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Player watch: Christian Eriksen

Japhet

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Real Madrid are 100% going to come in for him at the final hour with a low ball offer which Levy will be forced to accept. I've been saying it all summer.

They are playing Levy at his own game. Eriksen knows it, I'm sure he has been told by Madrid what the plan is. Will explain why Eriksen looks completely unmotivated at the moment, even more so than he did last season.

There comes a point where having Eriksen for a season is potentially more valuable than a transfer fee. It depends on where Levy sees that figure but he won't be getting bitch slapped by RM.
 

doctor stefan Freud

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There comes a point where having Eriksen for a season is potentially more valuable than a transfer fee. It depends on where Levy sees that figure but he won't be getting bitch slapped by RM.
It also depends on what Eriksen we get for the rest of the season. Because if it’s the half arsed one, I’d rather we give more game time to the rest of the players like Lo Celso, Dele and Moura who are here for the long term
 

cliff jones

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Iam not disagreeing mate as it’s not my money so I don’t really care, I would rather another year of the best eriksen this season aswell. Just surprised levy has left us in this position with potentially eriksen, toby, jan all leaving at end of the season for not a single penny.

youre right about the value he brought but wihtout us and the ST money, F&B, shirts, sky subs the sponsors wouldnt be interested so I do consider it to be the fans' money and the fans' club

Everything about our Club now is CL level, but Levy took a huge risk last season and looks like he's gambling on GLC and nD to keep us in fourth- I personally think we're one signing short given the Eriksen problem
 

Lighty64

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You think eriksen is going to leave in jan and give up the massive signing on fee and silly wages he’s going to get by leaving on a free 6 months later, the club fucked up by letting him get into last year of his contract and we’re going to pay the full price of that now.

the club haven't fucked up, you can't force someone to sign a new contract, and you can't sell them to someone they don't want to join.

you need to understand players have more power than a manager. the only thing we could of done was not include him in the squad for failing to sign, and you don't do that to a quality player or you would have others go on strike doing it
 

Ronwol196061

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youre right about the value he brought but wihtout us and the ST money, F&B, shirts, sky subs the sponsors wouldnt be interested so I do consider it to be the fans' money and the fans' club

Everything about our Club now is CL level, but Levy took a huge risk last season and looks like he's gambling on GLC and nD to keep us in fourth- I personally think we're one signing short given the Eriksen problem

Its difficult to say aswe haven't seen Lo Celso in that much action and it takes a little time for the chemistry to gel and the other factors apart from Ndombele are Lamela and Dele if they can up their creative input.
Poch also has to get the system right for the players we have
 

14/04/91

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You think eriksen is going to leave in jan and give up the massive signing on fee and silly wages he’s going to get by leaving on a free 6 months later, the club fucked up by letting him get into last year of his contract and we’re going to pay the full price of that now.

The only option to letting him get into the last year of his contract would be to sell him last summer.
Buying clubs would know we want him out so we wouldn’t have got good value.
Plus the squad would’ve been weakened massively at a time when we’ve been building.

When you have excellent players like Eriksen & Alderweireld (albeit different situations) there is a risk they’ll run down their deal & leave.
 

E17yid

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I love Eriksen, he’s been one of our most important, consistent players for years, however, I don’t think anyone can deny that for large periods of last season he was well below his usual standards. I do accept that he’s played a lot of football but I also think it’s naive to think that his contract situation has nothing to do with it.

I’d love nothing more for him to sign a new deal and knuckle down but I just don’t see that happening, if it does great but if any opportunity presents itself, that’s agreeable to all parties, to shift him on I actually think it’s for the best (an opinion I didn’t hold a few months ago)

It’s hard to say without seeing him in training but until he shows some commitment to the club, either by signing a new deal or putting in 110% on the pitch, I think he should be benched. After all, those claiming he changed the game against Villa (something I’m not convinced of) then keep him as an impact player from the bench. We’re actually well stocked in AMF, especially with Lamela fit and Son and Alli back.

