sixteen! forgot about postiga & pletikosa but yes there's corluka and also dempsey
― ogmor, Thursday, 12 June 2014 13:30 (nine years ago) link
looking over our squad, if vertonghen will play lb with a decent attitude that's 1 worthy first team defender. best of the rest are crocked or shakey or both, worst of the rest are awful or dgaf and can't be picked.
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
regardles of attitude i don't think jan is a fullback. agree that there are plenty of questions about the rest of em.supposedly bidding 5M for jamaal lascelles who... has a cool name. don't know anything else.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
http://thepremierleagueowl.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Screen-Shot-2014-07-08-at-16.01.41.png
― mizzell, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
I wish I'd found that website, took me an hour in excel. tho I will as able to add a fairly pithy comment field.
llorisvertonghen- if no prob at lbkaboul- replace if possiblechiriches- replace if possiblewalker- watch like a fuckin hawk, try to sell for decent cash, replaceSandrodembeleeriksenLennonlamela not sure how adaptable he is at LW Adebayor - flaky as fuck but its not gonna happen for soldado let's face it
flog- Dawson, siggurdson, paulinho, naughton, everyone, sell the club, stadium, buy gold or oil futures, learn peace, fuck hateful football
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
With Vertonghen, Walker and Chiriches it's a problem with decision-making, not ability or technique - Poch knows how to organise a defence and should be able to work those problems out, ideally with Vertonghen at CB. Kaboul is finished and should be offloaded as quickly as possible, he's either injured or a disaster area, but I don't think anyone would take him. Dawson I suspect will be gone by the end of the summer.
It appears we're hawking Sandro around which strikes me as madness, if we're going to play the sort of pressing game then he's essential in midfield. I was hoping the World Cup would illuminate something about Paulinho but he appears to be the ultimate water-carrier really.
Stoked to see what Poch will be able to do with Eriksen and Lamela.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
yes to the three, being hugely optimistic, that being the outlook then kaboul being fit and not killed in a high line is no further of a stretch IMO matt. just can't see it!
bae back at lb or is the ship sailed?
Sandro is our best player alongside eriksen and lloris and our best leader alongside kaboul and it beggars belief that we're not fending off huge bids for him, never mind trying to sell him off our own bat.
paulinho is awful, not even showing ability in flashes like gylfi or chadli
I'm psyched to see what poch does with holtby and townsend
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
I still think paulinho has the most potential of our more attacking MFs, hope poch gives him a go
― ogmor, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
yeah tbf I would be uneasy about writing off anyone but Dawson, naughton from p much our entire squad there's a us able squad player at least in each of the rest and none of last summers purchases came near to their potential
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
would a move for di maria be out of the question
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
yes
i mean LFC probably had/have the money to buy Pogba but cmon now.
― pandemic, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 08:54 (nine years ago) link
lascelles is talented but unless poch is v v diligent then moving to spurs at 20 now will surely turn him into another jenas/walker/naughton feckless pissflap
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 10:05 (nine years ago) link
lack of midfield distributor still painfully obv from that stack of squad names there
jordy clasie would do nicely imo
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 10:19 (nine years ago) link
depends on distribution method envisaged IMO, holtby can do metronome, for all the lack of form paulinho can surely carry it and provide simple links, dembele also capable of travelling with it if that's required, bentaleb p decent simple link. was prob the most overlooked/neglected part of avb setup maybe? and Sherwood wasn't gonna put it right, but I don't think individual ability is a huge prob in the midfield set
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 10:57 (nine years ago) link
doesnt have to be thudd hollywood pings but u need more about u than those water carrier types to improve the laborious transitions you have right now
dembele capable, yeah gl with that
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 11:28 (nine years ago) link
sorry the lackofform() function had more than just paulinho as an input but dembele is in no way a write off just yet imo
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 11:30 (nine years ago) link
he's not but the fate of a season shouldnt rest on that whimsy either
other than for sociopaths "we're shit without you" is the arch anti-motivator, in fitba and indeed beyond
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 12:08 (nine years ago) link
http://www.football365.com/tottenham-hotspur/9379550/Premier-League-Tottenham-ready-to-proceed-with-new-stadium-at-White-Hart-Lane
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Friday, 11 July 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ateQQc-AgEM
― r|t|c, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
He's definitely in the group of players I'd expect Poch to improve, so pretty happy about this. Pretty much the end of Vertonghen at LB I'd imagine.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
he's not a bad backup and along with a lot of the players we keep getting rid of is a good cheap squad option
― Serious Men raised by the Issues Movement (darraghmac), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
probably a bad sign for Fryers more than anything
― anonanon, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
fryers not being good enough to break ahead of naughton is a bad sign for fryers tbf
― Serious Men raised by the Issues Movement (darraghmac), Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
shape of things to come
https://vine.co/v/MVDztlqIUml
― anonanon, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
the fuck was that
― Come and Heave a Ho (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
Should have seen the Ceballos miss five minutes later.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
Harry Kane has signed a new five year contract.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 14 August 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
in absentia a europa league thread: fuck this stupid club that is above buying defenders
― duff paddy (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/tottenham-hotspur/11048364/Tottenham-transfer-news-Spurs-set-to-bid-for-Sevilla-central-defender-Federico-Fazio.html
Don't know much about this guy, but 3/4 of a new back four would represent a decent summer.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
Clad supposedly off to Roma
― mizzell, Thursday, 21 August 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
Vlad even.
