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Ex-Spurs Player Eric Dier

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Sanchez has a lot of faults but hiding, not wanting to tackle, pointing and blaming teammates are not part of his faults.

Sanchez makes every effort and attempt to tackle and do the right thing for the good of the team. Its just that he is not very good.

Perhaps so.....

Has he ever proved any better over the course of the season?

Have any of our managers trusted him to be a regular in our defense?

Nope.

(Such tit-for-tat is pointless.)
 
Perhaps so.....

Has he ever proved any better over the course of the season?

Have any of our managers trusted him to be a regular in our defense?

Nope.

(Such tit-for-tat is pointless.)
but I'm not arguing that he is good enough.

I'd rather a player that puts in maximum effort and is just poor ability wise over a player that actively doesn't tackle and doesn't put effort in (and is also poor ability wise).


In reality they should both be sold.
 
Sanchez has a lot of faults but hiding, not wanting to tackle, pointing and blaming teammates are not part of his faults.

Sanchez makes every effort and attempt to tackle and do the right thing for the good of the team. Its just that he is not very good.
He can be a complete donkey at times but poch used to rate him. Think he was very much a regular first team player under him.

Then Mourinho happened, then Nuno, Conte and some Mason in between. His gametime definitely evaporated under them 4. Our defence has been much worse under them than with Poch , so thats a positive for Sanchez(you have to go back 30 years for our defense to concede more than it has right now ). Of course its not all Dier's fault for the defense being shit, Davies , Perisic and Lloris were bad, Forster is worse.

Just had a quick look at who played more CL games under poch when sanchez got here. He started 20 CL matches under poch in 3 years while Dier started 13 in those years (although dier was injured a few times, but still thats a big enough difference to see Poch got rated Sanchez)
 
Sanchez has a lot of faults but hiding, not wanting to tackle, pointing and blaming teammates are not part of his faults.

Sanchez makes every effort and attempt to tackle and do the right thing for the good of the team. Its just that he is not very good.


I was referring the the “he only playing because he is English” bit. Sanchez has been here nearly as long and is just as bad and still plays a fair bit and is clearly not English
 
He can be a complete donkey at times but poch used to rate him. Think he was very much a regular first team player under him.

(See below)

Then Mourinho happened, then Nuno, Conte and some Mason in between. His gametime definitely evaporated under them 4. Our defence has been much worse under them than with Poch , so thats a positive for Sanchez(you have to go back 30 years for our defense to concede more than it has right now ). Of course its not all Dier's fault for the defense being shit, Davies , Perisic and Lloris were bad, Forster is worse.

Just had a quick look at who played more CL games under poch when sanchez got here. He started 20 CL matches under poch in 3 years while Dier started 13 in those years (although dier was injured a few times, but still thats a big enough difference to see Poch got rated Sanchez)

Mate the numbers just don't bare that out......

(Whilst ED obv played DM at times)

ED Full season Poch apps:

14/15 - 36 (inc. 28 EPL)
15/16 - 51 (inc. 37 EPL)
16/17 - 48 (inc. 36 EPL / 5 CL)
17/18 - 47 (inc. 34 EPL / 7 CL out of 8)
18/19 - 28 (inc. 20 EPL / 6 CL out of 13) (Injured/Sick = 29 games!)
19/20 - Recovering from surgery. Had only just started clocking 90mins again by the time Poch was sacked.


DS Full season Poch apps:

17/18 - 43 (inc 31 EPL / 8 CL out of 8) (Toby missing 32 games!)
18/19 - 37 (inc. 23 WPL / 8 CL out of 13) (Dier missing 29 games!)


It's obvious where Sanchez's game time was coming from...... He was always relegated to the bench whenever the injured players returned. Whereas, (fitness accepted) Dier was an ever-present under Poch.
 
(See below)



Mate the numbers just don't bare that out......

(Whilst ED obv played DM at times)

ED Full season Poch apps:

14/15 - 36 (inc. 28 EPL)
15/16 - 51 (inc. 37 EPL)
16/17 - 48 (inc. 36 EPL / 5 CL)
17/18 - 47 (inc. 34 EPL / 7 CL out of 8)
18/19 - 28 (inc. 20 EPL / 6 CL out of 13) (Injured/Sick = 29 games!)
19/20 - Recovering from surgery. Had only just started clocking 90mins again by the time Poch was sacked.


DS Full season Poch apps:

17/18 - 43 (inc 31 EPL / 8 CL out of 8) (Toby missing 32 games!)
18/19 - 37 (inc. 23 WPL / 8 CL out of 13) (Dier missing 29 games!)


It's obvious where Sanchez's game time was coming from...... He was always relegated to the bench whenever the injured players returned. Whereas, (fitness accepted) Dier was an ever-present under Poch.
Wasnt Dier mostly a DM in Poch's last season , so his injuries dont really affect Sanchez. probably Winksoko got more game time as a result. Thought Mourinho then came in and changed him back to CB (genius)?

Hard to remember now, I'll check out some youtube clips.
 
Wasnt Dier mostly a DM in Poch's last season , so his injuries dont really affect Sanchez. probably Winksoko got more game time as a result. Thought Mourinho then came in and changed him back to CB (genius)?

Hard to remember now, I'll check out some youtube clips.

You mean 19/20 before he was sacked?

He was playing Toby & Jan as first choice still where possible. Dav's was never 1st/2nd choice..... Even though I've long said that he should have retained his place when Toby was out for that long stint in 17/18. I don't think Dav's confidence ever recovered from that tbh.
 
You mean 19/20 before he was sacked?

He was playing Toby & Jan as first choice still where possible. Dav's was never 1st/2nd choice..... Even though I've long said that he should have retained his place when Toby was out for that long stint in 17/18. I don't think Dav's confidence ever recovered from that tbh.
No i meant18/19 as you said Dier's injury was the reason Sanchez got more games in 18/19 .

Also if Dav didnt like being benched for Toby and Vert..he's mad. Almost every CB in all top 4 clubs in those days would have been benched for Toby and Vert. (when age hadnt caught up with them yet)
 
I think mings is probably the only cb in the league worse than dier that is in a decent team .
No top team in premier league would buy dier. He might go to Italy or Portugal.
I’d let him go now for free and save the wages.
 
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