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Player Archie Gray

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He will probably need a loan to a lower PL side. A year playing out of position constantly for a daft manager like Ange set him back massively, he didn't develop at all last season. We saw when he played in midfield towards the end of the season that he had no idea what he was doing and his football brain was completely frazzled from playing RB/LB/CB in a chaotic system.

He needs a solid season playing in his midfield position against PL players. Not minutes in Carabao cup matches against minnows.

Gray last played any run of games as a CM for Leeds u18's - didn't play any games as a CM for Leeds senior side only played RB and a couple of games at LB. under Ange played CB/RB/LB and I think one game at CM ?

So Frank will take a look at him to see what his best playing position(s) are - some players are good playing all positions (ie very versatile which managers like) without being great in one position.
 
Gray last played any run of games as a CM for Leeds u18's - didn't play any games as a CM for Leeds senior side only played RB and a couple of games at LB. under Ange played CB/RB/LB and I think one game at CM ?

So Frank will take a look at him to see what his best playing position(s) are - some players are good playing all positions (ie very versatile which managers like) without being great in one position.

Gray played more midfield minutes for Leeds than any other position.

Frank wanted him as a CM based on that and if you look at him physically, he’s built like Norgaard but twice the technician
 

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So many of these silk footed sequences were from last season with us as well.

I hope you are all ready for how painfully smug I’m going to be with some of you.


And some people here think we should send him on loan...

Canadian Lol GIF
 
Gray last played any run of games as a CM for Leeds u18's - didn't play any games as a CM for Leeds senior side only played RB and a couple of games at LB. under Ange played CB/RB/LB and I think one game at CM ?

So Frank will take a look at him to see what his best playing position(s) are - some players are good playing all positions (ie very versatile which managers like) without being great in one position.
played CM against the chavs in a cup game and played well.
 
And some people here think we should send him on loan...

Canadian Lol GIF
No he can be loaned, that's not a slight on him. He needs mins. If we are going to act like a ECL team we should bring in two elite center midfield players. Sell Bissouma. Then this child can get some rhythm in his game. He was like all the others Sarr, Porro, Udogie thrown under the bus of an utterly clueless coach playing g an incompressible system. I think he will prove a sound investment there's no hurry just like Moore if anything we need to slow down let them grow naturally.
 
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No he can be loaned, that's not a slight on him. He needs mins. If we are going to act like a ECL team we should bring in two elite center midfield players. Sell Bissouma. Then this child can get some rhythm in his game. He was like all the others Sarr, Porro, Udogie thrown under the bus of an utterly clueless coach playing g an incompressible system. I think he will prove a sound investment there's no hurry just like Moore if anything we need to slow down let them grow naturally.

He will play CL and PL and look like an absolute boss this season.

We should bring a top level #6 to replace Biss and Gray can rotate with them like Bergvall and Sarr will rotate with Bentancur.

I’d sell Bentancur as well if we could get another top level CM but that won’t happen and even in that situation, Gray would be here and playing.

Gray is probably the best placed player we have for a breakout this year. Hes built perfectly for Frank’s double pivot #6
 
He will play CL and PL and look like an absolute boss this season.

We should bring a top level #6 to replace Biss and Gray can rotate with them like Bergvall and Sarr will rotate with Bentancur.

I’d sell Bentancur as well if we could get another top level CM but that won’t happen and even in that situation, Gray would be here and playing.

Gray is probably the best placed player we have for a breakout this year. Hes built perfectly for Frank’s double pivot #6
The football fantasy would be a midfield of sarr/gray/bergvall

Imagine those 3 all coming good
 
And if he doesn’t go the way you think, as many of our players have, anyone who is smug with you about it will be called not a spurs fan for ‘revelling’ in one of our players not making it..

The only spurs players who didn’t make it were players I didn’t rate like Werner and Hojberg

And I never celebrated that. I’d much prefer to have been wrong and they were amazing.

Anyone ‘reveling’ in a Spurs player not being good enough is likely not a Spurs fan. Thank you for clarifying.
 
The only spurs players who didn’t make it were players I didn’t rate like Werner and Hojberg

And I never celebrated that. I’d much prefer to have been wrong and they were amazing.

Anyone ‘reveling’ in a Spurs player not being good enough is likely not a Spurs fan. Thank you for clarifying.

You thought Bentancur was better than Rice and there’s a million other examples of you insanely overrating our players .. which is fine you’re a fan but the whole declaring how smug you’ll be if you’re right and then if someone points out you were in fact wrong you call them gooners is always a good laugh to me.

Maybe don’t assume you’ll be right on this one (if all our players got as good as you predict we would win everything) and just be smug when it actually happens…
 
You thought Bentancur was better than Rice and there’s a million other examples of you insanely overrating our players .. which is fine you’re a fan but the whole declaring how smug you’ll be if you’re right and then if someone points out you were in fact wrong you call them gooners is always a good laugh to me.

Maybe don’t assume you’ll be right on this one (if all our players got as good as you predict we would win everything) and just be smug when it actually happens…

Bentancur hasn’t failed though…

If they were as bad as you claim, we’d never have won the EL
 
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