- Jun 6, 2005
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I'm going to give up.
There's no point.
...and there's you with that terrible pain in all the diodes down your left side.
wretched, isn't it?
I'm going to give up.
There's no point.
Was he really worse than Raziak or Doherty up front?
Depends what you're basing it on? Considering this guy cost £26 million and scored a total of 1 goal in open play in the premier league in comparison with the £1 million Doherty who actually scored a few goals and a few winning goals i may add (as well as the occasional own goal) there is very much an argument to be made that yes this guy was worse.
Just my opinion of course.
Depends what you're basing it on? Considering this guy cost £26 million and scored a total of 1 goal in open play in the premier league in comparison with the £1 million Doherty who actually scored a few goals and a few winning goals i may add (as well as the occasional own goal) there is very much an argument to be made that yes this guy was worse.
Just my opinion of course.
He didn't cost £26m though. Come on, this has been done to death. Surely everyone knows that by now? He also didn't "score a total of 1 goal in open play in the Premier League".
Why even contribute if you're just going to make stuff up to suit your point?
Doherty "scored a few goals and a few winning goals"?
He scored 4 league goals in his 64 games for Spurs and 8 in 78 overall. He was a centre-back for most of it, so the comparison is pointless anyway.
Soldado scored 7 in 52 league appearances (23 of which were substitute appearances for a handful of minutes) and 16 in 70 (29 as a substitute) overall.
No, he was not worse than Gary fucking Doherty. It's absolutely embarrassing that anyone would seriously even suggest otherwise.
Depends what you're basing it on
He didn't cost £26m though. Come on, this has been done to death. Surely everyone knows that by now? He also didn't "score a total of 1 goal in open play in the Premier League".
Why even contribute if you're just going to make stuff up to suit your point?
Doherty "scored a few goals and a few winning goals"?
He scored 4 league goals in his 64 games for Spurs and 8 in 78 overall. He was a centre-back for most of it, so the comparison is pointless anyway.
Soldado scored 7 in 52 league appearances (23 of which were substitute appearances for a handful of minutes) and 16 in 70 (29 as a substitute) overall.
No, he was not worse than Gary fucking Doherty. It's absolutely embarrassing that anyone would seriously even suggest otherwise.
The need to either attack or defend players who have left the club baffles me. Have we really run out of scapegoats this early in the season?
He was a poor scorer for us. His general play was pretty good, down to a undoubted workrate. There, I just disputed it. I like this 'discussion on a forum' thing.Or its a discussion on a forum about the respective merits of a player. Most will acknowledge that player was a poor player for us, I really don't see how anyone could even try to dispute that. The disagreement appears to be the extent.
He was a poor scorer for us. His general play was pretty good, down to a undoubted workrate. There, I just disputed it. I like this 'discussion on a forum' thing.
Well, clearly we disagree on that. As time has passed I can't recall the particular instances you do but I know at them time I felt he was doing all he could but it wasn't happening for him. I don't just say this as a form of defence. I have seen plenty of players who don't put in that effort.The work rate argument is one aspect that I always take an issue because I actually thought he was quite a lazy player. I lost count of the times that he wouldn't make a run with the attack, the amount of times he was missing when the ball was put in. The criticism fell upon the rest of the team, that were not creating for him but the reality was that much of the fault layed with his movement and his desire to get into the right position, which for me was abysmal. That was one of my biggest annoyances with him.
The work rate argument is one aspect that I always take an issue because I actually thought he was quite a lazy player. I lost count of the times that he wouldn't make a run with the attack, the amount of times he was missing when the ball was put in. The criticism fell upon the rest of the team, that were not creating for him but the reality was that much of the fault layed with his movement and his desire to get into the right position, which for me was abysmal. That was one of my biggest annoyances with him.
And with that, I think we can all agree he must have been trying very hard indeed.... it seemed the harder he tried the worse it got.
He had zero luck. Sometimes a ball spins or bounces in your favor, one off the post will ping across and just sneak over the line, the keeper will slip up, or you get into a one on one - Solly didn't ever get a single shred of luck. If a ball could curve or bounce the wrong way, it did. If it hit the post, it'd spin away from goal every time. Keepers had blinders against him, it actually started to feel a bit out of order watching this clearly talented and determined guy rolling ones.
As much as it can't be proven, i can't explain why, but if anyone asks me why he didn't make it at Spurs - torrential and persistent shitty luck. That's all.
Honestly, it wasn't luck. He was very, very useless. It was psychological.
Maybe bad luck initiated the psychological downturn, but it simply wasn't the case that he was on the cusp of being brilliant but suffered 'persistent bad luck' for two years. That just doesn't happen.
Nice guy though, wish him well.