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We have some brilliant young players. I wouldn't be surprised to see Lamela bag 20 goals as a 20 year old. I wouldn't be surprised to see Holtby or Eriksen light it up at the CAM role. I wouldn't be surprised to see Sandro, Paulinho, or Capoue become the best CDM in the PL. Our squad has indredable potential. As others say, we probably have best squad we have had in the last 10 years, and almost all of our players are below age 27. We are going to be relying upon many guya under age 24. I wouldn't be shocked to see Eriksen/Holtby/Lamela go taking a huge step up and becoming a star.
We have Kenny McEvoy
Joke never gets old. Fuck you all. 
These are our world beaters?
- Lloris
- Walker
- Lamela
- Vertonghen
- Sandro
- Paulinho
- Capoue
- Townsend
- Dembele
- Chadli
- Soldado
- Holtby
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LOL....starting to feel like doomsday because they signed Ozil
My biggest concern is not the squad. The squad is immense.
Its AVBs tendency to stick stubbornly to formations despite it not working, like he did at Chelsea, and for periods last season. And the fact that alot of fans would rather play Soldado on his own (even though he does less than Ade ever did) than play him alongside Defoe or Ade, just feeds the nonsense.
442 is outdated....I couldnt give a fuck, because thats what we have the players for right now. People think Holtby or Eriksson will come in and fix the problem. They might, but not overnight, and then they will be written off as shit after two games by the people who are demanding they start..
This squad has enough players who will become world beater's. Paulinho tops the list for me, and Im interested to see Lamela and Townsends progress.
We've got player's like Sandro, Lloris, Dembele and Vertonghen, and people are suddenly pining about The Scum, and Liverpool...as I said, I dont think our players are our biggest issue.
My biggest concern is not the squad. The squad is immense.
Its AVBs tendency to stick stubbornly to formations despite it not working, like he did at Chelsea, and for periods last season. And the fact that alot of fans would rather play Soldado on his own (even though he does less than Ade ever did) than play him alongside Defoe or Ade, just feeds the nonsense.
442 is outdated....I couldnt give a fuck, because thats what we have the players for right now. People think Holtby or Eriksson will come in and fix the problem. They might, but not overnight, and then they will be written off as shit after two games by the people who are demanding they start..
This squad has enough players who will become world beater's. Paulinho tops the list for me, and Im interested to see Lamela and Townsends progress.
We've got player's like Sandro, Lloris, Dembele and Vertonghen, and people are suddenly pining about The Scum, and Liverpool...as I said, I dont think our players are our biggest issue.
Agreed. We need 'to be having' em at The Lane in 10 days. But lets make sure that we sing our little cotton socks off for the boys. At risk of sounding cheesey, with our squad we can make our fans and the ground world beaters.
I know we are a all a little bit squeaky bum sometimes (#spursy) but we need to get behind the team at home, especially so early in the season. Last thing we need is nervous (new) players and fans.
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We cant afford this open play thing to become a.....thing.
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We'll eventually hammer someone when it clicks into gear and the goal in 'open play' will be forgotten. We did put 8 past a poor Tiblisi side and those were all open play, we know we have the players to do it. I do feel the craft, guile and magic will mainly come from the likes of Eriksen, Lamela and to a lesser extent Holtby.
Forget the negativity about the tight result against the Goons, they were at home and they are always fired up against us, even more so with the signings and noise we had made prior to the game. Yes they have signed Ozil, but they are still very thin on the ground and a few injuries and they will be back to square one.
We have signed 7, yes 7 new players. I think once they've had a few games together I am convinced we'll come good. This time last year we had 2 points from three and it was very negative towards AVB. This year we already have 6 points from three so if we can maintain similar form across the season we should be breaking the 72 points record from last year.
Don't let one result and another teams signing get you down, lets just concentrate on what we're doing.
Should never have sold young pyo lee.
I warned people at the time but no one listened
I warned people at the time but no one listened
whilst we may not have a ready-made "World beater" just yet, no one would've called Bale that before THAT night in the San Siro... yes he was good, but the focus of attention and THAT TAG was MUCH more on either Modric's creative shoulders, or VdV's ability to pull a goal out of nothing...
Don't get me wrong, it's not like Bale slipped in under the radar totally unnoticed, WE could see what he could be capable of, but until he started doing it regularly (ie; 'only' the final 2 seasons of his Spurs career) and not just the occasional 'Worldy' you can't say for certain that he's a fully fledged 'beater of the world'... after all, if THAT were the case, then Rose, Ekotto & Bentley would've been doing keepy-uppys on the Bernieinnbau pitch by now, due to their staggering 'once-in-a-lifetime' goals!
IMHO, Lamela and Eriksen are probably the two (most obvious) players that stand out to fill that role... but are maybe at the stage Bale was in 2010/11, and definitely NOT the finished article...
whether we can wait another 2 years for them to develop fully is another matter... seeing as we need CL football yesterday, and a ready-made replacement World beater even sooner... but for those with such patience, hopefully it'll be worth the wait!
Don't get me wrong, it's not like Bale slipped in under the radar totally unnoticed, WE could see what he could be capable of, but until he started doing it regularly (ie; 'only' the final 2 seasons of his Spurs career) and not just the occasional 'Worldy' you can't say for certain that he's a fully fledged 'beater of the world'... after all, if THAT were the case, then Rose, Ekotto & Bentley would've been doing keepy-uppys on the Bernieinnbau pitch by now, due to their staggering 'once-in-a-lifetime' goals!
