Serious ones at that.
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Ex-Spurs Player Kyle Walker
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I don't really understand why John is getting such fierce resistance , if Woolwich were still selling to Man City and Man U we'd all be mugging them off , I don't feel as strongly as John but I certainly feel it's disappointing to sell a player that strongly benefits our team to a team that are weak in that position and will massively benefit them and they are competing at the same table as us.
I'm not saying you have to agree with John but surely you can appreciate where he's coming from.
Wow, just wow.
Talk about rewriting a narrative, Malcolm Tucker would be impressed
I have been explicit in saying I wanted Walker to stay. Then John made up that I was happy to see him go. I called him out on it and he starts a tangent of moving the goalposts about the ethos of the club, how big clubs don't sell to rivals, how Trippier hadn't usurped him. All were provably false and I presented why. Every time he gets proved wrong he just presents you a new question he thinks makes a point. He'll never answer yours directly though. Basically he pissed me off lying about me and I dug into the debate.
As I've said, if this was 2 years ago I'd be much more disappointed but Walker is coming up to the age Lennon was when he lost his yard of pace. He became half the player. When Walker loses that he won't be a world record signing player, that is for sure. Losing Walker is not critical.
S'ok lads - the dippers are always on hand to add a bit of perspective...
Who started at RB in the F.A. Cup semi-final against Chelsea and against Manchester United and Woolwich?
Trippier wasn't for sale.
You don't even
You people have gone full delusional
He would have been for 50 fucking million quid.
You people have gone full delusional
Walker wasn't in Poch's plans - Trippier clearly is. There's nothing delusional about that. It's a fact.
£50m for a very good but not exceptional 27yr old RB? I like Walker but that is stupid money when we've got Trippier as well.
who started the vast majority of games since Trippier has been at Spurs ?
And by selling Walker it will help to pay our better players - the ones Poch wants to keep - more money.
Because Trippier was being coached to the requisite level by Poch. A level Poch clearly feels he has now achieved and is of a higher level than Walker. You simply cannot say that the man who was dropped for Chelsea, Woolwich and United is 1st choice. Trippier was and is our first choice RB. Hence the starts, the new contract and Walker's sale.
I think Walker is a bit better but I'm not arrogant enough to suggest I know better than Poch. Which seems to be rife with some in this thread. Maybe I'm wrong about Walker being better. If Poch thinks so.
And kept a player the manager didn't want out of spite? That would state that we're fucking idiots.
It's about now, not then.
Trippier. Because It had already been decided at that point that Walker would be sold. Then people like you would be ok with it because, in your eyes, he'd dropped down the pecking order.
You can throw all the abuse you like, but that's how I see it I'm afraid
Seeing Walker go is truly saddening know matter how you look at it. 50mil is a ton of money that can be used for the club. Seeing him go to a rival is a fucking tragedy though! I just feel like all this came about because Poch started playing Trips. The first sign of competition in his position and all of a sudden he wanted out of the club?
Yes, we are all painfully aware of how you see it.