• The Fighting Cock is a forum for fans of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Here you can discuss Spurs latest matches, our squad, tactics and any transfer news surrounding the club. Registration gives you access to all our forums (including 'Off Topic' discussion) and removes most of the adverts (you can remove them all via an account upgrade). You're here now, you might as well...

    Get involved!

Player Dejan Kulusevski

Latest Spurs videos from Sky Sports

JackJones’Locker said:
I’m just giving the numbers from last year.

Palmer(33), Watkins(32) and Haaland(32) were the only players that reached 32 G/As. I don’t think any of the 3 got more than 11 assists.
Salah and Foden didn’t reach 30.
Kulu — whom like — would have to have an injury free, PoY year to put up the numbers you describe.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

To be fair to bk_spur bk_spur ...... What seems to have gone missing in all this is that he made ref to a scoring RATE the EQUIVALENT OF 32 g/a in 38 full 90s.

Basically; 1 G/A every 106min

For context:
BJ clocked 1 G/A every 135mins last season.
Sonny clocked 1G/A every 109mins.
 
Last edited:
Airfixx said:
To be fair bk_spur bk_spur ...... What seems to have gone missing in all this is that he made ref to a scoring RATE the EQUIVALENT OF 32 g/a in 38 full 90s.

Basically; 1 G/A every 106min

For context:
BJ clocked 1 G/A every 135mins last season.
Sonny clocked 1G/A every 109mins.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Yes- 38g/90mins- thank you. I definitely think he can score or assist more at ST than BJ did at RW. And I definitely think he can get a lot of assists as a false 9 in this system. The 1-2 he played in to Sonny for the third goal was something that Richarlison and Son both were never going to do in the ST position for us- Richarlison because he's too dense to make that play, and Son because he's not comfortable with his back to goal. Kulu has always had enough skills just not enough raw speed to be an Angeball outside winger. I'm glad he's getting this chance from Ange and the club and hope he can take it.
 
Airfixx said:
Would depend so heavily on it clicking with those around him and how creative we can be for him, but he's not any kind of quick....... His strength would probably be his hold up work and acting as a fulcrum; rather than running onto chances.

Though somewhere in there is the player of old that liked the occasional banger from 15-20 yards.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
I think he'll be able to chip in with scrappy in the box goals, as we saw today, as well as with some headers too. I am not saying headers will in any way be a specialty of his, just that we know he has some capability for it, unlike Son.

I can see him being successful dropping deep to release an outside runner, and then arriving late in the box, shooting first time on low crosses hit back across the box.

We didn't see much of him playing with Werner, who unlike Son takes it down the wing and hits low crosses across the box. I have reason to believe Kulu will also be effective in that scenario- he at least has enough nous and anticipation to get in front of his man in off the ball scenarios, and enough technique to execute cute flicks and finishes.

Obviously we'll have to see how it goes but I think this has a really great chance of working out for us.
 
JackJones’Locker said:
I’m just giving the numbers from last year.

Palmer(33), Watkins(32) and Haaland(32) were the only players that reached 32 G/As. I don’t think any of the 3 got more than 11 assists.
Salah and Foden didn’t reach 30.
Kulu — whom like — would have to have an injury free, PoY year to put up the numbers you describe.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Yea I don't think he'll get enough minutes at ST to do that- I was referring to a rate of scoring. Maybe I estimated a bit high but I do think he can g/a every 115-120 minutes as false 9 ST.
 
ShutUpPatrik said:
The central forward experiment seems to be working well so far.

Looks like he could become our own Roberto Firmino given his love for quick 1-2 linkups in tight spaces with his back to goal.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Several people will be eating crow come the end of the season about Kulu. Gonna have a baller year, I can feel it in my plums.

Smart player, with so many attributes (strong, skillful, battler, fighter, first touch, keeps possession, vision, good shot, cross) but he's a bit slow so the normies who don't know anything about the game think he's crap.
 
Klaus said:
Several people will be eating crow come the end of the season about Kulu. Gonna have a baller year, I can feel it in my plums.

Smart player, with so many attributes (strong, skillful, battler, fighter, first touch, keeps possession, vision, good shot, cross) but he's a bit slow so the normies who don't know anything about the game think he's crap.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Plus the fact that he *isn't* dependent on his speed means he's probably got another 10 good seasons in him.
 
TonySoprano said:
About 1 more than me.

Starting striker? In the Swedish league maybe. In our league, you are on crack if you think that’s a good idea.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

He was wing-striker / wing-target man for like half of the last season... so not that unheard of really.

We literally had to use Kulu as right sided forward and played long balls upfield for him to take them down and control them when Sonny was playing as ST and LW was also lightweight player...

I am not saying that Kulu would be perfect #9 in EPL. But I am saying he has already filled that kind of role for us.
 
Klaus said:
Several people will be eating crow come the end of the season about Kulu. Gonna have a baller year, I can feel it in my plums.

Smart player, with so many attributes (strong, skillful, battler, fighter, first touch, keeps possession, vision, good shot, cross) but he's a bit slow so the normies who don't know anything about the game think he's crap.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
I don't think he's consistent enough. Very good player on his day but he's not going to be putting up Son/haaland/Palmer/watkins numbers imo.
 
Richard Arlison said:
He had a bunch of assists too.

Take the 9 penalties out and he still had a good season.

Not sure I’m expecting the same levels again under a manager who plays a much more controlled, pragmatic, possession style game.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Good season for sure.......... They'd have been so fucked without him.

9 pens is pretty ridiculous though.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top