Rodrigo Bentancur

[braineclipse]

Carrick made his england debut in 2001, we didn't buy him till 2004. He didn't break through with us.

IIRC he was highly rated and in the PL with West Ham doing well. But then spent a season in the Championship with them before joining us.

Perhaps break through is the wrong word. But playing consistently at a high level and in that deepest role imo happened when he joined us. That's when he showed what a wonderful "6"he could be. Impossible to know for sure, but I doubt he was ready for that kind of role at 19/20.

 

[Finney Is Back]

Why buy an expensive senior DM to block his pathway then? Bearing in mind we'll also only have 40 games next season.

We're going out of both domestic Cups in the first game that we play in them? Interesting!

 

[Finney Is Back]

That's RWF by a mile. So someone like Sane?

You've not even really seen Gray playing CM for us.

 

[Lilbaz]

You've not even really seen Gray playing CM for us.

He played mostly as rb at leeds. So don't know how anyone can judge how good he'd be as a dm.

 

[monkeybarry]

I presume Spurs are tracking all the top semi-defensive-midfielders around e.g. Joao Gomes, Ederson, the young Swede at Frankfurt called Hugo Larsson etc.
I say semi-defensive because I think Ange doesn't want a pure destroyer, he wants someone that can also play a bit.


PS - nobody will play all 60 games each year if we do really well, so we need to consider it an addition to the SQUAD, not just one first teamer that will always be there

PPS - When is the ACN, when Biss and Sarr disappear for a while together?

Any random Saturday?

 

[Bullet]

Any random Saturday?

Ha. I'll answer my own question. The ACN25 is from 21Dec25 to 18Jan26 so that will be the real crunch point of the busiest part of the season when we lose both Biss and Sarr for several weeks (plus malaria / injury) so there is a high chance Biss will be sold to mitigate that.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Ha. I'll answer my own question. The ACN25 is from 21Dec25 to 18Jan26 so that will be the real crunch point of the busiest part of the season when we lose both Biss and Sarr for several weeks (plus malaria / injury) so there is a high chance Biss will be sold to mitigate that.

And his historical misdemeanours with the laughing gas

 

[elltrev]

Thought Bentancur was very good tonight. Personally I think he’s just right to rotate with Gray if and when we ease him into midfield.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Thought Bentancur was very good tonight. Personally I think he’s just right to rotate with Gray if and when we ease him into midfield.

I thought he had a good game too

 

[braineclipse]

Thought Bentancur was very good tonight. Personally I think he’s just right to rotate with Gray if and when we ease him into midfield.

One of his better games as a 6 for us. Have been hoping that he'd grow into that role, then losing some of that hope. But this was an encouraging performance.

In form and in flow Bentancur is a wonderful player. Hope we get more of that this season.

 

[parklane1]

One of his better games as a 6 for us. Have been hoping that he'd grow into that role, then losing some of that hope. But this was an encouraging performance.

In form and in flow Bentancur is a wonderful player. Hope we get more of that this season.

I believe if he can stay injury free and not get stupid suspensions we will see him turn into a VERY good player for us. He has the ability to do so.

 

[Raziel]

One of his better games as a 6 for us. Have been hoping that he'd grow into that role, then losing some of that hope. But this was an encouraging performance.

In form and in flow Bentancur is a wonderful player. Hope we get more of that this season.

People forget what a monster he was in Conte's awful 2 man midfield.

Hopefully he gets back to speed now (post injury) and close to what he was then.