Illarramendi

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comment by Greatteamswinit4times- a terrible enemy (U6008)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by oteoi (U15653)
posted 4 minutes ago
No real loss. A neat and tidy player but not really what we need at the moment. Still a guy who would need a more physically imposing / defensively minded player alongside him.
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In some games, yes. Certainly not all the time then. He is someone that can dictate play and his positioning means that he doesn't need to make tackles. I think he would have fitted Spurs perfectly, they have missed someone since Modric left. And whilst he isn't in Modric's class, he would have been a step up on what Spurs have.
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Again, he's solid in possession, rarely loses it, etc, but you are considerably overestimating his creativity, and his ability to get involved further up the pitch, if you feel he's a solution to the absence of Modric.

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comment by Greatteamswinit4times- a terrible enemy (U6008)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by oteoi (U15653)
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comment by Greatteamswinit4times- a terrible enemy (U6008)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by oteoi (U15653)
posted 4 minutes ago
No real loss. A neat and tidy player but not really what we need at the moment. Still a guy who would need a more physically imposing / defensively minded player alongside him.
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In some games, yes. Certainly not all the time then. He is someone that can dictate play and his positioning means that he doesn't need to make tackles. I think he would have fitted Spurs perfectly, they have missed someone since Modric left. And whilst he isn't in Modric's class, he would have been a step up on what Spurs have.
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Again, he's solid in possession, rarely loses it, etc, but you are considerably overestimating his creativity, and his ability to get involved further up the pitch, if you feel he's a solution to the absence of Modric.
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I clearly said dictating play. Which is what he does.
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You said he would have provided what Spurs have missed since Modric left, which he wouldn't have done.

He isn't agile or strong enough to be the more defensive of two CMs, nor creative/attack-minded enough to provide us what we would have needed from him in the more offensive role.

As Balague reported, we were never seriously interested, and I'm not really surprised at that.

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They are two completely different players.

Modric was far more active out of possession than Illarramendi has ever been. He was always on the move, always seeking little pockets of space in which to receive the ball and link with others. He tied our play together from inside our own half forward into the final third.

Illarramendi, in contrast, is a more sedentary player, doing most of his work in much deeper areas than Modric and rarely moving forward to join in higher up the pitch. He performed disastrously when given a Modric-like brief for Madrid a couple of times last season.

He really would not have been a solution to some of the problems we've seen since Modric's departure.

Anyway, irrelevent as we're not signing him gents <OK>

Guess we're back on Wanyama?

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comment by ®åρtor✡ (U1071)
posted 1 hour, 39 minutes ago

Lets agree to disagree pal.

I love you
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That's nice. I like being loved.

Although not physically.

I mean, a hug's ok I suppose but nothing else.