There's a difference between somebody saying "oh look that kid from the academy looks like he has potential" and somebody saying "this kid that's played 1league game is better than a proven premiership player". If you can't see the difference then you're a lost cause(you are anyway but this just turns it up a notch).
Don't put a sentence in quotation marks that wasn't said by the person because it means that you are making shit up, and we wouldn't want that would we?
I am making the judgement based on what I have seen from watching the two players play football, because that's what they do, play football and that is what I am judging them on. I have detailed as to what have bought me to that conclusion on both players.
You might disagree with what I've seen in KWP, you might disagree with what I've not seen with Tripps, that's fine but please don't apply some made up rules about when and when not to compare two footballers. Just by doing so you render any talk of academy, new players, young players and potential transfer of players never played in PL completely and utterly redundant. As already stated I've watched him for a few years now (probably seen him play more than Tripps).
You can't dismiss out of hand saying it doesn't count because you have only seen him play once before, you can't dismiss this out of hand because he's from the academy, just as you can't dismiss another footballers ability or non-ability if they have played in a different league or if they are a young player from another league.
This entire Forum is made up of discussion on players, what people think of them, players from Spurs academy, to players we have bought, who a good and who are shit. Players from other academies to players from other Clubs and countries. So please don't try and make up rules on when we can and can not to assess players. Please do not make up rules and how we should asses players. If you disagree with the assessment fine, say so and why otherwise you are talking utter bollocks.
Just a couple of banned questions and answers based in your alternative football universe........
Q: What do you think of Winks when he first played? A: Can't talk about that.
Q: What do you think of Onomah? A: Can't possibly make a comment because he's only played 96min of PL
Q: What do you think of Dele when we first bough him? A: Can't talk about that he's only 19 and has never played PL game.
Q: Do you think Onomah could have done no worse than Sissoko? Can't possibly make that comparison because Josh has only played 96mins of PL and Sissokou is an experienced PL player and France international.
Q: Do you think Winks deserved his England call up? Impossible to comment on such things as he has only just broken out into the side, only completed 5 full games.
Q: What do you think of Dier when he joined us? Can't talk about that as he's only 20, never played PL and only ever made 13 first team appearances for Sporting.
Q: Do you think Edwards deserves a start, say in stead of GKN? A: Not allowed to make such stupid assessments because Edwards is from the academy and has never played PL in his life, whilst GKN is a.......Oh hold on he's only played 9 times for Spurs, supposed we can't talk about him too, not enough games to assess the player, even though his other game s played were in France, that too wouldn't count because it's not the PL.