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Dembele
Current spurs players that ended up better than I thought they would when they first came on the scene at Spurs would have to be Alderweireld, Rose, Dele, Son & Kane.
Ones I expected more from.....Aurier, Foyth, Lamela, Lucas. Don’t get me wrong all are decent additions but I think each of them have a hell of more potential than they’ve demonstrated whilst with us so all have to be seen in such a light in my eyes. Ndombele risks being out in the latter section which startled me as he possesses all the talent you could hope a club like Spurs would sign. Big shame I forgot it doesn’t work out for him.
Ones I expected more from.....Aurier, Foyth, Lamela, Lucas. Don’t get me wrong all are decent additions but I think each of them have a hell of more potential than they’ve demonstrated whilst with us so all have to be seen in such a light in my eyes. Ndombele risks being out in the latter section which startled me as he possesses all the talent you could hope a club like Spurs would sign. Big shame I forgot it doesn’t work out for him.
Agree with most of what has been posted. One I would add is Crouch. Thought he was utter crap but he did a good job, scored some crucial goals in big games and worked very well with VDV.
Bale and Dembele although I would also add Keane.
Dembele came well regarded but was supreme and it was just a shame about the body.
Bale just became a star from a very shaky start and that surprised.
Keane was a very welcome surprise. Proper striker in so many ways. Mercurial talent.
It's actually hard to remember back to expectation and then the reality so a bit skewed probably.
Bit of a controversial one probably but I think Ben Davies has to fall into this category, not so much because he has been fantastic, but because he has been a solid performer for a number of years and was very much a bit part player in the deal between us and Swansea. Don't think anybody had a second thought about the bloke when he arrived but has turned out to be important for us over the years.
Not sure how this can be anyone but Kane unless it's literally just signings and not any player we first had an opinion on. He went from promising youth striker who was scoring goals for fun at youth level, to a bit part player occasionally played outwide to one of the best striker in the clubs history.
Ben Davies
Michael Dawson
William Gallas
Noureddine Naybet
Vedran Corluka
Dimitar Berbatov
Michael Dawson
William Gallas
Noureddine Naybet
Vedran Corluka
Dimitar Berbatov
I thought he was better than Pav at 18 tbh.
Harry Winks
William Gallas
William Gallas
1-4 yes.
5-6 no. They did great but I was expecting that.
But Naybet a good call. Probs one of our best ever signings. He changed the team/ethos maybe?
I thought of Naybet.
First time you saw him it was "What the fuck is this?" but he was good.
Corluka didn't impress me much at City, if anyone definately knew Berbatov was going to be that good before he signed or even after the first season they must have watched a lot of German football.
Think Naybet helped Ledley an awful lot, wasn't expecting him to be so good at his age tbh, would have loved to have seen more of him in his prime.
Absolutely.
I really liked Corluka at City and in internationals.
I hadn't seen anything of Berbs but I was expecting a lot (our record signing at the time?) and wasn't disappointed.
Chris Armstrong maybe?
I was surprised that our grand old man, Brad Friedel, was able to do such a good job when we decided Gomes had made 10 mistakes too many
Gareth Bale.
Currently its got to be Son, never heard of him when he came along and boy has he become a superstar