Player Watch Player Watch: Timo Werner

[Kirito]

He’s gonna miss chances, but he’s also going to get a lot of goal contributions with the way we play. Main thing is that the fans in the stadium don’t get on his back if we has a couple of bad games to start. He seems like a good lad, we need to show him this is nothing like playing for the scum in blue.

 

[mil1lion]

It feels a bit like the Kulusevski signing. He wasn't doing too great at his past clubs and people had doubts about him. However the manager has looked at how he will fit his way of playing. We always talk about backing the manager and its great to hear Ange clearly wanted him.

 

[EastUpperDK82]

This is the other one, can’t believe no one got him

Our German Spurs | Tottenham Hotspur

Timo Werner joined a very exclusive club when he put pen to paper on loan move to north London on Tuesday (9 January).

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Max Zeeburg​

1907-1908
The first ever German national to wear our shirt came before we even entered the Football League as Max Seeburg joined us from Chelsea in May, 1907. Leipzig born, and a right-midfielder by trade, he moved to London in 1886, aged two, and began his footballing journey at Chelsea, but did not make an appearance before signing for us.
Spending 17 months with us, he scored five goals in 15 games for us in our final Southern League campaign before making a single appearance in our first season in the Football League.
He departed our doors for Leyton Orient in October, 1908, and later appeared for Burnley, Grimsby Town and Reading before he found himself in an internment camp for a few weeks in 1914 – the year the Great War broke out. In August, 1928, he was enlisted into the Army to the 30th Middlesex Regiment, an Infantry Works (Alien) Battalion, transferring to Army Reserve the following June before he was granted British citizenship in January, 1920.

Max Seeburg

If you put Werner in that outfit he would be as fast as N'Dombele

 

[gavspur]

Timo Timo Werner! (We Will Rock You)

 

[wspur]

Timo Timo Werner! (We Will Rock You)

Good one, probably the limit before the home crowd gets lost.

 

[gavspur]

Good one, probably the limit before the home crowd gets lost.

The simple ones are the best haha

 

[Kirito]

Surely we’ll get a “Werner on the dancefloor” chant tomorrow

Its in everyone’s head atm

 

[Hazelton]

Surely we’ll get a “Werner on the dancefloor” chant tomorrow

Its in everyone’s head atm

Hope so, they'd better not kill the groove.

 

[mil1lion]

Werner on the dance floor followed by I wanna dance with Udogie

 

[$hoguN]

Werner on the dance floor followed by I wanna dance with Udogie

Will sound like a student union

 

[yojambo]

Excited to see if we use him in a Vardy-esque way. If we find ourselves pushed back or having to defend for a period, youre literally one ball over the top to exploit any space with his pace.

 

[BorjeSpurs]

Some pundit comments on Werner:

Danny Murphy - "it wouldn't surprise me if he did something coming off the bench against Man United."
Clinton Morrison - "I don’t think he will be in the team straight away, I think Brennan Johnson will play."

It sort of highlighted how pundits/opposition fans in general have undersold our injury/absentees crisis over the last few months. At most it's been, 'Spurs are without Maddison, VDV and a few others.'

Because Danny and Clinton, you are right. In normal circumstances, a player that has just arrived and only started two games all season would have started on the bench, but that's not how things are for us this season. Son is at the Asia Cup. Solomon who made an impact at the start of the season has been injured for months. Perisic is out for the season. Johnson can't play on the left because he is needed on the right as Kulusevski (who has been ill in the lead up to the game) is the only one in the squad left who can play in offensive midfield because Maddison is still unavailable and Lo Celso got injured again.

Even our youngsters, Veliz and Scarlett, that have got game time in their last respective games has been added to our injury list. Sessegnon has just come back from an injury after 11 months and will not be in contention to start.

That leaves Werner and Gil, and every Spurs fan knows that the German will go straight into the side.

Yes, pundits are poor in general, but they also haven't seen any headlines along the lines of 'Werner likely to start against United, with 7 attacking players unavailable'.

 

[jordibwoy]

Some pundit comments on Werner:

Danny Murphy - "it wouldn't surprise me if he did something coming off the bench against Man United."
Clinton Morrison - "I don’t think he will be in the team straight away, I think Brennan Johnson will play."

It sort of highlighted how pundits/opposition fans in general have undersold our injury/absentees crisis over the last few months. At most it's been, 'Spurs are without Maddison, VDV and a few others.'

Because Danny and Clinton, you are right. In normal circumstances, a player that has just arrived and only started two games all season would have started on the bench, but that's not how things are for us this season. Son is at the Asia Cup. Solomon who made an impact at the start of the season has been injured for months. Perisic is out for the season. Johnson can't play on the left because he is needed on the right as Kulusevski (who has been ill in the lead up to the game) is the only one in the squad left who can play in offensive midfield because Maddison is still unavailable and Lo Celso got injured again.

Even our youngsters, Veliz and Scarlett, that have got game time in their last respective games has been added to our injury list. Sessegnon has just come back from an injury after 11 months and will not be in contention to start.

That leaves Werner and Gil, and every Spurs fan knows that the German will go straight into the side.

Yes, pundits are poor in general, but they also haven't seen any headlines along the lines of 'Werner likely to start against United, with 7 attacking players unavailable'.

What I took from this is that they either don't watch us very often or at the very least don't pay attention closely.

Coming off the bench and Brennan Johnson playing instead of Werner. As if they are unaware Son has gone off to AFC and there's a left wing position that is wide open.

 

[Erm33]

He's gonna get an assist for Richy and they're gonna form a good partnership

 

[yido-1989]

It's paywalled

But weren't you just saying that advocating such speedy action is naive as the transfer window/agents/clubs don't really operate that way?

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[bbunc]

His 1st chance could be so huge. Its all confidence for him. if he scores that 1st one there’s a chance he doesn’t stop

 

[Snarfalicious]

Happy with that performance, personally. Found good positions, got an assist, took some chances, overall super positive. Think he’s going to find a home here.

 

[King of the Lane]

Happy with that performance, personally. Found good positions, got an assist, took some chances, overall super positive. Think he’s going to find a home here.

Totally agree and he looked so much better than Gill in this side. I think Werner will do very well here.

 

[Hotspur88]

Saw enough to think he could cause teams a problem and do a decent job for us. The lads played 12 minutes of football in the last 2 months so it was a positive debut.

 

[E17yid]

Very good performance considering he’s not played much in the last month or so and has only had 1 or 2 training sessions with the group. I was watching wishing the ball would find its way to him more.