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Ex-Spurs Player Giovani Lo Celso
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Ok sure - let’s just give LoCelso on loan to Barcelona right now then while you work the phones to convince a world class No 10 to come to Hotspur Way and be Madders back up. We’re all counting on you so don’t let us down.
LoCelso is trying to prove his quality - But if you don’t think he’s good enuf well then I’ll tell him to start packing his things.
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It's not that rare, some people would rather be right and unhappy than wrong and happy...
Why is there such a crucial drop off from Rodri, KDB, Haaland & Ederson then (despite 115 count of cheating)?
"Aim"? Meh......
They don't even have 1 top striker between them.
- Why don't Arse have a proper LB rather than Zinchenko? Why did they lose the league the moment Saliba got injured?
- Why is the Chavs whole attack so wafer thin? Why is their pool of keepers mid to poor?
- Why don't Liverpool have cover for their FBs or 2 x DMs?
If all we're doing is talking budgets then Man U just entered the chat.
Besides; what was specifically said: "You’re not going to get a player of Erikson (in his prime), Kane or Madders quality to join us as a squad option."
Lol
Man City no need to talk about them, they had quality before and they still do. Arse bought 100m Rice this summer, same position as Partey. Liverpool have Salah, Diaz, Nunez, Jota and Gakpo up front. Man Utd have a shit squad. Chavs have like 100 players. Newcastle will be the new Man City in a few years.
Only Spurs goes with this stupid “hurr durr y doesn’t wanna be backup to x player” mentality, more like another excuse for your bald Master for not buying quality players.
City signed Phillips for Rodri competition. At the time he started for England and would have been Liverpool's starting DM.
All those teams assign starting 11 level wages to their back up 11 player. Just because they don't always sign a player as good as their starter doesn't mean they didn't try to.
I had been very harsh critic of Gio, but for 2nd game in a row I gladly admit that I was too harsh on him.
Another good performance from him. Happy to be proven wrong every week if such are the circumstances!
But to my defense -
GLC goals in EPL as of 25.11.2023 - 1 (58 caps)
GLC goals in EPL as of 04.12.2023 - 4 (60 caps)
But again - happy to see the trend carrying on!
Another good performance from him. Happy to be proven wrong every week if such are the circumstances!
But to my defense -
GLC goals in EPL as of 25.11.2023 - 1 (58 caps)
GLC goals in EPL as of 04.12.2023 - 4 (60 caps)
But again - happy to see the trend carrying on!
We spent 40m on Sanchez when we already had peak Jan & Toby........ If all we're talking about is 'aim' and spending.
2nd reminder of OG post: "You’re not going to get a player of Erikson (in his prime), Kane or Madders quality to join us as a squad option."
Keep the goalposts still, fella.
Ahhhhhh fuckkk this shit already???
He is an attacking midfielder who cost 48 mil EUR. He is not done even 5% yet to be proven consistent-quality EPL player.
Very-very-very early to come out with "I TOLD YOU SO"'s .
Also, for every player that fans did not believe in and who manage to turn it around, there are 20 about whom they are right, highlighting 2 or 3 outliers from 10+ year period- it is not proving anything except limited brain capacity.
Once more - two games he has been good. And trend is moving in very positive direction. It would be so useful and benefital for us if he could keep this up over prolonged period of time. But will he? Only time can tell.
Let's go game by game and hope that he can keep doing all this and be valuable team member going forward.
Partey and Rice were both starting before Partey went down to injury. Partey was t moving to the bench cause of Rice.
It’s not about Levy or the budget. Osihmen is not going to City to be Haaland’s back up - No matter how much City offer to pay him. There’s usually one playmaker who dominates the ball in a starting 11. A world class playmaker will not want to be Madders back up.
A healthy LoCelso is a squad option for a lot of top teams. It’s why Barca are reportedly desperate for him.
No let’s keep piling on him and calling him shite until we’re satisfied he’s good enuf. Much more fun than supporting one of our players.
Why would you want any player to join as a squad option is the real question?
Sign players to compete to start.
It wasn't actually.
.........You just moved the goal-posts.
You probably have the thread starter on ignore.
How the feck did you get the reflection to have the letters and numbers the right way around?I knew it back in 2020.
It wasn't actually.
.........You just moved the goal-posts.
I made the question better.
Stop making sense ffs.
....And you continue to do so.
Your original counter argument about Man C, Arse & Chavs don't ring true and you're just throwing the next bit of shit at the wall.
As per your latest line of argument:
Did City sign the aforementioned Phillips as a starter? Of course they didn't.
Did Arse sign Viera as a starter?
Did Arse sign Kiwor as a starter?
Did Man U sign Evans as a starter?
Why did Man U sign feckin' Reguillon on loan rather than buy a new starting LB?
They signed Phillips to compete to start.
Viera and Kiwior were signed as young players to develop.
Evans ? are you taking the piss? You want us to start signing players like Jonny Evans?
There's a setting on the selfie camera to mirror the image or not too. Set it opposite to make the name & number look correct
LOL....
No-one expected him to be this much of a bust; but he was clearly a HG-quota signing and most thought it was a bad career move for him at the time.
(When Pepe signed Rodri he said something to the effect that "he'll be the best player in the world in his position"....... Pep signs Phillips and called him fat!!!!)
LOL.... The goalposts shuffle once more.
Who are all these players that Spurs signed who they expected to be nothing more than dead-end bench-riders anyway?
Richy is the only one that immediately sprang to mind in recent (Paratici) time and he cost 60m quid!!!
No.... Of course not. Da fuck you even doing at this point?????
I originally asked why the vast majority of other clubs don't have a 'Kane' sat on the bench? (Because of the twatty 'only Spurs don't do things like that' rhetoric that had already been claimed)
YOU implied a significant number do.
YOU mentioned budget being the reason.
YOU mentioned not signing mere squad players.
Evans is an example of a richer, more spendy club signing an over the hill player as squad player.
It's part of a successful rebuttal (much like most of the above that you've had no successful counter-argument to).
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