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Anyone can compare any two things - I can say my grandmother is not as good at football as Messi, that's a perfectly legitimate comparison. I didn't at any point say he was anywhere near what Dembele was - I said "I really thought he could be the best MF we've had since Dembele" - that's not saying he's even 1% of what Dembele was, it's simply a timeframe, i.e. AFTER Dembele - learn to read / understand what words mean.
Anyone can compare any two things - I can say my grandmother is not as good at football as Messi, that's a perfectly legitimate comparison. I didn't at any point say he was anywhere near what Dembele was - I said "I really thought he could be the best MF we've had since Dembele" - that's not saying he's even 1% of what Dembele was, it's simply a timeframe, i.e. AFTER Dembele - learn to read / understand what words mean.
, on that note I did overreact!No, I don't expect that at all, no one should be so arrogant as to expect that. That's what you expect from an elite midfielder - there are very few who can do that consistently. I believe Bentancur did that to varying degrees in his best season or so. I agree he never consistently delivered it - precious few do - but him doing it from time to time made me think he might one day be able to do it consistently. (He was fairly new to us and the EPL at that point remember). Due to the injuries, I expect we'll never know. But for me, there were certainly games, many games in fact, where he did exactly that - controlled the direction, controlled the tempo, etc - thereby showing that he could do it - I hoped in time he'd do it consistently but he never got the chance because that thug cunt broke him.
To be fair, you hate most of our players. For me, a more balanced fan, there were times before his injury when I really thought he could be the best MF we've had since Dembele. But the injury ruined that.(But I don't expect you to see that, you're not capable of looking at our players objectively, we all know that).
I always said he is good against weak teams but weak sauce against top teams. He belongs to a mid table team or maybe leagues like Eredevisie or Portugal.
Agree totally- I think he tried it our first game of the season with Berg and Gray flanking Palh- and it worked well. Then it seemingly disappeared and has yet to reappear.
The ACL against Bournemouth has probably done more to fuck the guy over as well as that nasty Cash tackle. He was a silky mother fucker before that.
I don't it's a coincidence his best football was when he was playing for a manager that pretty much scripts every action. I think it's why loads of otherwise ordinary players look great under Conte and rubbish/average everywhere else - he gives them a clear job and takes any of the thinking out of it.
I never bought into the hype. He was a standout because our midfield was so utterly dismal, a breath of fresh air with his flicks and so on. Would beat two, carry the ball 30yards, then fuck up a simple square pass and lose possession.
There's a strange wave of madness that comes over any manager that steps into Hotspur Way, renders them all incapable of making sensible and rational decisions, and causes them to defy all common logic.
Hit with a capital SI misread that as ‘been a big hit’!
I was thinking WTF?!
