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This is a player that everyone remembers as a total waste of space but, having recently re-watched the 2000/01 season review, I don't think he was that bad. He scored 12 goals in 36 appearences (some of which were quite spectacular), created goals as well and I think he would have built on that if he had been given another season of regular first team football but, for some reason, Glenn Hoddle preferred a 35 year old Teddy Sheringham and Rebrov never got a look in from that point.
If we compare him to Dennis Bergkamp, who got 16 goals in 41 appearances in his first season, Rebrov's first season isn't too far off that and, if we had kept on playing him, he could have improved and given us many years service just like Bergkamp did for Woolwich.
Yes, I know Rebrov didn't fare so well at the clubs he joined after us but some players find it very difficult to get their self-belief back once they lose it; some are able to bounce back once they're dropped, others aren't. Just off the top of my head, Illie Dumitrescu, Nigel Clough, Justin Fashanu all had promising careers until they had the misfortune to move to the wrong club or fall out of favour under the wrong manager and they were never able to wipe the Ls off their foreheads and get back to where they were before.
What do you guys think? Could Rebrov have been our Dennis Bergkamp if he had been given more time in the team? Did we shoot ourselves in the foot by casting him aside for Hoddle's OAPs?
If we compare him to Dennis Bergkamp, who got 16 goals in 41 appearances in his first season, Rebrov's first season isn't too far off that and, if we had kept on playing him, he could have improved and given us many years service just like Bergkamp did for Woolwich.
Yes, I know Rebrov didn't fare so well at the clubs he joined after us but some players find it very difficult to get their self-belief back once they lose it; some are able to bounce back once they're dropped, others aren't. Just off the top of my head, Illie Dumitrescu, Nigel Clough, Justin Fashanu all had promising careers until they had the misfortune to move to the wrong club or fall out of favour under the wrong manager and they were never able to wipe the Ls off their foreheads and get back to where they were before.
What do you guys think? Could Rebrov have been our Dennis Bergkamp if he had been given more time in the team? Did we shoot ourselves in the foot by casting him aside for Hoddle's OAPs?
Ex-Ukraine and Tottenham star vows to 'take a gun' to fight Russia
A FORMER Tottenham star has vowed to help Ukraine after the country was invaded by Russia.
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Ex-Ukraine and Tottenham star vows to 'take a gun' to fight Russia in the streets of Kyiv
A FORMER Tottenham star has vowed to help Ukraine after the country was invaded by Russia.
By TOM PARSONS17:46, Wed, Mar 9, 2022 | UPDATED: 17:46, Wed, Mar 9, 2022
Tottenham hero Sergei Rebrov has vowed to return to Ukraine to fight for his homeland as they defend themselves against the Russian attack – and the former striker has pledged that he will “take a gun.” Rebrov spent four seasons with Spurs at the turn of the century before moving to West Ham.
Ukraine came under attack last month as Russian president Vladimir Putin took the deadly decision to shatter peace in Europe and launch an assault by air, sea and land.
Cities including Kyiv, Kharkiv and Mariupol have since been besieged by Russian troops as civilians fight for their lives.
Over two million Ukrainians have now fled the country, with the humanitarian crisis growing by the day as supplies of food, water, heat and medicine grow scarce.
Rebrov is currently in the United Arab Emirates after taking up the role of manager at Al-Ain last summer.
But the 47-year-old admits he will be returning home soon to fight.
Tottenham hero Sergei Rebrov has vowed to return to Ukraine to fight for his homeland (Image: GETTY)
“I have a job here but as soon as my season is over, I will be back home with my people,” Rebrov told the Irish Independent.
“As soon as I can, I will go - I will fight. Everyone is going into the streets - we are united as a people.
“The world is asking how Ukrainians can protect their people. It’s because people will go in the streets and fight - everyone is united, we know what we have to do.
“Of course, we are not even thinking about football now, we are thinking about protecting our country.
“I am very proud of the people, the soldiers who are trying to save our country. We are on the right side, but we have to fight for our freedom.
“Of course I will take a gun in my hand. We will survive. We will win.
“I see no compromise as there is no compromise with Putin - he only wants to go to Kyiv and show he has occupied our country.
“He has no interest in compromise - we will fight for our people and stay to the end.
Sergei Rebrov spent a year with West Ham (Image: GETTY)
“We are now fighting for our country. We want to decide our fate - not have other people run our country or tell us what to do in the future.”
Rebrov won 75 caps for Ukraine during a 14-year international career and represented his country at the 2006 World Cup.
The former striker scored in the group stages against Saudi Arabia during that tournament as Ukraine went on to reach the quarter-finals.
“I have a job here but as soon as my season is over, I will be back home with my people,” Rebrov told the Irish Independent.
“As soon as I can, I will go - I will fight. Everyone is going into the streets - we are united as a people.
“The world is asking how Ukrainians can protect their people. It’s because people will go in the streets and fight - everyone is united, we know what we have to do.
“Of course, we are not even thinking about football now, we are thinking about protecting our country.
He was fine. He just came with a huge rep and was always compared to Shevchenko.
I saw him a few times and thought he was a tidy player in a not very good side
Over priced but not his fault for that
Yeah... he was also in his 30s and his legs were gone. He was a fucking machine in his prime.
We should have signed em both.Neither was the same player,without the other.
He had a great game against West Ham once if memory serves.
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his Best years where long behind him when they signed him though
yeh I remember at the time we bought him people thought we had got an absolute monster, weight of expectation I guess.
92/93 - 23 league 8 cup games
93/94 - 10 league 3 cup games
94/95 - 24 league 13 cup games
95/96 - 31 league 7 cup games
96/97 - 30 league 5 cup games
97/98 - 29 league 19 cup games
98/99 - 22 league 19 cup games
99/00 - 20 league 20 cup games
Cup = domestic and Europe combined
So did i,until he signed for west ham...