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Player Watch: Kieran Trippier

Everlasting Seconds

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Aurier absolutely must stay another season. Enough of this revolving door bullshit of signing and selling players after 12 months. It's so wasted and it's actually halting the club's progress.

Trippier has absolutely had an adequate season and should be pleased with himself overall. But to portray it as if Aurier is prone to stupid mistakes whereas Trippier is not is simply not factual.

Both of them are insanely different players, if both can get going next season to their very best potential, we'd have a very dynamic duo who between them could handle almost any type of opponent.

KWP should have had more game time this season. I think it's flawed that he could put in that performance at the start of the season and not be picked again. Do we not believed in merit based rewards for good efforts?
 
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Shadydan

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KWP Edwards Griffiths Onomah wanting these players to start at the top level is lunacy and as long as we have a sane manager it is not going to happen but maybe they can improve over the next year enough to earn a start here and there.I call the call for these youngsters to start the Taarabt syndrome as there are many who post on here who would have had him play above more experienced seasoned players . If these youngsters have the right mentality and are willing to work hard they will get there chance in the end.
I have seen every home game and four away games and Triippier has been either superb or good or average and only once bad and that was against city so he is not alone.I say Trippier is fine for us but if we can get someone better then so be it but in the meantime its Tripper for spurs and England

Why should Edwards get game time?
 

Hoddle&Waddle

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Aurier absolutely must stay another season. Enough of this revolving door bullshit of signing and selling players after 12 months. It's so wasted and it's actually halting the club's progress.

Trippier has absolutely had an adequate season and should be pleased with himself overall. But to portray it as if Aurier is prone to stupid mistakes whereas Trippier is not is simply not factual.

Both of them are insanely different players, if both can get going next season to their very best potential, we'd have a very dynamic duo who between them could handle almost any type of opponent.

KWP should have had more game time this season. I think it's flawed that he could put in that performance at the start of the season and not be picked again. Do we not believed in merit based rewards for good efforts?
We cant keep both of them if we want to give KWP more game time.

Personally I think we will attempt to move Aurier on.
 

tiger666

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seems quite clear that Aurier hasn’t impressed Poch. He has stopped rotating them in the league, and Trippier is his first choice.

How do you come to that conclusion?

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WiganSpur

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Aurier absolutely must stay another season. Enough of this revolving door bullshit of signing and selling players after 12 months. It's so wasted and it's actually halting the club's progress.

Trippier has absolutely had an adequate season and should be pleased with himself overall. But to portray it as if Aurier is prone to stupid mistakes whereas Trippier is not is simply not factual.

Both of them are insanely different players, if both can get going next season to their very best potential, we'd have a very dynamic duo who between them could handle almost any type of opponent.

KWP should have had more game time this season. I think it's flawed that he could put in that performance at the start of the season and not be picked again. Do we not believed in merit based rewards for good efforts?
Not any more, Pochettino is scared of giving youngsters real responsibility for fear of impact on results now.
 

tiger666

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Poch needs wingbacks in his system. Trippier is not a wingback. He's a square peg in a round hole. It's really not that complicated.

What "his system" are you referring to? I'd say wingbacks are needed when playing 3 at the back yes, not so much with the 4-2-3-1 we've been playing all season.
 

WiganSpur

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Quite rightly. People are calling for his head now even when playing the full first teamers.
If Pochettino had finished 5th this season, but had given Onomah, KWP and other players runs in the side then that would have definitely been something i'd have looked upon more favourably than if he had done it with the current first team.

I appreciate some fans don't, but some fans definitely do show patience when it comes to our academy prospects.

When a manager only wants to buy buy buy, then that quite rightly should put more pressure on them in my opinion.
 
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What "his system" are you referring to? I'd say wingbacks are needed when playing 3 at the back yes, not so much with the 4-2-3-1 we've been playing all season.
Fine. Attacking fullback. Ones that are capable of tracking back when they are caught upfield. He isn't.

And if the plan is to buy de Ligt and play more 3 in the back next year Trippier isn't required. He's not suited to that position at all.
 

Everlasting Seconds

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And if the plan is to play more 3 in the back next year Trippier isn't required. He's not suited to that position at all.
I don't know if that's as black and white, actually. In fact, I think I prefer the Trippier that plays when 3 CBs are deployed over the Trippier that plays when 2 CBs are involved. I think we all agree that Trippier has shown attacking value. And when relieved slightly of the dire need to track back because there already are 3 CBs covering the back line, Trippier becomes more effective and less prone to errors. It's actually, IMO, when he is part of a back line of only 4 players that his play becomes more either a) faulty or b) anonymous because he can't cover the entire work scope as well. Deploy 3 CBs and Trippier makes fewer mistakes. (Note, I'm talking in general terms here, I'm sure some fanboy has a match up his sleeve in which Trippier was fantastic and only played with 1.5 CBs or something like that).
 

Bus-Conductor

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With Trippier already here, we had the perfect back up in KWP. Quick, technically proficient and would have been perfectly happy to play rotation and less important games, which is exactly what Aurier has done. He chucked him into Newcastle away to see if he would sink or swim, he swam. Poch needed to be brave and trust the 2 years of coaching he'd given KWP with the first team. He bottled it, reached for the comfort blanket of a purchase.

Aurier isn't the worst player we could have bought, just completely unnecessary and pretty illogical.
 
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