Insomnia
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Best stadium in the world der
Player watch: Christian Eriksen
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BringBack_leGin
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In fairness, we had too many non HGs to justify getting Reguilón and Vinicius in theory as we’d not shifted any but we still went and bought them (well, one and loaned the other).
If he’s unhappy at Inter and want to leave, there’s no guarantee that he will be a starter at any club of our stature or higher.
It’s his choice of moving to any club that is willing to accept him anyway.
If he's willing to come back you'd imagine he'd be out to prove a point that he still has it. Seems like he's realised the grass isn't always greener on the other side. He's 28 now so should be at his peak really, I could think of worse signings we could make. He would give us a different dimension and could be vital off the bench in tight games.
Assumung we get a good price...
Assumung we get a good price...
PrettyColors
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I would say him returning is neither a good idea for the club or Eriksen personally.
If he’s out of favor, out of form, and out of love with the game I really don’t think we have the minutes to get him up to sharpness again. I’d love him off the bench but it just doesn’t seem realistic considering how few HG spots we already have.
For Eriksen though, I don’t think coming into a side he already knows inside and out would do him much good. Honestly he should get a loan to Spain or even Ajax again, a passing side with less defensive responsibility he’d be able to recover some form before the Euros where he is expected to be Denmark’s best player again.
If he’s out of favor, out of form, and out of love with the game I really don’t think we have the minutes to get him up to sharpness again. I’d love him off the bench but it just doesn’t seem realistic considering how few HG spots we already have.
For Eriksen though, I don’t think coming into a side he already knows inside and out would do him much good. Honestly he should get a loan to Spain or even Ajax again, a passing side with less defensive responsibility he’d be able to recover some form before the Euros where he is expected to be Denmark’s best player again.
ikky
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It’s a big fat no from me. He either downed tools or regressed badly the last 18 months with us and judging by his ( lack of ) performances at inter it’s most likely the latter. As some have said you can’t suddenly turn it back on especially if you can’t even do it in the slower Italian league. A couple of things pissed me off also: him running down his contract to 6 months so we got a pittance of his value when we sold him and his little dig at us about winning trophies at Inter. How I would love it if we win trophies under Jose.
I don't get this whole hatred of players for wanting to leave to win trophies, It's basically what a players career is judged on. In the last 15 years Inter have won 5 Serie A's, 3 Coppa Italia's, 4 Italian Super cups, 1 Champions League and 1 Club World Cup, compare that to our 1 Carling Cup.
I agree with that running down his contract wasn't great but who's to say he didn't make it clear he wanted out well before that but we didn't sell im the hope he'd sign a new contract? It would be a different story if he said he wanted to win trophies and went to somewhere like Everton.
The Opinionated Lurker
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“Now comes the part where we throw our heads back and laugh”Saw this interview today....He doesn't seem happy and he is definitely looking to move on
Eriksen gives clearest hint yet he regrets leaving Tottenham for Inter
Christian Eriksen has admitted that his move from Tottenham to Inter Milan in January has not been what he dreamed of, after failing to complete 90 minutes this season so far.www.teamtalk.com
Same with Doherty & Rodon who have only exasperated our squad issues. For as good a window we had, we really made it so much more difficult on ourselves.
DiVaio
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Doherty is homegrown for both Premier League and Europe.
kaz Hirai
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Random reply, where did I say I hated eriksen?
Neon_Knight_
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If he returned, I'd have no ill feelings towards him, but I'm not convinced it would be in anyone's best interest (apart from Inter's).
I think fewer Spurs fans would have held it against him if he'd taken up an offer to move to a bigger club (like Berbatov, Modric, Carrick, Bale etc.). Rather than taking up an offer, Eriksen tried to engineer a move by publicly stating he wants a new challenge, seemingly with the aim of attracting an offer from Real Madrid. When that didn't materialise, he settled for a relatively mediocre opportunity - giving the impression that he was fed up with us, rather than moving on to something even better.
In the end, Eriksen abandoned Inter's most successful manager of modern times (Jose won the treble and their first EC/CL since the 1960s) to join a club that hasn't won a trophy for 9 years. Inter is currently 7th in the 4th(?) strongest league, while we're 2nd in the strongest. Perhaps appointing Conte and signing Man Utd's rejects gave Eriksen optimism that Inter were about to become a dominant force again, but so far the evidence suggests he was wrong.
Yeah hatred was the wrong word, it was more a general reply to how people react to players leaving to win trophies rather than a direct reply to yourself, just happened that I seen your post first that kind of related to this haha.
Tucker
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Eriksen had plenty of chances to win a trophy here.
I don’t hate him for wanting a new challenge, sometimes people get stale and need a change in their life, he was honest about it and didn’t force a free transfer. I’m kind of disappointed that it hasn’t worked out for him, and I’d probably welcome him back if he was really committed to the team.
Saoirse
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Wanting a new challenge is totally fine. But he'd signed a contract until Summer 2020, which means until that point or whenever we received a genuinely good offer he should have been playing his heart out giving 110% for the team - that's the minimum expectation. Instead he downed tools, let his mind wonder, and lacked the commitment needed.
Tucker
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He really wasn’t alone in this attitude. A malaise settled across most of the first team during Poch’s last 12 months in the job. That aside, he’s still just a human being like any of us, he obviously lost a bit of his desire towards the end, but he was still a vital player for us up until around the last 4-5 months where he was pretty much dropped.
People make mistakes, it’s not like he put a video of himself on Twitter, shitting on a picture of Billy Nick before wiping his arse with a vintage 81 home shirt. The way he’s pilloried on here is massively ott.
kent brockman
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He is on massive wages. Dont think he is worth being paid on par with our top earners.
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