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Eric Dear
Good luck to him, a Spurs fan from a proper Spurs family but I do think this is a good move for him. Him and Big Tommy Hudd are a decent CM pair.
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Jake Livermore
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Gazza Dazzla
Chris Perry
Exactly this. Henderson in another team would be very average again, as his performances for England prove IMO.
paxtonwolf
Tony Marchi
Good luck Jake, but its another home-grown player off the quota, we must be getting down to the minimum needed now with Defoe,Huddlestone,Caulker,Livermore,Parker and Jenas gone in recent times
There's no minimum, just a maximum of non-home grown.
paxtonwolf
Tony Marchi
I may have worded that wrong. I thought we had to have a certain amount of homegrown players in our matchday squad and I getting a bit worried we are starting to run low in that respect.
Rose,Fryers,Dawson,Walker,Naughton,Lennon,Townsend,Carroll (if not out on loan),Sigurddsson?Kane Any others?
Perhaps our summer transfer recruitment may have to bear this is mind?
Don't think that's been implemented in England yet. Will probably happen at some point though.
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Frederic Kanoute
Yes thinking about it, maybe a tad harsh. He IS capable of the odd intelligent through-ball tbf, as well as the occasional goal from mid. Still didn't see him ever having enough about him for a top-six footballing club like Tottenham though.
AberYid
Steven Caulker
No, I suppose not, assuming we're comparing him to Makelele, Pirlo, Gerrard or Lampard respectively. But he's a solid midfield player. Why do Spurs fans do this? We have a good player, but not someone who'll pull up trees, so we moan that he's not the best in the world and gladly see him go without giving a damn. He's Spurs through and through, did a decent job for us, and was never the worst player on the pitch. Classless (not you, AdamB, but a lot of Spurs fans in general)
Hully
Tony Parks
The rule is that you can only name 17 non-home grown players in your 25 man premier league squad. Meaning if you wish to have a full 25 man squad you have to name 7 home grown, but you can just have a smaller squad.
U21s don't get named in the squad, you can have as many of those as you like.
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
you could be talking about most of our midfielders there, except for the ones that aren't physical either
Nobody's comparing him to them - there's no need. Just compare him to our current midfield and he comes up very short.
The only sensible option is to sell him for as much as anyone will pay.
AberYid
Steven Caulker
You misunderstand my point (or it wasn't clear) I know we're not comparing him to those players, which is why it's ridiculous that people are saying he "doesn't pass particularly well" or "doesn't tackle particularly well" - he does both things pretty well. He's a very tidy midfield player, who will make probably 400 Premier League appearances for upper bottom half sides over the next 10, 12 years. Sure he's a Hull City, West Brom, Wigan, West Ham kind of player, but sometimes those players make it to clubs like Saudi Sportswashing Machine, Aston Villa and Everton (who are all reasonably decent sized clubs)for a season or two, and if that's what Jake ends up doing, I'll be more than happy to say he was a Spurs boy. He's a good player, we should try giving one of our own some credit.
This is actually the main purpose of the academy, to bring through players that can be sold for a nice profit.
If they show promise you give them a few games to increase their value and they're useful for padding out the squad, but players like King or even Carr, players that can actually hold down a first team place, are few and far between.
It's just that many become a bit over-excited about someone because they've come through OUR academy. As soon as someone starts getting overhyped, others (those that don't see what all the fuss is about) will turn to the other end of the scale to balance things out. It's how football works these days.
If they show promise you give them a few games to increase their value and they're useful for padding out the squad, but players like King or even Carr, players that can actually hold down a first team place, are few and far between.
It's just that many become a bit over-excited about someone because they've come through OUR academy. As soon as someone starts getting overhyped, others (those that don't see what all the fuss is about) will turn to the other end of the scale to balance things out. It's how football works these days.