Player watch: Christian Eriksen

[doctor stefan Freud]

Freddie Mercury's dead? They kept that quiet.

The bastards

 

[Living Legend Colm G]

At a swingers’ party in Bromley with the ghost of Freddie Mercury presiding over events

Have you gone all ITK on us doc? This sounds like a cryptic for Eriksen wanting Barcelona instead

 

[stormfly]

Let’s just sign Pogba to really put the cat amongst the pigeons.

 

[Joeyboey]

Eriksen has been such a hugely influential player since joining. When he plays well we play well. It’s as simple as that. However we have been overly reliant on him to make us tick for too long now and therefor become predictable as a result.

I can’t say I’ve ever gone into a game vs City or Arsenal for example, one of the bigs ones and thought ‘Eriksens going to boss this’, it’s always been more ‘god i hope he turns up’.

I’m excited to see how we set up without him and with a midfield who are set up to carry the ball just as much as pass with Ndombele and hopefully GLC.

Eriksen leaving will no doubt be painful and a loss but long term it will force is to change our approach and the way we play. It’s hard not to look at Coutinho leaving Liverpool as inspiration and see how they became better and more of a team without him.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

I actually think we’ll be fine without him, it will just be a different blend. A front 6 of:

Winks Ndombele
Lucas Dele Son
Kane
​

Could be devastating with all players in sync and on form. I say this as someone who clearly rates the hell out of Eriksen.

 

[TwanYid]

I thought Eriksen would be more of a Modric replacement ie good passer, good technician and disciplined so playing slightly deeper for Real Madrid than he does for us.. Pogba is a box to box player they do not do the same thing in my view and they could probably play together..

Ignoring the fact that there is simply no financial way Real Madrid would/will buy both players, I respectfully disagree (in one way) with your post (even in theory). First, however, let me point out that you are indeed correct in that they (Eriksen and Pogba) could- if paired- play together. I honestly think Eriksen could “play together” with just about anyone. So yeah, true- that would work.

However, again- notwithstanding the fact that at least for now they won’t both be purchased simultaneously- I don’t see Eriksen fitting in there a la Luka Modric, and the reason isn’t down to ability- it’s down to heart.

Modric is a fighter. Yes he’s slight and no he isn’t Roy Keane- but he does get stuck in both with and without the ball. He is tidy- but at the same time he has this warrior spirit that basically all Real Madrid players have to have in order to make it there. Eriksen has the talent to play there- and even play alongside Pogba if that somehow came to pass- but he lacks the heart. He doesn’t have that constant killer instinct; rather, it waxes and wanes, and I don’t see that changing just because he signs for them. Modric (to use but one example) is an assassin- a killer- a brawler- a guy who is fighting every second he is on the field. That’s why we loved him so much- because he was our little general. Christian Eriksen, otoh, is a supremely talented coaster- a guy who has all the ability in the world but lacks the heart to be at the tippy tippy top of the food chain.

Just my onions.

 

[Derryank]

The latest ITK from Trix and unusual comments from Ossie during the week, align.

Christian has served us well. If he wants out, I can't imagine Poch would stand in his way...Daniel on the other hand... well, that's another story and we'll soon see how that ends.

All the best if he does leave, really helped us since the Magnificent 7 days. Little complaints other than beating the first man...?

 

[Jamie Bartolo]

Losing eriksen will be tough but if we replace him with ceballos and lo celso we should be fine

 

[ebzrascal]

What`s the opinion of everyone do we think that Eriksen could stay and two more midfielders come in?
We seem to be heavily linked with Olmo, Ceballos and Lo Celso

 

[dtxspurs]

I actually think we’ll be fine without him, it will just be a different blend. A front 6 of:

Winks Ndombele
Lucas Dele Son
Kane
​

Could be devastating with all players in sync and on form. I say this as someone who clearly rates the hell out of Eriksen.

I think you need a bit more creativity in that line up personally, would swap Lo Celso for Lucas.

And thanks for fighting the good fight re: Eriksen. I'm just going to stay out of it as reason just will not prevail with this bunch.

 

[Jamie Bartolo]

What`s the opinion of everyone do we think that Eriksen could stay and two more midfielders come in?
We seem to be heavily linked with Olmo, Ceballos and Lo Celso

If Eriksen stays and we add two more midfielders it would be the ideal situation and we will have some serious depth but I do not think it will be the case.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

I think you need a bit more creativity in that line up personally, would swap Lo Celso for Lucas.

And thanks for fighting the good fight re: Eriksen. I'm just going to stay out of it as reason just will not prevail with this bunch.

That would be ideal (and how I think it will pan out), but worst case scenario we still have an energetic, fluid front 6 full of goals.

