I loved watching him when he was at his best and part of an excellent team. But he is done now isn't he? Certainly for us he is.
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Plenty have been saying that for years. He keeps getting starts and was rewarded with the captaincy tonight.
The absolute scenes if Harry stormed off down the tunnel like that.
Captain stripped of the honour and packed away 45 mins in. Even Nuno can see he's lost the spark.
I think Nuno was trying to keep the dressing room happy as there seem to be a lot of reports about unhappy players in training leaking out lately. Same thing happened with Poch and Jose. Not with Mason though.
We'll know where Nuno's head is at about an hour before kickoff with Villa. Gio has shown enough tonight that he should be playing in his place.
Brilliant - THAT'S the chant!
I'm not sure you're really recalling the player he was when he first arrived..... If available go check his highlights for England against France at Wembley around 2017 time.
Again... This is the part I am left disputing..... He's been playing senior football since he was 16..... In that sense he's 'older' than he's years. I don't think evolving will come easy at this point; even with a concerted effort on his part.
We're not a million miles away from the fact that Winks's original forward looking instincts have been coached out of him. I don't think he'll ever get them back either.
Fresh surroundings.... New challenges.... Fresh ideas...... Clean slate..... Best for both of them at his point.
....Even if in Dele's case that means simply being a false 9/auxiliary striker type.
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A real shame - his role at MK Dons seemed to be as a CM but with a role to arrive late in box and be in a position to score.
At Spurs his role changed very quickly to being a 'auxiliary striker' playing off Kane as a no 10, with Eriksen providing the creativity and Son the width as well as being a forward. And that foursome was formidable with all 4 generally getting 20+ assists/goals for about 4 or 5 seasons in a row - although Dele's stats seemed to fall away as early as 18/19 when he seemed to want to be a Boohoo model rather than focus on football .
We seem to have tried to use him a a CM, but its clear that he really isn't showing the skill set for that, not creative enough etc.
Question is whether Lo Celso has the skill set to recreate the Eriksen role (Ndombele just doesn't have the work rate to get round the pitch to fill the Eriksen role) so that we can get back to the Kane/Son/Dele/Eriksen set up. And I'm not sure Lo Celso has the passing ability of Eriksen, so maybe we cannot recreate that role with Dele.
To a large extent, Dele needs to really want to force his way back into the team and really contribute to it. But atm is he really showing he's better than other players in positions he can play ?
Sadly I don't think he is.
At Spurs his role changed very quickly to being a 'auxiliary striker' playing off Kane as a no 10, with Eriksen providing the creativity and Son the width as well as being a forward. And that foursome was formidable with all 4 generally getting 20+ assists/goals for about 4 or 5 seasons in a row - although Dele's stats seemed to fall away as early as 18/19 when he seemed to want to be a Boohoo model rather than focus on football .
We seem to have tried to use him a a CM, but its clear that he really isn't showing the skill set for that, not creative enough etc.
Question is whether Lo Celso has the skill set to recreate the Eriksen role (Ndombele just doesn't have the work rate to get round the pitch to fill the Eriksen role) so that we can get back to the Kane/Son/Dele/Eriksen set up. And I'm not sure Lo Celso has the passing ability of Eriksen, so maybe we cannot recreate that role with Dele.
To a large extent, Dele needs to really want to force his way back into the team and really contribute to it. But atm is he really showing he's better than other players in positions he can play ?
Sadly I don't think he is.
I’ve not wanted to admit it but today sealed it for me. He was dreadful. Awful. So sad. He almost got it back with Mou but something has broken in him, talent and motivation, none of which can be fixed for me.
He has literally forgotten how to play football and seemingly doesn't have the desire or will to get it back.
Sad waste of talent.
Sad waste of talent.
Fortnite happened...
R.I.P. Prince of Nutmegs, 1996-2017.
Died of exhaustion from an extensive Fortnite binge. His secret twin brother stepped in to keep the football salary flowing, but sadly could not replicate the talent.
He couldn't believe that he still got to smash Ruby Mae for a while, until she as well realized that the spark had gone out and something was missing.
Died of exhaustion from an extensive Fortnite binge. His secret twin brother stepped in to keep the football salary flowing, but sadly could not replicate the talent.
He couldn't believe that he still got to smash Ruby Mae for a while, until she as well realized that the spark had gone out and something was missing.
Got the money and the trappings of the lifestyle and until he ends up at Cardiff or Sunderland he won’t bother.
I don't want him to be shit though.
Mourinhos "shit trainer" comments didn't come from nowhere. I get the impression that the guy felt he done it all after a couple of good seasons and stopped taking it seriously at a key age for his development. Incredibly sad as he used to be phenomenal at ghosting into the box and his finishing was amazing. Right now he'd struggle to get back into MK Dons!
Means Dele would still have lots of game time in the remaining season.......