IMHO, Lamela and Eriksen are probably the two (most obvious) players that stand out to fill that role... but are maybe at the stage Bale was in 2010/11, and definitely NOT the finished article...
whether we can wait another 2 years for them to develop fully is another matter... seeing as we need CL football yesterday, and a ready-made replacement World beater even sooner... but for those with such patience, hopefully it'll be worth the wait!
With the scum having Ozil, Manpoo with Rvp, Scousers have Suarez and City/Chelsea with massive names, it has made me hate the sale of Bale even more. Bale was the man to turn to when everything seemed bleak, the man who could pull a rabbit out of his hat with that left foot which seems more like a magic wand the more I see his past goals. Barely a scrappy goal, more like a thunder bolt each time.
Before we signed anyone, there was no one I craved more than Soldado but as games go on he seems to be out paced and out muscled. We have a great squad however every team needs that special player..who is ours?
Before we signed anyone, there was no one I craved more than Soldado but as games go on he seems to be out paced and out muscled. We have a great squad however every team needs that special player..who is ours?
Im just so cut about losing to the scum and ten days is too long of a wait to redeem ourselves. We need to win 3-0 from open play
Bale wasn't always considered a world beater.... http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport/stevewilson/8108247/The_curse_of_Tottenhams_Gareth_Bale/
Personally I think Ericksen will be our best signing of the window.... Excited to watch him play and I believe we will be a force to reckon with.
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Personally I think Ericksen will be our best signing of the window.... Excited to watch him play and I believe we will be a force to reckon with.
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I agree from what ive seen of him i think he will be a steal at that price,just hope we dont end up selling him to manure or real in a few years for £50mill
Personally of the opinion that having one or two aspects of your club, on pitch or off it, which drags your average upwards is a very dangerous thing. The only progress I trust is slow upgrades on everything and that's why this squad is exactly what I wanted to see as a Spurs fan. It's a definite upgrade in all positions (aside from perhaps strikers, in terms of depth and quality seen there) on what we had 5 years ago. Add to that the modernisation of off-pitch matters - the inclusion of Baldini and Levy giving him responsibility over transfers (DL having learnt his lessons from the Commoli experiment and applied them, it seems) as well as the successful recruitment, and retention, of AVB.
Now while AVB comes in for a lot of criticism (as does any manager - this is football and football is emotive), he is, on paper, the best fit for Spurs. We're not going to get a Hiddink, an Ancelotti, a Guardiola. Frankly, pre-Chelsea, we would not have gotten an AVB. But we needed a tactically astute manager with a little guile to him and a preferred system. I suspect that he will become more tactically flexible as his career goes on, and it may even be to our cost that he learns that lesson.
I won't say it didn't hurt to see Bale in a white shirt with 'Fly Emirates' emblazoned across the front. But I think that our play did centre around him last year and we looked bereft whether he was on the pitch or not - it was a moment of magic in the fatigue that often settled it, and you can't rely on the same man for the same tricks without the opposition forming a game plan to counter it. If what we want is progress, then Levy did the right thing. Having one player that stands out...you may as well put a target on their back. Ozil, Van Persie, Suarez - even Bale - all drew a huge number of fouls last year, will do again this season and with good reason: because they're quality players and quality players need to be stopped by any means. An injury to any of those players and the team looks like a much worse proposition. And that level of dependency is dangerous when you're challenging at the top level.
Now while AVB comes in for a lot of criticism (as does any manager - this is football and football is emotive), he is, on paper, the best fit for Spurs. We're not going to get a Hiddink, an Ancelotti, a Guardiola. Frankly, pre-Chelsea, we would not have gotten an AVB. But we needed a tactically astute manager with a little guile to him and a preferred system. I suspect that he will become more tactically flexible as his career goes on, and it may even be to our cost that he learns that lesson.
I won't say it didn't hurt to see Bale in a white shirt with 'Fly Emirates' emblazoned across the front. But I think that our play did centre around him last year and we looked bereft whether he was on the pitch or not - it was a moment of magic in the fatigue that often settled it, and you can't rely on the same man for the same tricks without the opposition forming a game plan to counter it. If what we want is progress, then Levy did the right thing. Having one player that stands out...you may as well put a target on their back. Ozil, Van Persie, Suarez - even Bale - all drew a huge number of fouls last year, will do again this season and with good reason: because they're quality players and quality players need to be stopped by any means. An injury to any of those players and the team looks like a much worse proposition. And that level of dependency is dangerous when you're challenging at the top level.
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It's going to be a long 2 weeks before I regain some faith in our club... Its true that we have the best squad we've had in a very... very long time... but the magic that has now left with the wizard... I honestly feel gutted... it does feel like we are missing that one key ingredient but who knows... maybe (hopefully) my worries will be squashed when we play norwich... not that I ever want to set us to the standards of the scum down the road... but they didn't have an "IT" player (Unless you consider the FA/Refs to be players) last year and they finished fourth... we have twice the squad and depth they had the year before... Woolwich is stronger... but not really that much stronger with Ozil... Manu clearly not as strong as last year... Chelsea is Chelsea... and Man City while stronger still have the same inconsistencies as last year only club I'm worried about is Liverpool... they're at the top of the table and Suaraz hasn't even been playing and now with their new additions at the end of the transfer table... they looked primed to tare shit up for the rest of the season... whatever... I'll cut the negativity out... we're winning the league this year
I think AvB is looking more for a team than 1 individual , obviously only time will tell if we have world beaters in Lamela, Erikson,Paulie or Defoe & it'll be great if we do but I think Avb's philosophy is " team work "
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He gave me his shirt at the Dortmund friendly 2006 ..... I have touched him. We are now one
Yup one of the best stadiums I've been too