper as they see the entire pitch at all times.

Even better that its a Cobham lad. 

 
Didn't take long to pick up a knock then. Really feels like he's going to be one of those "what-if" players. We'll all be wondering just how good he could have been, if only he wasn't injured all the time.

 
Zeta said:
Didn't take long to pick up a knock then. Really feels like he's going to be one of those "what-if" players. We'll all be wondering just how good he could have been, if only he wasn't injured all the time.
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Was he injured though? Didn't look it. He was smiling with Chilwell when he gave him the armband and jogged off the pitch. 

 
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dkw said:
Great idea, move one of the best right backs in football to a position he'll be much less effective. Why not put him in goal.
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Above everything else, we may have to no choice but to put him a less taxing position if his injuries don't subside.

 
Didn't look particularly worried going off, must have told the gaffer he needed to leave 10 mins early for a birthday party or something. Done the same at Sunday league.

 
Went off as he was tiring, no injury or anything according to Pochettino. 

 
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