And also every manager / fan wants the winger with all the qualities. But they're priced at 100mil. I expect something lacking for BJ's price and experience. Its is in decision making, for now. That's not hard to coach.
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And also every manager / fan wants the winger with all the qualities. But they're priced at 100mil. I expect something lacking for BJ's price and experience. Its is in decision making, for now. That's not hard to coach.
The point I was responding to was about tracking back leaving Porro 2 v 1. I don’t think he did. Gvarvidal really stayed deep and more to the point I don’t think this manager wants everyone coming back and dragging the whole team to their own third. He probably wants options up the pitch when winning it and working the ball through it.Gvardiol is a CB playing at LB. Werner had Walker, one of the fastest RB's around on his side. Despite that, more than double City's attacks came down our right/Johnson's side
This is a touch map showing Werner and Johnsons touches. It doesn't really prove that Johnson tracks back less, but just look at the amount and location of Werner's touches compared to Johnson's. Werner is dropping further back into our defensive areas and seeing almost double the ball than Johnson. He's certainly contributing more in terms of defensive game play and offensive build up.
Again on the attacking areas Splitting it into three is not that detailed or specific imo. Man City arent really a hug the touch line go on the outside team. Foden from the right drifts in on his left. So he could be splitting the two attacking zones on his own. Udogie done a lot of his defending starting wider and coming in. Also feel like maybe a big chunk of the Man City left percentage could of been when Doku came on who does like holding onto the ball in those areas and I think Johnson was off far most if not all that time.
Develop? We pas £50M for a play to develop ffs! How many players were out there much better and cost less than him. However he was Anges no1 choice.
Well that ain’t gonna happen. Our FBs are so inverted we don’t even have any one in those positions so teams exploit it. V city not once did even try to keep them wide and go on an overlap. How many teams play like that creat chances. We just don’t do it enough. When we have ie get Porro wide to put the ball in the box we score. Porro is much better at crossing the bj anyway so if bj ain’t gonna beat his man if he had Porro go on the overlap he’d have a simple forward pass on. ATM he just gets the ball then passes it back,
Maybe Nusa’s people did a bit of research into the way spurs fans react to young players when they are learning the game and decided that we are cunts
Definitely looking like we overpaid but I guess that's the PL tax for you.
It's not the end of the world as he doesn't play much with everyone fit.
Our attack still needs a major facelift in the summer though.
It's not the end of the world as he doesn't play much with everyone fit.
Our attack still needs a major facelift in the summer though.
agree - he doesn’t bring a lot to the table
We didn’t defend high or win the ball back high v city. The forwards and midfield bar richi did not press at all. City did all the pressing and kept us pinned back. That is why when we had the ball we could have easily passed long over the top for Werner but we chose no to for some reason. It looked like we would rather piss about with the ball at the back hoping to break the press.
Indeed he is so far and don’t see much evidence of anything he can offer. I don’t get all those that keep saying “ there is a player”. Wdf does that even mean. What have these people seen that we haven’t? There is a player there who is on the pitch doing bigger all.
This delusional, pansy mentality is precisely the reason why we haven't won a trophy in years....
Why are the fans accepting these players is beyond me...
Dribbling isn't really his game unfortunately.
Anyone recall when we were linked to this and never pulled the trigger...something something farmers league
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Not going to pile-on but he’s had a string of pretty awful games. They don’t make a career at this point but it’s worrisome.
Just as worrying is that, according to the press, this was an Ange signing — someone he specifically wanted. I tend to agree given the price hardly made it a speculative club signing. Of course, it could have been entirely driven by data analysts and scouts.
But I wonder, given that he’s never managed above the SPL before, is Ange a good judge of EPL( top 4) talent? Obviously, here’s hoping.
Just as worrying is that, according to the press, this was an Ange signing — someone he specifically wanted. I tend to agree given the price hardly made it a speculative club signing. Of course, it could have been entirely driven by data analysts and scouts.
But I wonder, given that he’s never managed above the SPL before, is Ange a good judge of EPL( top 4) talent? Obviously, here’s hoping.
Start worrying in a year if Johnson isn't showing signs of improving, this is way too early to be melting over form.
Yeah, I gotcha.
I look at him game-to-game without judging — or, at least, trying not to judge — his potential career based on a handful of games. Neither Sonny, Bale nor Modric exactly pulled up trees at the beginning of their Spurs career.
Edited to add: but football supporters— especially Spurs fans — are a notoriously fickle bunch.
