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Player Conor Gallagher

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Shadydan said:
I think it's purely hopium - signing a player like Gallagher who was meant to give us a shot in the arm and has the 'mentality' and 'character' to get us over the line and help us to get us up the table clearly isn't working. He may scale up when we have better players and improve but we needed something short term to get us out of this hole and long term i really don't know where he fits because we have a load of other players playing in the same position as him.

Another wasted transfer at Tottenham.
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It's really bad that's he going to occupy the position Bergvall should be playing in for at least two more seasons.

Our board are just so pathetically inept to not foresee this and find some other way. Now the best we can hope for is to make a CM 3 with Bergvall and Gallagher flanking Gray, which also happens to cut out Xavi from playing as a CAM (Gray or Xavi- take your pick- which 40m player should we consign to the bench?) Also, it could have easily been Sarr there instead of Gallagher and we could have spent 40m elsewhere, like, you know, on a desperately needed right OR left winger!

There is really just no plan except gambling on players like fucking horse racing. It's fucking bullshit and unfortunately the club deserve bad karma for being so greedy and negligent.
 
bus-conductor said:
Excelled? I would say he functioned fairly basically, and as the season wore on it was obvious that he wasn't going to do much more than that. And I think our weak squad and injury crisis is one of the reasons he saw as many minutes as he did in both seasons.
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Well look, I think he needs to leave anyway, just saying why I'd prefer any of those 3 over Gallagher.

It's imperative we clear the decks and the next midfielders we focus on is players who can play on the half turn and pass the ball between the lines.
 
daveyboy88 said:
the standard of footballers has gone massively downhill though, theres a serious lack of 10s and now even 9s. theres a lack of actual footballers in midfield, the games somehow tried to force athletes in over actual footballers, its a shit watch a lot of it now.

hopefully it comes back around to having actual talent play the game again and not just a bunch of braindead athletes masquerading as footballers.
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I don't accept this.

I think it is to do with the coach, coaching, tactics and data becoming the focus of attention.

From a Spurs perspective I first noticed this trend when Marcus Edwards route to the first team was, in my opinion, blocked by the academy coaching mafia at Spurs at the time. The one glimpse we got of him in a Spurs shirt, a home League Cup tie against Gillingham, suggested to me this player was not only ready for the first team but would quite quickly have become a crowd favourite.

Edwards was everything that Harry fucking Winks wasn't.

Skilful, tricky, good at dribbling, an eye for goal and could create chances for his team mates. His progression and pathway to the first team was blocked. I suspect this was done because Winks was a 'nice' kid, with parents who probably played golf or similar.

Edwards was then character assassinated as having an 'attitude' problem while young players from other clubs regarded him as the best young player in the country.

Traditionally the majority of the best English footballers came from working class backgrounds and honed their skills with their friends at school, in the rec, in the street and with their Sunday teams before the big clubs picked them up and began coaching them.

The modern system now coaches the maverick talent out of these players. The special players, that used to evolve naturally, and were given licence to play off the cuff, are now denied the opportunity to play unless they kiss the coaches arse, do all the running, all the tackling and all the tracking back.

The most talented players are now coached to run, press and keep passing rather than express themselves in the final third of the pitch as they once were.

In my opinion.
 
Kosher Kid said:
I don't accept this.

I think it is to do with the coach, coaching, tactics and data becoming the focus of attention.

From a Spurs perspective I first noticed this trend when Marcus Edwards route to the first team was, in my opinion, blocked by the academy coaching mafia at Spurs at the time. The one glimpse we got of him in a Spurs shirt, a home League Cup tie against Gillingham, suggested to me this player was not only ready for the first team but would quite quickly have become a crowd favourite.

Edwards was everything that Harry fucking Winks wasn't.

Skilful, tricky, good at dribbling, an eye for goal and could create chances for his team mates. His progression and pathway to the first team was blocked. I suspect this was done because Winks was a 'nice' kid, with parents who probably played golf or similar.

Edwards was then character assassinated as having an 'attitude' problem while young players from other clubs regarded him as the best young player in the country.

Traditionally the majority of the best English footballers came from working class backgrounds and honed their skills with their friends at school, in the rec, in the street and with their Sunday teams before the big clubs picked them up and began coaching them.

The modern system now coaches the maverick talent out of these players. The special players, that used to evolve naturally, and were given licence to play off the cuff, are now denied the opportunity to play unless they kiss the coaches arse, do all the running, all the tackling and all the tracking back.

The most talented players are now coached to run, press and keep passing rather than express themselves in the final third of the pitch as they once were.

In my opinion.
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Edwards is a midget who is not Premier League quality.

The game has got much more tactical so you need players with tactical nous that can follow systems and have the athleticism to be where they need to be.

It's not just give the ball to Gazza or Le Tiss so they can dribble past 3 and smash it top bins.

You can sign players that are both technical and athletic the issue is our scouting setup is so shit we refuse to and end up with dross like Johnson and Tel.
 
VonnegutBusy said:
Edwards is a midget who is not Premier League quality.

The game has got much more tactical so you need players with tactical nous that can follow systems and have the athleticism to be where they need to be.

It's not just give the ball to Gazza or Le Tiss so they can dribble past 3 and smash it top bins.

You can sign players that are both technical and athletic the issue is our scouting setup is so shit we refuse to and end up with dross like Johnson and Tel.
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Edwards played at every level for England, up to under 20's, while he was a Spurs player, and was widely regarded as a generational talent at that time. He was one of the best young players in the country at that time.

His progress stalled while Harry Winks progressed.

That is not on the scouting.

That is down to those who coached Edwards at Spurs.
 
Kosher Kid said:
Edwards played at every level for England, up to under 20's, while he was a Spurs player, and was widely regarded as a generational talent at that time. He was one of the best young players in the country at that time.

His progress stalled while Harry Winks progressed.

That is not on the scouting.

That is down to those who coached Edwards at Spurs.
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There are countless examples of young players being standouts in their age groups through the years and not making the cut at the elite level.

It's not always down to the coaching.
There are mental, physical and environmental aspects to consider.

Edwards was too small with a stinky attitude. That's why he's at Burnley and has done fuck all in his career to date.
 
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