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He played well. I hope expectation isn't heaped upon him. He has the attributes to become a tidy little player.
I trust Poch will keep his feet on the ground.
As for Eriksen, you have to remember players are human beings. My guess is that there is some stuff going on in his personal life. The again he may just be going through one of those spells.
However, but for 6 inches or so we could have been talking about eriksen in a different light. He started brightly and he took that goal really well.
He also did the one two with Son that got the penalty, that was a nice pass.
Like to see him having a bit more conviction with the ball and getting more goals.
I trust Poch will keep his feet on the ground.
As for Eriksen, you have to remember players are human beings. My guess is that there is some stuff going on in his personal life. The again he may just be going through one of those spells.
However, but for 6 inches or so we could have been talking about eriksen in a different light. He started brightly and he took that goal really well.
He also did the one two with Son that got the penalty, that was a nice pass.
Like to see him having a bit more conviction with the ball and getting more goals.
Do you work for The Sun??
TBF I think Eriksen gets way too much flak, especially because so may fans mistake his style for laziness.
My point regarding Winks was much more related to their style ON the ball, where I feel Winky was aggressive - ambitious - regardless of his ability, whereas Eriksen was way too catious regardless of his formidable ability.
Personally I hate the Eriksen/Ozil debate, but IMHO the main chasm between the two is how ambitious Ozil is in possession.
I strongly oppose the idea that Eriksen is uncommitted, unprofessional and chases the spotlight.
It's in direct conflict with everything he's done and said his entire career, and indeed what all coaches has said about him.
On the contrary, the problem is that he is too professional and not nearly ambitious enough, not least with his own game. You could even argue, that him joining us at the time was a sympthom of that. I wouldn't compare him to Ekotto exactly, but nor does he breath football like someone like Kane or Dier.
I'll probably agree, that with the way Poch plays, he may find himself outcompeted eventually. But I believe he will move on.
We did, we spent £30m on it on last summer.
Let's hope we are seeing the rise of Harry The 2nd!
Just like you said, This kind of passion is priceless!
Anyone that criticises Eriksen as being 'lazy' is well wide of the mark.
He may have been out of form for a majority of this season, but a lazy player doesn't regularly cover more distance than every other player on the pitch, as Eriksen did yet again on the weekend, and does almost every game he plays.
He was probably equal with Payet as the second most creative player in the league last year and crucial to our title challenge. Instead of slating him we should be desperate for him to get back to top form as he when he is he improves our game immeasurably (the Man City game, where he was excellent, being a prime example).
I am far too intelligent, I have o levels.
Would you rather be Martial (20) or Winks (20)?
Date published: Tuesday 22nd November 2016 9:01
Anthony Martial was substituted after 66 minutes of Manchester United’s then-goalless clash with Woolwich to polite, distracted applause; Jose Mourinho had to make a change with an abject Gunners side looking vulnerable, and Martial was the obvious sacrificial lamb. The substitution barely registered on his face; he had utterly failed to realise pre-match predictions of a ritual right-back slaughter.
Martial is a French international with 15 caps and a £38.5m transfer on his CV (we can shelve talks of a £61.5m final figure as those add-ons now look more like dream-ons). Subdued in his performances and subdued in his demeanour, it’s difficult to believe that Martial cares that his first Premier League start in two months is unlikely to lead to another in the next two months. By all accounts, Mourinho has tried both carrot and stick and still Martial is not clearing any hurdles.
“He doesn’t look happy at times, he needs more energy and dynamism in his game,” said Gary Neville after Saturday’s latest non-performance. And that is perhaps the key; Martial does not look happy. Or sad. Or anything really. And frankly, why would he? At just 20, he is not yet emotionally mature and yet his salary and Instagram following both stretch into the millions. According to the mother of his child, he has “changed completely from the modest, shy and loving young man” she met in Monaco.
Just a few hours after Martial once again failed to complete 90 minutes in the Premier League, Harry Winks was making his first start in the competition and marked it with a goal in a 3-2 London derby. His celebration for Tottenham’s first equaliser was an instant heartwarmer, and his manager later revealed that he “needed to cry” in the changing-room, describing that outpouring of emotion as “fantastic”.
His journey may have been geographically short – from Hemel Hempstead to north London – but Winks’ debut came 28 months after he first appeared on a Premier League bench, when he had sat alongside the similarly unused Harry Kane as Roberto Soldado, Gylfi Sigurdsson and Nabil Bentaleb played in a Tottenham side battered comprehensively by Liverpool. This breakthrough has been a long time coming and that was reflected in the way he personally thanked all his Academy coaches after the game, while acknowledging that this “is only the start”.
