He is awful when he has competition. If he feels like the most important person in the world, he plays well, if he feels like he might not get in the team, he plays really really badly, he's gone on record multiple times saying he's glad he doesn't have to compete for his place at Spurs because it allows him to play his game without worrying about added pressure.
We need someone that can play in his position, but if it's someone that might actually push him out of the team, his form would drop. If it was just someone like Shane Long then Ade would be fine, because he knows Shane Long isn't going to push him out of the team.
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Completely disagree. Firstly, they were time wasting and that sort of cheating is actually against the rules, as opposed to a drop ball, which by nature is designed to be contested... Secondly, the ref and his assistants were responsible for them having a goal they shouldn't have had and had denied us a goal that had nothing wrong with it... Thirdly, it was so late into the match that it wasn't a case of us having 90 minutes to score, we're trying to win the league, risking a draw instead of a win because "we're nice people" is departed.
I would take 1-0 in every single game in the rest of the season and every goal could be a penalty of the Howard Webb foot kicking the ground style and I would take that right now.
We've been nice guys for ages and that has got us nowhere, I'm totally ok with joining the Sky 4 as "people who gets points they wouldn't get if they were nice"... Emirates Marketing Project are the only ones that haven't been cheating bastards for years.
I seriously am not about to be happy with accepting a draw at home against Wolves after the ref has given us a 2 goal handicap because "it was the right thing to do"... If that'd have gone in and been allowed instead of Ade being given a foul against for doing nothing, the ref still would have owed us a goal....
To be honest, we did score (after the whistle) and Ade didn't do anything to give them a free kick, so maybe I should credit the ref for giving them a 3rd goal advantage because if he didn't give that free kick, we'd have scored.
I'm not about to be an underdog in the title race and wish away the points we didn't deserve. We are missing 7 points that we should have because the officials suck, aside from the Fulham game, I can't think of any points we have that we clearly had a wrong decision go our way for. (The Walker handball.) The Cahill thing wouldn't have changed the match.
If someone gave you the title right now, would you gamble it for the chance to win it with style, class and flair?
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On to Ade.
He's not Defoe. Defoe is only ever in the team to score goals. If Defoe touches the ball once and scores with that touch, he's done his job.
Goals are a bonus with Ade, he's not in the team for goals alone. He's much much much better than Heskey, Zamora, Crouch and co, but those are all strikers that could have a season with 5 league goals and no one would bat an eyelid.
Friedel doesn't have to score goals, the wing backs probably only have 1 goal per season expected between them, the CBs probably have 4 goals per season expected from them, the RM has maybe 5 goals per season hoped for, the CMs have 2 goals per season if they are DMs. Hudds and Modric are slightly more attacking CMs but still aren't extremely attacking, so maybe 5 goals per season from that position... LM is Bale, we expect more goals from him than we usually would another left sided player, if we had Downing and were forced to play him every game, we'd probably hope for 2 goals, but as we have Bale, we hope for 10-15... Next up comes VDV's position.... He's in the team to help us score... That's his purpose. He needs to score a lot of goals and he needs to create a lot of goals, his passing ability/vision makes that type of player the ideal player for us to take the last spot on the team sheet... We need about 15 goals from him per season. Defoe, he's in the team for goals and goals alone. He isn't going to create that much (unless people score rebounds), so he needs pure goals as his assists aren't going to rival VDV or Ade, so we need 20-25 goals from him (if we were to play the entire season.)
Ade's role... He allows us to play with 5 midfielders. He has more to do than the vast majority of players, I'm not going to list everything he has to do because it would take paragraphs and paragraphs... Goals are a bonus with this type of player, because we don't have a Lampard or a Gerrard. We probably need him to score about as much as Bale, 10-15. We only expect this because he's Ade and Ade scores goals. But the goals are just a bonus, if Zamora played exactly like Ade but didn't score a goal all season, Harry would sign him as cover for Ade without question.
The only person in our team that is only there to score goals is Defoe, he doesn't actually get into the team that often because VDV pushes him out of it... If VDV plays instead of Defoe, he's the one we expect to score. He started off really well this season, but he hasn't scored for a few games, it's unfortunate... He still gets assists and is one of our best players without scoring, but due to having a team without someone purely there to score goals, VDV is the one expected to score the goals for us.
All you guys that want a striker that can play up front on his own, hold the ball up, link up play, make intelligent runs, be extremely strong, good in the air, score 50 goals a season and chase the team for 90 minutes, just stop... There is not one striker in the entire world that can do everything that you want and if there were, we wouldn't be able to afford his wages.
