Was convinced that John Bostock was gonna be an absolute worldie.
The right thing? Like continually provide him the best health care and medical expertise available to help him through recuperation from a severe trauma? Not sure what more were neat to have done if at 19, whatever the reason, he’s not looking like succeeding with us. Would you have seen Spurs offer him a five year deal?this article doesn't paint us in a good light - not sure why a billion pound enterprise just doesn't do the right thing in these instances.
Give the lad another contract for a year so he has time to focus on his health....after all we have seen players (Eriksen/ Ajax comes to mind) show loyalty by signing contracts to protect clubs. Doesn't seen like a big thing for the club but invaluable for the human in a fragile place:
Crawley's Nick Tsaroulla: 'Proving Spurs wrong gives me a lot of drive'
The scorer of Crawley’s first goal in their shock defeat of Leeds has drawn inspiration from being released by Tottenham in 2018 after serious injuries which threatened his playing careerwww.theguardian.com
The right thing? Like continually provide him the best health care and medical expertise available to help him through recuperation from a severe trauma? Not sure what more were neat to have done if at 19, whatever the reason, he’s not looking like succeeding with us. Would you have seen Spurs offer him a five year deal?
I imagine that without the care he received as a result of being a Spurs player, he’d have never recovered enough, or quickly enough, to find himself fulfilling his ambitions and having his wonderful moment v Leeds on Saturday.
Yep. Remember him, Sol and Samways all came thru together, if I’m not mistaken.Anyone remember Darren Caskey?
Might just be me but does anyone else remember a moment in Pritchard’s first premier league game for us where Eriksen could’ve slid him through late in the game but IIRC he took a shot and the chance was wasted? I think Pritchard’s career with us could’ve gone v differently had he had that chance but maybe he was just never the level we needPritchard a big one for me I was convinced he was gonna be the next Eriksen.
Also Edwards of course.
So what should we have done?amazing that you can be that defensive about this:
Tsaroulla was 19, beset with problems in his abdomen and feet; seemingly on the scrapheap.
sorry but we just have a different world view. The kid had been with us since he was 12. Yes he deserved more. But as Keith said - there was a football club there once....
especially with his fm stats. i thought we found our superstarGiovanni dos Santos ... if anyone remembers him. I thought he was destined to superstardom
Danny Rose. Yes he had some good seasons for us, but nothing quite matched his debut goal against the scum. I know he has his demons, but I think with the right manager at the right time, he could really have made the England LB position his own. Had he hit his potential, we probably would have lost him to Real Madrid!
At the time Tsaroulla I would say was on par with say what Dennis Cirkin is now and he was looking good, a year out of football is a very long time and the problem seemed to be that at the time they did not know what the problem was and Spurs decided to let him go.amazing that you can be that defensive about this:
Tsaroulla was 19, beset with problems in his abdomen and feet; seemingly on the scrapheap.
sorry but we just have a different world view. The kid had been with us since he was 12. Yes he deserved more. But as Keith said - there was a football club there once....
I agree. One of the starkest examples of fans running away with delusion. A case of emperors new clothing for me. However, I also think that his attitude let him down and ultimately brought him were he is today. He is 26 now and doesn't even have a contract yet beyond this summer.never saw it with bentaleb, don't think he ever had a huge amount in his locker. best performance was at rb imo.
KWP. Mishandled criminally. Making it elsewhere and may rise to England status yet
Others seem to fall into 2 broad categories.
1) Players that were misjudged by many who never really had what we thought they had.
2) Players that may well have had it but through circumstances, events, , or their own personal failings got side-tracked.
Did really good work for the club as a youth scout / coach. Trained underneath him a few times and he scouted and trained quite a few players such as Terry Dixon etc.The youth player I had highest hopes for did actually break through but, sadly, not for long.
Garry Brooke wasn't the most svelte player we ever had on our books. Indeed, the Swedish club who took him on loan as a kid called him 'Buddha'. Yet for a couple of seasons in the early eighties, he really didn't look out of place in what was a very fine midfield indeed.
Sadly for him, and indeed for us as I think he'd have gone on to be a very decent player, he was involved in a really bad car crash in the 1982-83 season. He'd just turned 22 and, although he came back the following season and played a few more games for us, he never truly recovered his form or fitness. Bloody shame.