I don't get selling Chiriches and letting Dawson and Kaboul hang around
― anonanon, Thursday, 21 August 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
idgi keeping any of em so sell em in whatever order
― duff paddy (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 August 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
Harry Kane has sneakily developed into a decent player
― anonanon, Thursday, 21 August 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
good third choice in a one man system if our first choice was reliable and second choice suited the system but alas
― duff paddy (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 August 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
does anyone feel certain if vlad is even any good or not
― r|t|c, Thursday, 21 August 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
in a high line its been impossible tbh
― duff paddy (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 August 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
I'm 90% sure he is but will happily defer to Rudi Garcia on the issue. He seems like he would know for certain.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 21 August 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
sabatini otoh is a bit more hit and miss
― r|t|c, Thursday, 21 August 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
Things that look like an ILF "the interior life of..." thread but aren't: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/aug/15/small-talk-michael-owen
― Tim, Friday, 22 August 2014 10:39 (nine years ago) link
"If I’m eating cheese on its own with a cracker it has to be really strong. I can handle a strong cheese. Stilton, things like that. If you’re buying mature cheese, than Canadian is probably the strongest one. Canadian extra mature, or Stilton..."
― Tim, Friday, 22 August 2014 10:40 (nine years ago) link
(haha sorry wrong thread, I get confused by all this "... are still a big club" business.
― Tim, Friday, 22 August 2014 10:42 (nine years ago) link
I'm pretty sure Vlad is a better player than either Dawson or Kaboul (now) but Poch doesn't want any of them. Kaboul is basically unsellable and Dawson doesn't seem to want to go to the sort of club that would sign him and this point.
Given QPR's recent signings at the back that looks like another dream has just died.
― Matt DC, Friday, 22 August 2014 10:50 (nine years ago) link
Paulinho is completely inessential and maybe now psychologically scarred but I bet you we still get decent money when we inevitably ship him off to some Serie A leper colony.
Mostly I find myself idly wondering if Lewis Holtby can be converted from a number ten into a deeper lying playmaker. He seems to have all the attributes but I'm not sure what his long passing is like.
― Matt DC, Friday, 22 August 2014 10:56 (nine years ago) link
iirc holtby has said he's v happy to play the 6/8 box to box linebreaker but he's not really had the run of games to see either way
he can spot a quick pass but idk about sitting there spraying it around, be more of a direct high-intensity dembele riff, would suit poch better you'd think
― r|t|c, Friday, 22 August 2014 11:28 (nine years ago) link
yeah if he starts its as an eriksen mirror in a high central two behind a lone striker I'd imagine, not as a carrier
― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Friday, 22 August 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
My thinking is that he's energetic, runs tirelessly and can tackle, his decision-making with the ball is fast and usually good but I usually see him making quick shortish passes in and around the area, dunno if I can see him spraying it out to the flanks.
― Matt DC, Friday, 22 August 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
this is fucking good stuff
paulinho Kane dembele Andros Sandro all looking more like players worth having in an xi than has been the case in a long time
― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
agree except Townsend still doing his terrible head down run to the corner flag thing
― anonanon, Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
yeah but the odd surge into centre is promising
Kane with some very nice touches around half time
― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link