Winks has just one England Under-21 appearance to his name and has played a grand total of 12 senior games in football, being the victim/beneficiary of Pochettino’s policy of refusing to send his most promising young players out on loan. The Argentine does not want Winks, Josh Onomah or Cameron Carter-Vickers to learn at the feet of other coaches who do not preach his pressing style. To Pochettino, there is little point Winks playing 30 games in the Championship and returning as a player who cannot seamlessly operate in his system.
There are just two months between the birthdays of Martial and Winks but one likely earns four or five times the wages of the other, while having almost 50 times the number of Instagram followers. And yet who would you rather be this week as one ponders a place on the bench (or worse) in the Europa League at a club for which he has no natural affinity under a manager exasperated by his stagnation, while the other wonders how many minutes he will get against Monaco in the Champions League for his boyhood club and whether he will get another hug? In Harry Kane’s words, he has “instantly become a hero” with that one goal against West Ham.
It’s a genuine question and I’m by no means saying I even know my own answer. You may argue that you would rather be the presumably more talented player at the bigger club, but you may also argue that a hug from Pochettino and the adoration of your fans is worth far more than money or fame. Is the snail ultimately happier than the hare because he is never far from home? We should just do a poll…
Sarah Winterburn
Date published: Tuesday 22nd November 2016 9:01
Anthony Martial was substituted after 66 minutes of Manchester United’s then-goalless clash with Woolwich to polite, distracted applause; Jose Mourinho had to make a change with an abject Gunners side looking vulnerable, and Martial was the obvious sacrificial lamb. The substitution barely registered on his face; he had utterly failed to realise pre-match predictions of a ritual right-back slaughter.
Martial is a French international with 15 caps and a £38.5m transfer on his CV (we can shelve talks of a £61.5m final figure as those add-ons now look more like dream-ons). Subdued in his performances and subdued in his demeanour, it’s difficult to believe that Martial cares that his first Premier League start in two months is unlikely to lead to another in the next two months. By all accounts, Mourinho has tried both carrot and stick and still Martial is not clearing any hurdles.
“He doesn’t look happy at times, he needs more energy and dynamism in his game,” said Gary Neville after Saturday’s latest non-performance. And that is perhaps the key; Martial does not look happy. Or sad. Or anything really. And frankly, why would he? At just 20, he is not yet emotionally mature and yet his salary and Instagram following both stretch into the millions. According to the mother of his child, he has “changed completely from the modest, shy and loving young man” she met in Monaco.
Just a few hours after Martial once again failed to complete 90 minutes in the Premier League, Harry Winks was making his first start in the competition and marked it with a goal in a 3-2 London derby. His celebration for Tottenham’s first equaliser was an instant heartwarmer, and his manager later revealed that he “needed to cry” in the changing-room, describing that outpouring of emotion as “fantastic”.
His journey may have been geographically short – from Hemel Hempstead to north London – but Winks’ debut came 28 months after he first appeared on a Premier League bench, when he had sat alongside the similarly unused Harry Kane as Roberto Soldado, Gylfi Sigurdsson and Nabil Bentaleb played in a Tottenham side battered comprehensively by Liverpool. This breakthrough has been a long time coming and that was reflected in the way he personally thanked all his Academy coaches after the game, while acknowledging that this “is only the start”.
Winks has just one England Under-21 appearance to his name and has played a grand total of 12 senior games in football, being the victim/beneficiary of Pochettino’s policy of refusing to send his most promising young players out on loan. The Argentine does not want Winks, Josh Onomah or Cameron Carter-Vickers to learn at the feet of other coaches who do not preach his pressing style. To Pochettino, there is little point Winks playing 30 games in the Championship and returning as a player who cannot seamlessly operate in his system.
There are just two months between the birthdays of Martial and Winks but one likely earns four or five times the wages of the other, while having almost 50 times the number of Instagram followers. And yet who would you rather be this week as one ponders a place on the bench (or worse) in the Europa League at a club for which he has no natural affinity under a manager exasperated by his stagnation, while the other wonders how many minutes he will get against Monaco in the Champions League for his boyhood club and whether he will get another hug? In Harry Kane’s words, he has “instantly become a hero” with that one goal against West Ham.
It’s a genuine question and I’m by no means saying I even know my own answer. You may argue that you would rather be the presumably more talented player at the bigger club, but you may also argue that a hug from Pochettino and the adoration of your fans is worth far more than money or fame. Is the snail ultimately happier than the hare because he is never far from home? We should just do a poll…
Sarah Winterburn
United fans despise him. Well at least the ones I know do. Apparently he is a lazy so and so.
Hindsight is such a wonderful thing. Remember Depay having a good World Cup and there was talk of us going in for him? Same with our supposed failed bids for Martial. Look at them both now wasted talents at Utd. Would we now take either after they have been shown up to be supposedly 'lazy money' grabbers.
that's a good point... you only need "Oooh-err Levels" to work for The 'Soaraway' Sun!
Dele is such a slut... is he trying to make Eric jealous?
It's an old photo. Eric is safe!