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Player Xavi Simons

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Teach said:
Maddison and Kulu? What?

We will be relegated by the time they return, and tbh Kudus is crap - both him and Simons played in the same side for most of this season and Simons still offered nothing.

I do think he will look better with pacey, off the ball runners that can go in behind and stretch the game but we don’t have anyone to do that. Will also do better with a DM that can get him the ball quickly before defences get set, but again we don’t have one
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Yes, it looks like we may not see all of them back this season. So, the point remains, that Xavi will continue to be crowded out until Spurs can present some other creative threat in midfield.

I'm sure if we make the QF of the Champions League, some of our players injuries will mysteriously heal overnight :-)


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Didn’t he just have an excellent game against Man City? Hasn’t he also shown what he can do against the Brentford and Brightons of this league? Hasn’t he shown an elite level in the Champions League?

Young and inconsistent, sure but the knee jerk reaction to a NLD in a dysfunctional team is way OTT. Hes class and he will show that at Fulham IMO
 
Papafeels said:
The amount of times he broke through and had space infirnt of him and he had absolutely zero options was infuriating. He's going to give the ball away in those pockets of space, surrounded for 4 red shirts with no out ball. We never looked to break with bodies.

I wonder whether trying him at the base of the midfield, in a 4-3-3, in possession, and have the runners beyond him might help give us more balance. Because when gets the ball now, it's just into the void. And especially when Romero isn't playing, we have no out ball. He's the only one in the team that has the ability to pass the ball in tight spaces. Wharton isn't a great defender, and doesn't really need to be, so try him in that role and see if we can be less static in the middle of the park.
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Go back and watch how often he had unmarked players ether side of him.
Side to side passing for the sake of it is shit. But when it's the best option, you do it. He never does it. Just gives the ball away.
I remember when United were just about the most elite club on the planet. I watched a documentary about their training. I shit you not, they had an expert who's job it was to improve their field of view. To help their players spot a team mate out of the corner of their eye that, without it, they may not have seen.
You combine that level of detail with training players to pass in to space because they trust their team mates to run into it and you end these blind, pointless runs that give the ball away.
 
bk_spur said:
Honestly- I think we'd be better off playing Tel at LW right now. We could actually have a pretty menacing little front 3:

Tel - Dom - RKM

with Simons and Richy to spell them

I know, I know, but, fuck it- we need points however TF we can right now, no time to be picky and have featherweight players starting games who might simply get blown over.

Play fucking Tel who at least has a man's body and is absolutely desperate to be on the pitch for us. You want fighters, this man assembled his own clique to try and bully the club into selling him this winter. He's not going to cower like a b**ch when the moment is upon us.
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I would.
3 pacey 6 footers with a little bit of body strength that can hold a ball up, beat a man and have a shot.
 
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