That was genuinely one of the highest standards of football skill I have seen in one game by a player for a while. His long range passing, his dribbling, his weighted passing and his flick passes with the side of his foot. If his volley was a few inches lower it would of been a performance remembered for ages. It's just something to be excited about and give our season a bit of hope.
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Ex-Spurs Player Gareth Bale
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And if Bergwijn would have buried the 2 chances of getting one on one with Allisson, he'd be serenaded up to now.
But one is praised for not scoring and other bashed. I can't get it fully.
Also still - Bale is leaving soon, I'd still like to see someone arguing with that.
You dont need to apologise. He has been shit, not giving a shit. He was very good yesterday for 45 minutes. Nothing much has changed except mourinho has poked him enough to wake him.
Basically this. There are many things Mourinho has done wrong but his handling of Bale isn't one of them. The guy came here with his slippers on. Just a couple of weeks ago he gave a completely embarrassing performance against Brighton, he needed a wake-up slap. Yesterday he actually played with intent, he used all his powers and stood out as the best player on the pitch.
His poor fitness no doubt had a big part to play in his limp showings this season but I don't accept he was giving his very best until recently. That was a player who deserves more minutes, not the ghost we saw for the last few months. I hope he understands now that there is no point being afraid of injury, either you give everything and risk injury or you can sit in the stands. He gets paid either way. He is here to help Tottenham win matches, we are a football club with our own ambitions not a training camp for the Welsh FA.
He's by a large margin better than any of our other options for his position. He actually moves and finds space and then dictates play - pointing where he wants it. Its so simple, yet mind blowing that our other wingers are incapable of it. West Ham defenders routinely let him go so they didn't need to leave their deep line and he continually made chances by exploiting this. You can't really beat a deep line with fancy flicks and running with the ball head down (Dele/Lucas/Son). You can beat it by dragging them about then forcing the ball wide then putting it into dangerous positions. We were just unfortunate that a wasteful Kane missed good chances and a cut back chance or we'd all be singing from the same hymn sheet regarding Bales recent performances.
I'm under no illusion that with a different manager (i.e. Redknapp) we would have seen much more from Bale this season. In the last 3 appearances he has probably been one of our best players. The bar is low at the moment. But someone has to set it. Can't expect Son and Kane to do it alone for a full season. It's up to players like Bale, Dele & NDombele etc to step up and change games and show their class.
Bale has done that recently. Should be starting. For me the talent has been there since he joined. You need a run of games to get going and probably the media/agent criticism recently maybe gave him a bit of motivation to prove them wrong.
At the moment, I still wouldn't sign him for next season. But we should be using our best players to stay competitive.
I'm under no illusion that with a different manager (i.e. Redknapp) we would have seen much more from Bale this season. In the last 3 appearances he has probably been one of our best players. The bar is low at the moment. But someone has to set it. Can't expect Son and Kane to do it alone for a full season. It's up to players like Bale, Dele & NDombele etc to step up and change games and show their class.
Bale has done that recently. Should be starting. For me the talent has been there since he joined. You need a run of games to get going and probably the media/agent criticism recently maybe gave him a bit of motivation to prove them wrong.
At the moment, I still wouldn't sign him for next season. But we should be using our best players to stay competitive.
He was poor for the most part this season, not denying that. But if he is going to perform at anything close the level he did yesterday he deserves a starting spot in this team.
There were people (myself included) wondering where that vision, technique and ability had gone that made him one of the best in the world. Obviously it's still all there, what have we got to lose by giving him a run of games?
The standard he is capable of producing is a million miles above the other options.
There were people (myself included) wondering where that vision, technique and ability had gone that made him one of the best in the world. Obviously it's still all there, what have we got to lose by giving him a run of games?
The standard he is capable of producing is a million miles above the other options.
I just knew it. Any little thing he did and people were going to start pretending it was 2013
We are losing Kane and Son too at this rate..FFS
That's how low our season has become though mate.
We're so poor that anyone who puts in a decent performance is going to be praised and heralded.
And sadly, in the next month or so (maybe even the next few weeks), Bale is going to start a game and due to our set up, will likely have a quiet game and it'll be back to "Nope, no where near good enough", "not fit" etc. etc.
You're only as good as your last game nowadays.
I mean... he's been getting injured just from a few games where he was subbed in + training... so...
Gareths pedigree is second to none . He's won practically ever award in the game, worked with and been coached by the very best. His class and quality stand out Just let him do what he does best. He doesn't need to be told what to do. What is JMs problem??
He’s fragile but we have to take a risk now. Either he can handle regular PL football or he can’t. Give him another hour tomorrow and then get him ready to start on Sunday.
JM has won practically every award there is with much weaker teams than Bale did. And we are a weaker team than Real Madrid.
Start Dele and Bale every game. Seriously. They're way to fcking talented not to be playing.
Last few weeks have been very hard... but Bale is showing his class in tough times and we should think about trying to keep him next year. If he has found his rhythm in England again, then he’d be a huge asset.
Bale yes, Dele no thanks unless we draw some more 3rd rate teams in the Europa League next round.
A complete farce why he hasn’t been playing every week in the league
