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Singayid

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Since he's not leaving the club on a transfer then I doubt he needs to actually go anywhere. He's clearly fit, they're probably not fussed about a medical and he doesn't have to sign any contracts I don't think. I think it's just his agent that'll be involved.

Genuine question but why would his agent be involved?? Maybe being a bit thick but surely it would be a straight agreement between clubs.
ta muchly,
 

Bofbro

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Surely there is just as much goes into a loan, you also have to sort out % of wages, medical in case of injuries, insurance, loan fee or call back etc etc....
 

Bus-Conductor

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Are you suggesting that at this stage in his career you would pick Tom Carroll over Sandro in a starting 11 based upon one hypothetical piece of anecdotal evidence?

No, but I would definitely consider picking Carroll ahead of Dembele as LM in a 433 some games to play alongside Sandro/Capoue and Paulinho.

I was merely using that pass as an example because FinnYid used Sandro as an example of why Carroll shouldn't play.
 

Kendall

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He will wear the No.10 shirt in QPR this season... This is the statement

There's no other manager in the Championship I'd rather he go to than Harry, who has a brilliant record bringing kids on in terms of development, in fact, I'd rather he go there than half of the Prem. But I would like to have kept him.
 

Bofbro

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England manager Roy Hodgson has branded Tottenham midfielder Tom Carroll as “an outstanding footballer”.

Hodgson has seen the youngster at close quarters while working with the Under-21 squad. And he singled the 21-year-old out for praise to illustrate a point he was making about Rickie Lambert.

The Southampton striker has been misjudged throughout his career because he lacked blistering pace, claims Hodgson. He thinks many people in football, including himself, have failed to look past Lambert’s lower league targetman looks to see how good he actually is.

And he thinks Carroll might also become a victim of people judging a book by its cover.

He said: “In football we go down roads sometimes and say ‘This is what a centre-forward should look like’. Sometimes we forget that you can still be a good centre-forward or right-back or centre-half without having those qualities.

“Let’s take a classic example, if we were looking at Bobby Moore today and saying ‘What has our centre-half got to be like?’ we’d say: ‘He has to be very athletic, very fast, very quick on the turn and recovery and come out with the ball from the back and beat people’. A lot of people would say ‘He can’t do this, that and the other’.

“Perhaps in the past we were [more] kind. The great Tottenham team with Dave Mackay and Danny Blanchflower, there were lots of things they couldn’t do. But there were things they could do and we admired them and built them up for the things they could do. Sometimes I think we are a bit quick to say, ‘Well, he is not quick enough not big enough strong enough.’

“The boy Tom Carroll is an example for me. In the Under-21s, I worked with him for a week and saw him play and he is an outstanding footballer. But people say he is very slight, he’s not very big, he’s not strong. That’s what we tend to do these days.

“Perhaps Rickie is someone who has come into that category. They have watched him and then found a fault, ie he can’t run like Theo Walcott.”
http://www.offthepost.info/blog/2013/09/roy-hodgson-tottenham-youngster-tom-carroll-is-outstanding/
 

Wick3d

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If Hodgson could see that in a week what the fuck was Stuart Pearce looking at?


He is pure utter shit. He was bitching about some U21 players earlier today. Sad that he can't look in the mirror and see what the real problem is. He is just rubbish.
 

nightgoat

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It's all very well Pearce moaning that Jones and Oxlade-Chamberlain 'didn't want to go' but he took Shelvey and McEacheran and ignored Carroll and Barkley. Who's fault is that?
 

ItsBoris

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I think Carroll will be one of the best players in the Championship. Can see him having a huge season at QPR. We'll also be able to see all his stats if not the games I believe since whoscored.com is tracking Championship games this season.
 

BPR_U16

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My concern is that he does have a good season with QPR but is still unable to break into Spurs next year because we have done so well too.........
 

Shea

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My concern is that he does have a good season with QPR but is still unable to break into Spurs next year because we have done so well too.........
then he will progress to a PL loan next year
 

Ironskullll

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Please please please be true. He'd come back a ridiculously better player if he got the game time

Not sure how keen he would be on going there given the different language etc

The Dutch speak better English than we do. His English will probably improve ;)
 

Ironskullll

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England manager Roy Hodgson has branded Tottenham midfielder Tom Carroll as “an outstanding footballer”.

Hodgson has seen the youngster at close quarters while working with the Under-21 squad. And he singled the 21-year-old out for praise to illustrate a point he was making about Rickie Lambert.

The Southampton striker has been misjudged throughout his career because he lacked blistering pace, claims Hodgson. He thinks many people in football, including himself, have failed to look past Lambert’s lower league targetman looks to see how good he actually is.

And he thinks Carroll might also become a victim of people judging a book by its cover.

He said: “In football we go down roads sometimes and say ‘This is what a centre-forward should look like’. Sometimes we forget that you can still be a good centre-forward or right-back or centre-half without having those qualities.

“Let’s take a classic example, if we were looking at Bobby Moore today and saying ‘What has our centre-half got to be like?’ we’d say: ‘He has to be very athletic, very fast, very quick on the turn and recovery and come out with the ball from the back and beat people’. A lot of people would say ‘He can’t do this, that and the other’.

“Perhaps in the past we were [more] kind. The great Tottenham team with Dave Mackay and Danny Blanchflower, there were lots of things they couldn’t do. But there were things they could do and we admired them and built them up for the things they could do. Sometimes I think we are a bit quick to say, ‘Well, he is not quick enough not big enough strong enough.’

“The boy Tom Carroll is an example for me. In the Under-21s, I worked with him for a week and saw him play and he is an outstanding footballer. But people say he is very slight, he’s not very big, he’s not strong. That’s what we tend to do these days.

“Perhaps Rickie is someone who has come into that category. They have watched him and then found a fault, ie he can’t run like Theo Walcott.”
http://www.offthepost.info/blog/2013/09/roy-hodgson-tottenham-youngster-tom-carroll-is-outstanding/

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