That's a tough point for those that want to argue. You cannot point to any area of improvement in 4 years. It kinda makes it hard to expect anything different going forward.
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He has also had what 3 days of preseason, a break up with his ex, 3 hamstring injuries and is playing with a reported two broken bones in his hand which can't be easy.
Leave him alone, mentally he has gone through a shit load of growth professionally over the last 12-15 months. A World Cup Semi Final and a Champions League final with club and country. He deserves a little slack IMO, people deserve the required time to get to the next levels. He turned 23 barely 6 weeks ago and he deserves more backing than he receives amongst us
If a club came along now and put a huge wad of cash on the table for him it would be hard to turn down....
Although I still have some hope he will improve.
Although I still have some hope he will improve.
If he was that much of a fan he'd have signed for them rather than sacking them off for us.
He's had a poor year, what gives you hope he will improve based on his 30 odd games this season?
Blind optimism and not much else.
I think he deserves one more season, although that comes with risks too if his poor run continues that could further bring down his price.
Although as I said if he went tomorrow for a nice sum of money I wouldn't really mind too much whereas with Eriksen I most certainly would.
3 days preseason after going to the final weekend of the World Cup, being a 22 year old man for most of the season who has barely just turned 23, two broken bones in his hand for the latter stages of the campaign through to the final yesterday, 3 hamstrings keeping him out for 20+ games, a break up with his girlfriend (he's young and it could effect him).
This was one of the toughest campaigns any of our boys will ever go through and guess what, they got all the way to the final & have qualified for another crack at it again next year.
A full preseason and a whole campaign back in N17 next season. Let's see how the lads get on another year older, wiser and more mature. Let's see how they fuel this pain, it could become the making of them.
If you think he's been poor the last 1.5 seasons (You said Autum 17) then why not acknowledge that he was better up until 2 years ago.....? ....All a bit disingenuous, Sammy.
What would you say if I said longer but didn't want to stir the pot as folks are just starting to get on the bandwagon? I actually think 1.5 is a bad number because he was horrible in the first half of last year and looked disinterested and the excuses then were contract, new manager, girlfriend then too, etc etc etc. He actually picked up his application in the second half of last season but though it was better than the first half it still wasn't good. The point I'm making is that he was better the second half of last season than the first half.
And the season before the excuses was the Euros etc etc etc. One of these days folks are gonna confront reality but I suspect it will get to the 'Tripps stage' before most jump on board. I wouldn't want to see that happen though just like I wasn't too happy about it happening to Tripps. But if you ask
RESPECT THE COCK
I said at the beginning of last season (17-18) and reiterated it around January when Leicester made approaches that we need to get rid of Tripps before folks start hating him because he's not good enough. Now folks wanna drive him to Napoli. But the first step is acknowledging you have a problem. Kinda like AA.
He has never been better than his break through season and follow up though
I've read a couple of times that Liverpool didn't actually bid, just considered it. Just a suggestion.
Really hope Poch moves him forward next season.
Over the last few seasons he has been moved around a bit. Seems like his best position is right behind the striker when we played the 3-4-2-1. Harry, Eriksen and Dele really played well off each other.
Think he need the freedom and space to operate without having to worry about defensive duty too much.
this last season a few of our players played poorly, Dier, Trippier, Dele, Rose (for the first half of the season, is that because they are poor players ? or maybe too much football and no real rest from training or playing ? maybe they thought they hard made it to the top and did not have to keep up that standard ?
Produced the worst performance I have ever seen in a final.
It always baffles me when he's being talked up in the same manner as Eriksen, he has never been and will never be world class or anywhere near that level.
He made a career out of playing next to Harry Kane.
It always baffles me when he's being talked up in the same manner as Eriksen, he has never been and will never be world class or anywhere near that level.
He made a career out of playing next to Harry Kane.
Wasn't aware that someone had that. Is the association with said user a bad thing as you seem to imply?Please change your profile pic. I keep thinkingCJJ has come back from the cold.
No CJJ was a very good poster from what I remember. No idea why he left.
Please change your profile pic. I keep thinking
Hahah... Not just me left wondering if it was the same guy all along then.
Guess it wasn't a home made avatar on CJJs part after all then....