While we clutch at straws and hope Benty blossoms into a world class performer ,
(Levy will only sell him if this was the case),
we have more chance of Spurs winning the league .
Another run of the mill plodder , I am very sorry to say.
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While we clutch at straws and hope Benty blossoms into a world class performer ,
(Levy will only sell him if this was the case),
we have more chance of Spurs winning the league .
Another run of the mill plodder , I am very sorry to say.
Agree. Solid World Cup & the Bosch were happy to a man he wasn't playing against them. I thought there were some master amateur tacticians on here, but dem Germans...they were all in agreement that Bentaleb's absence gave their midfield the edge it needed to support both attack & defence. One of the lads there was a Bayern fan who asked me how much i thought spurs would sell him for because He believes Bentaleb will be a Bayern type player once he toughens/beefs up. I asked him if he'd heard of our chairmanBentaleb is a quality player! Really don't see how some struggle to see it.
While we clutch at straws and hope Benty blossoms into a world class performer ,
(Levy will only sell him if this was the case),
we have more chance of Spurs winning the league .
Another run of the mill plodder , I am very sorry to say.
While we clutch at straws and hope Benty blossoms into a world class performer ,
(Levy will only sell him if this was the case),
we have more chance of Spurs winning the league .
Another run of the mill plodder , I am very sorry to say.
Time will tell , a Jack of all trades you say. The other players with which you compare have all been disappointments and would not be in any top 4 first 11 , or some not even in their squads.We must not be watching the same Bentaleb. He is easily one of our most talented CM's. He obviously has more upside than Paulinho, Holtby, Siggy, Capoue and even Dembele. He'll never be as good a dribbler as Dembele, or as good a DM as Sandro, but he's got the best all around game of any of our more defensive minded CM's. A plodder? That's absolutely ridiculous. He runs his arse off. Livermore was a run of the mill plodder and we sold him. Bentaleb is thrice the player Livermore is.
Time will tell , a Jack of all trades you say. The other players with which you compare have all been disappointments and would not be in any top 4 first 11 , or some not even in their squads.
So a plodder it is and a mid table position if that is the calibre of player you hold up as the
way forward.
Fair points and I see where you are coming from. I just don't agree . Yes very young butLol. You must not be considering the age of some of these players. TO expect any of them to be on that level right now is a bit silly. I totally disagree that Sandro wouldn't be in the starting 11 for a top 4 club. The others probably not, but no one is saying Paulinho, Holtby, Siggy or Dembele should be starting for a top 4 club. That was kind of the point, that Bentaleb has a higher upside than all of them. He's what, 20 years old? The goal is to turn a young player with enormous potential into a top caliber veteran. You are jumping the gun thinking the way forward doesn't require some time to grow. The way forward is exactly that! It's developing a player to achieve their potential. If you think it's by signing old yet proven talent, then that is not the way forward, that is the way to win now. We are building a young team and that requires patience. Should we follow your philosophy I gather we should get rid of Lamela also? Perhaps Eriksen should leave? Did you want to dump Bale after his miserable first year? Also, do you know what a "plodder" is? I get the feeling you do not quite understand the term.
Bentaleb was the only positive in the TS reign for me. I think he has a real presence and will only continue to get better.
Don't agree with some of the comments, Nabil has had half a season to get to grips with things and next season if given the chance could progress and potentially be worth loads. Look at shaw, Barkley, stones to name a few, then you look at Sterling, he played a bit part season before last and then Season gone he got his head down and got an England call up and although I don't like him much played very well. I'm not saying Nabil will definitely be in their league but it's obviously a plan for the club to push players like him onto the next level so we don't have to fork out 26million for lamelas and Soldados.
Players with potential need to be given a shot even if that is at the expense of another player regardless of price.
I'm a firm believer that players should be picked on form, Before you all say it I'm not saying bentaleb should have been played at LB because he looked better than Rose last season but I don't think anybody can say there weren't times last season when he was in that team on merit be it ahead of Paulinho /Dembele or whoever.
Hopefully the fans will give him time and afford him the odd mistake so he can learn his trade in his proper role, I understand the flack that comes the way of others who are established expensive players bought to do a job then underperform but I think we should give youth a good go when the talent is there as we have a manager who really looks like he can take them to the next level.
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