Whose system? Pochettino's?
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Whose system? Pochettino's?
Well i for one am very happy hes coming in January. Naughtons deal runs out at the end of the season i believe so he's gone, Yedlin is going to be Walker's understudy and given KW's recent injuries having a bit of cover there has to be a good thing. 6 months to get used to the club and everything that goes with it, ready for next season rather than coming in blind, Plus he gives us something we dont have a lot of at the moment, some true honest blistering pace, if we really need it.
If you read before reacting then you'd see that this has been my point the entire time.
I'd kinda like to, because your side of said debate is ludicrous.
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Tottenham's youth system.
No I don't care really. But you've said nothing to prove otherwise and your insistance in only referencing the Belgium game and less often the Germany and Portugal cameos in a different position sure seem to point that way.
Also your over-use of "You'd like that wouldn't you" Makes me think you are maybe 18
Did the similarly paltry amounts spent on Dier or Holtby suggest the same? (And feel free to say yes, that would be a perfectly valid argument, that Spurs will just grab a couple of high-upside fliers every now and then)
Great, then I guess I'm ahead of DeAndre Yedlin in Spurs' right back pecking order.
Absolutely. That's it exactly. Some work out, and others don't. Yedders is in that category.
After your head-turning performance in this thread you have to be at least even with him.
That's perfectly fair. I guess I would just argue that when you are a 21 year old experienced professional, if you don't get in the team fairly quickly, you turn into Bongani Khumalo faster than you'd think.
People made a lot of hay over all the loan spells Andros Townsend had, but he was an EPL regular at 21, albeit at QPR.
I honestly must have missed these ''head-turning'' performances. Did he start a game?
Let him learn his trade without too much pressure. He could be anything, but he's a young man, leaving his home, and going to a league where everyone's trying to make you look like a fool. It will certainly be a new experience for him, and he'll need to grow up fast - if he copes with all this, and he can play, he's got every chance.
Andros Townsend is a load of old shit though.
Not as bad as Virat Kholi. Your hatred of him fuels the cold winter nights.
Oh, I positively adore Andros in comparison to that gaping axe-wound.
I'm with that.
Listen, I'm not some sort of American patriot or anything but I do think American players get unnecessarily looked down upon. The US has made the knock out stages of the World Cup 3 of the last 4 cups and the MLS is roughly on the level of an Eastern European league. America is a decent footballing country, the only reason it doesn't appear so is because in comparison to its success in other sports, football just isn't on that level.
IMO you have to look at Yedlin roughly the same way as Eric Dier. Both are young, cheap and have upside. At the end of the day they are low risk/high upside transfer. Yedlin is cheaper and more athletic and barely six months older than Dier. Plus Yedlin actually had some decent run outs against the German and Belgian national teams which is more than Dier had on his CV. Also, had Yedlin not come here he was going to Roma who are a Champions League team and second in Serie A, it's not Spurs plucked him out of obscurity.
He's 21, cost 2m, and has potential. If we wasn't American I really don't think there would be any reservations about the guy. The tenor to the conversation about Yedlin is nowhere similar to when we signed Dier despite the fact that the particulars surrounding both of them are relatively comparable.