Christian Eriksen

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Mark Bennett said:
I'm sure, like me, a lot of you are still trying to get a gauge on whether our Free kick specialist is Good, Great or World Class.

Without question on his day he is quality. His vision and passing are class and he's popped up with more than just a few important goals.

But having said all that I'm often left wondering if we'd actually miss him if he weren't in the side most weeks. And for some strange reason I never see a team sheet and feel excited that he's there, which is a weird thing to say when I know he's one of our best players.

I just don't feel like he's fully "arrived" yet and I struggle to recall any games where he's run the show or notably made us tick.

He's a young player and hopefully he's still got a lot of development ahead of him but does he have it in him to be our main man or will he always show flashes of brilliance but never have any real consistency?
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Thinking about the breakout seasons of top attacking midfielders, he's still got time on his side with regards to development.

I also think he's suffering from being the sole creative player in our attack (or at least it feels like it), and our dependency upon him to perform well cannot be the best thing on those young shoulders. Especially when team after team will know to mark him out of the game as best they can.

As a podcast I listened to recently pointed out (forgive me, but I can't recall which), at the moment he's being tasked with driving our attack and contributing goals. Trying to do both at the same time seems to be making him worse at each.

He'd benefit immensely from having more creative players alongside him, and players making intelligent attacking runs for him to feed.
That'll only happen with some new wingers and a new CM allowing Bentaleb (or Mason) to be unshackled and bomb forward more.

In the meantime. He's likely burned out from the responsibilities he's had (and the sheer distance he's run) this season. We all love the glorious Danish fucker - let's see what he can do next year.
 
Mark Bennett said:
I'm sure, like me, a lot of you are still trying to get a gauge on whether our Free kick specialist is Good, Great or World Class.

Without question on his day he is quality. His vision and passing are class and he's popped up with more than just a few important goals.

But having said all that I'm often left wondering if we'd actually miss him if he weren't in the side most weeks. And for some strange reason I never see a team sheet and feel excited that he's there, which is a weird thing to say when I know he's one of our best players.

I just don't feel like he's fully "arrived" yet and I struggle to recall any games where he's run the show or notably made us tick.

He's a young player and hopefully he's still got a lot of development ahead of him but does he have it in him to be our main man or will he always show flashes of brilliance but never have any real consistency?
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He's a brilliant young player who we'd be mad to disregard. His hard work, and running largely goes unnoticed because we all expect him to unpick defences on his own when we are attacking. Because we have so little pace in the team he is usually faced with with 9 or 10 opposition players in front of him, and very little creativity around him. IMO he shouldn't be the one doing the most running in the team - if we can upgrade in a couple of wide positions we will see the best of him.
 
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Great on his day, but his day is only 1 in 10 games.

Not sure if thats due to the shit either side of him, the fact he's exhausted, or the fact he never gets to play in one position and have the rest adapt to him.

Should be building our midfield around him, not Mason and Bentaleb
 
Greaves357_bestever said:
I think he's good/very good, with an excellent chance of becoming a £40m+ rated player. I won't use words like 'world class' because I don't really know what that is.
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World class is a good description for his predecessor, Modric. Even though they are different players, they were there to fill a similar and very particular need for us.
 
As others have said he should play deeper alongside one of Mason/Benty .
We have been bled dry of any creativity since Modric and is a factor why we
continually full short. . The wingers are shit , and we need a quality VDV type .
So with a average spend of 8 million a player and endless net spend expect
another bunch of plodders , sale on wonder kids , contract rejects , while all
around us all improve .
Eriksen as a 10 lacks a real buzz and is so inconsistent but he is all we got .
 
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Only a professional footballer or metrosexual motorcyclist could pull off that look.
 
what people call his "inconsistency" is, for me, simply a guy taking life as it comes. some would light a fire under his arse, but i say that his problem is that he is not truly zen, not laid back enough in spirit to pull off the lackadaisical style with effectiveness
 
I think he's brilliant. There's times when he plays passes that make me wet myself with excitement. Problem is that at this point in the season the whole team is in a bit of a lull. We've been figured out, seeing as nobody else in our side offers any creativity. Shut down Eriksen, and you shut down Spurs.

It reminds me a bit of when Redknapp would play VDV on the right wing instead of Lennon. Meant the defending team could set up nicely without worrying that their full backs would be exposed by Lennon on the right and Bale on the left and could just clog the middle. We need more intelligent runs from our wingers, even if they don't get the ball, they need to be working the opposition defence, so that someone like Eriksen can get into the spaces and work his magic.
 
I'd rather have him in the squad than not, but he needs to up his consistency. He disappears for several games at a time. Got a long way to go before I'll consider him an essential part of the team.
 
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