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Kieran Trippier

JPBB said:
Yes. My point is that replacing Walker with Trippier weakens the team.
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If you want to make that point use examples of what Trippier isnt doing when playing for Spurs, not England where most of our players look a lot worse....
 
JerusalemMan said:
Does it really?
Not sure that the evidence of last season wholly backs that up.
I don't disagree that there's a case to be made but it isn't clear-cut.
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I think against the weaker teams you could argue that Trippier would be an even bigger threat than walker. The problem is when we face the stronger teams, with very good players on left, then walker is more than a match for most of them Trippier not so much. The Man U game at WHL demonstrated this quite clearly for me at least
 
DTA said:
I think against the weaker teams you could argue that Trippier would be an even bigger threat than walker. The problem is when we face the stronger teams, with very good players on left, then walker is more than a match for most of them Trippier not so much. The Man U game at WHL demonstrated this quite clearly for me at least
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Trippier is perfect against teams that sit back
 
DTA said:
I think against the weaker teams you could argue that Trippier would be an even bigger threat than walker. The problem is when we face the stronger teams, with very good players on left, then walker is more than a match for most of them Trippier not so much. The Man U game at WHL demonstrated this quite clearly for me at least
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Over a season then, would you say the team is stronger with Walker or with Trippier?
Or is it perhaps not so simple and actually there's a case to be made for two different players (at least) to be deployed at differing times when the manager wishes to attack or to counter in a certain manner?
 
JerusalemMan said:
Over a season then, would you say the team is stronger with Walker or with Trippier?
Or is it perhaps not so simple and actually there's a case to be made for two different players (at least) to be deployed at differing times when the manager wishes to attack or to counter in a certain manner?
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Well if we could keep both and keep them happy with games divided as you suggest that would be ideal. However... that seems unlikely. So it comes down to this for me. Walkers crossing is not as good as Trippier (by quite a margin) but he bests him in almost every other department. So is his ability against the very best left sides players more important than Trippier's superior crossing... ie do we have enough to beat lesser teams without Trippiers superior crossing? The answer for me would be yes. Ergo walkers ability against the very best attacking left sides player would be more valuable to us across a season
 
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