Bedfordspurs
Chris Waddle
But one foot
And most of the time no legs to play with
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Bryan Gil
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And most of the time no legs to play with
Baleforce
Les Bennett
You are not wrong.
alekaras
The ITK of IDK
They're under a lot of pressure. They were one spot from the bottom of the table at the start of yesterday's game with the same points as their opponent, Almeria. And they have a toughish schedule through the end of the season, especially their last 3-4 games. Not comfortably mid-table at all and if you factor in EL, where they're likely to go through to the next round, it's not going to be "we're just focusing on the league right now." They'll have two games a week most weeks.
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
Having a good game.
I like him too, but it all depends on formation. If we get a back 4 manager then yes, if we get a back 3 manager then no chance
I wouldn't say no chance at all. He plays not just out wide but centrally aswell, not much different to Kulu. Of course it's dependant on the manager, but back 3 or back 4 there will still be opportunities for him if the manager rates him. Just dependant on the overall formation as to where.....
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Ian Walker
If we keep Danjuma and Kulu it's difficult to see him getting regular starts and he would be stopping Mundle 1st team chances, I suppose it will get clearer in the close season.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
I think it's a nice balance - Son and Danjuma as the direct options, Kulu and Gil as the indirect ones.
If there's one thing our squad desperately needs, it's to tip the balance back significantly to creators and passers, so it makes lots of sense to give Gil a major role in that.
Gil has played 152 professional level games, 120+ at La Liga or PL level, he's also played 4 times for Spain. Mundle regardless of promise is no where near that, maybe in a year or two after loan time (because hopefully we have learned players don't benefit from sitting on the bench and barely 5 minutes here or there).
Gil to me is something different (that it itself is important), he is also like Richi where just the tempo/energy/hustle he brings can change how we play, he's also a creator/assist type player that we lack desperately.
Bedfordspurs
Chris Waddle
Yet we have scored goals for fun…
Creativity isn’t the issue today despite the fact that we all seem to want a new number 10
Gil i just can’t see fitting in but I’d love to be wrong
Not sure, our goal output is clearly influenced by the fact that we have two strikers (despite Son's brick season) who regularly outperform their xG over their career, i.e. we don't create that many chances, we simply convert quite a good percentage.
I also think when we talk about a "creative" midfielder broadly it's more about a midfielder that can help with possession, recycle the ball as well as create different passing options and breaking the lines. Again, a midfielder profile that isn't a PEH/Skipp type
Bedfordspurs
Chris Waddle
Emirates Marketing Project have a striker who has scored a similar ratio of goals for them as Kane has for us
Son has been gash as you say
But the reality is we’re the 4th highest scorers and having a poor season
The creativity issue is IMO not key if… if we fix the defensive issues. And the defence isn’t struggling because of the attack per se. Don’t get me wrong, we can defend form the front much better than we have done this season but we are creating and scoring
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
But if we start trying to have some possession again, to relieve our defence, we'll be facing deep-set defences, rather than ones quickly retreating from our half. So we'll need to employ a couple of lockpickers again
Dicko
Paul Stalteri
GHod I miss those days when we were dominating possession against some lesser sides, struggling to break through only for Eriksen to clip a first time ball into the box, finding one of Dele's sneaky runs at the far post!
Edit: Obviously there's downsides too. AVB had us dominating possession without any cutting edge for a while. Then towards the end, giving away soft goals on top!
Bedfordspurs
Chris Waddle
We haven’t been scoring goals ok the counter really
That’s the issue
We haven’t succeeded with any of the things conte set us up to do other than set pieces
Grays_1890
Barry Daines
Despite the usual Tottenham Hottakes critics of him, he clearly has alot of talent. No way I would be binning him off
Bullet
Colin Calderwood
Would be nice to loan him to a team better than Sevilla who are fighting for EL in Ger / IT / Spain e.g. 5th or 6th i.e. somewhere he should see significant game time, but not relegation zone.
As he matures we will learn more. So far he isn't quite putting up the numbers that excite me.
I've watched a bit of him, no question he has development to do still, but he makes a difference, he's always involved in the game, it's one of those where you (at least I do) feel like it's obvious there is something there.