Our best defenders in my lifetime supporting Spurs have been about positioning, organizing and leading by example - the aggression thing is bollox IMHO
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Our best defenders in my lifetime supporting Spurs have been about positioning, organizing and leading by example - the aggression thing is bollox IMHO
Honest question.
And deserves honest answer.
Because he is a bad apple. He is absolutely rotten.
Fish starts to rot from the head... and having a captain that lets the whole team down consistently is a major and monumental fuckup.
Of course we do need few very good CBs. No one is arguing with that statement.
Issue is - Romero is not very good CB. And he is currently a captain that has led the team to shocking results. So he is responsible and should be flushed down the toilet. Fairly simple in my eyes.
I know he was around for more of the better results last season but I don't agree with some that our performances only went off a cliff when the injury crisis hit. Our performances were average at best all last season (and some of the season before) even when we were winning and I include Romero in that.
Our performances in the EL were also largely awful. That final was one of the worst games I've had to sit through, two terrible teams playing terribly. Glad we won but not an advert for good football.
No but we would have had to suffer more Ange. Which as far as I'm concerned is like being asked to chose between being kicked in the left nut or the right nut.
Exactly. Ledley king was never sent off in over 350 games, only ever got booked 9 or 10 times in all of that (averaging less than 1 booking per season). Once went 8 games or so without even committing a foul.
"aggression" is an excuse for poor temperament
...ENIC OUT legend 
New improved contract please
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RDZ needs to keep our best players.
He'll be a revelation playing for a manager he respects.
New improved contract please
.RDZ needs to keep our best players.
He'll be a revelation playing for a manager he respects.
...ENIC OUT legend
New improved contract please
RDZ needs to keep our best players.
He'll be a revelation playing for a manager he respects.
God, you are a loser - you don't care about the team, only care about anti-enic.
Those are not different
There's more than one way to be a good defender.
There are Roy Keanes and there are Beckenbauers. There's a Sergio Ramos and there's a van Dijk. Stuart Pearce and King Ledley.
Each individually were great but you need a balance of personality types.
Alderweireld as well has some crazy stats, 83 fouls committed across 200 appearances in the PL. Romero has 32 just this season.
How many games have we won this year with KD in the team vs Romero -
Pretty easy to work out methinks using your method
I'm not sure what your point here is? But to clarify I wasn't suggesting that it's a choice between Romero or Danso but, rather, that if we sell Romero we should be looking to sign another 1st choice CB - not just replacing him with Big Kev who - while an excellent back up - is not first choice quality for the team we supposedly want to aspire too*.
Edit: *see also: Senesi.
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First and foremost, defending is all about positioning, timing, and making good decisions - a bit of aggression when channelled appropriately can be a plus, but Romero is inconsistent in all of those aforementioned categories.
They are - wanting to give a player a new contract because said poster thinks they are anti-enic is a pathetic take, in my opinion of course.
You might not agree with it but it's literally a reverse Hockey Stick on a graph if you chart our results and metrics post Vic's injury in Match Day 12 of that season.
Before those injuries our Metrics were excellent and our results perfectly fine (when compared to last 6 years and, especially, the the latest one)
It may have not been aesthetically pleasing for you but the topic at hand was Christian Romero's form in season 24/25 which you described as "bang average and erratic". When Romero returned to fitness he played in 6 Europa League games in which we conceded only 3 goals. He won both Player of the Tournament and MOM in the Final.
I think that's slightly better than "bang average"
Romero is one of the most polarizing players we have had, and no one is going to be convinced to change their minds about him at this point.
But reality of our situation is that if Romero goes we won't replace him with someone near his level. We have never sold a good player and replaced him with one who is his equal, we will get a cheaper replacement whom they think is just good enough, that has ALWAYS been the pattern.
We'll get another Danso and another parade of excuses about needing to sell to buy and the club having other priorities that need attention.
Even if you don't rate Romero, nothing good will come from his departure.
exactly. we need a good defence, not a political cheerleader who (rightly or wrongly in his ultimate point) blames the club when he's turning up to half of the games in a season and jogging around.
Both romero and micky have absolutely disappeared as soon as we got under pressure
Forgot about the crying. Aye, big black mark there.
Why two games, is pretty much my original argument. There was a stupid cunt on here posting that the last two matches were evidence enough that we are better without Romero. I pointed out he was a stupid cunt, because two games is no evidence of anything.
Does this mean Gary Doherty was better than Romero, Toby, Kaboul?
We have been on a downward spiral in talent since letting the Ginger Pele go???
lol ok mate - forgetting we actually bought Romero in the first place....
Jesus - another anti-enic only lens poster