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Ex-Spurs Player Christian Eriksen
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Agree. Conte being there will change things completely.
Playing devil's advocate here, but does anyone think that defenders are standing off him, because of what happened? We all saw how the Norwich guy reacted after Eriksen fouled him.
That's a fair point. I remember when Gazza started playing in Italy after that long injury lay-off that he was treated pretty "kindly."
We should have got him in January. A great option off the bench initially and I bet a starter by the end of the season.
Who would you have dropped?
Yep me too. Happy to stay with the memories.
We were brilliant for a couple of seasons under Poch. Plenty of players at the top of their game but the one who really made it tick was Eriksen.
Eriksen scores 1 goal vs Chelski and all of a sudden he's the savior. I am open to having him back but seeing people claim that Eriksen would have secured Spurs the 4th spot is ridiculous.
So you are saying that because of 1 goal vs Chelski today he alone would have so far secured Spurs 10 extra points in the EPL since February...?
Where have you got 10 points from? If we had Eriksen then I’m sure we would have got considerably more than 0 points against Burnley, Wolves and Southampton. We struggle to control games, we have a lack of depth (and quality) in centre midfield. He would have improved us a lot. I said about bringing him back before he joined Brentford, this isn’t a knee jerk reaction.
I don’t think anybody is saying that based on one goal, but before he signed for Brentford many of us felt that he would have been a good signing for us. We obviously don’t know how many points he would have won us, but he’s better than our current centre midfield options in my view and I’d much prefer to see him on free kicks than Kane.
There‘s a reason he went to Brentford, and it wasn’t for a perceived lack of quality. Neither Spurs or any larger club were willing to take a risk on him with his cardiac issue, but for a smaller club it could be a relatively low risk/very high reward which proved to be the case. I wouldn’t doubt more clubs might be in for him now, but that has to be taken in account.
We need a midfielder like him still.
Slowing us down a bit isn't always a bad thing.
That is blatantly untrue, though.
He wanted to PLAY with assuarances, which he could get from Brentford.
Who, btw, has Danish owners and a Danish manager who knows Chris from the Danish FA.
I didn't know that. Thanks.
I have been saying for a while he would be a great addition for THFC.
Conte knows him.
True, but I guess it’s one in the same. Other clubs aren’t going to make assurances on someone with something akin to a pacemaker. A larger club with potentially more on the line aren’t going to take that risk, I don’t think.
You could seriously play Eriksen at RWB for the first time in his life, and he'd be an upgrade over the buffoons we throw out there.