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Huddlestone
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Maltese Falcon
Niko Kranjcar
Pirlo plays with Marchisio and especially de Rossi - both DMs. Apparently the Italians are still living in dinosaur age, with not one but two DMs in the national team. They really need some advice to move out of the Jurassic into an age when the defensive midfielders are apparently abolished and all defensive midfield duties left solely to the defenders...8-[
I'm not sure what matches you've been watching, but Marchisio and De Rossi are both good passers of the ball. They are both so much more than DMs. Marchisio's a very good central hold-up player too - much like how we use Dembele.
You have to get past this idea that where you are on the pitch is the entire definition of your role. Dembele spent most of the second half of last season in front of the defence, that doesn't make him a DM any more than it does Hudd. Parker spent much of the second half of last season at the front of the midfield, that doesn't make him a trequartista.
braineclipse
Willie Hall
Marchisio plays as a defensive midfielder when playing for Italy in a midfield trio alongside Pirlo and De Rossi? Seriously?
Do you mind sharing your definition of what a defensive midfielder is?
Enter the Pitbull
Luke Young
Tom Huddlestone has accused Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas of driving him out of the club.
Hull City’s £5.25million record signing also claimed the Spurs boss is trying to destroy the British culture at White Hart Lane that served Harry Redknapp so well. The England midfielder, 26, was a regular starter under Redknapp but became a peripheral figure under Villas-Boas.
He said: ‘I didn’t get a fair crack of the whip. I played games where results were good and I felt my own personal performances were good, but then I would find myself out of the team for six or seven weeks without any explanation.
Tiger Tom: Tom Huddlestone is pleased to have joined Hull from Spurs
'That was very disappointing, but I am not the type of lad to go knocking on the manager’s doors demanding answers on a Monday morning.
‘I know people go on about my injuries, but I was fit and available for most of last season. So it was frustrating not to get more game time. I knew the manager would be happy for me to go if the right bid came in.’
And Huddlestone was happy to leave. ‘It’s a revolving door down there,’ he added.
‘In my first few years the policy was to buy young British players — like me, Aaron Lennon, Gareth Bale, Michael Dawson and Jermaine Jenas.
‘Now most of us have left and it seems like the club is going the other way round and bringing in established continental players.’
Hull City’s £5.25million record signing also claimed the Spurs boss is trying to destroy the British culture at White Hart Lane that served Harry Redknapp so well. The England midfielder, 26, was a regular starter under Redknapp but became a peripheral figure under Villas-Boas.
He said: ‘I didn’t get a fair crack of the whip. I played games where results were good and I felt my own personal performances were good, but then I would find myself out of the team for six or seven weeks without any explanation.
'That was very disappointing, but I am not the type of lad to go knocking on the manager’s doors demanding answers on a Monday morning.
‘I know people go on about my injuries, but I was fit and available for most of last season. So it was frustrating not to get more game time. I knew the manager would be happy for me to go if the right bid came in.’
And Huddlestone was happy to leave. ‘It’s a revolving door down there,’ he added.
‘In my first few years the policy was to buy young British players — like me, Aaron Lennon, Gareth Bale, Michael Dawson and Jermaine Jenas.
‘Now most of us have left and it seems like the club is going the other way round and bringing in established continental players.’
Enter the Pitbull
Luke Young
Although apparently he claims on Twitter that he has been misquoted!
Modric THFC
Jimmy McCormick
You think he would at least joined Sunderland.
He's gonna be playing in the Championship next season which wont suit him and he'll never recover from that.
He's gonna be playing in the Championship next season which wont suit him and he'll never recover from that.
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indianspur
Guest
bitter.....shame on you Thudd
butcherboy
Gilberto
Doesn't he think that maybe he just wasn't good enough for us or that he can be really brick !
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
I love huddlestone but i think his being dropped had more to do with how easy it was for attackers running back from a forward position to rob him of the ball. I might be his biggest fan but it was getting annoying for me to see this happen at least once a game.
I wish him well but we are not signing young english players now because the ones we produce in the academy are the same standard as the ones we could buy, whether we actually give them a chance is another matter.
I wish him well but we are not signing young english players now because the ones we produce in the academy are the same standard as the ones we could buy, whether we actually give them a chance is another matter.
Funniest thing I have read recently
Kingdawson
Banned
8 years at the club and that's what he spouts(what part is he claiming he was misquoted btw).
africanspurs
Justin Edinburgh
clearly doesnt like being dropped. shame he had to go down like that
but it gives us a possible insight into what the club and AVD are doing
What he's actually said is that he 'feels' misquoted, not 'I've been misquoted'. He refers to the headline being wrong. I don't have an issue with the headline, it's the quotes I have the issue with. Fair play to him to question AVB, if that's how he was treated, but I don't get this whole criticism, implied or otherwise, of our transfer strategy this year.
I'm failing to see which young English players, available at the right price, that we should be spending money on. I can only think of maybe Ince (is he an upgrade on Townsend? Granted they seem like different kinds of players) and that's it. When you're quoted £20m for a player like James McCarthy, decent, but not exceptional, is it any wonder why we're going abroad?!
Mulletperm
Mauricio Taricco
Agree totally. Bang out of order.
Kingdawson
Banned
Yep thought so, thanks for clarifying.He can cry and moan all he wants but he simply wasn't good enough.
"In my first few years the policy was to buy young British players — like me, Aaron Lennon, Gareth Bale, Michael Dawson and Jermaine Jenas.
Now most of us have left and it seems like the club is going the other way round and bringing in established continental players"
Can someone tell this fool that 3 of the 5 he's stated are still at the club.
Kingdawson
Banned
Getting rid of overrated/overyhped players like Huddlestone, Caulker, and Dempsey? I'm all for it.
If he has actually said that, apart from being a bit of a d1ck he's also wrong. AFAIK, only him and Jenas have left and he should have expected Jenas to have left any Premiership club much sooner than he actually did.