433 has to be the way to go with what’s available
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Player Xavi Simons
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You judge things on lack of mistakes. That's how low we have sunk looool.kingdawson
You're hopeless. Benta is crap- literally did two slow turns and passed a ball directly out of play. And you think that was better than Gray who no one can even remember making a definite mistake.
Gray was atrocious. Look at the positions he took up first half, he didn't want the ball. You can accept that but I would rather a player try and fail then not try at all.
Benta was trash- Palhinha would have been a better CDM choice, as always... Gray played fine and was good in set pieces as usual. He's been one of our better CMs lately.
A manager has many choices...... One of which being:
Xavi as CAM + 2 man pivot
vs
a 433 inc. Gray (w/no Xavi or as one of the front 3).
It's not a basic matter of direct comparison and whoever is 'better' player prevails.
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Xavi is shit 9/10 games. Then has an ok game against shitty opposition. -> world class. Next game absolute shit again - repeat.
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You're definitely a WUM (that or you've rated Gray highly so have to defend him at every opportunity moving forward).
Gray was "fine" today is the biggest heap of pig shit comment I've read today on here. His performances are only being tolerated because we forked out 40m on him....a youth player plays how he has been and he will be dumped back to the u21s in record breaking time.
Based on performances in the SPL.
Based on performances in the league that Xavi thrived in.
.........This is just 'the next guy is better' syndrome.
He was not at all the reason we lost today. End of. Youve got some agenda against him goin on.
He was wank tonight.
Not for the first time.
What a mess we are.
Not for the first time.
What a mess we are.
Seems like a btec Lo Celso to me. Gets in good positions and looks like he is about to do something good before holding onto the ball too long or screwing up the final pass. Very weak physically and just don’t see him ever pulling up trees in this very competitive league.
Bet he’s sold next summer.
Yeah he's great off the ball and has a fantastic engine so is a useful option in the occasional game as busy-body covering ground, but do you really want to play Sarr regularly either in the pivot or as a CAM? Not really. His technique is iffy, not a good short-passer, no creativity. He's basically all legs with some occasional box-crashing thrown in.
OK as a squad player but if we get a decent offer we should cash in and open up the squad spot. Too many kids getting not enough minutes atm.
We’re not selling at a massive discount, and no one is going to pay remotely close to our foolish purchase price. My guess is we’ll be in desperate loan mode for years, paying a part of his salary in order for him to play in a league that is at his level.
Think with Xavi it will come down to who we replace Frank with (whether its soon or in the summer).
If we bring in a manager whose style suits Xavi and we can get the best out of him, there could be a player in there. The lack of physicality is concerning but I'm definitely not writing him off yet. Hard to look good in this current Spurs set-up, especially as an attacker.
If we bring in a manager whose style suits Xavi and we can get the best out of him, there could be a player in there. The lack of physicality is concerning but I'm definitely not writing him off yet. Hard to look good in this current Spurs set-up, especially as an attacker.
does that exist?
spot on hahaha. lo celco was a cleaner technician.
if simons is whats regarded as a technician in football these days, it just shows how riddled it is with donkey athletes.
Unfortunately it's pretty clear that if we had held on to these players this season we would be saying the same things about them that would be said about Odobert and Danso and others.
When shit hits the fan it's easy to say well we should be playing the youngsters, but in reality it would make little difference. They would not be the difference makers in this team.
Only way he's not still here is if we manage to part-Ex him back to Germany for another player at a loss.