Major reasons why Paulinho could not adapt to the Premier League

[mawspurs]

As Tottenham Hotspur say goodbye to their forgotten man for a seemingly generous £9.8 million fee, we look back at his troubled times in English soccer.

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[tommyt]

A half thought out gamble that wholly did not work out...

 

[Spurger King]

Because he was just a bit crap at everything?

 

[bigspurs]

Bad timing all round really. Not exactly his fault that we changed managers and the system etc. But then I also think that a truly good player, with ambition to succeed will make it happen for himself at some point over the two seasons.

 

[garryparkerschest]

A half thought out gamble that wholly did not work out...

A player who had played in Europe before and struggled so what do we go and do?

Spend potentially 17 million to see him struggle again!!

That would be a very simplistic view on it.

He did come here on the back of a very good Confederations Cup, was one of a very few players that AVB hand picked.

A box to box player with an eye for a goal full of confidence after having a very good 2 years in the Brazilian League.

It was a shame he couldn't acclimatised to the physicality of the league and as time went on his confidence faded, without it he just became an average midfielder as his technique wasn't one that you would traditionally associate with a Brazilian.,

I feel the path he has taken with his latest move says everything about him as a player.

 

[greywizard2020]

Paulinho looked decent in the Confederations Cup, which gave me the feeling that we had a decent player on our hands, however that has not been the case.

Paulinho has largely been average at best & if the recent mentions of his professionalism have been anything to go by, then it's no wonder he failed. I can't help but feel, with the execeptions of Eriksen & Chadli, that we have been conned & woefully misled.

 

[tommyt]

Because he was just a bit crap at everything?

Unfortunately, yes. The new Lampard my ass.

 

[whitesocks]

I think we could have seen a much better paulinho this coming season, after he finally managed to get a summer break.

 

[Rout-Ledge]

I think we could have seen a much better paulinho this coming season, after he finally managed to get a summer break.

Excuses excuses.

I could count on one hand the number of good games he had for us. He has talent but any player with the potential to make it in the PL would have demonstrated more than Paulinho has up to this point.

We are very lucky to receive £10m for a player who is arguably worth less than half of that after two woeful seasons.

 

[schmooveboy]

I think we could have seen a much better paulinho this coming season, after he finally managed to get a summer break.

I do sort of wonder if he would've had a Chadli type second season (who in his first season I thought was terrible) if he hadn't been part of a Brazil team that took such a spanking on home soil when the pressure was on them.

 

[willy white wonka]

To be fair he looked quite useful in his first season and bagged a few handy goals, but he seemed to be upset by the managerial changes forced on us by Levy doing his Apprentice impression "you're fired", and never really settled down again after that. Possibly if he'd gone to a settled team rather than one in constant transition then he'd of continued his early form and even improved. There again he might just have been a lazy mercenary - who knows ?

 

[dannyhoddle]

All the Paulinho apologists still saying he was tired and needed a break. If he was tired we would have at least got a good 45 minutes out of him each game before subbing him. He certainly got plenty of rest on the bench over the last couple of seasons. Unfortunately it's much simpler and has more to do with a lack of pace, desire and skill.

 

[eViL]

he seemed to be upset by the managerial changes forced on us by Levy doing his Apprentice impression "you're fired"

Because all the fans wanted AVB to stay obviously.

 

[Shirtfront]

In his first season he actually played well enough to have some on here calling him the best midfielder in the EPL. That was always nonsense; but he did play pretty well in bursts.

I think, ultimately though, if you are picked up in the third division in Brazil, having had to play in Lithuania at 18, you probably are just not that good. In the modern era, the football market is entirely efficient. If someone looks to have beaten the odds and burst on the scene otherwise unidentified previously by scouts, academies and so on....then the chances are it is a bit of a fluke. There is nearly always something wrong.

In Paulinho's case...well he just isn't that good at anything.

 

[Buggsy61]

Watching Paulinho I could never see what he actually did, or what he actually excelled at. Guess that says it all really, and being bombed out to the Chinese League at 26 speaks volumes too. Levy did very well getiing £10m back for him as he could easily have ended up as another Gomes, loafing about and collecting the salary each month.

 

[willy white wonka]

Because all the fans wanted AVB to stay obviously.

Not all the fans wanted anything,

Because all the fans wanted AVB to stay obviously.

We got closer to top 4 under AVB than we have since - just to state a fact. Don't think it's as simple as "all the fans" wanted this or that. A lot of fans are very fickle and sometimes that just leads to constant transition which achieves nothing except putting us further behind the top 4 each time we sack a manager. Levy just needs to give a manager a chance and not listen to some fans who think that sacking a manager and appointing another one will lead to utopia - that's just a reflection of today's throwaway society and is self defeating. I bet at the end of next season if we don't achieve something concrete certain fans will be moaning about Poch too.

 

[avonspurs]

Not all the fans wanted anything,

We got closer to top 4 under AVB than we have since - just to state a fact. Don't think it's as simple as "all the fans" wanted this or that. A lot of fans are very fickle and sometimes that just leads to constant transition which achieves nothing except putting us further behind the top 4 each time we sack a manager. Levy just needs to give a manager a chance and not listen to some fans who think that sacking a manager and appointing another one will lead to utopia - that's just a reflection of today's throwaway society and is self defeating. I bet at the end of next season if we don't achieve something concrete certain fans will be moaning about Poch too.

Have you not been reading this forum much over the last season? Some are already doing that

 

[Shea]

I personally think avb was backed with some of the incoming bale money and insisted on targets such as Soldado and Paulinho after feeling he was not backed the season before and still achieving a good points total and league finish

I think the poor choice of player selected and money poured down the toilet was a big factor in levy sacking him

There was a lot of substandard shit bought that summer for inflated prices and no doubt wages - I think we're still a little bit crippled in th3 market place due to it until we can off load them and ade

Thankfully some kids stepped up and seeing one of disappointig signings actually be sold is great news

Hopefully we can somehow shift ade, Soldado and Chiriches too in the near future

 

[willy white wonka]

Have you not been reading this forum much over the last season? Some are already doing that

LOL no I'm fairly new, sad state of affairs...

 

[coysjod]

I think we could have seen a much better fatter paulinho this coming season, after he finally managed to get a summer break.

There you go, no need to thank me.