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Anyway....Happy Birthday for today Dele
Happy Birthday to Dele,
Happy Birthday to me,
Happy Birthday to Dele,
Happy Birthday to me,
FFS Dele.
Anyway....Happy Birthday for today Dele
There plenty of instances of players with broken wrists playing with a lightweight plastic cast ........ on their wrists!!
Happy Birthday to Dele,
Happy Birthday to me,
Happy Birthday to Dele,
Happy Birthday to me,
FFS Dele.
Sadly I am not a doctor of medicine, merely a doctor of bullshitery.
Interesting time for him with Spurs and England and exactly where he fits into the formation. Wonder whether he may be looking at now having to play a deeper role for club and country especially if we strengthen in attacking areas.
I agree. Furthermore he just takes too long on the ball if he plays deep and gets dispossessed. Those skills against city would have made him look very foolish if they didn't come off.Hope not. His attacking ability (ala Frank Lampard) is the best asset of his game.
We need to get him back into the position where his late arrivals into the box etc can be properly utilised.
Doing anything else with him is, in my opinion, a, waste of his natural talent.
Onions.
I agree. Furthermore he just takes too long on the ball if he plays deep and gets dispossessed. Those skills against city would have made him look very foolish if they didn't come off.
I don't think it's a fitness issue, he's been off the boil for over a year now. I think the issue is that he doesn't really have much of a football brain. Whilst the likes of Gerrard, Lampard Fabregas Modric etc were/are constantly aware of what's around them and know what to do with the ball before they've even received the ball, Dele hasn't shown he has that sort of awareness recently. He's more than capable of playing one or two touch football and moving into space, he's done it before. I honestly believe it's an issue with his application due to having such a meteoric rise at such an early age. He hasn't had to graft for it. The argument that he should be playing further up the pitch is a valid one but unless we only play that system for the foreseeable future then Dele is going to find himself on the bench because he can't be trusted with the ball.