No one suddenly thinks they’ll change, we’ve been conditioned by ENIC to know that won’t happen
What we CAN do is question why
You know why. We all know
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No one suddenly thinks they’ll change, we’ve been conditioned by ENIC to know that won’t happen
What we CAN do is question why
Well Solanke's per 90 numbers are pretty much a copy of Richarlison's, so if that's your theory it seems a pretty pointless one.Alternatives to ST will be Son and Kulusevski too. So the players who had to carry ST position for majority of past season anyway, given that with first 15 + last 15 games Richie contributed massive 2 goals.
Don't even try to claim with straight face that Richie has been someone we can put any trust in, based on his performances so far across 2 seasons.
In that sense I agree with you, that club could go in for 2nd striker at some point too, but I am willing to bet you 100 quid that Solanke IN = selling Richie. And it is more about to do with Richie being a dissapointment than whoever we might bring in.
No one suddenly thinks they’ll change, we’ve been conditioned by ENIC to know that won’t happen
What we CAN do is question why
And we scored from 12 of those 13, so at most there's one extra goal there or 0.33 goals per season.I'm still waiting to see how Spurs, who don't get penalties, will benefit from Toney, who mostly only scores penalties.
I don't give a shit about age, personality, bans etc. No bias there.
I just wantFalse 9 to explain how a penalty scorer helps a team that rarely gets penalties.
5 in 21/23
6 in 22/23
2 in 23/24
A lot don’t
Protest comes under the umbrella of questioning the owners in my bookWe can question why or we can start a protest and attempt to make a change?
Which one is more effective I wonder...![]()
Protest comes under the umbrella of questioning the owners in my book
The replies to this are bizarre. No wonder he doesn’t fancy it.
View: https://x.com/richarlison97/status/1669693479696449537?s=61&t=lOJ_HDnbTWvSuVGs5km_Hg
Plenty of people on here have said that our forwards give the ball away too often, and that is part of why we leaked so many goals last season. They want upgrades in the front row that control possession better, and fwiw I agree.
The Toney advocates point to his physicality and hold-up ability, implying that is going to help reduce our turnovers.
But according to FBRef, Toney had 620 possessions last season, was tackled 10 times and made 198 incomplete passes. That's a 33.5% turnover rate.
Solanke had 1069 touches, was dispossessed 60 times and made 144 incomplete passes, a turnover rate of 19.1%.
Turnover rates for Spurs forwards last season were Johnson (25.4%), Richi (22.7%), Timo (21.5%), Kulu (21.4%), Son (17.4%) and Gil (17.3%).
Ok turnovers are affected by team style and quality of the players around you, but Toney's stats don't suggest that he would improve one of our key weaknesses, ie high front-third turnover rate.
He won't make a decision based on social media comments.He already didn't want to go, this certainly isn't going to convince him.
That and the fact that a lot of footballers who did go wanted to leave after a year regardless of the massive wages they were getting over there.
Toney's numbers -
He’s very much online and a sensitive soul. Thousands of people saying we don’’t want you will have an effect. Although a lot of the posts seem copy and pasted with the same statement so there’s some weirdness going on.
They found him …. In the shadows…. But he’s refusing to come outI can help with that. Its Lange. Apparently he moves like a Ninja, he's been in the boardroom at Bournemouth since the season ended but nobody knows the dudes there!
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We had Kane before the last year.Think what is meant we should be getting a top top striker or finding the next Kane from all the scouting and data. Not someone who has been under our noses for years. Ok he scored a few last year but now everyone says he fits ‘Ange’s’ system with other aspects of his game. Did he not have these qualities last year or the year before. He is gonna be 27 plenty of years to have identified any sort of potential. He is being bought purely bcos he scored 19 goals last year. The rest of it people are just now making it up to justify the purchase. Let’s say he scored 5 goals last year would anyone have mentioned we must buy him bcos he presses, can dribble, etc? No!
Lineker, Gazza, Klinsmann, Sherringham, Ginola, Ferdinand, etc. All big names at the top of their game.That its come to who is preferable out of Toney or Solanke. We signed Gary Lineker and Jurgen Klinsmann once upon a time.
This feels more like when Sugar gave up pretending to care and we started signing Chris Armstrong.
But if we're heading into the 2 bald men fighting over a comb discussion then Solanke but thats more on the basis he isnt a knob.
We got more penalties because we used to attack at speed and have numerical advantages IMO. Now we slow things down to a crawl and the opposition barely need to make a tackle anymore.Maybe Toney wins a lot of penalties or is at least in part responsible for them?
Kane certainly did. His little antics in the box leaving us is the cause for our dramatic drop in pens - more so than officials being mean to us.
So you too are advocating a player who hardly ever scores goals from open play?And we scored from 12 of those 13, so at most there's one extra goal there or 0.33 goals per season.