Player Watch: Emerson Royal

UncleBuck · Feb 26, 2023

Let’s not forget he’s only just turned 24, it’ll be interesting to see how he develops over the next 18 months though.
Personally I think he could become one of the best in the role he’s playing or the RCB slot, he strikes me as a confidence player and at the moment I don’t see many better.
Massive kudos to the young man

N'Obody · Feb 26, 2023

I think he has potential to basically play as a box to box cm. The type who keeps it simple with short passes and keeps the game going in midfield. He's literally an engine.

noggen · Feb 26, 2023

rossdapep said:
Our fans have no clue sometimes.

Danny Rose
Benoit Assou-Ekotto
Emerson Royal

I'm sure there are more.

Harry Kane?

easley91 · Feb 26, 2023

rossdapep said:
Our fans have no clue sometimes.

Danny Rose
Benoit Assou-Ekotto
Emerson Royal

I'm sure there are more.

every single player we have ever had?

fishhhandaricecake · Feb 26, 2023

rossdapep said:
Our fans have no clue sometimes.

Danny Rose
Benoit Assou-Ekotto
Emerson Royal

I'm sure there are more.

Gareth Bale
Luka Modric
Harry Kane

arunspurs · Feb 26, 2023

I cannot think of a better RB than Emerson in PL this season....if not, at the very least in 2023 calendar year.

septicsac · Feb 26, 2023

Kudos to the guy, he has turned it around in style and hard to see Porro ousting him they way things currently are, long may it continue.
No doubt, he has no shortage of character, a credit to himself as he took a lot of stick, including from myself, but hands up he has been reborn into Cafu mark two, can't help but be happy for him.

arunspurs · Feb 26, 2023

If everyone in world had same self confidence & will to work hard like Emerson, world would be in a better place. Thats the best compliment I can give him on his turnaround

BorjeSpurs · Feb 26, 2023

Bluto Blutarsky said:
Kulu has played inside at various times this season - he really is not comfortable there. He probably needs a preseason working in just that area - but, I think it might just be that he will never be that versatile, and that he prefers to play along the line.

Fully agree with this.

The talk about Kulu playing as a number 10 mainly stems from his own comments saying that he used to play there during his youth football days in Atalanta.

He is at his best when he can isolate a defender with no one behind him.

DarwinSpur · Feb 27, 2023

Just another indication of Emerson's rise: Chilwell was so fucking sick and tired of him just bombing up and down that right hand side he deadset, off the ball, drags Emerson's shirt with both hands to stop him running forward - just so Chilwell won't have to chase him.

Atwell and his assistants, naturally, let Chilwell get away this with no card.

Aleks · Feb 27, 2023

DarwinSpur said:
The collective insanity that swept through the fanbase scapegoating Emerson was wild. I mean I was standing there in the South just mystified as he played no better or worse than any other Spurs player but was the brunt of all our frustrations with the performances.

Even now podcasts like The Extra Inch still can't bring themselves to acknowledge not just that he wasn't the cause of all our ills but is OBJECTIVELY the best performing Right Back in the Premier League so far in 2023.

He is what he always was - a young, talented defender with some offensive limitations. Just mentally stronger than most as it happens

Also, it feels like people never learn the lesson that players performance ebbs and flows over time and that it takes a certain amount of time and certain conditions for a player to perform at their peak and this can come crashing down at any moment.

This happens time and time again, with players like Sancho, Maguire, Mudryk etc. all on a current low point that will improve in the future. Hell, Rashford is the best example of this, the Man U fans wanted him gone last year and look at him now.

Being so hyper reactionary and scapegoating a player so harshly almost always ends up leaving egg on your face as form picks up or goes down.

dickieven · Feb 27, 2023

I also think he is a popular guy in the team. At the end he looked so happy for Skippy.

spurmin · Feb 27, 2023

Aleks said:
Also, it feels like people never learn the lesson that players performance ebbs and flows over time and that it takes a certain amount of time and certain conditions for a player to perform at their peak and this can come crashing down at any moment.

This happens time and time again, with players like Sancho, Maguire, Mudryk etc. all on a current low point that will improve in the future. Hell, Rashford is the best example of this, the Man U fans wanted him gone last year and look at him now.

Being so hyper reactionary and scapegoating a player so harshly almost always ends up leaving egg on your face as form picks up or goes down.

Please see page 170 onwards. Some great comments.

Japhet · Feb 27, 2023

He's like a new player with Stellini and Mason in charge.

-Afri-Coy- · Feb 27, 2023

spurmin said:
Please see page 170 onwards. Some great comments.

I’m going to screenshot, print and frame some of the best posts from back then to hang on my wall next to my signed Emerson Memorabilia when it arrives.

My GOAT

McFlash · Feb 27, 2023

Japhet said:
He's like a new player with Stellini and Mason in charge.

It's not just these past couple of games.

BorjeSpurs · Feb 27, 2023

Finchyid · Feb 27, 2023

walton said:
Truly unexpected and welcome improvement from Royal...next thing is for him to work out what to do with the ball in the final third, still way too wasteful.

Not unexpected at all. Its clear that he wasnt sh1t...But people just got on his back

thelak · Feb 27, 2023

Arguably our best RB ever at this point

can’t believe people were writing him off. Our fans will never learn

always backed him myself and knew he would have 3 great games in a row at some point

Finchyid · Feb 27, 2023

Aleks said:
I will forever be smug that I stood by him during the dark days

You wont be the only one....

Was really pleased that he actually got cheered when his name was read out

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