Interesting Palacios info from vital

[markie]

Palacios is Zokora plus passing ability?

And intelligent positioning from what I have seen...
And More grit...
And some footballing talent including his control...

 

[van_Pommel]

Personally I'm in the 'Modric on the left' camp. He is an exceptional player, and for that reason will have no problem playing on left.

We will then be able to play Huddlestone in the middle with Palacios and DB or AL on the right and we should have a very creative, yet defensively strong midfield.

 

[InOffMeLeftShin]

Personally I'm in the 'Modric on the left' camp. He is an exceptional player, and for that reason will have no problem playing on left.

We will then be able to play Huddlestone in the middle with Palacios and DB or AL on the right and we should have a very creative, yet defensively strong midfield.

How would having Huddlestone in the centre make us better defensively than Modric?

 

[Darrkespur]

I think Harry likes the Hudd missile quite a lot, and seems on current evidence to be losing patience with Jenas. I suspect (hope) to see a Hudd/Wilson partnership fairly regularly, with Modric either SS with Pavy or on the left in a 442.

LW targets seem to have dried up since the Downing door was slammed. I wonder if Harry's decided he'll go back to Middlesborough in the summer and for now modric and O'hara are our LW options?

 

[StartingPrice]

I'm in the 'Modric on the left' camp.

there's a camp for that...you is the first and only person I have ever heardsaying this is a good idea. Spurs fans (so far as i know) are almost unnimously of the opinion that he should player centrally, linking play, and creating, and that the team should be built around him (as 'arry himself says), and I ain't ever seen a team built around a winger:shrug:

 

[DC_Boy]

HR came out with a big speech in support of JJ the other day

I await to see if he backs up his words with his team sheets when JJ is fit again

 

[Booney]

In the seasons where we were actually any good as a team we played 4-4-2 with a natural winger on the right (normally Lennon) and then a more "centrally-based" and defensively sound midfielder on the left (Davids, Malbranque). At the time, this board was rammed with people crying out for a natural left footed winger to give us "balance" but the system actually worked pretty well.....we'd certainly take a 5th place finish these days.

Don't see why we couldn't try Modric in a "Malbranque-plus" kind of a role on the left of centre. Bale or BAE are both good at getting forward and could offer the width on that side with Modric occasionally drifting more central and behind the forwards if needed. Lennon or Bentley could act as more conventional right wingers. WP and zokora/jenas/Hudd making up the fourth midfielder depending on how offensively minded a team Harry wanted to put out.

 

[ginol@14]

HR came out with a big speech in support of JJ the other day

I await to see if he backs up his words with his team sheets when JJ is fit again

he said that to bump up his price mate
jenas is not a "redknapp" midfielder
he likes his tall powerfull tough tackling skillfull midfielders

jenas is none of the above

expect the invisible man to be first out the door assuming someone actually wants him !