There are a few players in the Spurs team that would not be able to cope with this level of Spanish football. These goals convince me even more that his a QUALITY forward and needs to be respected for that.
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There are a few players in the Spurs team that would not be able to cope with this level of Spanish football. These goals convince me even more that his a QUALITY forward and needs to be respected for that.
Are you getting passion mixed up with frustration? Ade plays with joy. I don't think spurs fans read up enough on ade. Today he was saying next season he will get a preseason for a change. He said he plans on having a good break but was really looking forward to preseason because his plan is to have his best ever season for Tottenham.
Other interviews he said he dedicates every goal to his dead brothers son. And there is a reason he does not get overly emotional about losses and mistakes. He watched his friend die in his arms along with other international teammates who died in a hail of bullets on international duty. It gave him perspective on what is really important.
You want passion? He still pulls on his international jersey after that because he knows how important it is for his country.
Suarez is not incredibly quick, that is just false. His intelligence gives him 5yds on defenders before they've even started running, which is why so frequently he ends up 1-on-1 with no defenders near him. Soldado is surprisingly physical for his stature, he doesn't often get shrugged off the ball. And i'm fully aware counter-attacking relies on pace, I figured we had some of that with Lennon/Townsend on the wings, no?[/QUOTE]
How did I refute your statistics with a post that was regardless of everybody else's? Did I quote your post initially? Must've missed that..
If we want to play this game, you could say that Kane would have missed some of Soldado's misses or that Soldado would've scored Kane's goals.. There's a trillion different variables and it's a ridiculous argument to have. I wasn't defending the fact at all initially, just saying that anybody can find a statistic that suits their agenda. I think he's had a terrible goalscoring season but my initial point (and one which again you seem to be failing to recognise) is that I would keep him for another season rather than accepting a £20m loss on him.
I don't think you've been watching the same player as I have this season if you're arguing that he doesn't bring others into the game. That's been the one strength of his this season, he has some incredible, intricate touches that have created chances for us- obviously they haven't been finished off so it'd be impossible to find you highlights of this i'd imagine. I would be interested in strikers that you consider to create chances for themselves? They're incredibly rare and have a ridiculous pricetag, of course a striker needs service.. I don't even get how anybody could think otherwise.
I'm not disputing that Adebayor has a part to play, but I absolutely disagree that he is a 'leading the line' striker. I don't usually vent on Adebayor because it seems to be an unpopular opinion, but for me he is never actually where a striker should be, spends all game fucking around on the wings and with the defensive midfielders, half his shots are passed straight at the opposing goalkeeper, he rarly seems to win headers, and his creative play is also terrible. Take the goal he scored from the Soldado cross (v Southampton?) - we're counter attacking 2-on-2, Adebayor has Soldado just to his left, and ends up smashing the pass out to the corner flag!? If he'd played a ball 10 yards ahead of RS then that's almost certainly a goal, with the pass he received there was SO much work to do and i'd argue Soldado made that goal despite Adebayor, not because of him.
Would be nice if he understood the words consistency and the pride that goes with wearing and playing in a Spurs shirt. Why is he being paid 100,000 quid plus PER WEEK just to contribute when he wants to or is disposed to doing. Not good enough. And I respect his emotional dedications.
Soldado will tear it up next season. Mark my word.
his groin?
Lol. He goes one game without scoring or an assist and suddenly he has a problem with his form? haha.
Plastic, knee jerker.
I'm actually gonna have to agree with ol Gibbsy on this one. If we consider trends of the season, I wasn't surprised to see Paulinho do what he did, but I was surprised to see it from Ade. Even with this blip, I think the majority will look back on the season Ade's put in with favor. I'm fully aware he has a poor track record in the past with consistency and effort, but I've been impressed with him this year and as such am more apt to give him the benefit of the doubt based on a more recent trend.
I hope he gets another season to make us all scream with joy when he bangs in the type of goals he consistently did for Valencia.. But... word is he's gonna be Costa's replacement at Atletico
I think that this is nothing more than Ade trying to save face after having a run lately of very average looking games and that embarrassing display on Saturday.
Actually, it's been four games now. West Brom, Fulham, Stoke, and West Ham.
In fact, he's really been pretty average or poor since Chelsea aside from Sunderland.
You must have missed his sublime setup for Roses header vs Stoke goal eh?
http://www.101greatgoals.com/goals/england/stoke-v-tottenham-live-video-updates/
19 games.
10 prem goals.
4 prem assists.
Then again, looking at your avatar quote I could say the sky is blue and you will pull me up on it.
You literally have no proof that he is any more technically minded than Suarez. Suarez makes all the right runs, works the channels, brings his team into play AND actually finishes his chances to boot. I'm not sure there's anything RS can do that Suarez couldn't do better. There's a reason Madrid wants to brings him in, just as there's a reason they shipped Soldado off all those years ago.
And I'm sure every time Lennon or one of our other suppliers actually gets a ball in to Soldado their first thought is to wonder if he'll actually finish it this time.
Let the youtube train continue-- All you'll need to watch is the first minute to know that he just simply would not be able to make these kinds of cuts and dribble past people like this if he wasn't quick on his feet. Again, he may not be fast, but he is supremely quick.
Soldado may be able to bring others into play as part of a strike partnership, but when have you seen him hold up play as a lone striker? He just hasn't, and I believe in order to maximize the talent on the squad we'll need to play with one up top (then again, I'm not and never will be an EPL manager so..). Soldado cannot play as a lone striker in the EPL. No way in hell. My point isn't that we need a striker that doesn't need service, but that we cannot afford to build our team around an underperforming and 'confidence' striker like Soldado. I'm not suggesting we bring in a striker who can create for themselves, simply that we consider bringing in a striker who can operate alone AND outside of the box as well as he can inside.
I suppose his cross against Southampton is a counter-point to my questions about his outside-the-box ability, but how many times have we actually seen him do that this season? He's got as many assists as Ade in eight more league starts, so I wouldn't say he's any more adept at bringing others into play as Ade. I don't know what to say about your assertion that he drifts to the wings other than that's more or less how I would expect him to operate. If our wingers were a little more goal savvy, Ade's movement would create space for either them or our CMs to run into in the middle. I'd much rather have Ade running around as opposed to being stagnant, and as Gibbsy put it, "crabbing" with his back to goal like Soldado.
I didn't question his earlier quality, I was simply pointing out that he has been less than stellar for a run of games now, not just one like you were implying. Yes, you are correct that the sky isn't falling with Ade necessarily, but I'm also correct that he hasn't exactly been up to par for the last month or two.
Stoke was like a week ago brah. Amazing assist. For the winner. To keep our champions league hopes alive.
:kaboullol::lennonlol:Yep, one pass makes up for an otherwise average performance for the majority of two months.