Still can’t get my head around the level he was playing at before the Chelsea injury and the level he’s played at this season. Mind-boggling.
He is the only Spurs player who can spot Werner's runs and pass properly to him.Maddison has had few stinkers in this calendar year. Most of them came when he was stil carrying an injury. For me, overall he is playing the same way as he came to us. I just feel his effectiveness has been taken out of his play with how way we are set up and we no longer possess wingers who are good enough to run behind or beat their man.
Rent free, everywhere we goHim and Johnson getting slaughtered at the darts with the "Tottenham get battered" song by the whole place.
Every event everywhere that song gets sung.
We aren't even any good ffs...****s![]()
He's our best player, maybe second to Kulusevski at worst. He's our top scorer in the league, second for assists, and is the only midfielder who can consistently skip through the opposition's midfield and get us on the attack.With Bergvalls emergence starting to wonder where he sits in the team. Doesn’t start in our best 3 IMO and doesn’t seem to be a player that will want a prolonged time on the bench. Could see him being moved on in the summer
If we based everything on stats Modric would’ve been seen as a disaster. Looking at the games he’s played he often looks a passenger imo and can’t figure out his positioning. You can’t play him in a 3 with Kulusevski imo, who obviously starts when he can.He's our best player, maybe second to Kulusevski at worst. He's our top scorer in the league, second for assists, and is the only midfielder who can consistently skip through the opposition's midfield and get us on the attack.
Modric isn't really a comparable player or role to Maddison though, he was a deep midfielder who controlled the game, Maddison is an advanced midfielder who makes things happen in and near the final third. In the role Maddison plays, goals and assists are important, and he has a lot of them.If we based everything on stats Modric would’ve been seen as a disaster. Looking at the games he’s played he often looks a passenger imo and can’t figure out his positioning. You can’t play him in a 3 with Kulusevski imo, who obviously starts when he can.
1 in 5 though he’s very good, just isn’t consistent enough for where we want to be my opinion. And seemingly many of the fans who weren’t exactly buzzing to see him replace Bergvall yesterday. Interested in the debate though, maybe I am too hard on him.
Yeah sorry my point about Modric was more my issue with using stats as a barometer of how players are performing. Modric got an assist and goal a season and we all watched him run games. It’s not baseball where stats are that important imo. I mean well done for him putting them in but isn’t much of a guide to me.Modric isn't really a comparable player or role to Maddison though, he was a deep midfielder who controlled the game, Maddison is an advanced midfielder who makes things happen in and near the final third. In the role Maddison plays, goals and assists are important, and he has a lot of them.
We always look best attacking when he's on the pitch IMO. He drifts around and finds bits of space, pulls players out of position, gets through the press with the ball at his feet, and plays clever passes. And he's always involved, he's actually getting more touches of the ball per 90 this season than Bissouma or Sarr, for example.
Kulusveksi is probably better through the middle than on the wing, but I'd say Maddison is enough of an upgrade over any of our other midfielders that it's worth moving Kulusveksi wide where he's still very good.
He did come on off the bench though, no?Said on VFTL that Maddison was meant to start for the Wolves game and didnt because he was unwell. Then managed to rouse himself for the Darts that evening.
Sitting watching darts when under the weather is very different to running 12+ km incorporating loads of sprints. I don’t see why anyone has an issue with it. I could understand if he was sinking pints and staggering all over the place, but he wasn’t and so it’s a non event.Said on VFTL that Maddison was meant to start for the Wolves game and didnt because he was unwell. Then managed to rouse himself for the Darts that evening.
I’ve never really liked the term inconsistent as an analysis. It just fails to look at the issue or cause for the weakness.
I can’t quite work Maddison out.
I think he talks a good game and when things are going well he can shine.
I think he just isn’t up for the nitty gritty of the game or digs in and steps up when the chips are down.
He has wonderful ability so he will have moments in difficult games at times but I feel his overall performance lacks in those situations.
Classy from madders
Worth posting Singh's reply as well to show how well it went down...