Do you think he'll learn English now he's here?
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Gareth Bale
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nayenezgani
Jimmy Neighbour
Doesn't follow the narrative mate ..
Several of his teammates admitted it, Modric said it again in an interview this week.
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Les Ferdinand
fudging hell glad I never worked for you.
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Les Ferdinand
I think it will be difficult to reach the heights of a couple of years ago, but I hope his presence will boost our performances and spread fear in other teams allowing others to benefit.
braineclipse
Willie Hall
Hope you're right, that would make one hell of an impact.
nayenezgani
Jimmy Neighbour
nayenezgani
Jimmy Neighbour
I love the top knot.
Opposition teams will be bricking themselves at the sight of him back in training.
Opposition teams will be bricking themselves at the sight of him back in training.
Imagine trying to sort out West Ham's tactics right now.
he is, Bale is one of the best players in the world because those players can win a game out of absolutely nothing, he can pick a game up on his own (he still does it for Wales)
It will be interesting to see how anyone deals with Son, Kane, Bale, Aurier, Reguilon with Lo Celso and/or Ndombele behind
- I'd say the first tactic is going to be sit back, take a deeper line (Southampton and United were crucified when pushing high)
- That creates other problems (our defense will be under less pressure), and sitting back will give more time/space to midfield to find right passes (PEH to Aurier example in United game)
- Add our ability to bring the pace of Bergwijn and Lucas on with 25-30 minutes left .. on paper we look a nightmare to play
elyid
Gerry Armstrong
No fans at least means we are spared their handball appeal every 30 seconds.
Glenda's Legs
Les Ferdinand
Surely any manager that would have seen Southampton, Haifa and Man Utd games would realise the best thing to do would be to sit in and not give us the space to run into. On the plus side I assume they have some players away on international duty so won’t have a whole week to drill into themselves a plan.
Baleforce
Ron Henry
if only we had a player who regularly scores from 30 yards...
They have Tactics!!!
Two banks of five, then throw on Andy Carroll for the final minutes. Oh wait...
Bullet
Luka Modric
Indeed I can't imagine teams will allow Son to sprint into space 5 times per game.
So the tricky dribbling and passing of Ndombele and Lo Celso are vital.
As is the width of the full backs.
I expect Bale to unbalance things for a while and make us WORSE, until we settle.
Before he left for Madrid, he was "too good" so our players just stopped taking responsibility and gave him the ball.
At which point Bale would try to beat 6 men or score from 30 yards*. It is to his credit that he often managed this, but we MUST ensure all of our other players keep taking responsibility to be the match winner.
*That is why fans were singing "he plays on the left" because they wanted him to stay wide where there was space to beat the full back and cause damage, rather than continually dribble into the crowded middle, because no other Spurs player was taking responsibility and we just faced 8 central defenders every game with Bale ploughing into their midst.