Gareth Bale

Bale's a more consistent performer now than he was around the time of the Inter game. Obviously he's no Ronaldo and won't be until he can score 40 goals a season and take amazing free kicks etc.

he has taken amazing free kicks but vdv (and once recently bae) are ahead of him in the left footed queue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxlphjL3VZY

How often does he take frees anyway? Seemed to be fairly handy at them in his Southampton days

exactly it's kind of annoying he doesn't take them more

thankfully he has dropped that pirouette celebration. although the heart thing isn't much better.

Yeah I was under the impression when we signed him that he was amazing with a dead ball, like a left-footed Beckham, but if he was that good he'd have been doing it in training and would be right at the top of the pecking order.

dont think cron has scored an fk this season

There was this tap-in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQg_dGsr0GA

i thought that free kick in the last minute v chelsea was kind of ronaldo-esque

that was neat, stat i read was domestic i think

id like to see him score another like the fk vs portsmouth

thankfully he has dropped that pirouette celebration. although the heart thing isn't much better.

― mizzell, Friday, 30 March 2012 16:54 (53 minutes ago) Bookmark

NOTHING IS WORSE THAN THE HEART THING. as if he couldnt look any more kawaii anime git

http://postfiles14.naver.net/20110103_237/wngml8823_1294059153276iXNAO_JPEG/gareth_bale_with_his_hairclip_.mp4_000001525.jpg

never forget

yeah i hate the heart celebration. so twee.

lennon u & k to keeping a balance that gives bale oxygen on left, though he was excellent for the full 90 today.

agree with rtc that corluka should have been kept if only to allow for walker as cover on right- walker's come on so much that i won't argue with his first xi rb position now

Swansea have dyer, think a move for him over the summer as cover for lennon would be good? Pacy, direct and natural width.

is dyer better than hoilett? still would like to see marko marin too.

Marin has been p ropey for Bremen this season, including one game where the opposition put a man marker on him and he proceeded to basically sulk and stroll around until substituted after 55 mins or so. He was good last season though, although he doesn't play on the wing anymore iirc.

i see, i guess hoilett hasn't been playing on the wing eiter. all these guys want to play through the middle just so they can score goal for themselves?

Yeah the position seems to have evolved from winger going down the line on strongest foot and crossing ->winger playing on 'wrong' wing and cutting in onto his strongest foot to possibly shoot -> oh sod it I'll just play in the middle.

I wish some club would buy and actually play Wigan's Albert Crusat, he's looked like an excellent direct winger whenever I've seen him, tho on the left so not exactly what Spurs need.

"Take Gareth Bale, a player I love," he explains. "He's a full-back in the Brazilian mould, he has a similar idea. In Europe [Spurs] play him as a winger, but in my team he'd always be a full-back. People get scared and play attacking full-backs as wingers. They think they will attack more, but often they attack less and less well. It happened with Roberto Carlos: as a winger, he was less effective, he needs to start his run sooner. Bale is more skilful and good as a winger, but at Barcelona he would be a full-back."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/apr/16/dani-alves-barcelona-chelsea/print

take gareth bale, please

bpitw

bpitwnt at any rate

CHEATING SCUM

why doesn't he do it for spurs? feel like maybe the pure white light of his beating three and cunting it from 35 yards is often dispersed into so much colourful detritus when forced through the prism of jimbelly d'faux and scurdson

not sure what you're getting at. If anything he cheats more for Spurs

his cheating is as indefensible as his brilliance is undefendable GET ON THE END OF THAT ONE NULT

idk if he is a big fat cheat or whatever but he is def lately thinking he's too hot to bother making mickey owen brand gamesmanship look good

like the villa dive he was entitled to draw the obv foul with the keeper out so far but he instead just thought fuck it i'm bpitw this'll do

otm, lazy effort at a dive < full blooded suarez < takin the hit for the team

at least we can all agree that Tom Cleverley cemented his position as the most exciting young(ish) player in world football last night

most excitingish young player, maybe

so

he's developing into a somewhat more consistent player, sticking a bit more to the lw and what he's good at. feel that this is A Good Thing.

Still in and out of games. Still creating chances for players that aren't there (not his fault). Still diving.

How do we assess gareth bale as of nov 2012

Dani Alves still otm

i've seen g bale at lb. i'll keep him as a winger thanks.

What's he worth in january? Worried that levy has outed us as a club that sells too cheaply after modric and vdv.

It wasn't a dive last night btw. He's good, and imv getting more effective. But the heart thing. Must. Stop.

it was definitely a dive

yeah it was a dive

http://ballsdot.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/balerunlennongoal.gif

otm

fake ronaldo mighty hero pose before every free kick has overtaken the <3 for annoyingness now imo

(the fact he's also kinda pulling the dippers off also adds to the irritation)

he appears to be pretty thick even for a fitba player

Gareth Bale. Hamstring. Pinged.

the <3 thing is still the worst. i want to cry/gouge out my eyes every time i see it.

has settled into a very consistent/effective presence in the past twelve months imo, avb a good influence on him so far in keeping his performances at a high level and maybe limiting his wandering that was encouraged far too much under redknapp

hmm maybe not limiting so much (given a hat-trick from central last night) so much as working on the discipline of the wanders

aren't tottenham playing 442 atm? which is very attacking when one of the wingers is bale

it's kind of more a 4 3 2 with bale one of the two, adebayor being the ' '

adebayor is such a weirdo

he should be owned by an investment company like tevez cuz he never plays well for whoever owns his contract

otm, but long forseen tbf. that said, 7m of an outlay was worth the gamble and imo avb will drop defoe as soon as it's in any way justifiable, it must really annoy him on an instinctive/tactical level that this midget is working so well as a point man