Marco Silva tells Rodrigo Muniz to ‘stop crying and make this a normal situation’ after Fulham star’s weepy award video
MARCO SILVA told weepy striker Rodrigo Muniz to stop sobbing and get on with it!
Fulham’s Brazilian youngster Muniz burst into tears after being awarded the Premier League Player of the Month award for March having netted four goals in as many games.
Muniz, 22, who has eight goals in his last ten matches, was surprised by Brazilian team-mates Willian and Andreas Pereira with the award at the Fulham training ground on Friday — and could not hold back the tears.
The Cottagers ace was also emotional after scoring his first Premier League goal in February’s 2-2 draw at Burnley.
And the centre-forward, who had failed to score before then in a miserable spell, could now make Brazil’s Copa America squad in the summer.
But before that, manager Silva wants Muniz to cut out the waterworks and get on with adding to his tally at West Ham today.
The Fulham manager joked: “I have already told him to stop crying!
“It’s enough already! It’s nice when you are emotional but there are moments when maybe you don’t show those emotions.
“I know people love it, probably our fans love it, to have a player so emotional for what he has been achieving and how he has been helping the club these last few months.
“But this is the moment for him to stop crying and make this a normal situation.”
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Muniz, who joined Fulham from Flamengo in August 2021, has been a revelation in the second half of the season after a difficult start to his career in English football.
Silva said: “We are all pleased for him. We have been talking with him from the first day he came here, when he had doubts about his future.
“At the end of last season when he had a bad loan spell at Middlesbrough, he had doubts about whether he would get the chance to show his quality here.
“I was the first one calling him and saying, no doubts here. Go on holiday and come back ready.
“He was the same player we saw three years ago in Brazil, the player I really pushed the club to buy.
“We showed trust in him and from the first day of the season he showed that he was going to fight for it. The hard work is paying off now.”