The Spurs Youth Thread – 2016/2017

Sweech said:

Probably told by a bellend that thought Shashoua and Lesniak were going to be the next crop of youngsters to break through because Poch put them on the bench. A whole slew of articles came out about them and they all ignored the fact that many of the ones we're actually expecting to push through were all either injured or away on international duty.

This isn't to slag Shashoua, but I don't believe anyone thinks he's in the same crop as Onomah, KWP, CCV, Edwards, etc. and is instead in the one behind and still needs more time for physical maturity.

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Pizza said:

Who's the big No.9 striker? He looks good.

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Spurzinho said:

If you're talking about the Spurs clips then I believe that that is Shilow Tracey.

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IGSpur said:

The England no.9 was Jonathan Leko the only obvious no.9 I spotted for us scoring against Arsenal was Griffiths. I didn't notice Tracey in any clips.

Also don't know why at the start they claim Shashoua is left footed

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dovahkiin said:

hertyid on edwards:
I was told at the end of last season that Shashoua was seen as a better prospect right now. Can't say I've seen much of him though.

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Bus-Conductor said:

Hertyid spelt Lesniak wrong surely ?

Thanks for passing Dov (especially as I'm banned from the ITK thread, it's nice to see a bit of blue) but that's whack.

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IGSpur said:

The England no.9 was Jonathan Leko the only obvious no.9 I spotted for us scoring against Arsenal was Griffiths. I didn't notice Tracey in any clips.

Also don't know why at the start they claim Shashoua is left footed

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Spurzinho said:

Griffiths is lankier and has a fluffed up hair-do, the number 9 in the clips looked more like he had a classic number 2 cut which is more Tracey's go to.

Reading that back makes me sound weird. I'm going for a lay down.

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Sweech said:

Probably told by a bellend that thought Shashoua and Lesniak were going to be the next crop of youngsters to break through because Poch put them on the bench. A whole slew of articles came out about them and they all ignored the fact that many of the ones we're actually expecting to push through were all either injured or away on international duty.

This isn't to slag Shashoua, but I don't believe anyone thinks he's in the same crop as Onomah, KWP, CCV, Edwards, etc. and is instead in the one behind and still needs more time for physical maturity.

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WindyCOYS said:

Actually I think Shashoua is really good and is genuinely well-liked by the club. He was training with the first team from a very young age despite his size.

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garryparkerschest said:

From your point of view, do you think Marcus Edward's is as liked as much?

From a conversation I had with a spurs coach as couple of years ago gave me the impression that he had a bit of an attitude problem.

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Spurzinho said:

I think with Edwards he was a pretty nice kid until he hit that difficult age of 14/15 and then he went through that typical "I'm a bad man" phase where he was insolent and obnoxious, which is completely normal. As far as I'm aware it didn't last long and although he is impatient and is not backwards in coming forwards when it comes to arguing his case his attitude is fine. I don't know who his agent is so I have no idea if they're awkward or not.

Shashoua has always been very liked rated and liked at Spurs, no question. He didn't get the external recognition that Edwards got but the club always had him earmarked.

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garryparkerschest said:

From your point of view, do you think Marcus Edward's is as liked as much?

From a conversation I had with a spurs coach as couple of years ago gave me the impression that he had a bit of an attitude problem.

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Spurzinho said:

I think with Edwards he was a pretty nice kid until he hit that difficult age of 14/15 and then he went through that typical "I'm a bad man" phase where he was insolent and obnoxious, which is completely normal. As far as I'm aware it didn't last long and although he is impatient and is not backwards in coming forwards when it comes to arguing his case his attitude is fine. I don't know who his agent is so I have no idea if they're awkward or not.

Shashoua has always been very liked rated and liked at Spurs, no question. He didn't get the external recognition that Edwards got but the club always had him earmarked.

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WindyCOYS said:

Actually I think Shashoua is really good and is genuinely well-liked by the club. He was training with the first team from a very young age despite his size.

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Sweech said:

I'm not saying he's not - I think he's very highly rated.

I just don't think he's as close to the first team as CCV, KWP, Onomah, and Edwards.

I still rate Edwards higher and believe he'll break trough sooner which was the point of the entire discussion.

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nicdic said:

Edwards named in the Eng U19s squad, might provide a chance for us to see him a bit.

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Bus-Conductor said:

I believe it's someone called Costas Toffis.

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