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Player Djed Spence

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Just because he isn't in the euro squad I don't see that as bad. If we are taking the cups more seriously Djed can comfortably step in for Udogie or Porro resting them in the league so they can be fresh for Euro games. I mean the step down in quality might not even be felt, unlike with say, Royale. If anything I think he offers a bit more than Udogie in attacking, Djed seems very composured. Udogie not bad at all but seems Djed is more comfortable shooting etc. His goal was well worked and fantastic play all round. It's great if we have someone good enough he can cover both sides and be assured, that's rare.
 
Kuya said:
Just because he isn't in the euro squad I don't see that as bad. If we are taking the cups more seriously Djed can comfortably step in for Udogie or Porro resting them in the league so they can be fresh for Euro games. I mean the step down in quality might not even be felt, unlike with say, Royale. If anything I think he offers a bit more than Udogie in attacking, Djed seems very composured. Udogie not bad at all but seems Djed is more comfortable shooting etc. His goal was well worked and fantastic play all round. It's great if we have someone good enough he can cover both sides and be assured, that's rare.
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Your clearly a nice man...now explain why we included 3 or is it 4 goalkeepers. They don't know what they're doing.
 
Kaz Hirai said:
he has 2 high quality fullbacks to compete with unfortunately for him. hopefully het gets more league starts though if we put out starting 11 teams in the europa which we need to do
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Good post. If he is a good pro then he will try to be the starter. If he is good enough he will be the starter.
Udogie needs a kick up the arse. OK, the injury but he has been lacklustre.
 
Shotgunofmichalebrow said:
Austin and Whitman will not see a second of game time. At least use the free hits as way to reward players like Hall and some of the k8ds for how good they have been. Anyway with Odebert out suspect he will add Spence. Actually can he mate?
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The kids can play, regardless. The likes of Hall, Lankshear Moore, Black etc. Don't need registering.

Unfortunately cannot add Spence now until Feb when registration opens back up annoyingly.
 
meaningless-friendly said:
He should get minutes ahead of Werner on the wing too, if he doesn't get minutes in the full back positions.
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With 38 PL games, a minimum of 8 games in EL before knock out stages plus a couple of domestic cup games, it seems likely Spurs will play a minimum of 50 games - and maximum if go deep in all competitions is 69 games. So 60 ish games is perfectly possible

I doubt if any player is going to play 90 mins in each of 50 games or hopefully 60+ games, Porro and Udogie are more likely to plat more like 40 .odd games.

So Spence has every chance of playing at RB and LB where Porro and Udogie don't play (and I'd guess they play in almost EL games due to limited options of covert) for circa 20-40 games this season at RB/LB.

Sure Gray may play some games at RB (and even CB too) but with the CM's also having a game load of 50-60 games this season, I think Gray will have his game time largely filled in CM (and maybe CB) so limited opportunities to play RB.

But ultimately if Spence performs as he did v Coventry, its likely he'll play a decent number of games at RB/LB plus ad hoc appearances in other positions where we are short due to injuries etc.
 
Spence looks to be the kind of FB that Ange actually wants making inside runs. Great game for him overall, great goal, and looking forward to seeing more of him. I agree with Tommo he could even be a good candidate for minutes at winger with his pace, power and willingness to run at his man. He really is a tier 1 athlete.
 
bk_spur said:
Spence looks to be the kind of FB that Ange actually wants making inside runs. Great game for him overall, great goal, and looking forward to seeing more of him. I agree with Tommo he could even be a good candidate for minutes at winger with his pace, power and willingness to run at his man. He really is a tier 1 athlete.
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From what I've seen he loves to cut inside.

He's not a Walker-style touchline hugger.
 
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