It's a similar argument for playing Son/Chadli up top however. Players are people with skills, those skills are transferable position to position and even in different roles within systems. I don't think having Dier and Wanyama weakens us.
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It's a similar argument for playing Son/Chadli up top however. Players are people with skills, those skills are transferable position to position and even in different roles within systems. I don't think having Dier and Wanyama weakens us.
Shame Bongani Khumalo isn't still on our books... surely there was a sponsorship tie-in opportunity there?!!
That's racist.
Plus we have Wanyama now.
I'll just leave
But not everyone is adaptable. I don't think Son/Chadli are, but I take your point in general.
And at this point 12 months ago nobody had Dier down as holding midfielder...........open your minds people
And at this point 12 months ago nobody had Dier down as holding midfielder...........open your minds people
I did. I made a case for him when Gibbs said he shouldn't start. It was when we bought Toby.
What is your point actually? Chadli and Son have generally been dreadful when being played as strikers... if anything it shows that those skills aren't necessarily transferable position to position.
Care to give examples of Chadli and Son being terrible when being played as a striker? In one of the few games Son played up front he was involved in two goals.
The point is that while players are described as one thing, that doesn't mean it's all they are. I'll give you a better example. Is Messi a striker or a Right Winger? He started on the right, moved central, then is back on the right. The skills are transferable, even though he does different things in each position.
If we are looking at just Son and Chadli as options for playing up front, they are both more than capable, but neither are nearly as good as Kane. The problem Son has is Son is more akin to a Jermaine Defoe/Jamie Vardy type striker as opposed to a Harry Kane.
I'm not starting this debate again anyway because we have Vincent and N'Jie to both play up front if Kane is unavailable or it's time for plan B.
He won't let it go that he was wrong about son & chadli being able to play upfront.
Which is highlighted even more by poch getting janssen.
To be fair, last summer I said bentaleb would be our best player & captain us in the new stadium.
& I still haven't given up hope yet!
As memphis said, we all barely know anything about football compared to the experts.
Although I still love the guys on here who think they are experts (I don't mean you jockmur).
As they sit in there office they tell themselves they just never got that break in to football management.
But there's no harm in it.
I can think of only a few other players, since I've been following Spurs, that I've simultaneously liked so much but am constantly frustrated with.
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Windy put it best.
If Chadli worked in an office he'd be the guy who seems to be constantly messing about on the internet but who always meets his targets.
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I don't think he's come close to meeting his targets. Anyway, that's not for here.
£15m bargain when TFC members claimed he was worth at least £25m in today's over inflated market. Smart move if he went to Swansea as he'd be a star player there.
I feel like he hasn't gotten his fair playing time in our new system. He's not shit, he's just not good enough to start with Eriksen, Lamela, and Alli as our option. I would hate to get rid of him though.
He's the only player who hasn't improved under Poch. (Not counting the guys who came in a year ago).
Which is fine for him not to start, but surely he is good enough to stay be a replacement 15 minutes left?