You look at Grealish now. He’s a robot but he used to be this free spirit who’d thrive at running at players and was a joy to watch. I know he’s in a different position and playing against teams with everyone behind the ball but the joy has been coached out of him. He’s not better on the eye than Werner and that’s sad to say because he’s on another level talent wise. The modern day game is stifling players with real ability.
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Well let's wait and see shall we.
Yeah around then I believe.
I think it's fair to allow a CB a chance to settle into that side of their game a little bit more (their focus should be no early fuck-ups leading to goals)..... The MFs and attackers are the one's who ought to be 'snappy' from the whistle.
My observation would more be that Romero get's braver as the game goes on.
I think you can pinpoint the exact moment this started happening in the English game as Mourinho getting his hands on Joe Cole.
Certainly the earliest example I can think of of a manager absolutely hammering the creativity out of a player and turning him into a stats machine.
I think everyone to a man here who has been around long enough has fond memories of David Ginola, how many goals did he get? 13 in 100 league appearances, he'd be hammered by fans today...
Might well have been, he's West Ham after all.I thought when it was played he was in our half mate. It must have been my rage at not getting the foul. Don’t insult my intelligence anyway!
Nah I do seem to recall him starting from behind the halfway line. But yeah, wouldn't he the first time refs screw us this season.
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Hard to tell from this angle
He was a joy to watch. When he was in full flow he was immense. Nothing stat based about him,just flair and that’s the type of player we were all happy to pay to watch. Joe Cole was brilliant player too.
I just thought he was going off. The camera doesn’t catch it so it’s hard to tell. Thank fuck he’s shit.
Were you a season ticket holder then?
I remember plenty of frustrated fans around me. People often leaving at 85 mins calling us shit.
Happy days! Some things just don’t change.
You are boring mate.
It happens too often for it not to be by design.
Sadly not as I had too many other commitments around then but I went as regularly as I could and enjoyed the entertainment
I m still Spurs of course but can’t say the fayre served up last night and the last few years has been entertaining
Probably more to do with the opponent more than anything. Not much we can do if 10 men are standing in the way.
Under Redknapp, we were just plucky little Spurs that played exciting football in an era where teams didn't press. Plenty of space, era where freedom and flair was allowed, less discipline across the pitch etc.
Nowadays we are almost like a scalp for these little clubs. For some reason they seem to just raise their game for us. Yet they'll go and lose their next game to a relegation battling team. West Ham, Fulham, the lot of them.
13 in 100 league games.
A goal every 7.7 games. in a shit team managed by Gerry Francis, Christian Gross and George Graham.
One season he got 9 and was our joint top scorer. With Klinsman. Who only played half a season and got 4 in one game. That's how shit we were.
Meanwhile, Deki has 13 league goals in 76 games for a goal every 5.8 games in a better team, playing higher in the league, under a better manager (2 better managers if you include Conte too)
And he's nowhere near as entertaining to watch.
Well that's the key part about it.
Who know's, plonk prime Ginola into this better side and maybe he struggles against low blocks? Maybe the manager won't play him because he doesn't track back enough?
But nobody who ever saw us play whilst he was here would ever say a bad word about him. Today though, on stats alone, half the twittersphere would be calling him crap because they'd made their minds up based on a bunch of stats, bar charts, and pictograms, before they'd even seen him kick a ball.
And then if they ever did get around to actually watching him, they still wouldn't change their mind because that's just not how the world works is it?
Must be that eh...
TBH, I was a big fan of Kulu for a while.
But he's really gone backwards in a way.
His goals per game stats are up this season, but he's become awful to watch at times.
Ginola was criticised for his fitness levels by Graham and pushed out for that. Also his lack of tactical discipline.
Maybe that was around about the time that flair and expression started to be hammered out of the sport.
Then again, imagine telling Messi he needs to track back more, cover more miles, only pass into certain area's etc.
Doesn't bare thinking about really.
