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To be fair, I've heard plenty of pundits call him the best in the league.Toby is criminally underrated in my opinion - if he was at the Arse instead of Koscielny or Chelsea instead of Cahill the media would non-stop call him the best centre back in the league.
I don't know about this hating Lamela stuff you're on about. I haven't seen it since he came good last year. Now, if you want to talk about hate, then just look at Sissoko, but I believe you're on that hate bandwagon yourself.
And, to be honest, we aren't missing Lamela that much. Just look at our points total and scorelines. That's not to say that if he comes back in he won't help us out. But he's by no means an indispensable player. If anything, he's become a bit of a luxury...and then only if he can maintain his pre-injury form.
Who in your opinion is the most underrated player in our squad? Does a power of work,good work yet with the exception of us the support who knows what he does! But goes relatively unnoticed in the media,no big write ups,no headline grabbing yet as important as Kane,Dele my shout Dembele when he plays we look solid more stable in middle of the park if he stays fit from now til end of the season we have a chance of something good happening.
I don't know about this hating Lamela stuff you're on about. I haven't seen it since he came good last year. Now, if you want to talk about hate, then just look at Sissoko, but I believe you're on that hate bandwagon yourself.In our squad? Lamela.
Never have I seen so much hate for a player who puts his shift in. I still think fans out there hate him because he cost £30,000,000 at the time and didn't pull in the goals and assists that warranted it.
Even late into last season he was getting haters, even though he was continuously the hardest working player and creating goals out of nothing. Optimised Spurs under Pochettino and I always thought we lost something whenever he was subbed off.
Even in the media, it's always they're missing Alderweireld, they're missing Rose, they're missing Kane but it's never theyre missing Lamela.
I think though that I've seen, particularly with fans of other clubs, that some of our players are getting praise they deserve. Walker and Rose mostly seeing as they were seen as jokes by others before, I think their England performances helped that as fans of other clubs are most likely to watch England than a Spurs game. Alot of other fans rate the likes of Dembele, Alli, Kane, Eriksen, Alderweireld etc from what I've seen.