Spurs Banter Archive December 22 2012

 

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22 Dec 2012 23:37:59
I'm sorry to say our squad is stale... This is a give and take 6 year squad... With quality leaving and being replaced with expensive average players...can't blame Avb at all at the moment he trying to shuffle thing round to make it work... We have a guaranteed 1st 11 with no competition for places...we were looking for a goal today and he could only bring on sigs and Parker.... Time to shake things up
Mr g

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He could also do with dropping Defoe and playing siggs and Ade up top. In ways he has to take 90% of the blame.
When someone plays Dempsey who constantly puts in a poor performance and doesn't get dropped then there some questions that need to be asked.....clint Dempsey has one goal more the siggy who has only played a 1/4 of what clint has...........
Jermain.

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How many times, a soon as someone else comes in siggs will be out the door, he's useless man! It's proven by him never getting in the starting 11! Fact

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22 Dec 2012 21:47:59
Well done Daniel Levy you genius! Not buying strikers when we have needed them has cost us big. The irony is that you saving £s has seen us come short and had you spent those £s you would of made a whole lot more £s on top. Not so clever are you Levy.

Carry on buying **** like Dempsey why not hey and Defoe is rubbish and Adebayor is lazy

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I can't understand why AVB keeps on giving Defoe 90 mins every single game when he does absolutely Fu** all. He may have 12 goals in all competitions but he also kills the majority of our attacking football with his reckless 30 yard shooting. Ade hasn't been great but he offers so much more then Defoe does and a combination of ade and siggy could be deadly. I'm getting sick and tired of avb's love affair with defoe and dempsey. Hopefully Levy sees this and has a little word with Avb.

In levy we trust. Go get us Cavani and moutinho pleaseeeeeeeee! :).

Jermain

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Not sure what options we have in the squad currently, that are fit, who,would be an upgrade. Some seemingly unproven youngsters but they all need further develoment to be capable in a "Top 4" type team/squad.

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Levy has failed us time and time again. He has let all our strikers leave and failed to replace them.

Keane -out
Crouchy - out
Pavy - out

Ade season loan then bought on the cheap.

Why is it so hard to see that we drastically need a top quality striker?

Levy! Ffs sign us a world class striker.

It won't be long before Defoe loses his form again and sometimes gets marked out of the game to easily and Ade has forgotten where the box and the goal is and ends up playing a holding midfield role instead of a striker.

Mk1 {Ed039's Note - I just want to point out that the only reason Adebayor was bought on the cheap was to ensure that his wages were not an issue and so City could get rid of him)

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Exactly. City doesn't want him. Tbh I didn't want him at spurs either. He done well last season on loan but we all knew that as soon as he got his contract that the goals would dry up and he'd stop playing football.

I really don't think Ade was ever the solution to our problem. We need a striker that can convert the many chances we have made and Ade doesn't do that. Defoe can be lethal at times but is easily marked out of games and then resorts to long range "hit and hope" shots and too many times gets blinkered when he has the ball and attempts a long range shot rather than pass to someone else in a better position.

We need a goal scorer that has a hunger for goals but can also finish the many chances that are created from Bale and Lennon crosses as so many are wasted.

With one world class striker and some creativity in midfield (maybe a cheeky bid for a baines type player at left back I think we would hold a strong enough team to push for top 3 maybe even top 2 on a lucky streak.

Mk1

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22 Dec 2012 21:38:54
True say but what can Avb say... I want better players but the board won't pay up?? No!! He has to say that... Which tells me funds are not made available and and clubs wants premiums for players in jan.... Lets hope we are wrong... But similar patterns happening at the lane on and off the pitch
Mr g

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22 Dec 2012 19:10:09
For those who watches spurs at the ground or on tv... We are always better when we play with pace from the 1st minute... But we can't seem to get that into the players b4 the game......can't remember when we have finished a team of b4 half time......
Mr g on a roll

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22 Dec 2012 17:19:13
I'm not going to have a pop but playing a team like stoke who are stubborn to breakdown we need a bit of class who can get a goal out of nothing... Just got a feeling we will be linked with everyone over January and find out in feb that we were a couple of million away from signing the star we want... Ring a bell chaps.....
Mr g

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Only just found out result but havent we been looking for a star striker for the last 3 years . No disrepect to Stoke , but shouldnt we be beating teams like this . Year after year , we all know that the one thing we need is a striker , but tight arse puts paid to that . There are bargains out there , if we had a scouting system , look at Benteke , but if we had gone in for him tight arse would have only offered half what was wanted !
Davo

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Fully agree. Stoke are tough, dogged and will kick lumps out of you but we knew this and yet we could not open them up! We have accumulated 3 points from our four home games with Stoke/Norwich/Wigan and W Brom. We are incapable of beating teams who come to defend. Our last three games resulted in us scoring just 2 goals. One of these was a deflection (Against Everton) and the other was scored by a defender ( Vert against the swans) our strikers are not performing. I know Defoe has scored a lot of goals this year but he misses dozens of chances and he is blinkered to a better placed colleague. We need a creative midfielder, Moutinho or Ericksson. I sincerely hope we get one of them, otherwise I just can not see us getting in to the top four.
The Don

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A follow on from my previous post... We are to predictable... Ball out to Lennon or the more dangerous bale.... Which today decided to play on opposite wings and try and cut in..... Too predictable for the last few years now.... Just need a sparkle or a star at the top of the tree....adi is not the adi of last season so that is telling u something and Defoe was lost and out battles today..... Villa even on loan could be the star... I know his age but he is class or anyone of that caliber
Nothing on the bench to come on and spice it up
Mr g

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Good post Mr G , and that is a big worry . If we cant open up defences we dont have anyone on the bench who can come on and do that . We must give AVB his due , a lot of us wanted him to try 4-4-2 to be more attacking and he is . But he can only work with what he has and what he has isnt good enough . Ade isnt good enough , doesnt bully the defenders like you would expect someone his size to do , comes to deep , goes to wide , not in the box enough to finish chances ! JD has proved me wrong this year but is he superstar talent ? Very much like Michael Owen , head down , go for goal whatever ! Yes it works sometimes , but it doesnt work a lot more . 20 shots on goal against Swansea , and the only score from a defender ! Today it seems that we hardly had a chance that mattered , wasnt there but thats what the write ups seem to say ! How long will Bale put up with it before he says enough is enough ? I know that we are joint third at the mo , but there are only 5 points between us and Norwich who are tenth . Once again we are in dire need of a proven goalscorer , and if you read into AVB's comments , then it looks as if he is satisfied with what we have got and that really worries me !!
Davo

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22 Dec 2012 17:04:19
NEW STRIKER(S) NEEDED. We all (if you dont your blind or stupid) know this but Levy and Avb seem to think different, DOH!!!!!!

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22 Dec 2012 16:50:47
Adebayor was a donkey today, sigg should play more

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