Town boss Roy Keane says striker Tamás Priskin could have made more of an impact after coming off the bench at Preston last week. The Blues manager says strikers coming on as subs should aim to emulate his former Manchester United team-mate Ole Gunnar Solskjær.
Keane says the Hungarian international, who was left out at Preston having missed a number of opportunities against Swansea, was given enough time to make an impression at Deepdale: "Tamás Priskin had 20-25 minutes last week and you can do a lot in that time.”
The Blues boss says players throughout football appear increasingly reluctant to be subs: "Some people in this modern game — and we saw it last weekend — some players don’t like or want to be sub, which is crazy.
"They go on the pitch and they show you that they’re upset by their body language, not just at our club, it goes on at lots of clubs. It was an important learning weekend for me in terms of the players I’m working with. Lads who want to play and lads who certainly don’t want to be sub.”
Keane says he doesn’t mind players being annoyed at not being in the starting line-up as long as they do their job when they do get on: "You don’t mind a player being grumpy but they seem to bring that grumpiness on to the pitch with them instead of going out there and doing the business.
"There are a lot of big egos out there and some players don’t think they should be on the bench. When they do get on, they don’t really want to do the business because they’re upset with the manager because they’re on the bench.”
The Irishman believes one of his former team-mates had the perfect attitude to being a sub: "When come off the bench you can still influence a game. The greatest example of that, the best player coming off the bench in the history of the Premiership was Ole Gunnar Solskjær.
"There was a player everyone could learn from. The number of disappointments that boy had. He would score one or two goals and be on the bench the following week.
"When he came on, he didn’t come on feeling sorry for himself, thinking the manager’s a whatever. He came on and did the business and scored.”