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Player watch: Christian Eriksen

fishhhandaricecake

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How about the 60 months before that, when he was one of our best players? Should we just forget about that, and treat him like trash? He was bad for 18 months, yes, but at least he was professional. He could have been a crybaby like some of our fans, and refused to play.
Agree, good servant to us deserves more respect
 
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Why is this thread even open? The guy has gone.

Let him hit the first man from corners for another team while getting paid tax free cash.
 

WalkerboyUK

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Getting absolutely slated after his non-performance against Juve yesterday.
I watched about 20 mins and didn't even realise he was on the pitch he was that ineffective
 

freeeki

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I wish him no ill will, but I can't help the small feeling of Schadenfreude at seeing 18 months of can't-be-arsedery coming back to bite him on the balls
 

The Scarecrow

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As much as Eriksen was a terrific player for us, he was also a luxury. Much can be said about our recruitment, but replacing Eriksen with Lo Celso was an aboslute stroke of genius imo.
 

freeeki

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As much as Eriksen was a terrific player for us, he was also a luxury. Much can be said about our recruitment, but replacing Eriksen with Lo Celso was an aboslute stroke of genius imo.

Absolutely. I think Lo Celso's ceiling is probably higher than Eriksen's.

Our recruitment over the last couple of seasons, on the whole, has been good. There's just not been enough of it.
 

Tucker

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Absolutely. I think Lo Celso's ceiling is probably higher than Eriksen's.

I think it’s one of the reasons we managed to hang on to him for so long. He’s got bags of quality, but is fairly inconsistent. He’s a very very good player, don’t get me wrong, but if he was in the top bracket he’d have been courted by Real, Barca, Juve and Bayern and we’d have got upwards of 80 million a couple of seasons ago. Instead he went to Inter for peanuts.

Even before his downturn in form, there were far too many games where he failed to make any sort of impact.
 

The Scarecrow

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Absolutely. I think Lo Celso's ceiling is probably higher than Eriksen's.

Our recruitment over the last couple of seasons, on the whole, has been good. There's just not been enough of it.
Yeah, and Lo Celso also takes on responsibility in a way you don't see that often in modern playmakers. He's not hiding for one second.
 

Trotter

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As much as Eriksen was a terrific player for us, he was also a luxury. Much can be said about our recruitment, but replacing Eriksen with Lo Celso was an aboslute stroke of genius imo.

Yeah replace a player that on average scored 10 goals and got 15 assists in the League a season, with one that has scored none and assisted none in three quarters of a season.
Looks absolute stroke of genius
 
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SpursFox

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I think it’s one of the reasons we managed to hang on to him for so long. He’s got bags of quality, but is fairly inconsistent. He’s a very very good player, don’t get me wrong, but if he was in the top bracket he’d have been courted by Real, Barca, Juve and Bayern and we’d have got upwards of 80 million a couple of seasons ago. Instead he went to Inter for peanuts.

Even before his downturn in form, there were far too many games where he failed to make any sort of impact.

Only reason he went for relative peanuts was because he had a handful of months left on his contract. I think if we looked to sell him a couple of years back we could easily have got eighty million for him, and most of our fans would have been outraged, me included at the time most likely. I agree to an extent though, the reason he didn't leave sooner was because no-one was willing to pay the excess of a hundred mill that would have been needed to get us to sell. He was shocking for us towards the end, and I have criticised him for it strongly, however he was pivotal to us for years. Yes he had many off games even prior to the end times, but that was because he bore the burden of most of our creativity, and when he had an off day it showed, 'cause that meant the team as a whole did. Class player, and a huge shame it ended how it did, and a shame for him too, 'cause I do think it will impact him negatively in the long run.
 

Tomorrowland

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Yeah replace a player that on average scored 10 goals and got 15 assists in the League a season, with one that has scored none and assisted none in three quarters of a season.
Looks absolute stroke of genius

I mean apart from the fact the average is actually 8 goals and 10 assists per season, great post mate. You're comparing the stats of Eriksen playing AM with peak Dele, Kane and Son around him with Lo Celso who's played the equivalent of 9.5 matches in a deep midfield role for a negative, strikerless team. Clueless.
 

Trotter

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I mean apart from the fact the average is actually 8 goals and 10 assists per season, great post mate. You're comparing the stats of Eriksen playing AM with peak Dele, Kane and Son around him with Lo Celso who's played the equivalent of 9.5 matches in a deep midfield role for a negative, strikerless team. Clueless.


Or you are totally underestimating the performance for our talisman for the last 6 seasons, and totally going overboard to the nth degree the performances of a player that to date has contributed to our goals column the square root of fuck all.

Even this season in less minutes than LoCelso has played for us, he scored 2 and assisted 2, despite playing the same role, and I will be the first to admit he was way below previous seasons form for us, but still way outperforms his current replacement by any imaginable statistic (apart from % of playing balls with one foot I suppose).
You can't just basically say we have spent a net 30 million for a player to play in the same position and take out 20 plus goal involvements a season and say haven't we done well.

Now I hope LoCelso grows into the sort of player that Eriksen was for us, but he is a very long way off yet, at the moment all he is doing is looking like one of the better players in a poor side, mainly through dribbling, but final ball has invariably been very poor so far, rather than bringing the best out of every player on the pitch like Eriksen did for us for numerous years.

Now I have spotted it, 15 posts on the board in total, and every one of them just to slag off Eriksen or anyone that recognises he was a very good player for us, great contributing.
I will repeat the comment to you, Clueles
 
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Typical Spurs

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Yeah replace a player that on average scored 10 goals and got 15 assists in the League a season, with one that has scored none and assisted none in three quarters of a season.
Looks absolute stroke of genius

Moussa Dembele rarely got assists or goals.....yet we miss him more than any other player IMO.
 

Ronwol196061

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The question is
Lamela has for 7 years but you still like him.

Let's face it, he had the audacity to leave us, that is why you dislike him, even though he allowed us to get a fee for him.

Just reading this now. First I was never a big fan of Eriksen. I got blasted for that too. I was never the biggest fan of Lamela either,
Lamela is great defensively and does some nice flicks but he is still a bit player for me. Eriksen was a frustrating figure.I never liked this recycling business. It was boring and then he would hit a great pass. Rather see someone like David Silva and his fluid and creative style.
Also always thought Eriksen did well when teams gave him the opportunity but when itw as a bit more difficult he would lay off he ball instead of changing angls and finding a way through.Thats real creativity
 

Wig

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Moussa Dembele rarely got assists or goals.....yet we miss him more than any other player IMO.
It's not like Modric had great numbers of goals and assists either. Probably a closer comparison in style to Lo Celso's position in the team right now - showing for the ball at the base of midfield and linking play between defence and attack
 
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