Lo Celso for any of Lucas, Son or Dele would be my choice too, but I think that the front six in my original post matches up very well to, say:

Henderson Fabinho
Salah Wijnaldum Mane
Firmino
​

I’m optimistic that we’ll end up with options though, and that Lo Celso, Sessegnon and maybe Ceballos will also be in the mix.

As for the Eriksen debate, while certain criticism is warranted, it’s overboard to suggest that he’s anything but a very good player without whom we’d have been far worse over the past six seasons. Statistically last season he actually matched the previous season’s output in fewer games, and almost everyone was heralding him as world class in the summer of 2018. He just struggled to hit his best last season, which is true of basically our entire squad barring Alderweireld and Sissoko. Kane and Dele were not up to previous standards either, Son for me also was better in 17/18, one purple patch aside. Eriksen is just getting the extra flack because of the contract situation in my opinion, people are drawing false conclusions about why his form suffered based on his will to leave. I also think being from overseas and not having the most engaging personality doesn’t help. If he was scrappy, all action and English we’d be getting none of this. For instance, Danny Rose behaved far less professionally, was abysmal the following season (when he was even fit) and didn’t receive a tenth of this revisionist bollocks disputing how good he’s been for us.

 

[Montalbano]

I wonder if they've lodged a bid yet. At this point we just need to negiotiate a swap deal with Real for Ceballos and try to force as much extra cash as part of the deal as we can to put towards Lo Celso. The longer we wait, the worse bargaining position I imagine we'll be in as it seems unlikely Eriksen would consider resigning for us. If we can get Lo Celso and Ceballos in for Eriksen we'll be able to compensate for his loss.

 

[Trix]

Big time. Trix’s info/opinion that Dier could be dropped back into CB makes it even more worrying.

I made that post very clear that it was purely opinion. I know in the transfer window people see what they want to see, but come on.

 

[mike_l]

I made that post very clear that it was purely opinion. I know in the transfer window people see what they want to see, but come on.

Yeah but bedwetters gonna bedwet.

 

[scat1620]

I wonder if there's any overlap between the people angry with Eriksen for refusing to sign a new deal in the past and leaving himself in an excellent position to get the move he's wanted all of his career either this summer or next, and the people gleefully pointing out what an idiot Zaha was for signing a contract that seemingly has him locked down at Palace when he now wants out to another club.

I don't blame Eriksen for what he's doing, he has given us several years of excellent service and was up-front before he joined us about what his long-term career aspirations were. For all those times when we've signed a Wanyama (or even an Eriksen) for a bargain price because their contract was running down, this is just the flip side of that coin. We can't expect to win on every single occasion getting cheap prices for the incomings and a king's ransom for the outgoings.

If Eriksen goes this summer or next, I'll wish him well and thank him for consistently being one of the best things about this Spurs side during the period he's been with us.

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

I wonder if there's any overlap between the people angry with Eriksen for refusing to sign a new deal in the past and leaving himself in an excellent position to get the move he's wanted all of his career either this summer or next, and the people gleefully pointing out what an idiot Zaha was for signing a contract that seemingly has him locked down at Palace when he now wants out to another club.

I don't blame Eriksen for what he's doing, he has given us several years of excellent service and was up-front before he joined us about what his long-term career aspirations were. For all those times when we've signed a Wanyama (or even an Eriksen) for a bargain price because their contract was running down, this is just the flip side of that coin. We can't expect to win on every single occasion getting cheap prices for the incomings and a king's ransom for the outgoings.

If Eriksen goes this summer or next, I'll wish him well and thank him for consistently being one of the best things about this Spurs side during the period he's been with us.

Great post from a regular toss weasel

 

[yido_number1]

All this hate for eriksen makes me laugh same people were saying he could go for 100m at the start of the window.

Fact is when he is playing well we play well. When he plays badly so do we. We don't have anyone in the squad that offers what he does and will struggle to find a single player that offers the same goals and assists aswell as running further than any other player in the squad.

 

[dtxspurs]

I find the differences in the Sissoko discussions and the Eriksen discussions funny.

One player not up to his world class level but still quite good. So you’ve got 4 months of not living up to his standard. Some people absolutely hate him and want to sell him.

Then there’s Sissoko who everyone wanted to sell last summer because he didn’t look fit to put on the shirt. Then he plays very well for a season. Everyone loves him and wouldn’t even consider him not being a starter.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

I find the differences in the Sissoko discussions and the Eriksen discussions funny.

One player not up to his world class level but still quite good. So you’ve got 4 months of not living up to his standard. Some people absolutely hate him and want to sell him.

Then there’s Sissoko who everyone wanted to sell last summer because he didn’t look fit to put on the shirt. Then he plays very well for a season. Everyone loves him and wouldn’t even consider him not being a starter.

The fact that bashing Eriksen is considered far more acceptable than criticising Sissoko is absurd.