I've said this for years - the club needs a team of full-time sports psychologists.
A player is a body and a mind - if either one is off, they don't perform.
We surround them all with cutting edge talent and technology to take care of the body. They have Burgo, his assistants, Mladen, the wrestling guy, physios, doctors, trainers, weights rooms, machines, tanks, etc etc, to take care of the body side.
But what do they surround them with to take care of the mental side? To train them in techniques to maintain focus when the chips are down ... to shut out surrounding noise and distractions when shooting for goal ...... to harness the full power of the brain's circuitry to nail that shot ..... to deal with scoreboard pressure in a controlled way .... to maintain the upper mental hand .... to deal with all the stresses of modern professional sport and the immense pressure that the club community exerts on them either directly or in an implied manner?
They are just told to harden the **** up. There's a massive discrepancy between the attention we pay to their bodies and to their minds. These days, most squads are very similar in their fitness, strength and so on. The successful teams are always mentally tough and mentally skilled. It's about ****ing time we took care of that side too. Only the very top coaches can take care of it on their own, and Ken has made it pretty clear he is not in that category.