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Player watch: Christian Eriksen

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Primativ

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Paolo10 said:
Poor all season is 12 assists in all competitions (2nd in the Premier League after Hazard) and 7 goals?
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His end product has been mostly on par with his usual self, but seriously, do people just sit and watch games and think it's acceptable for a player like Eriksen to miss control lose balls, dwell on the ball, over/under hit passes and basically be crap in his all round game and frustrate our attacks, but because he scores a goal from 25 yards or does one amazing pass, it makes it alright?

It doesn't sit right with me. Eriksen is brilliant on his day because he can score and assist, as well as do all the basic stuff right too.

I'd be amazed if Poch is sitting there on the touchline and thinking Eriksen is playing well for the past few months, regardless of his stats.

For me it's entirely a concentration / mental thing.
 
cider spurs

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Seems plenty posts of late declaring Eriksen has been below par for most parts of the season.

So I put it to you, on current form would you want him to sign a new contract. Bearing in mind he's supposedly so crap he's just achieved his 10th assist for the 4th consecutive season.

Has form dipped, yep. Would I be gutted if the club lost a player who has 40+ assists in the past 4 seasons.

Feck Yeah.
 
thebenjamin

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To me it's not surprising that having barely had a rest in years, and having had to play much of this season out of position in a deeper role given our paucity of CM options, to find he's suffering a dip in form. Especially given the demise of Dembele and the lack of a DM for most of this season has meant we have so much less quality possession and he's getting the ball much deeper than where he does his best work.
 
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cider spurs said:
Seems plenty posts of late declaring Eriksen has been below par for most parts of the season.

So I put it to you, on current form would you want him to sign a new contract. Bearing in mind he's supposedly so crap he's just achieved his 10th assist for the 4th consecutive season.

Has form dipped, yep. Would I be gutted if the club lost a player who has 40+ assists in the past 4 seasons.

Feck Yeah.
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Simple answer really.

If he actually wants to be at the club, of course we'd like him to sign a new contract.

If he doesn't want to be here & would prefer to be elsewhere, he can jog on.

That goes for literally any player.
 
Haddock

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Every player bar Sissoko and Winks have played under their own standard this season. The aforementioned have actually improved immensely.

My point is that our whole team has taken a huge step backwards this season. Our defence is error prone, our midfielders are constantly over run and our attacking play lacks urgency and composure.

This is not in defence of Eriksen - he hasn't looked himself for months, similarly to the majority of Spurs players. I just don't understand how we can have 10+ new pages in the Eriksen thread after every match, including various knee jerks reactions towards him specifically in the match threads.

All while the rest of the players on the pitch gets a hall pass and a pat on the back.
 
Gassin's finest

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coopsieyid said:
Mate, he's capable of more & can play MUCH better than he has this season.

That's all (most) people are getting at.
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His best return is just 3 goals and 5 assists more, and he's played 15 games less thus far.

But of course, its not all about headline stats, it's about the all round play. And in a deeper 3 man midfield position, his role is about ball retention, distribution and pressing. Which he does every game. Modric rarely got more than marginal assist/goal stats but he was one of the best at that role. It's not a pivot, it's not a hook, it's a playmaker... as Xavi would put it "I get the ball, I give the ball, I get the ball, I give the ball..."

The fact that he's a fine playmaker, but really a superb hook, is testament to his importance.
 
cider spurs

cider spurs

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coopsieyid said:
Simple answer really.

If he actually wants to be at the club, of course we'd like him to sign a new contract.

If he doesn't want to be here & would prefer to be elsewhere, he can jog on.

That goes for literally any player.
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That's the point this "we'd" you talk of, some are giving the impression that on this seasons performance they'd happily let him go.

What if he wanted to stay, would they still want shot of him, because a few can't seem to appreciate the good, focusing solely on his dip in form.

Who knows, the dip might coincide with him having designs on a move elsewhere, but I for one would not want him sold based on a dip in form this season alone.
 
aliyid

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I'm of the view that his current supposed 'dip' is due to the disruption in the rest of the midfield moving on as he's not getting into the same kind of positions at the moment and is generally receiving 'safe' balls so having to create chances for himself rather than previously when Dembele would drag two midfielders towards him and open up space for the others.

As for the question of would we want him to sign a new contract... of course we would, he's one of the top players in his position in the league (behind De Bruyne, Hazard and Silva) any replacement we sign will be a downgrade as all players at his level will only want to sign for Barca, Madrid or PSG.
 
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JimmyG2 said:
Don't get snooty with me pal.
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because it's valid whoever said it.

Wind your neck in.
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Well it certainly wasnt Arnold Palmer was it !!!!
 
Haddock

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Happy for him. Really looked like he enjoyed the atmosphere.

Match thread was comedy gold tonight. Average SC poster: "Eriksen is a liability take him off now!!!" ---> Eriksen assists and scores and had some fantastic overall play.
 
Tucker

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Eriksen was good in places bad in others. Much better than he has been lately though. Hopefully the goal helps him kick on.
 
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