Player watch: Christian Eriksen

[SirHarryHotspur]

Chris has given great service to the club and we have him for another season , I think the mood in the club was clearly shown by Poch last week when it was clear he was not leaving . As others have said we shouldn't be criticising either Chris or the club it's the way football is . Chris has taken us even on his bad days to within touching distance of trophies, when he goes let's hope Tanguy & Giovanni can continue driving us forward.

 

[Lilbaz]

Chris has given great service to the club and we have him for another season , I think the mood in the club was clearly shown by Poch last week when it was clear he was not leaving . As others have said we shouldn't be criticising either Chris or the club it's the way football is . Chris has taken us even on his bad days to within touching distance of trophies, when he goes let's hope Tanguy & Giovanni can continue driving us forward.

When he goes lets hope we buy someone better.

 

[nailsy]

Basically saying he’s been made to stay at Spurs against his own will. Real Madrid just don’t want you, mate.

He won’t sign a new contract like he said he might (if no club wanted him) and now he’s going to fuck us over in January.

The club have definitely fucked it in this situation but Eriksen has no right to make out he’s a victim.

I don't think he's necessarily having a go at Tottenham. He could just as easily be refering to Zidane not wanting him.

He's clearly a bit disappointed that he didn't get a move, but that's no real surprise. Hopefully he can do as he says and get his head down without being distracted for the next few months.

 

[Timberwolf]

When he goes lets hope we buy someone better.

Fingers crossed we already have.

 

[JKendall13]

I was ready to bury the hatchet and move on, but the Football Manager comment has fucked me off a bit.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Eriksen definitely plays as Barcelona, and signs himself in Champ Man*

*One for the 90s kids.

 

[NickHSpurs]

Basically saying he’s been made to stay at Spurs against his own will. Real Madrid just don’t want you, mate.

He won’t sign a new contract like he said he might (if no club wanted him) and now he’s going to fuck us over in January.

The club have definitely fucked it in this situation but Eriksen has no right to make out he’s a victim.

Oh Christian, you should have just kept your mouth shut until December/January. Hardly what the fans want to hear and doesn't scream commitment to me, in my opinion we should just phase him out now and keep him on the bench. He clearly doesn't want to be here anymore and will be seeking a pre-contract in January.

 

[Tucker]

Oh Christian, you should have just kept your mouth shut until December/January. Hardly what the fans want to hear and doesn't scream commitment to me, in my opinion we should just phase him out now and keep him on the bench. He clearly doesn't want to be here anymore and will be seeking a pre-contract in January.

If he’s going to be leaving anyway, how does this help us? His cards are on the table and he’s being honest. As long as he’s performing well in training, and putting in performances like the one at the weekend then why freeze him out? To punish him? How does that get a positive outcome for Spurs? He’s a key player, and by all accounts, GLC was signed to compliment him not to replace him.

The best course of action would be to get as much use out of him as we can, while we can.

 

[Havre]

In an ideal world no decent player would leave on a free but it's not an ideal world is it? We paid buttons for Eriksen and have received several times his weight in gold back. There's very little to complain about if he goes on a free.

But where is the logic?

Would you sell Kane for 10m? That would be absurd wouldn't it? But he came for free and we have received several times his weight in gold. Equally absurd to say it is fine Eriksen leaves because we paid so little for him.

This is a classic example of the sunk cost fallacy (just the other way around).

 

[Thewobbler]

That is not the right way of looking at it. What we bought him for is irrelevant.

If we had paid 50m to loan a player for a year people would say we were crazy - basically what we are doing.

I can only pray he signs a new contract. Losing him for nothing would be a disaster for us.

Hes going for for nothing. Levy and poch know he is going to leave, if they wanted money for him they could have put a low fee on his head like 30m or less but levy wasnt going to do that when hazard just went for 130m in his last year.

Sometimes players just want a change and it would be foolish of eriksen to sign on long term if he really wants out.

 

[SirHarryHotspur]

No lack of commitment from Chris against The Woolwich in fact if only he had slowed his run down a little in the last minute and taken that pass from Harry instead of Moussa I think we would be celebrating victory.

 

[dk-yid]

Some of you lot are reading way too much in those translated comments.....

He basically refused to answer any and all questions about Tottenham and his future because he was with the national team, and that was where focus should be be, and even made a reference saying that whatever I say it will be sensationalised.... Which is then exactly what is happening.

 

[Havre]

Hes going for for nothing. Levy and poch know he is going to leave, if they wanted money for him they could have put a low fee on his head like 30m or less but levy wasnt going to do that when hazard just went for 130m in his last year.

Sometimes players just want a change and it would be foolish of eriksen to sign on long term if he really wants out.

Not disagreeing with any of that. And I wish we had sold Eriksen - even for a low fee. Money we could have spent in January on Dybala or next summer on the next N'Dombele.

Even a "low fee" like 40m would have gotten you half way to that.

