Dan D, please don't leave if Vlad is sold (like many burger-munchers did when Dempsey was booted) - you're a good poster
I don't leave anywhere!
MAN,I SAID MANY TIMES that Spurs are my favorite team from Premier League,I’m 37 years old man,watching Spurs matches (many,not all of course ,depend on my free time ) since 1994 !!! (yes “the connection” was made by Ilie Dumitrescu and Gheorghe Popescu,big names in romanian football at the time) …just remembered in 1994 wasn’t internet here or PC ,stream net wasn’t invented in 1994 ,when the english first league results I find them in the next day,buying the sport tabloid from here to stay at a table and a coffee time,reading anxious(Gazeta Sporturilor) to find what the Ilie and Popescu does a day before in the english league with Spurs,that was “my connection” with Spurs ,from the distance ,many matches wasn’t on TV at the time here from England ,just read on sport tabloids, the highlights of the Spurs match (Klinsmann,Teddy Sheringham,Dumitrescu,Popescu stars at that time ,manager Osvaldo Ardilles),unfortunately they stayed on WHL just 1 year,same think like many players ,english football is hard and many leave the league even after 1 year ,unsettled…time passing since then, and in “internet” era everything is more easy now…
It is known that romanian players are grown in another style to play ,continental football ,keeping the ball many time at the feet ,dribbling, THE BALL DOWN AT THE FEET,one-twos,aerial duels are absent many time of the game here,sometime in slow tempo ,possession,and english style ,”kick and run” and all the match in speed ,is hard to adapt if you are not power in fitness and stamina…
I thought,1 year ago, Vlad Chiriches will have a chance to do more than previous romanian players,but I feel that he is now on the dead road,and that because Spurs changed 3 managers in just 1 year, AVB transferred him and he play many matches under AVB command with Dawson as CB (15 matches in a row in Premier League,most of the matches he played well and very well) but after Tim Sherwood “mini reign” everything is changed,now looks like he’s not a favorite player of Pochettino,he have another strategy,and Vlad is considered a second option ,a reserve, he lost the morale and was unhappy at that match with Besiktas,made a bad match,I think for his own good to leave the team and find another team to play more…at his age 24 ,plenty of time to grow like player…even for me was a surprise when he move in Premier League,a competition where romanian players don’t adapt well ,many play more well in Italy and Spain –happy destinations in the past with more success, achievements.
Dan Petrescu,the exception from this rule= (Chelsea ,1995-2000, was the only romanian player who was a success playing in England ,he stayed 5 years in a row ,being even now a great name to be remembered by Chelsea fans)
Cristian Chivu – Inter Milano (2007-2012) champion of Europe in 2010 ,and in Italy 5 years in a row as starter in the first 11 of Inter.
Gheorghe Hagi (Real Madrid) and Popescu (Barcelona)
Raducioiu – AC Milan all in the 90’s etc
Adrian Mutu was a failure in England (Chelsea 2003),he moved then after a scandal (cocaine) in Italy (for Fiorentina and here was a true name in italian league,becoming a star for Fiorentina,playing there 5 seasons in a row with success and many many goals ,like striker in Serie A.
for me a happy destination for a romanian player,one who is talented ,not anyone, is Italy
Looks like AS Roma is interested in Chiriches in the present ,i hope he will find his "karma" there and to be like Chivu,at least...
