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Player Watch Player Watch: Giovani Lo Celso

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Typical Spurs

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He's top quality this lad. Very comfortable receiving a pass in tight area's, will press, tackle, take a booking for the team by making tactical fouls. Brilliant.

But what's surprised me is his power and pace when running with the ball. He literally breezes past players and gets us up the pitch. It not only gives us opportunities going forward, but relieves defensive pressure.

Love him
 

Archibald&Crooks

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We should enjoy this period of his career at Spurs.

Hopefully we'll get three or four years of this kind of thing before he becomes a scapegoat :D
 

WiganSpur

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If he can get himself on the scoresheet more often then he will become far more important than Eriksen ever was for us. He plays in a very similar manner yet he can get stuck in and beat players a lot more easily.
 

SUIYHA

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Imagine where we'd be without him.

I mean, our points tally would be about the same as we've barely won a game since he came into the side, but imagine how dull it would have been.
 

Everlasting Seconds

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Nope
When I was new on SC and for many years I couldn't figure out what it meant when English speakers said "tidy player". But I get it now. "Tidy player" is when a young CM is really below requirements, rarely does anything out of the ordinary, but also never does anything majorly wrong and he sort has some kind of appeal (usually being home grown) so you want him to sound better than what he is. That's a "tidy" player. Version 1.0 was obviously Tom Carroll. Version 1.3. and 1.4, patch 14, was Winks and now Skipp. But the ultimate, the perfected "tidy player", version 2.0 + premium, is Lo Celso. In a desert of under performing players, he is among the least under performing. And I would certainly prefer a suboptimal signing who can actually play over a star signing who can't play. But it stinks to have tied up all that cash last summer in summer signings and then change manager to a type who would never have done the same signings. And I do think that if lining up with 3 in midfield, just as a suggested a few months ago, he certainly isn't a horrible pick. I'm rambling a bit here. I see very much a potential use for him next season in a team that will be much better put together and for sure in a 433. But primarily because he is one of those "tidy players".
 

BringBack_leGin

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When I was new on SC and for many years I couldn't figure out what it meant when English speakers said "tidy player". But I get it now. "Tidy player" is when a young CM is really below requirements, rarely does anything out of the ordinary, but also never does anything majorly wrong and he sort has some kind of appeal (usually being home grown) so you want him to sound better than what he is. That's a "tidy" player. Version 1.0 was obviously Tom Carroll. Version 1.3. and 1.4, patch 14, was Winks and now Skipp. But the ultimate, the perfected "tidy player", version 2.0 + premium, is Lo Celso. In a desert of under performing players, he is among the least under performing. And I would certainly prefer a suboptimal signing who can actually play over a star signing who can't play. But it stinks to have tied up all that cash last summer in summer signings and then change manager to a type who would never have done the same signings. And I do think that if lining up with 3 in midfield, just as a suggested a few months ago, he certainly isn't a horrible pick. I'm rambling a bit here. I see very much a potential use for him next season in a team that will be much better put together and for sure in a 433. But primarily because he is one of those "tidy players".
With due respect, I can’t figure out what you’ve been watching if you just see Lo Celso as tidy. Have you completely missed his ability to pick up the ball and carry the ball upfield, play superb slide rule passes to get us behind the defence and singlehandedly give our attack impetus?

He’s not prime Modric, neither was Modric at the same age, but he’s a lovely player to watch. What we need is a good, aggressive ball winner to pair with him, like Modric has in Palacios and Parker, and whether it’s midfield 2 or 3 with Ndombele (if he ever gets there) we’ll look very good in that part of the pitch.
 

Nebby

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Proper midfielder. Finds space to help teammates, demands the ball, strength, touch and quality delivery. And unlike Eriksen he does the dirty stuff too; tracks back, tackles, closes down.
 

markiespurs

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Jul 9, 2008
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We have a seriously good player on our hands here and intellegent to boot. His quality on the ball is matched by his high work rate. Very impressed with his first season with us.

Looking forward to next season when he can link up with Kane and Son, then I think we'll see him rack up the goals and assists.
 

synththfc

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Can only really remember him having one bad game since he "settled" (let's say since the new year), and in that match, he kicked the shit out of a bunch of Chelsea ****s in the process. He's quality mixed with bite. Love him to bits.
 

mightyspur

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I saw a stat at the weekend that he has 0 goals and 0 assists in 17 premier league starts or something.

Get rid.
 
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