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Dont know the situation under current management, but under (the fucking idiot) Wilmots he was behind all of Witsel, Naingollan and Fellaini it seemed. Ridiculous. In 15/16 he was the best player in the league by far.
He’s a player we need to nurse like a baby.
Like Ledley, he may not be able to play every game, but he will know his own body & what it can and can’t do, & the difference he makes when he does play is incredible. You can see the confidence grow amongst the rest of the team when he is on his game.
Watching that highlights vid of him from last night just confirms what a top drawer player he is. He completely bossed The midfield...against Juve. The “old lady” or whatever it is they call that match fixing bunch of cunts looked like she’d had her back end ruined by a cactus by the end of the game.
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"Mousa Dembélé did not so much seize the Juve midfield by the scruff as march it around in a headlock in its own backyard."
This is a very good read and if you are a self confessed football snob, like me, then it greats to see a tweet like that. Shows how much people are swayed by what the media are saying or in Dembele's case not saying. He's been great since the day he joined us and it is odd that only now people are waking up to him, just like the media. No coincidence.
The comments are Ferdinand's, 100%. He's saying this as this is what he and Timmy said to him when they were the first team management. I never had an issue with Ferdinand until it was revealed that this is what he says to our own players, I was fucking fuming. Imagine believing that as a supporter of Tottenham that those in charge of building a successful squad are actually telling your players that you should be playing for Real Madrid, what a cunt! Night and day different approaches between Poch and him/them. Poch comes in and says listen to me and we can all compete with Real Madrid (in fact we spanked them), Timmy & Ferdinand say your good enough to get sold to Madrid. If you want to employ a management team to take you precisely NOWHERE then hire Timmy and Ferdinand. Is it any wonder that Timmy has been sacked in his only PL gig he's ever been appointed in since leaving his temporary position with us and Ferdinand is at QPR currently 16th in the League. Stealing a living both of them.Not sure if it is Rio or Les saying this as on my app it said Rio and in the Daily Fail Les but whoever it was can
Tottenham midfielder Mousa Dembele should have followed former team-mate Gareth Bale's trajectory and be a Real Madrid player by now, believes Les Ferdinand.
Dembele has caught the eye for Spurs in the past fortnight - dominating midfield against Manchester United, Liverpool, Woolwich and Juventus.
The 30-year-old's monstrous displays have demonstrated his sheer ability, but Ferdinand believes those performances have been too fleeting.
Dembele has been plagued by injuries since joining Tottenham from Fulham in 2012 and Ferdinand attributes this as a reason why he has never fully achieved his vast potential.
He told Omnisport: 'I'll be honest; I've been disappointed with Mousa. I really thought he would go on and be next player to leave Spurs and join Real Madrid.
'He's got that ability. He's suffered a few injuries, but hasn't hit the heights that I thought he was going to hit.
'He has done really well and when he plays you can see how important he is to Spurs, but I expected him to push on from when I left [when Mauricio Pochettino arrived in 2014].
'I really thought he'd be the next one to do a Gareth Bale [and join Real Madrid]. Instead, Harry [Kane] has come and overtaken him in the limelight.'