Because this is the conundrum:
You say the first name in the team, where exactly do you play him?
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Because this is the conundrum:
You say the first name in the team, where exactly do you play him?
Anywhere in the front 6 apart from 9 or 6
He’s a fine footballer that’s comfortable on the ball (unlike all of our attackers and midfielders bar Maddison).
Personally I'd play Eze as the 10. Although they are quite different in their styles, I think he is a better overall player than Maddison. Your points are valid about their passing games, Maddison is better at that.
Ideally Frank finds a way to play both in some games. He did set up differently for different opponents last season.
With the amount of CBs we have, he could be playing 3 5 2 in games which should be ideal for Porro and could push Johnson into 2nd striker role which would suit him as well.
As you've also said a DM is, and should be a priority to fill before other areas are filled.
Maddison is better than Eze at literally everything.
Eze just plays for another club, so people rate him higher because people prefer to dream about players they don't have.
All well and good, once we sign them those same people decide they're shit within 2 months.
That said, I'd be delighted to sign Eze.
Well that’s just not true is it, because it isn’t just a spurs thing at all. Eze is preferred at national team level.
They’re both better at different things.
He's becoming overrated based on reputation.
I guess Eze is stronger and probably more durable, better ball carrier as well, apart from that Maddison is a far better passer, better at dictating, close control, finishing, first touch/technique and is more likely to unlock a low block.
If they're both on the pitch together I can see them taking up the same zones and getting in each others way.
I completely see what you're saying on the 'where he fits' sides of of things but there's a few other things to take into account here....
Frank is not managing brentford anymore. People like to call our player useless but the fact is that next season we will be back to being dominant over the majority of teams in the prem. We will almost certainly be back to trying to break teams down, finding a way through. Eze helps this massively. Dealing with maddison, eze, bergvall and porros in and around the box is going to be torture for teams to defend out.
If you see the way that brentford looked to play out from the back for goal kicks then adding eze is a dream for someone like frank. Essentially they setup in a 4 and 2 with the 2 cms close together centrally. Once played short there would be a series of short passes between them (plenty of numbers and passing lanes meaning opposition must commit players to try counter it) before springing a longer pass to damsgaard (or mbeuno) who would then recieve closer to the halfway line, hold onto it or recieve on the turn and then look to spring a 4 man attack after beating the opposition’s press. If we translate this to Tottenham then this gets supercharged with a blend of maddison, eze, johnson (in behind, finishing) and solanke (holdup and box finishing) . A 4 man attack consisting of those 4 from the halfway line is NOT what a team wants to face. You'd have 2 great supplier feeding the big man and man in behind (as johnson played for forrest) and if that fails and the attack is held up you have eze and maddison picking up the scraps.
I did make a post on formation In another thread a couple of days back. What I did was put together a team and what it would look like IN possession as though we were camped in another teams half attacking. I did recieve some criticism for it but I stand by that as being how I see our team shaping up so far as player roles and areas operating in. Porro held width high on the right, eze tucked in from the left and along with maddison they would supply solanke and johnson whilst picking up scraps themselves.
Against the big teams we really lack ball retention and control, it's like watching an u12's v men at times the way we cough it up. Eze sorts this greatly, those few extra seconds relieving pressure and picking that team mate out without panicking.
The only thing lacking in that team I posted was a dm, somebody like hjulmand would be perfect.
So to answer you question definitively hee would play as an inside left dropping off from the forward line. Very similar to mata and Silva played in there pomp.
Talking of hjulmand it's his birthday today like it is mine! Happy birthday!!
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How would that team look out of possession?
If we were defending in our half it would revert to a 4231. Eze would be afforded the freedom to roam as the fullbacks in his side (udogie) would be more reserved and stay back more.
Also, maddison won't play for around 40% of minutes this season and certainly will struggle with weeks that also have cl games.
Edit... I think the bigger problem here is that I'm not certain we will buy big at cm, if at all. I don't think frank will rotate both cms game by game and we probably definitely have bergvall, bentancur, sarr, gray so at most we will get one but not sure it will be a standout player as I dont see any of the 4 above sitting on the bench most of the time.
Would someone like Norgaard fit in well at 6?
Style wise and being a go between link for frank yes but not what we should be doing imo.
I reckon these 'fans' appear out of know where - I'd never noticed him before now. It's like they've signed a contract to push the Levy agenda on all spurs forums and defend them against every criticism. It's embarrassing.
TBF they are more interesting than the old timey miserable bastards who are just parodies of themselves at this point.
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Well that's a big fat fuck you isn't it, would be perfect for what we need and were we are squad wise
Why would anyone ever believe such lies?
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Shit link, but with good coaching which we have he's a better fit for us than Semenyo in my opinion
Signing on Sunday morning?
It's called 'fuck off' money