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Player Alejo Veliz

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Pedders81 said:
Espanyol are atrocious, can’t defend and create the square root of f’all offensively. They’ve had games where they’ve lost 1 nil and not even bothered throwing Veliz on.

What’s concerning however, the only game Veliz performed well in was when he scored 3 against some minnows in the cup. Then against a pub team in the next round which Espanyol lost, Veliz was anonymous. At this moment in time he looks like €15m down the drain, never to be recovered.
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This isn't the first time a Spurs loanee abroad has been screwed in terms of playing time. Club needs to be more careful. I personally think it's better for the loan player to go down a level and feature regularly than to not play at all. Club needs to be smarter with these loans. Veliz might be more valued and fit in better on a young, hungry Champo level team because they are developing together and share a social cohort/purpose, rather than with a bunch of older, jaded Catalan vets just because they speak Spanish.
 
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The lad has been shafted again. We are no further forward knowing if this boy is good or not. Probably should have him at the club to give Dom a rest late in games because Ange doesn’t fancy Lankshear or we’d see him more.
Get him back and give him a game against Tamworth or get Lankshear starting against them.
 
bk_spur said:
This isn't the first time a Spurs loanee abroad has been screwed in terms of playing time. Club needs to be more careful. I personally think it's better for the loan player to go down a level and feature regularly than to not play at all. Club needs to be smarter with these loans. Veliz might be more valued and fit in better on a young, hungry Champo level team because they are developing together and share a social cohort/purpose, rather than with a bunch of older, jaded Catalan vets just because they speak Spanish.
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He's had plenty of game time but only scored 1 league goal and Espanyol are in a relegation fight so they need a better striker.

Send him to a lesser league and see if he can improve but we may have signed another dud.
 
bk_spur said:
This isn't the first time a Spurs loanee abroad has been screwed in terms of playing time. Club needs to be more careful. I personally think it's better for the loan player to go down a level and feature regularly than to not play at all. Club needs to be smarter with these loans. Veliz might be more valued and fit in better on a young, hungry Champo level team because they are developing together and share a social cohort/purpose, rather than with a bunch of older, jaded Catalan vets just because they speak Spanish.
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I agree with what you’re saying but one thing with Veliz is that he’s looking more and more like a bizarre signing as he looks miles off the required level… a complete waste of money to date. Past and present signings - Walker, Rose, Udogie, Sarr, Phillips and even Vuskovic… they all had/have clear signs of promise but with Veliz he’s slow, doesn’t overly dominate the ball, his shooting isn’t great… he has no obvious standout qualities.
 
nicoclaesen said:
The lad has been shafted again. We are no further forward knowing if this boy is good or not. Probably should have him at the club to give Dom a rest late in games because Ange doesn’t fancy Lankshear or we’d see him more.
Get him back and give him a game against Tamworth or get Lankshear starting against them.
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This doesn’t make sense. Veliz will take up one of the Johnny Foreigner spots whereas Lankshear is club trained so effectively is +1.

Veliz needs to be recalled and sent on a better loan. Probably not at La Liga level.

Long term I have conflicting emotions with Veliz
- his goal for Spurs (I can only remember one but maybe there were more?) was not a striker goal as he fluffed his lines but the ball still went over the line. I was very happy for the kid but…
- he did his hammy one game where we had no more subs and tried to play on, by simply hopping about whilst the bench shouted for him to get down so he could get treatment/assessment. This tells me the kid has the heart and desire to succeed, whether he has the skill or nous is another matter.
 
Ulrikacoglou said:
This doesn’t make sense. Veliz will take up one of the Johnny Foreigner spots whereas Lankshear is club trained so effectively is +1.

Veliz needs to be recalled and sent on a better loan. Probably not at La Liga level.

Long term I have conflicting emotions with Veliz
- his goal for Spurs (I can only remember one but maybe there were more?) was not a striker goal as he fluffed his lines but the ball still went over the line. I was very happy for the kid but…
- he did his hammy one game where we had no more subs and tried to play on, by simply hopping about whilst the bench shouted for him to get down so he could get treatment/assessment. This tells me the kid has the heart and desire to succeed, whether he has the skill or nous is another matter.
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Scored against Brighton. La Liga for a loan was stupid because he needs to play. He came from being a regular in Argentina to not playing for 18 months. A loan to the Dutch league or even a championship club where he’s going play. The championship is a tough league and we’d find out a lot more about him.
 
Got this game on in the background as I am preparing a meal for tomorrow but I think Veliz involved in the build up to their second. Just watched the goal again. Strong in winning the ball and passing it to the assister.
Subbed off on 78. Looked exhausted.
FT 2-1. Big win.
 
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