Oliver Skipp - Player profile 22/23
Oliver Skipp, 22, from England ➤ Tottenham Hotspur, since 2018 ➤ Defensive Midfield ➤ Market value: €15.00m ➤ * Sep 16, 2000 in Welwyn Garden City, England
Main position :
Defensive Midfield
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Main position :
Defensive Midfield
Deserves a start again on saturday.
What then Right Back ?
You would expect a 32 year old to deal a bit better with such a loss.
Thought he had a solid game last night, certainly was better than Winks.
I've been critical of Skippy before but yesterday I really liked his performance!
And it might be wishful thinking but somehow it looks like he has added some muscle / strenght to himself compared to preseason. NO! I don't mean to say that he is stroNG but he is strongER, relatively speaking.
Shielded decently. put the ball out where it was needed to be put out. Lasted all 120 minutes (!!) . And was way more dynamic than Dier in DM position for example.
Would not mind him being started in most of games, and same goes for Gedson. Not that either of them would have set the world on fire, just down to alternative options....
And it might be wishful thinking but somehow it looks like he has added some muscle / strenght to himself compared to preseason. NO! I don't mean to say that he is stroNG but he is strongER, relatively speaking.
Shielded decently. put the ball out where it was needed to be put out. Lasted all 120 minutes (!!) . And was way more dynamic than Dier in DM position for example.
Would not mind him being started in most of games, and same goes for Gedson. Not that either of them would have set the world on fire, just down to alternative options....
Dier and Lo Celso way ahead of Skippy.
Well it could be true and time will either prove it to be right or not...
But alternative theory is just that fans will rate new youth prospect higher... well because he is new youth prospect.
Mason was supposed to be better than Livermore.
Onomah was supposed to be better than Mason
Carroll was supposed to be better than Onomah.
Winks was supposed to be better than Carroll.
Skippy supposed to be better than Winks.
Roll if forward few years and
2-years-younger-academy-product X will be supposedly better than Skippy.
4-years-younger-academy-product Y will be supposedly better than 2-years-younger-academy-product X
This is correct.
I commend his effort, he didn't make any mistakes, didn't give the ball away and did the leg work that our team desperately needs really well last night.
I have my doubts that he is top 4 quality though. Compare him to what other clubs have in the same position its a bit comical.
Nothing against the lad though
I have my doubts that he is top 4 quality though. Compare him to what other clubs have in the same position its a bit comical.
Nothing against the lad though
We've finished top4 with worse players than him in our midfield on more than one occasion.
Size isn't everything! Or so I keep getting told!
No thanks, fed up with England knackering our players.
Oh I agree, he just seems a bit limited to me ability wise.
The player that comes to mind for some reason even though they weren't really the same is Jamie o'Hara
But he deserves a few games to see what he is really capable of.
One of the few players who did a good job last night, and deserves to play on Saturday, if not too much for him.
Skipp is a much more viable proposition than O'Hara (who I didn't rate much at all).
There will generally always be " limitations" to what a 6 can do, by definition they are more functional than flair but he's got the type of skill set that we generally need in one, he's dynamic, got a great engine, tenacious, reads the game pretty well (for 19), technically very good, he shows for the ball (doesn't hide and point) he can move a bit with the ball under pressure (as we saw last night) and he does get his head up and look for a vertical pass, he's not always just bunting the ball back where it came.
Which I think would be a good skill set to compliment people like Ndombele, Lo Celso, Winks, Gedson who can play as 8's either side of him.
I don't think he's the next Casimiro or anything, but lets be honest, we are a fucking long way from being RM.
4-3-3 requires the kind of full-backs who can bomb up and down the pitch for 90 mins, but whatever.
At this point, it might be just a well to give Skipp, Gedson and Parrott a run of games to gain experience. We do not look capable of a European place, but were not going down. Play the regulars during CL games (maybe just one more of those). Start summer training now.