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The Italian Football Thread

NaijaSpurs said:
We dropped the ball with Min-Jae Kim, we looked at him and then moved on. Napoli bought him for a paltry 18m euros and has looked class ever since, definitely one of the best central defenders in Italy.
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To be fair we did sign Romero instead

There's also the question of how less agile defenders like him can adapt to the pace and higher lines of this league, compared to somewhere like Italy
 
Gutter Boy said:
To be fair we did sign Romero instead

There's also the question of how less agile defenders like him can adapt to the pace and higher lines of this league, compared to somewhere like Italy
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Less agile??? Where are you getting that from
You need to watch Napoli play as they are the most agile team around and he leads that back line
 

I think he is an excellent leader organiser of the backline, reads and anticipates the game very well. What irritates me the most about missing out on him is that not only was he cheap but he actually wanted to come to Spurs because Son was here.
 
After two years he has a 45million Euro buy out clause, if Napoli have any sense they will offer him a new deal and increase to at least 100m euros.
 
NaijaSpurs said:

I think he is an excellent leader organiser of the backline, reads and anticipates the game very well. What irritates me the most about missing out on him is that not only was he cheap but he actually wanted to come to Spurs because Son was here.
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Everyone else in Europe decided to pass too, that's why he moved to Turkey for £2.5m. You win some...
 
NaijaSpurs said:

I think he is an excellent leader organiser of the backline, reads and anticipates the game very well. What irritates me the most about missing out on him is that not only was he cheap but he actually wanted to come to Spurs because Son was here.
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I'm guessing we didn't want him.

Youtube vids are great.
 
NaijaSpurs said:

I think he is an excellent leader organiser of the backline, reads and anticipates the game very well. What irritates me the most about missing out on him is that not only was he cheap but he actually wanted to come to Spurs because Son was here.
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Another thing that is funny is in the summer i said if i had my way dier and davies would be backup and we'd have better starters. You replied with
NaijaSpurs said:
If that is your logic we might as well upgrade every single player that is not WORLD CLASS. Now tell me, how many undisputable WORLD CLASS players do we truly have?
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Gutter Boy said:
Everyone else in Europe decided to pass too, that's why he moved to Turkey for £2.5m. You win some...
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And yet he was still available in
Lilbaz said:
Another thing that is funny is in the summer i said if i had my way dier and davies would be backup and we'd have better starters. You replied with
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Well you were obviously right because both should have been upgraded upon. But on the other hand I was kind of right because I think at least half of that team is not good enough for where we want to go and we simply cannot afford ro replace them all.

Also, maybe if we had signed Kim when I wanted as to sign him at least one of them would already have been a backup in the first place
 
NaijaSpurs said:
Youtube vids are great.
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I definitely did not want him because while he might look good on the ball, but I think he is a poor defender. I said that in the summer and I stand by that now.[/QUOTE]

Was just pointing out youtube vids are a brick metric to judge a player. Anyone can look good.

I don't know if kim would be great or not. I think that lenglet is a stop gap and we will get at least 1 cb in the summer.
 
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Lilbaz said:
Another thing that is funny is in the summer i said if i had my way dier and davies would be backup and we'd have better starters. You replied with
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I definitely did not want him because while he might look good on the ball, but I think he is a poor defender. I said that in the summer and I stand by that now
 
Lilbaz said:
I definitely did not want him because while he might look good on the ball, but I think he is a poor defender. I said that in the summer and I stand by that now.
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Was just pointing out youtube vids are a brick metric to judge a player. Anyone can look good.

I don't know if kim would be great or not. I think that lenglet is a stop gap and we will get at least 1 cb in the summer.[/QUOTE]

With Kim I do not rely on utube clips, he plays for Napoli who are a team I keep an eye on because they have Victor Osimhen playing up front
 
Gutter Boy said:
He replaced Rodon as Davies' cover, so that is an upgrade

We concede goals mainly because our formation handicaps us and we dont have enough possession
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Well actually Rodon hardly played for us while Lenglet seems to be playing more than than Davies so it would be disingenuous to call him cover for Davies. I think neither Davies, Rodon, Dier, Lenglet or Sess are good enough to be regular starters for a team that wants to seriously consider challenging for the title.

I also think it is a myth to think that playing 3 central defenders would automatically make us better defensively. I would rather we play a back 4, and have better protection with a midfield 3.
 
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