Support is support.
Being positive towards a new player in a new league. Concentrating on the positives.
You look for the negatives in everything. We all know those people in life.
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Being positive towards a new player in a new league. Concentrating on the positives.
You look for the negatives in everything. We all know those people in life.
No it’s called selective support.
it only applies to big money high profile signings or were you out defending Stambouli and Fazio to the same degree? Nope thought not.
Lo Celso isn’t a new player as well - he has been here a year and despite his poor season apparnatly he is still not open to critique.
I don’t look for negatives, I don’t look for positives. I judge on what a player does or does not contribute to a team not what I want them to be.
Give it a try some time.
He definitely was bad against Woolwich.
I mean, if you're gonna throw shit in my face, at least be accurate.
I support all new players. I was a huge defender of Aurier, Sissoko etc. I've said a lot on this board I like to give players a couple years adapting at least.
You're the kind of dude whose kid will come back from nursery, proud as punch, having coloured in their first world map. But then you see they haven't kept inside the lines around Wales. "Off to bed with no dinner you useless little shit, can't believe I've raised such a failure!".
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Sold after one season, 450 PL minutes and not a single person said “give him a chance” he was just deemed shit.
Njie played 184 PL minutes for us.
It wasn’t “support him and give him time”......it’s was “poor little Pochy being given shit”
This despite both players having massive injury problems
Sammy, pal, sometimes you just talk and talk without any thought...
Oh, would you look at that!
Pair of plonkers you two.
Then you just give blind support regardless of what they bring to the fold.
And players often don’t get a couple of years , not by the clubs or coaches. We write off most of youth prospects by 19 - we regularly sell players who don’t perform early into their Spurs career.
But who needs critical thinking hey - just give 100% unequivocal support! That’s what real fans do!
SUPPORT | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary
''to agree with and give encouragement to someone or something because you want him, her, or it to succeed''
''to agree with and give encouragement to someone or something because you want him, her, or it to succeed''
Stambouli and Njie were both dog shit and their careers after leaving Spurs have proven that beyond all reasonable doubt.
Personally, I’m still no the fence about Gio - he needs some consistent MotM performances or close to - not just the odd neat pass in 90 mins - here’s hoping as Jose seems to rate him much more than Winks and Dele atm
I call it Soldaldo syndrome - such selective ‘support’ is only applied to certain high profile signings.
Soldaldo was easily the worst for this - it was quite apparent early on something was very wrong with him and yet not only would be endlessly excused there would a huge exaggeration of other areas of his game like his passing or hold up play to try to compensate for this.
It got a point where you thought they were taking about Berbatov is was that far removed from reality.
To a certain degree it’s the same approach to Lo Celso. If you look back to this thread in Feb you can see me taking the piss our if those going overboard on what was a few good performances.
He has been poor this season but nope the narrative doesn’t change and the excuses read their head.
Rest my case
I had no point to make against you
I take it back.
Gio always works hard for the team, that's not an issue. His problem this season has been his use of the ball, in his last two starts he was really sloppy and repeatedly turned over the ball when we attempted to break out of our half. He didn't do that last season so I'm sure he's just readjusting to the intensity of club football after a spell injured/on the bench but he must improve quickly.
I think his pass completion against LASK was in the 60% range which is dogshit for a player like him.
I think his pass completion against LASK was in the 60% range which is dogshit for a player like him.
