Modric never scored 10pl goals in a season, even Ce has only done it once or twice. Dembele type of players control the flow of the game and can receive the ball in tight situations and still find a way out.
I think all the Tottenham coaches including MP missed a trick by not playing Dembele as a Dm.
The crowing about Dembele is synonymous with actual success starved Spurs.
This guy spent 6+ years with us, probably had at best 2 consistent seasons, was never courted by any of the Big Clubs, has 1 of the poorest scoring or creating records going, whenever the chips were down he'd never drag the side up by the scruff of the neck, never showed any leadership qualities.
What is most unforgivable and why I vent angry about it is because talent wise he was much better than he ever put out on a pitch, imo he chose the safest areas and safest places to do his ''wizardry" which did little more than slow down play and keep possession I personally think he's wasted his god given talent.
Nothing more compelling than the fact he's slinked off for what 9mil to Shanghai Guano.
So many players have left spurs to win trophies at other clubs, i don't think an individual player can be blamed for a teams lack of success. Walker left won a couple of trophies and still get's slated by spurs fans as not being good.
Spurs problem is not the players, it's the board who appoint managers who don't win stuff and even say as long as you get top4 you don't need to win stuff.
Kane, dele, Ce will look at dembele and think why stick around? i am good enough to win stuff.
Some spurs fans think that the new stadium will create revenue to win stuff, by the time they pay off the debt it will be 2029 and i doubt this model will make spurs champions.
Today's game is not a must win, however, a win would open up a nice 4pt gap over the chavs.
Whoever spurs play it should be enough to get the win. Coys.
Nice cross grog NKD ! COYS !
We are bang average without Kane & Son.
The plus is we came back from a goal down and in all seriousness nicked the win at the end.
Late winners are good for morale so hopefully that galvanises them mentally for a massive game midweek.
Llorente has played 300mins of pl football in 18 months, anyone expecting him to be pl ready without a run of 4-6 games is expecting a lot of a 32yo footballer.
The key to Lllorente is that you play too his strengths, early crosses into the box and high back to front balls, both situations is how spurs scored yesterday, the problem was that spurs didn't use them enough in the game and continued to play possession football allowing fulham to get back into defensive formation.
Going long and early to Llorente, whether from the wings or from the middle may cause the chavs a lot of problems. Lllorente should have scored at least one yesterday, i put those misses down to not being PL match sharp.
you can't replace Kane with Llorente. Llorente isn't the same player as Kane.....so fitting him into the team now probably means Moura has to play closer and off of him.
get the ball up to Llorente and ask Moura to play for the second ball.
Llorente does not even win the first ball. Useless.
Couldn't have put it better myself. He could have and should have, been a much better player. Goals definitely missing...says it all.
Nothing to do with Llorente not being PL ready. He missed two nailed on headers that were harder not to score than score. Don't blame him for OG though. No accident that he gets his goals against non-PL teams.
Noticed a pattern with Tripps though. From his right back position, he passes the ball inside to a midfielder to carry forward. A very straight forward pass usually. The Utd goal came from this pass going to an oppo player, then yesterday he did it again which led to Fulham having a penalty shout declined. Mmm!
Andy Carrol is more sicknote than D. Anderton was!