David Brooks

[Spurrific]

Agreed. Don’t get me wrong, I think he’s very good and if we could bring him in to compete with Lucas, Son and Bergwijn we’d have incredible options for the wide slots, but all these comparisons to number tens are mental.

Grealish plays off the left just as much as he plays as a 10? In fact, much more so.

 

[Deleted member 27995]

Quick feet and quick thinking sums up the two/three players folks are talking about, something which we could benefit from. Left, central or right, I think we could all agree he or others would be an improvement for us.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Grealish plays off the left just as much as he plays as a 10? In fact, much more so.

Grealish does play off the left, I don’t think I mentioned him did I?

Though for what it’s worth, still different players. Brooks loves the ball played into space and while he’s full of close control, is great pushing defenders on the back foot with direct running. He’s happy receiving the ball in tight areas and back to goal, much as Bale was, but he excels on the counter.

Grealish is far more about taking the ball in a tight space, working his way out of it, playimg a one two, and ending up in a totally different part of the pitch to which he started. I’d say his ‘start on the left’ is far more nominal that Brooks ‘start on the right’.

I’d say Cristiano Ronaldo/ Bale v Messi is not a bad way of looking at Brooks v Grealish.

Frankly, I’d be delighted if we signed either.

 

[Spurrific]

Grealish does play off the left, I don’t think I mentioned him did I?

Though for what it’s worth, still different players. Brooks loves the ball played into space and while he’s full of close control, is great pushing defenders on the back foot with direct running. He’s happy receiving the ball in tight areas and back to goal, much as Bale was, but he excels on the counter.

Grealish is far more about taking the ball in a tight space, working his way out of it, playimg a one two, and ending up in a totally different part of the pitch to which he started. I’d say his ‘start on the left’ is far more nominal that Brooks ‘start on the right’.

I’d say Cristiano Ronaldo/ Bale v Messi is not a bad way of looking at Brooks v Grealish.

Frankly, I’d be delighted if we signed either.

I mean, he was compared to two players in the post you quoted, before deriding other people's opinions on the player as "mental", it doesn't take much of a reach to think you were talking about Grealish and not solely Eriken.

I don't think there's anywhere near as stark a difference as you and Hoddle&Waddle state in their styles of play. His skill-set will lend itself well to operating centrally, we're not "mental" for thinking he could play there. Just as I'm not "mental" for seeing similarities in the way Grealish and Brooks carry and pass the ball. I'm not saying sometimes I sit there watching Bournemouth scratching my eyes, thinking "what the fuck, when did they sign Grealish?" but there are plenty of similarities about their game.

 

[rabbikeane]

It seems fans from other clubs see Brooks as central midfielder, while the comments i've seen from Bournemouth fans say he's a wide man. Also read that Bournemouth price him at 40m., that would not be an option for us.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

I mean, he was compared to two players in the post you quoted, before deriding other people's opinions on the player as "mental", it doesn't take much of a reach to think you were talking about Grealish and not solely Eriken.

I don't think there's anywhere near as stark a difference as you and Hoddle&Waddle state in their styles of play. His skill-set will lend itself well to operating centrally, we're not "mental" for thinking he could play there. Just as I'm not "mental" for seeing similarities in the way Grealish and Brooks carry and pass the ball. I'm not saying sometimes I sit there watching Bournemouth scratching my eyes, thinking "what the fuck, when did they sign Grealish?" but there are plenty of similarities about their game.

Yes, I clearly meant that the posters in question were clinically insane, I wasn’t just using a slightly elaborate adjective to make my point.

You’re really not one to talk about overly deriding anyone’s opinions.

Besides, given that you’re such a little Sherlock, it might’ve been worth your while reading the post of mine that @Hoddle&Waddle was quoting originally, where once again I make no sir of if reference to any player, only to the positions, as I was questioning a poster who said Brooks was a central player who could play out wide, implying that his view couldn’t really be evidenced as the vast majority of Brooks starts have been out on the right.

Anyway, I responded to you with an explanation of my point of view regarding Brooks position, whereas you’re obsessed with one specific word I used which I’m alarmed at how literally you’ve taken it. Either that or you just like picking a fight on the internet for whatever reason. This says far more about you than me.

 

[L-man]

Bit weird

 

[DiVaio]

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

A bidding war? Fuck me gently and call me Agatha

 

[bbunc]

Well, that’s us out of the Brooks sweepstakes. Love the player, but with his injury risk there’s no way he should be more than 20. Maybe this tips us back to Eze?