Either way a resolution to this whole affair is what’s needed.
 
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Khilari

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It also depends on what Eriksen we get for the rest of the season. Because if it’s the half arsed one, I’d rather we give more game time to the rest of the players like Lo Celso, Dele and Moura who are here for the long term
I think Eriksen's perceived "poor" form* last season was due to combination of being overplayed and being played much deeper out of necessity due to a lack of cover.

*Joint 3rd top Premier League assists, 8 goals (4th top for Spurs)
 

Japhet

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youre right about the value he brought but wihtout us and the ST money, F&B, shirts, sky subs the sponsors wouldnt be interested so I do consider it to be the fans' money and the fans' club

Everything about our Club now is CL level, but Levy took a huge risk last season and looks like he's gambling on GLC and nD to keep us in fourth- I personally think we're one signing short given the Eriksen problem


Not disagreeing with you but we have Son, Moura, Lamela, Dele, Sessegnon and LoCelso (potentially) who can play behind Kane. We're not exactly scraping the barrel. I think we'll be creating stuff from much deeper now with Ndombele and LoCelso's ability to break the press and drive forward with the ball. They can both find a pass as well, so I think we may be planning to diversify a lot more instead of funneling everything through a traditional 10.
 

THFCjosh

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Real Madrid are 100% going to come in for him at the final hour with a low ball offer which Levy will be forced to accept. I've been saying it all summer.

They are playing Levy at his own game. Eriksen knows it, I'm sure he has been told by Madrid what the plan is. Will explain why Eriksen looks completely unmotivated at the moment, even more so than he did last season.

Isn't this tapping up?
 

Ronwol196061

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I think Eriksen's perceived "poor" form* last season was due to combination of being overplayed and being played much deeper out of necessity due to a lack of cover.

*Joint 3rd top Premier League assists, 8 goals (4th top for Spurs)

I know his stats generally are there and I know he made an impact in the Villa g
Isn't this tapping up?

I don't think Eriksen gets unmotivated.
I think he plays well when opportunities are there and not well when they are not.
 

cliff jones

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Not disagreeing with you but we have Son, Moura, Lamela, Dele, Sessegnon and LoCelso (potentially) who can play behind Kane. We're not exactly scraping the barrel. I think we'll be creating stuff from much deeper now with Ndombele and LoCelso's ability to break the press and drive forward with the ball. They can both find a pass as well, so I think we may be planning to diversify a lot more instead of funneling everything through a traditional 10.

I hope you're right but nD plays in a different position to GLC, who also plays in a different position to the others you mention. At least based in what I've watched of our new signings which admittedly doesn't give me encyclopaedic knowledge.

We all want to see us win a cup but to beat decent opposition on a cup run we'd probably need to play both, and if Eriksen fcks off/plays like a twt our two new creatives will be overplayed, get injured or lose form, much as Eriksen did towards the end of last season. Fernandes might have been what we needed...
 

Ronwol196061

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I hope you're right but nD plays in a different position to GLC, who also plays in a different position to the others you mention. At least based in what I've watched of our new signings which admittedly doesn't give me encyclopaedic knowledge.

We all want to see us win a cup but to beat decent opposition on a cup run we'd probably need to play both, and if Eriksen fcks off/plays like a twt our two new creatives will be overplayed, get injured or lose form, much as Eriksen did towards the end of last season. Fernandes might have been what we needed...


I do think Lamela (who has showed promise) and Dele add that extra creativity as we need it from ALL the forward players,,including more movement (as he does at times) from Kane.
 

NYSpur

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I think Eriksen's perceived "poor" form* last season was due to combination of being overplayed and being played much deeper out of necessity due to a lack of cover.

*Joint 3rd top Premier League assists, 8 goals (4th top for Spurs)
Agreed, and it also doesn't help when you are expected to be the creative force and your top striker is out for extended periods of time.
 

ikky

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Would rather bench him and give Lo Celso as much game time as possible to get him up to speed, at least until the end of the European window.
 
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