Have we signed Loris?
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I agree.
AVB was villified at Chelsea for attempting a radical overhaul, and therefore figured he would graduate Lloris into the team whilst not making a cunt of Friedel...It was a little frustrating but the motive behind it was sound, and the matches we lost weren't Friedel's fault.
Also, it was two years ago.
Can we please look forward?
I agree with you 100%. To chop Brad off at the knees would have been wrong, and to ease Hugo into the side made sense. IMO it was a reasonably well handled change over.Just making a correction.
I never liked AVB but have no idea how that situation with Lloris should have been handled. Don't think you can drop Brad when he was making key saves but you can't bench a keeper like Lloris. Tough one.
I disagree. If you buy a world class keeper, you give him a few days to settle in, then you play him in the next available match, especially if the incumbent is 40 years old. Oranges et Brie, mange tout.when you sign a world class keeper after the season has started, you bring him into training, you see how he goes, how he mixes with the group, and if the form of the incumbent dips you introduce him to the team...if not, you choose a suitable game to get him a start.
The problem with your example is that you are comparing apples and oranges. Outfield players to keepers. If kane and soldado are scoring two each every game, you can afford to bring on messi for 20 at a time for a few weeks. but we dont do that with keepers.
Top Keeper ! Lloris , De Gea , Courtois battle of the keepers will be quite exciting next year
You , me or no one else knows what the converstions between Levy, Lloris and Villas Boas were when Lloris signed. As it is, his vastly different style to Friedel suggests that the sensible route, as he joined us after the season had started would be to get players used to how they do things and to ease him in.I disagree. If you buy a world class keeper, you give him a few days to settle in, then you play him in the next available match, especially if the incumbent is 40 years old. Oranges et Brie, mange tout.
Incidentally I have a little ditty pour Hugo
He flies through the air with the greatest of ease
He's the captain of France and his name is Lloris.
The way we 'eased Hugo in' didn't make sense, in fact it was a scandalous mistreatment of him that rightly had the French fuming, and I suspect Hugo and Levy likewise.
It may well have cost us us a CL spot, and was early and crucial evidence of AVB's incompetence in player management.
"I said this when I first signed at the club," said the veteran goalkeeper. "A club like Tottenham deserve a youngish, experienced goalkeeper that can be at the club 10-14 years, and hopefully they have one in Hugo.
"You've seen what his exceptional talents are - he's one of the best goalkeepers in the world at coming off his line on through balls, exceptionally quick in that regard.
"Mauricio is going to have the luxury of seeing someone who has a couple of seasons experience in the Premier League.
"I can't speak highly enough of the guy, he's a very good pro, very good guy, very nice to work with.
"You saw his performances in the World Cup, he was one of the better goalkeepers again.
"It was a very good signing for Tottenham to extend his contract."
I disagree. If you buy a world class keeper, you give him a few days to settle in, then you play him in the next available match, especially if the incumbent is 40 years old. Oranges et Brie, mange tout.
Incidentally I have a little ditty pour Hugo
He flies through the air with the greatest of ease
He's the captain of France and his name is Lloris.
The way we 'eased Hugo in' didn't make sense, in fact it was a scandalous mistreatment of him that rightly had the French fuming, and I suspect Hugo and Levy likewise.
It may well have cost us us a CL spot, and was early and crucial evidence of AVB's incompetence in player management.
There's nothing strange about it all. Hugo is better than Brad, and should have been playing far sooner than he did. Incompetence by AVB, that was an early signal of what was to come (along with the Daws fiasco) - Two massive mistakes that almost certainly cost us CL.You're consistent at least Greaves :bae:
That defeat to Wigan, which could easily still have happened if Lloris was in goal, was no more the reason that we didn't make the champs league, than any other defeat, surely? It's a strange argument to be so attached to.