Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
Have to agree
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The Italian Football Thread
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NaijaSpurs
Rafael Van Der Vaart
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.
NaijaSpurs
Rafael Van Der Vaart
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.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Everyone else in Europe decided to pass too, that's why he moved to Turkey for £2.5m. You win some...
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
Rafael Van Der Vaart
And yet he was still available in
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
Rafael Van Der Vaart
I do not think Lenglet has improved our defence at all
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.
NaijaSpurs
Rafael Van Der Vaart
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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
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
Baleforce
Ron Henry
I think he's improved the squad as we have proper cover for Davies, who is still our best LCB.
NaijaSpurs
Rafael Van Der Vaart
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
NaijaSpurs
Rafael Van Der Vaart
We still seem to concede shed loads of goals so the improvements seems negligible.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
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
NaijaSpurs
Rafael Van Der Vaart
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.
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
I think it’s this summer too
And he has so far declined a new contract
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
None have come from him being stupid though
Hugo has been at fault for 3 of the 5 goals we have conceded that have been down to individual errors according to some stats I read
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
That's what I meant. 3 CBs is a crap formation really. It's pointless unless your opponent is playing two proper CFs.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
More individual errors when you don't have possession though. GKs in more assertive teams can go through games being essentially redundant.
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
The old excuse
His errors havent come under pressure
We had more possession vs villa
We had more possession in the start of the second half vs arsenal when he made his mistake (3 mins of play)
I can’t remember the third one off the top of my head