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Player Xavi Simons
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Xavi is a talented player but he is not Modric
Modric went on loan to the Bosnian league when he was at Zagreb. He probably laughed at the physical demands of the premier league compared to playing in Bosnia. He was slight in stature but Modric was a tough little bugger. Can you say the same about xavi? I don’t think so.
You completely missed my point...Xavi is a talented player but he is not Modric
Modric went on loan to the Bosnian league when he was at Zagreb. He probably laughed at the physical demands of the premier league compared to playing in Bosnia. He was slight in stature but Modric was a tough little bugger. Can you say the same about xavi? I don’t think so.
I was relating Xavi with his size & frame to Modric...and how he can learn from Modric I wasn't comparing them in ANY other way than that.
Read the thread & what I actually wrote instead of jumping on me throwing your online weight around getting the wrong end of the stick...
No, you completely missed my point you muppet
You said he should see how modric dealt with the physicality and I told you he went to Bosnia to toughen up. Xavi isn’t that guy. He would be ate alive.
Should have been a red flag when Chelsea were after him!
Over 50m for someone that might come good in a few years is ok if you already have a good team. We haven’t. We are average. We needed to sign players who make us better this season and are an upgrade on our starting 11. Another window where our starting 11 barely looks any better. What is the club doing. Can’t wait for ENIC to go so we can’t get out of this mediocre cycle we are in.
Nonsense.
You're one of those that would routinely complain that we should be vying for the same players as the other big clubs.
The expectation was absolutely that he'd improve us THIS season.
It wasn't just a punt on some unproven kid like you are disingenuously implying.
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This is a credit to a young player just arriving in a much more physical league but when your #10 is doing this at home to a league rival and receiving zero progressive passes, something isn’t working.
I’m sure Frank and Cochrane are aware of this but it would be nice to see some progress on our build up soon. Otherwise Villa and Bournemouth will become more common than they should be.
The favela thing in Brazil with the Leipzig squad doesn't paint him in the best light.
Few tabloid rumours about him in Germany after he left I read about the other month.
Few tabloid rumours about him in Germany after he left I read about the other month.
No, you completely missed my point you muppet
You said he should see how modric dealt with the physicality and I told you he went to Bosnia to toughen up. Xavi isn’t that guy. He would be ate alive.
Cool beans moving on...
You think he just can't learn from Modric's style of play I say he can...you've been put on ignore because you're as fukkin insightful as a boiled peanut...while talking like the Karen of football...
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Far too early to judge the kid . He wasn’t first choice , we know that but we’ve got to give him a chance , some very nice cameos away at Leeds and Brighton but for some reason the whole team turns to shit at home .
This doesn't make any sense
He’s dropping too deep as Betancur and Palinha struggle to progress the ball. Villa also marked him closely.
I don’t want our 10 doing busy work. It grinds my gears. We sacrifice attacking intent to accommodate midfield deficiencies.
We cannot play Betancur and Palinha together.
We've got far too many unproven prospects who are actually contributing very little at this moment.
The balance isn't right.
Also when he came here he adapted and was moved from playing AM to CM, and I think that made all the difference. He would be bullied playing AM with the lack of space and the pace needed to play there. I would like to see Simons playing deeper, with Bergvall playing the AM role, but don't think we'll see that.Xavi is a talented player but he is not Modric
Modric went on loan to the Bosnian league when he was at Zagreb. He probably laughed at the physical demands of the premier league compared to playing in Bosnia. He was slight in stature but Modric was a tough little bugger. Can you say the same about xavi? I don’t think so.
The supporters know what they are seeing.
We've seen it continually for 24 years.
Odebert, Tel, Simons and Gray are the N'jie's, N'koudou's, Gil's and Zeke Fryers of long ago.
It's Levy's footprint.
Most people throw their pants away if they shit in them.
Not at Tottenham.
Just say that you hate life, you hate football, you hate players you hate everything. Would be easier to moan at every possible thing and every possible player wouldn't it?
Cause basically you expect that 22 yo player with no EPL experience to slot in into a team with no preseason and fix everything on his own with zero assistance? Cool.
You know where things like that happen? In your wet dreams.
I mean, I am not saying that I wouldn't have expected more from him so far. I did.
I am not saying he would be signing of the window (not generally not for us).
But just look at that passing map if you missed that in previous pages. If 95% of the passes from midfield go from left to right to back to left... when one fullback does not even try to advance, when one winger does not beat his man even once in the game, when striker does not hold on to possession upfield... when literally ball is NEVER passed in middle area... then to expect a young and new #10 to solve it all on his own is just not realistic criteria. It just is not.
Yesterday I do not recall even once that he would have received the ball in opposition half in middle of the pitch where he would have had even minimal amount of room. Our build up play was painfully slow and there was no threat at all from left wing, so it was so extremely comfortable for Villa players to take up their positions and shut him out of the game completely.
Tactic we used does not suit the players we have. To say that "but quality #10 would make us tick" is just lying to yourself.
People are complaining he’s dropping too deep too often.
I agree with you:
1. We can’t play the fridge brothers pivot, especially not at home.
2. If we do, they need to progress the ball and not need Xavi to come back and get it from an already overloaded area.
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