 

[King of Otters]

BIDDING WAR ALERT. Someone better break out the WAR CHEST.

 

[JayB]

Would there really be a "bidding war" up to 40m between us, Leeds, West Ham, and an Ashley-owned Newcastle?

If there were financially doped clubs involved, that would be one thing, as they're showing that the current environment is no impediment to their normal spending habits. But the pandemic is surely going to put downward pressure on the market for players sought by clubs who are self-sufficient and reliant on their revenues to determine spending capacity.

Given Bournemouth's financial position I'd be surprised if they can demand 40m unless richer clubs get involved.

 

[spursfan77]

Would there really be a "bidding war" up to 40m between us, Leeds, West Ham, and an Ashley-owned Newcastle?

If there were financially doped clubs involved, that would be one thing, as they're showing that the current environment is no impediment to their normal spending habits. But the pandemic is surely going to put downward pressure on the market for players sought by clubs who are self-sufficient and reliant on their revenues to determine spending capacity.

Given Bournemouth's financial position I'd be surprised if they can demand 40m unless richer clubs get involved.

Nobody is paying £40m for him. Maybe not even £20m.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Well, that’s us out of the Brooks sweepstakes. Love the player, but with his injury risk there’s no way he should be more than 20. Maybe this tips us back to Eze?

What injury risk? I keep seeing people say this but he’s had one big injury which had a complicated recovery. It’s not like Dele or Lamela who have recurring problems which keep flaring up in training.

As for bidding war, if those are the clubs involved then I imagine Levy will just wait them out until Bournemouth realise he’s holding out to join the best club of the bunch and deadline day is approaching with the bank managers breathing down their neck. We can afford to wait, he’s good but he’s also not a priority signing given our depth in that part of the pitch, so if we actually want him I reckon we get him.

 

[Deleted member 27995]

£40 million?

 

[PrettyColors]

I get that British press probably get paid by the idiom, but I swear a football transfer is the singular place you'd ever see the word 'Warchest' written in the 21st century. Hilarious.

That said if we've learned anything it's that any player worth buying is a player worth GAZUMPING another club for. Not worried

 

[bbunc]

What injury risk? I keep seeing people say this but he’s had one big injury which had a complicated recovery. It’s not like Dele or Lamela who have recurring problems which keep flaring up in training.

As for bidding war, if those are the clubs involved then I imagine Levy will just wait them out until Bournemouth realise he’s holding out to join the best club of the bunch and deadline day is approaching with the bank managers breathing down their neck. We can afford to wait, he’s good but he’s also not a priority signing given our depth in that part of the pitch, so if we actually want him I reckon we get him.

I actually agree re: the injury, but there’s no way they’re getting 40M coming off the back of it. there’s still some risk he doesn’t come all the way back to 100% even if it’s not to be a recurring injury.

 

[Goobers]

Only way we spend 40m on a player this summer is if we sell Ndombele, Kane or Son.

 

[double0]

I don’t understand this perception that Brooks plays down the middle rather than out wide which I keep seeing. 28 of his 39 league matches for Bournemouth he’s started on the right cutting in on his left, and his main attribute has been dribbling the ball upfield and running at defenders. He played more centrally in his few starts for Sheffield but that’s a tiny sample size as he mainly cane off the bench for them. He’s not a traditional defence stretching winger but so far in his career he has been used out on the right by far more than any other part of the pitch.

Is Jack Grealish a winger?

 

[JonnySpurs]

I don’t understand this perception that Brooks plays down the middle rather than out wide which I keep seeing. 28 of his 39 league matches for Bournemouth he’s started on the right cutting in on his left, and his main attribute has been dribbling the ball upfield and running at defenders. He played more centrally in his few starts for Sheffield but that’s a tiny sample size as he mainly cane off the bench for them. He’s not a traditional defence stretching winger but so far in his career he has been used out on the right by far more than any other part of the pitch.

Just because a player is played out wide by his manager it doesn't mean he considers him a winger/wide player or that he wants him to do what wide players typically do. It may be more just to allow him to drift into space and then attack central areas from out wide, collecting the ball away from congested central areas so that he can carry the ball forward to then pick passes. When I watch Brooks I don't see a player repeatedly beating his man and whipping in crosses. What I see is an AMC playing out wide in space to help him exploit that space and also probably to help him adapt to the speed of the league.

If he was asked, I would bet that he considers himself an attacking midfielder that should play centrally.

Let's not forget that Eriksen & Dele both played wide for us at times, particularly Dele as he would then break from wide to get on the end of balls over the top.