- Dec 9, 2006
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Paolo is right that Aurier is getting away far too easily from scrutiny. I do suspect that with some it's that with all the fanfare to his signing they're desperately hoping not to be proved wrong, but I digress......
This season he's a couple of fairly solid games (that still had some big question marks as to what he did at various stages) alongside one or two of his headless chicken ones. He's clearly got some ability and maybe he is on the cusp of his top form and we see the player we thought we were getting, as a Spurs fan I fucking hope so, but I think the evidence is being overblown. Last night again he was all over the place for the first 25 minutes, and he looked as suspect throughout as the rookie on the other flank did, if not more so in some aspects.
Aurier got a LOT of stick last season, especially about his naff throw ins so he hasn’t gotten away with anything.
It’s just that prior to his injury he’d actually had a couple of good games (which may be down to him actually having a proper pre-season with us).
I’ve seen plenty of people on here questioning why we signed him and advocating keeping Trippier / KWP as our right backs.
But the argument at moment is that KWP and Aurier perhaps show more promise and could be improved further, whereas Trippier seems to have reached his ceiling and isn’t quite what we need now when looking to step up even further.