 

[Indisguise]

But where is the logic?

Would you sell Kane for 10m? That would be absurd wouldn't it? But he came for free and we have received several times his weight in gold. Equally absurd to say it is fine Eriksen leaves because we paid so little for him.

This is a classic example of the sunk cost fallacy (just the other way around).

I think you're missing the point that Eriksen is at the end of his contract. Kane's still got 5 years left on his so it's not the same situation. It doesn't matter who the player is the principle remains the same; if someone has given good service to the Club and they're at the end of their contract then wish them well and move on because there isn't any choice in the matter anyway.

 

[wrd]

Some of you lot are reading way too much in those translated comments.....

HR basically refused to answer any and all questions about Tottenham and his future because he was with the national team, and that was where focus should be be, and even made a reference saying that whatever I say it will be sensationalised.... Which is then exactly what is happening.

Which is strange because it's not like us to live in the trivial on here

 

[DJS]

I don't think so.

I think that was the reason Poch was so pissed off. That we had almost 3 weeks of Real Madrid flirting with the idea of Eriksen whoring himself to them, yet with our window closed no ability to react had he gone there.

His comments there are a little silly. Not that we aren't comparable in terms of playing staff to Real Madrid, we are, but I don't think he's "good" or "big" enough for Real. He needs to be careful. If he ends up sidelined and does not have a good season, those "big" offers he expects in January may well be a lot lower than he anticipates and a lot lower than the big money we're currently/have been offering.

This is the first time he's pissed me off a little. I can understand wanting to play for Real Madrid and pushing for a move before the window, but talking shit after the window, when you know you're going to be playing for Tottenham for at least another 12 months, shut the fuck up.

I don’t get what you mean by you don’t think so highlighting a sentence in my post, makes no sense to me?

I’ve basically said if we could have shifted him for a fee then we would have, and I suspect Fernandes would be here right now.

This was in response to another poster saying that spurs had fucked up in this situation, which we haven’t as Real didn’t want him and even when we (allegedly) sent him off to Manchester he declined to join them out of loyalist to us (not wanting to playing for another English team).

We’ve also thrown considerable offers of wonga in his direction to try and get him to sign.

Eriksen has been weird in this as it’s clear as day Real don’t want him and as you’ve said and I’ve said in previous posts on this, he ain’t up to galactic standard as he doesn’t have the bulls to take a game by the scruff and win it for his team. Which is what true world class players do on a consistent basis.

 

[Havre]

I think you're missing the point that Eriksen is at the end of his contract. Kane's still got 5 years left on his so it's not the same situation. It doesn't matter who the player is the principle remains the same; if someone has given good service to the Club and they're at the end of their contract then wish them well and move on because there isn't any choice in the matter anyway.

I’m not wishing Eriksen anything than well, but nothing of this has anything to do with your argument that since Eriksen was so cheap when we bought him it is less of a problem losing him for free.

And of course I accept it. But in my opinion the club failed not being able to sell him. Not that we are the only team suffering that fate. Just that we have historically, since Campbell, been very good at avoiding these kind of situations.

 

[Shadydan]

I’m not wishing Eriksen anything than well, but nothing of this has anything to do with your argument that since Eriksen was so cheap when we bought him it is less of a problem losing him for free.

And of course I accept it. But in my opinion the club failed not being able to sell him. Not that we are the only team suffering that fate. Just that we have historically, since Campbell, been very good at avoiding these kind of situations.

Can't be seen as a failure when in comparison historically we've always been seen as a selling club in fact it should be seen as a success that we've been able to keep a player of his caliber for 6 seasons, what we've failed to do is tie him down but that's not due to negligence, that's down to the player's prerogative in which we have no control over.

 

[Havre]

Can't be seen as a failure when in comparison historically we've always been seen as a selling club in fact it should be seen as a success that we've been able to keep a player of his caliber for 6 seasons, what we've failed to do is tie him down but that's not due to negligence, that's down to the player's prerogative in which we have no control over.

Not sure why history is relevant. If so anything we now do is a remarkable success regardless.

Obviously in most cases teams are able to sell players if they want to. To me it sounds like we thought someone would come in with a bid late - that never happened and we lost.

Funny site this. Get so many dislikes on my posts, but hardly any of those are from posters that actually offer an argument for the opposite view. M

 

[Indisguise]

I’m not wishing Eriksen anything than well, but nothing of this has anything to do with your argument that since Eriksen was so cheap when we bought him it is less of a problem losing him for free.

And of course I accept it. But in my opinion the club failed not being able to sell him. Not that we are the only team suffering that fate. Just that we have historically, since Campbell, been very good at avoiding these kind of situations.

That's not what I said. I said that it's not ideal but if there's no choice then we may as well wish the lad well and thank him for the good times. I also don't think the Club has failed to sell him; I think it's more the case that he's refused to go anywhere he doesn't want to and we can't make him go to a club he doesn't want to join.