Xavi Simons

[thfcsteff]

Yes, I think the issues with Xavi primarily are down to his adapting to the league and the general poor quality of our attacking players/creative midfielders around him. Frank has a proven track record of making his attacks work - he had a high turnover of attacking players at Brentford throughout his time there and with each rebuild he got them functioning, I think during his 5 or so years there he had 3 or 4 different attacking units and they were all effective - you don't do that by accident.

We agree to disagree, as I don't think Frank and players like Xavi are a good fit.

 

[billyiddo]

We agree to disagree, as I don't think Frank and players like Xavi are a good fit.

Personally I don't see Xavi making it as a playmaker in the PL, at least he's not ready to play that sort of role yet, which isn't a manager issue it's player/time issue - i think he'll end up similar to Son, coming in from out wide finding space for the shot or playing one-twos around the edge of box to break in on goal/find a final pass. In that sense Benrahma best matches Xavi and done very well at Brentford eg a ball carrying wide player/attacking mid who creates in the final third and shoots from distance by cutting/drifting inside.

Edit : only a short spell but Eriksen was at Brentford and had a big impact there, they tried to sign him permanently but United came in. - to offer an example of a creative no.10.


So yeah, definitely agree to disagree.

 

[Silly McSilly Face]

For me, Xavi is the epitome of a Tottenham player. Exciting, unpredictable, maverick. That celebration on Saturday and seeing the south stand (in particular) explode around him is exactly what I want from my club. We’ve always talked about “The Tottenham Way” and that in my eyes is exactly what we get from him. If we go down, I really hope we can hold onto him as I believe he could be the key to the start of a new culture that we as a club seem to have forgotten.

Yeah, this is it for me too, when he got on the ball and cut in there was that energy, the expectation that something special *could* happen here. Ginola, Bale, that sort of feeling when they get on the ball, and for our second, it was Bale/Sonesque, cutting inside just to make the angle for the shot and as soon as it left his boot you're thinking "this could be in" and seeing that ball hit the net i felt an energy i haven't felt in a loooong time. The seeds of "water this and look after it and we might have our Tottenham back"