Daily Mail lists 20 greatest Spurs players

[WorcesterTHFC]

Sorry, but how can you have a list of greatest Spurs players and not include the guy that spent 10 years with us, 8 as captain during our most successful period in the last 30-40 years...

CL runner up ... as captain
World Cup runner up ... as captain
World Cup Winner ... as captain

Joke of an article

EDIT... This guy says you can stick you list up your arse

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The Times article was written a few years before Lloris joined the club. He'd only been here about 5 years when the Mail article was written. If such an article were to be written now, he'd have to be somewhere quite high up the list.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

Fair enough, but still wouldn’t have him. I’d take Falco over him any day of the week. Defoe just wasn’t that good - he scored 18 PL goals for us once (the year he got 5 v Wigan) and never over 13 apart from that. That’s mediocrity

Not sure I agree as he either played in poor spurs sides or often wasn’t first choice. When he played regularly he had a very good record, he could score a goal out of nothing and turn a game on its head, if Robbie Keane is in the top 50 then I believe Defoe deserves to be also, they have a very similar goals and games record for us, both top players.

Neither would make a top 20 for sure but I believe both have a place towards the start of a top 50.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

Sorry, but how can you have a list of greatest Spurs players and not include the guy that spent 10 years with us, 8 as captain during our most successful period in the last 30-40 years...

CL runner up ... as captain
World Cup runner up ... as captain
World Cup Winner ... as captain

Joke of an article

EDIT... This guy says you can stick you list up your arse

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World Cup achievements nothing to do with his time as a Tottenham player.

Great servant and player but I’d not put Hugo in our top 50 tbh, although he’s worth a conversation about it sure. Also you say our most successful period of the last 30-40 years but we didn’t win anything in our time with Hugo, we were CL, League and League cup runners up though which is a decent effort sure.

 

[Thenewcat]

Not sure I agree as he either played in poor spurs sides or often wasn’t first choice. When he played regularly he had a very good record, he could score a goal out of nothing and turn a game on its head, if Robbie Keane is in the top 50 then I believe Defoe deserves to be also, they have a very similar goals and games record for us, both top players.

Neither would make a top 20 for sure but I believe both have a place towards the start of a top 50.

Sorry but the first half of the bold bit isn’t true - we were mostly pretty good when he was there - and the second half proves my point not yours. And no, he didn’t have a very good record at all - he scored about 1 in 3 which is mediocre at best. Lastly I don’t agree with the Keane comparison, Keane’s goal record is substantially better and he was a much better creator as well. Defoe was an out and out goalscorer who didn’t score enough goals to justify that

 

[worcestersauce]

Luka Modric was not one of the top 20 Spurs players, he may have been one of the best players to have played for Spurs at some time in their career but, like Klinsmann, his greatness was achieved elsewhere.

 

[SUIYHA]

Luka Modric was not one of the top 20 Spurs players, he may have been one of the best players to have played for Spurs at some time in their career but, like Klinsmann, his greatness was achieved elsewhere.

Hear what you're saying and whilst players like Bale, Van Der Vaart and Lennon tended to grab the headlines and obviously we team didn't win anything when he was here - I always felt he was our most important player in that era. I've been a fan since the early 90s and I've never seen a midfielder in our shirt with such a good touch that could control the tempo of the game like he could. He made a midfield with Jenas and Palacios alongside him dominate possession every game and finish in the top four twice, and we immediatley started playing a far uglier style of football once he left that ultimately took three players (Alli, Eriksen and Dembele) to replace him. Until Ange came along it was hard to argue that we'd been anywhere near as good to watch ever since he left.

 

[HodisGawd]

Wasn't aware that Ledley's injury was "fatal".

 

[Thenewcat]

Sorry but the first half of the bold bit isn’t true - we were mostly pretty good when he was there - and the second half proves my point not yours. And no, he didn’t have a very good record at all - he scored about 1 in 3 which is mediocre at best. Lastly I don’t agree with the Keane comparison, Keane’s goal record is substantially better and he was a much better creator as well. Defoe was an out and out goalscorer who didn’t score enough goals to justify that

@fishcakeandrice you can do better than the old ‘post a funny emoji when I can’t actually be bothered/am unable to argue with the facts presented’. Most of what I said isn’t really debatable - his goal scoring record is what it is, and you surely aren’t claiming he offered more around the pitch than Keane.
Funnily enough, if you wanted a striker who played for us when we were mostly bad who is therefore underrated you should look at Chris Armstrong. His league record with spurs is freakishly similar to both of Defoe’s spurs spells - Armstrong scored 48 in 141 league games for spurs, Defoe was 43 in 139 the first time and 48 in 137 the second - but we were definitely a lot shitter when Armstrong was with us. I think if was born 5-10 years later he might have done very well with us

 

[alexis]

Interestingly, Martin Chivers once referred to John Duncan as " a terrible player " . If you look at the stats Duncan's scoring rate per game was up around 50% which is better than Chivers ' . And Chivers played in much stronger Spurs teams than Duncan. I'm not saying Duncan was a better player than Chivers because he didn't terrorize defenders like Chivers did in his prime. Duncan was a goal scorer pure and simple. In mostly crap Spurs teams. Maybe Chivers was a bit jealous because he was on the decline when Duncan came in.

That's another reason to include Alfie Conn. Stood out in a terrible Spurs team. I remember him sitting on the ball in the home win over a very strong Leeds team that kept us up. A great moment, up there with the famous photo of Mackay grabbing Bremner by the shirt and Gazza scoring against Arsenal with his sock.

I probably should also have found a place for Tony Galvin in the top 50 , another underrated player.

Or Clive Allen