Romero, from what I have seen, is a fairly good ball-playing CB. Watching Villarreal tonight and Pau Torres played the most amazing ball out of defence to start a counter attack. Romero can do that for us. He has to play. Sanchez, Dier, Tanganga are not footballing CBs. This puts more pressure on our midfield having to receive slow/dodgy/poor passes from CBs.
Rumours had us in for Pau Torres in the summer, but he said no as he was more ambitious than our current level. Shame, him and Romero would have been a brilliant partnership, one which would have enabled us to properly build up play from the back.
Our play is slow as Lloris' passing and our CBs passing is shiiite. The other players don't trust them in possession of the ball, it seems. Having competent ball-playing CBs gives a team such a boost. Verts and Toby had good passing abilities.
There is no fix until, possibly, the January transfer window, so Nuno will just have to make do until then.
My support for spurs will never waiver, but my passion has. This is a big crossroads season for our team. 😔
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posted on 29/9/21
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posted on 29/9/21
I rate Pau Torres but have my suspicions on how well he would transition to the PL. If we weren’t going to bring him in as a RB we really should have gone for Tomiyasu as a second CB and feel we will live to regret that. Also surprised we never tried for Sven Botman who is affordable and an excellent player.
posted on 29/9/21
Totally agree, you can`t have lumbering carthorses such as Dier and Sanchez as your main centre backs, they both struggle to pass wind, never mind a football. As well as both being error prone and well, you see the results.
This is why most teams press us high, they know it is the way to win the ball back cheaply, because neither of those two are good enough with the ball and will give it away or pass it around in their own half.
Pau Torres would have been available if we were prepared to make it happen, everybody has a price and I am sure we could offer him way more wages than Villarreal.
The problem is Levy and ENIC are cheap skates who want every player at a knock down price, they are not prepared to push the boat out, ever, they won`t even spend next years budget a year early to get the players we need.
You get what you pay for, buy cheap and you buy twice.
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posted on 29/9/21
comment by Tarrico_sees_red (U5595)
posted 29 minutes ago
Not one of our summer signings started on Sunday.
Let that sink in. We went into a NL Derby with the same shower we’ve watched for god knows how long.
Romero is now off for a jolly with Lo Celso to South America
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Pure jokes..our season doesn't start until after second international break. We do this all the time with new signings...
posted on 29/9/21
comment by Ace (U22467)
posted 56 minutes ago
No point having good ball playing CBs if the manger is just instructing them to hoof long balls up the other end.
It’s a position we need to massively overhaul. To go from peak Toby/Jan, to clowns like Dier and Sanchez is a joke. Romero needs to be integrated ASAP. Then we need to sell Dier and Sanchez and recruit some quality. I’m not sold on Tanganga as a CB. He’s not the biggest, and he seems to lose his head under pressure. Red card vs Palace, lucky not have had another vs City.
Would like to see more of Romero and Rodon, less of Dier and Sanchez. Early indications are that we facked up flirting with Tomiyasu all summer only to go for Royal instead.
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Dier and Sanchez are slow in the brain. They never release the ball forward quickly. The dwell to there's no option but to play hoofball somewhere in a Kanes postal code. They've been doing this for years are never going to change.
We will never top running or passing charts if we don't use the midfield and play the ball along the ground.
Plus why are we so dumb at switching play. When you are on 100k a week you don't need Nuno to coach you to switch wings if the space isn't there.
posted on 30/9/21
comment by Tarrico_sees_red (U5595)
posted 2 hours, 5 minutes ago
Not one of our summer signings started on Sunday.
Let that sink in. We went into a NL Derby with the same shower we’ve watched for god knows how long.
Romero is now off for a jolly with Lo Celso to South America
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This. The same bunch of losers have been playing every week and we wonder why we struggle ? To top it off, we have the bearded Mourinho . F** off Spurs!!!
posted on 30/9/21
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by Tarrico_sees_red (U5595)
posted 2 hours, 5 minutes ago
Not one of our summer signings started on Sunday.
Let that sink in. We went into a NL Derby with the same shower we’ve watched for god knows how long.
Romero is now off for a jolly with Lo Celso to South America
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This. The same bunch of losers have been playing every week and we wonder why we struggle ? To top it off, we have the bearded Mourinho . F** off Spurs!!!
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I would actually play everyone that started against Arsenal in the UECL apart from Son and maybe Kane. Against Leicester play a new hungry line up with a better formation.
posted on 30/9/21
*villa
posted on 30/9/21
comment by Ioavirgo (U10470)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by Tarrico_sees_red (U5595)
posted 2 hours, 5 minutes ago
Not one of our summer signings started on Sunday.
Let that sink in. We went into a NL Derby with the same shower we’ve watched for god knows how long.
Romero is now off for a jolly with Lo Celso to South America
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This. The same bunch of losers have been playing every week and we wonder why we struggle ? To top it off, we have the bearded Mourinho . F** off Spurs!!!
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I would actually play everyone that started against Arsenal in the UECL apart from Son and maybe Kane. Against Leicester play a new hungry line up with a better formation.
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Same. I am so sick of the same old losers. Sanchez, Dier should be nowhere near the 1st team. Wouldn’t be starting Lucas either. A great squad player, but not good enough to be starting weekly. I’m that pi** off with most of them, I’d be happy to just throw Scarlett in there. Can he be worse than Bergwijn or Lucas ? Go for a front 4 of Scarlett, Kane, Son and Gil. Mixture of youth and experience