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Crooks criticises Aurier for displays up until Crystal Palace masterclass

UbeAstard

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Hope I'm wrong but I wouldn't put money on this new found belief and giving him the benefit of the doubt lasting. There will be games where he has to defend, let's see his capabilities and focus then.
 

guiltyparty

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So you do not like Aurier, and will write anything to prove him in the negative, even it is crap, while ignoring the positive attributes.

Erm hardly. I quite like Aurier actually, kind of captured my heart from the moment he did that duck under the ball and spin round thing. But I also have eyes and the guy can be a proper liability too, and has a track record of it. One good game doesn’t change that. What have I written that is crap? He undoubtedly lacks focus, Pochettino has said so. And the nicest possible reading of some of the thing he’s done in the past is silly.

Was more pointing out/explaining to the previous poster why people were suggesting he was lazily generalising, getting dangerously close as he did to Souness-esque comparisons of Aurier to Adebayor then wishing he was more like Kane. Yeah like the guy who called his old boss a faggot is going to become Kane overnight but that doesn’t mean he’s Adebayor. He’s Aurier, with his own strengths and issues
 

ginola007

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He's a good right back but with many flaws in his game currently preventing him from being a brilliant right back. His biggest barrier to improving, however is his own sense of self-worth.

Having read the media reports of his (disparaging) comments about KWP and Foyth - if I was Pochettino I would not play him. But we don't know what's going on behind the scenes - he may actually get on very well with other members of the squad and be a decent influence (though I doubt it).
If we were to omit every player who said things a bit off colour, we may limit our squad to very few players. From his unquotable rant on Laurent Blanc, and other incidents, we knew what he was like prior to him joing the club. Yet we bought him. Which implied that Poch/Levy were willing to put up with occasion dissent. As such his utterance "what competition?" is tame by his past standard.
If he could improve his consistency, I'm sure even his team-mates would love to see him on the team-sheet. He might want to leave the club, and the club might want to sell him, but once the window closed, "the season starts now," as Poch said.
 
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guiltyparty

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As ever it has to be one extreme or another

What’s wrong with thinking he should start but also expect a lot more from him, on and off that pitch?

This place is becoming as unbearable as everyday life for the pointless side taking
 

UbeAstard

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If we were to omit every player who said things a bit off colour, we may limit our squad to very few players. From his unquotable rant on Laurent Blanc, and other incidents, we knew what he was like prior to him joing the club. Yet we bought him. Which implied that Poch/Levy were willing to put up with occasion dissent. As such his utterance "what competition?" is tame by his past standard.
If he could improve his consistency, I'm sure even his team-mates would love to see him on the team-sheet. He might want to leave the club, and the club might want to sell him, but once the window closed, "the season starts now," as Poch said.

Who said to omit him? My feelings and I think the gist of some others is that he hasn't become the sliced bread overnight.
 
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