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Jan Paul van Hecke

Robspur12 said:
Cautious welcome! For me, I would want Danso to be part of our back line. He is such a solid defender and we need that in the back line. Can’t have 4 ballers at the back who don’t do the basics of defending otherwise we will continue to leak goals.
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I think there's a bit of an assumption based on the fact that he's very good with the ball that he can't defend. Brighton conceded the third least goals in the league last season, so I'm pretty confident he can defend just fine....
 
harr1984 said:
I think there's a bit of an assumption based on the fact that he's very good with the ball that he can't defend. Brighton conceded the third least goals in the league last season, so I'm pretty confident he can defend just fine....
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Verbruggen and Van Hecke were great in the Fantasy Football stats.
 
harr1984 said:
I think there's a bit of an assumption based on the fact that he's very good with the ball that he can't defend. Brighton conceded the third least goals in the league last season, so I'm pretty confident he can defend just fine....
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It’s about partnerships. Goals conceded or not are rarely because of one player. At Brighton he has Lewis Dunk doing the water carrier role. We need partnerships that complement each other. We saw that when Romero was injured and Danso replaced him alongside VDV. Neither Van Hecke nor VDV are not good in the air for example.
 
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Robspur12 said:
It’s about partnerships. Goals conceded or not are rarely because of one player. At Brighton he has Lewis Dunk doing the water carrier role. We need partnerships that complement each other. We saw that when Romero was injured and Danso replaced him alongside VDV. Neither Van Hecke nor VDV are not good in the air for example.
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Of course it's not about one player but they wouldn't concede the third least goals if he couldn't defend, PL teams would completely expose that especially when just playing two CBs.

You're right about partnerships for sure, but I don't agree that he doesn't/can't do the basics of defending from the games I saw him in. Danso is my favourite defender so I hope he has a role to play....
 
Yiddo said:
Everything is always so negative. They moan that Spurs don’t spend the money and when they do they moan they have spent too much. If he has a good season everyone will forget about the price tag
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Exactly, imagine we signed Tonali for £100m, we would have signed Tonali, PVH, Robertson & Senesi for £152m, incredible price for 4 proven quality PL players who will prove the starting eleven straight away
 
MartyFunkhouser said:
Interesting take

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I think it's silly, no player is worth anything intrinsically. They actually only worth what a buying team is willing to pay and the selling team willing to accept. Anything else is just an arbitrary valuation
 
MartyFunkhouser said:
Interesting take

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Actually if you ignore the click bait headline and hear the interview it's pretty spot on and balanced. He says that there are risks dragging it to the end of the window and we wanted the player and were not willing to run those risks for penny pinching. Which Levy always did and we lost countless players as a result...
 
How did Van Hecke generally deal with Gyokeres and Isak?
I know it's not the same but potentiality those duels could be seen as kind of dress-rehearsals for the coming season....
 
glorygloryeze said:
How did Van Hecke generally deal with Gyokeres and Isak?
I know it's not the same but potentiality those duels could be seen as kind of dress-rehearsals for the coming season....
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Didn’t watch the game but from the highlights I did t notice either of them until soak lost the ball weakly with an awful touch
None of that was a reflection on our man though
 
glorygloryeze said:
How did Van Hecke generally deal with Gyokeres and Isak?
I know it's not the same but potentiality those duels could be seen as kind of dress-rehearsals for the coming season....
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On Fotmob against Sweden VdV got 7.3 at left back, JPVH got 7.2 and Van Dijk got 7.1 and Dumfries got 8.7 due to 2 assists.
When Dumfries is racing up the wing, JPVH presumably has a lot of ground to cover. Presumably VD and VdV shift into a back 3 with JPVH.
He won 3 of 4 aerial duels and 1 of 2 ground duels.
He made 6 clearances and 1 tackle.
They won 5-1
 
Bullet said:
On Fotmob against Sweden VdV got 7.3 at left back, JPVH got 7.2 and Van Dijk got 7.1 and Dumfries got 8.7 due to 2 assists.
When Dumfries is racing up the wing, JPVH presumably has a lot of ground to cover. Presumably VD and VdV shift into a back 3 with JPVH.
He won 3 of 4 aerial duels and 1 of 2 ground duels.
He made 6 clearances and 1 tackle.
They won 5-1
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Many thanks
 
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