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Player Watch: Antonin Kinsky

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He has played for Slavia in Europa League this season but UEFA did remove the rule about being cup tied in a tournament if you've played in it the same season a while ago, i.e. he could be registered for us in Europa League. Or am I mistaken?
 

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spoon

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An unknown prospect is just what's needed here to get everyone excited again. Love it.
 

-Afri-Coy-

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Some of you are far too easily pleased…
I just see yet another player that won’t be ready to help the first team for many years.

We were linked with Wolves second choice a day or two ago? This is actually a signing worth being excited about.
 

Mackan110

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Never seen him play, or at least nothing i remember but hope he is better than forster

Have we had any ITK about him today?
Can't seem to find the itk thread 🤔
 

GutBucket

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Good, every player needs proper competition not a dedicated backup. Hope it's not our last signing before deadline day, or in total.
 

Ghost Hardware

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I’m taking any sort of positivity in your posts GH as incredibly positive. Thanks for the insight as ever, you are a forum treasure.
Thank you Bud! I think the key thing we all need to remember is that he will be coming into a storm. The back line, the run of form, injuries, the discontent towards everything Spurs. It is a very hard environment for any player to walk into, talk about a trial by fire (but also a valuable learning opportunity)! With that in mind it would be understandable IF he maybe has a rough start. So as much as I know patience is understandably a very rare commodity at the moment this sort of move is far far better for the club then an ill fitting panic buy.

But this is a kid who has performed away against some big European clubs and he fits our system which is key. He isn’t an inexperienced 18 year old. I really hope the fans can get behind him. I do like this move personally, and dare I say it, makes me quietly excited to see who else we pick up this window.
 

Dougal

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Just watched Kinsky’s showreel. Already he has an advantage over today’s keeper as nobody has any footage of Austin playing football.
 

Stoof

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Apparently he wears specifically monogrammed footwear when he plays.

Looking forward to seeing those Kinsky boots.
 

Dougal

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The way things are going he’ll probably sprain his wrist signing the contract.
 

tubbygold

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This will be a good signing for us. Fits our style of play. Jindřich Trpišovský, SP’s manager, very much subscribes to an attacking, tiki taka, high press, high line style of play. They also don’t adapt their approach against better EL opponents - against Frankfurt they managed 53% possession, 20 shots to Frankfurt’s 10 and had more passes with 299. This was the same case against Anderlect, Fenerbahçe and even Athletic away when they had 61% possession, 14 shots, 371 passes and an XG of 1.07 compared to Athletics 0.17. Point being they play a similar brand of football to us and yet haven’t let in more then 2 goals all season regardless who they have come up against.

Beyond that SP have a very highly rate youth academy

As for Kinsky he is one of the top young keeper prospects around taking into consideration he doesn’t have experience in a top 5 league. That said he had some solid games in the EL, as I mentioned above, and i remember him having an excellent game against Lille in a CL qualifier back at the start of the season.

Might be a little rough around the edges and maybe the step up might take a little adjustment but this is a player that is more in keeping with our current ethos. But he is very well adapted to an tiki taka attacking style of football, is already capable with a high ceiling.

A player who will naturally match our system, improve our current options, be worthy of mins from the off whilst eventually being good enough to push for a starting spot.

Restes is by far the biggest GK prospect in world football currently without a doubt and I’m not suggesting Kinsky is on that same level but he still has a lot of potential from the games I’ve watched of him. Could be an excellent move and i wouldn’t dismiss it
If the club doesn’t hire you soon, we at least oughta start paying you a salary here lol.
 

purplemonkey

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Interesting that his dad was a Czech international GK. He follows Johnson, Bergvall and Gray in coming from a footballing family. Radu’s parents played volleyball and basketball at international level for Romania. Seems there’s a pretty strong emphasis on the player’s background when we’re profiling young players. Even of the players who haven’t been raised in a sporting culture, VDV’s dad is a high profile detective, Odobert’s mum is a children’s counsellor. I guess there’s a much higher likelihood that these kids will make it if they have the right influences and values.
 
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