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Eric Dier

LCLC said:
And you are one of these hardened band of people on here that cling on to any article, rumour, press release that makes our club look good.

Funny how you rubbish any negative story yet cling on to nearly all positives and swear by contrived press releases as gospel to the truth behind people's feelings and strategy. Then you Leave schneidy remarks for people who disagree with your opinion.

Pot kettle black
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Its funny how you quote my post and then come out with that rubbish which completely ignores the fact that I also posted this below after the the post you quoted. Selective blindness as well :rolleyes:


(The problem is that there are some who believe what they read if it backs up their narrative, personally I take anything I read with a pinch of salt and never use it to back up my thoughts. Lets be honest most of what we read in the press or hear some pundit say to justify their existence is cobblers. But as I say there are some who will use it without a thought as long as it backs their view on events. That is sad)
 
LCLC said:
An ex player who is a legend at the club, will have friends in high places, is a pundit who will have access to some behind the scenes goings on.

Maybe he's misinformed or whatever - who cares the window is done and it's irrelevant now, we have what we have. However, Considering the numerous stories and comments about levy low balling clubs and unsettling then then this story isn't unbelievable and shouldn't be dismissed out of hand
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On the first bit I agree that it could, but in the main from a well run club it doesn't because those well run clubs don't want their business "leaked". Rather than making a general rule, I'd say you have to look at the specifics and I don't think Le Tissier has called much correcly and has actually been proven wrong in his knowledge more often than not.

As for the numerous stories a) I don't think they are numerous and b) if the same lie is repeated multiple times it does not make it any more true especially when the media recycle and use eachothers reports enormously. If you were to take all newspaper commentary/analysis/rumour and work out what was actually true, you'd probably find they were more often than not wrong. Therefore to believe everything you see written will mean you are more often than not wrong.

We've done this to death though, so I will refrain from repeating the same arguments unless the negativity and innuendo becomes too much.
 
Looking good - not sure we could have expected any new signing in CM to have performed any better
 
He's just getting better and better in this position. Great to see. Also felt he freed mason up today to be a little more attacking. Wonder if this will be his position or just a temporary thing. The last thing we or he needs is to become a utility player.
 
Yeah really good today, Man of the Match for me. A big achievement for a young lad playing out of position, won nearly every challenge, intelligent use of the ball, a real winner.

Could see him going on to big things in the game.
 
best game he's had for spurs.

good tidy passing, calm mentality, experienced in what protection CB's are looking for, fast, good tackling, brave, english

keep him there. he'll be worth 25 mil at the end of the year.
 
My worry is that we've turned a central midfield role into a purely defensive one, if you look at the average position map we basically played 5-1-4 with Dier almost as deep as the two CBs, that put so much pressure on Mason who despite playing 10+ minutes less made 69 passes to Dier's 32, this a big reason imo as to why we look so disjointed as you've effectively replaced a ball playing midfielder with a dedicated tackler/tracker so now everything is going through one player instead of two.
 
Yoof said:
My worry is that we've turned a central midfield role into a purely defensive one, if you look at the average position map we basically played 5-1-4 with Dier almost as deep as the two CBs, that put so much pressure on Mason who despite playing 10+ minutes less made 69 passes to Dier's 32, this a big reason imo as to why we look so disjointed as you've effectively replaced a ball playing midfielder with a dedicated tackler/tracker so now everything is going through one player instead of two.
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That is why whoever is playing "number 10" has to drop and help out. Alli wasn't doing it often enough. Eriksen usually does.
 
Yoof said:
My worry is that we've turned a central midfield role into a purely defensive one, if you look at the average position map we basically played 5-1-4 with Dier almost as deep as the two CBs, that put so much pressure on Mason who despite playing 10+ minutes less made 69 passes to Dier's 32, this a big reason imo as to why we look so disjointed as you've effectively replaced a ball playing midfielder with a dedicated tackler/tracker so now everything is going through one player instead of two.
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Whilst I agree with this its a sacrifice that suits our need to protect the defence more

I was not an advocate of changing the double pivot but we have no kept two clean sheets and that was something we just didn't do enough of last season

The key though is Rose and Walker pushing on to support and give the options needed for width. Davies was fine today but rose is simpler better and more dynamic and it shows

For me we can play like Chelsea did last season rather than hero we played last season and that would be a great balance
 
Mumorn said:
That is why whoever is playing "number 10" has to drop and help out. Alli wasn't doing it often enough. Eriksen usually does.
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See Lamella dropped deep. Didn't make a tackle that I can Remember but played some great passes to link up play

Alli for me was good but he wasn't playing a pass and move game
 
metalgear said:
despite his size, dier is extremely fast. reminds me of King in more ways than one.
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Yea he has excellent pace and is built like a tank. Think he is a quality player. Him and Stones should be the future of England's defence for a long time to come.
Curious to see how long he's going to stay in the DM role though.
 
Growing into the role to great effect. Can't see why he has to revert back to cb if he continues with this form.

Like an earlier post, looks similar to matic but in my opinion with more balls.

Future captain 100% guarantee.
 
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