Clark28
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they know Jose will never blood an academy player, so they have to start threads about our academy players?
Harry Winks - Leicester City
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Another good game again tonight, looks like he has been a first team regular for years.
For me now, it's a case of who partners Winks in the centre of midfield.
For me now, it's a case of who partners Winks in the centre of midfield.
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Tottenham's win over Real Madrid was the landmark moment Mauricio Pochettino has been waiting for... and wonderful Harry Winks made it happen
Young Winks was a revelation again. He is 21 but looks younger and is still in the very infancy of his Tottenham career.
Twelve months ago Pochettino didn’t feel he was ready to start Premier League games. Winks began an EFL Cup game at Liverpool a year ago last week but that was sandwiched by league games that saw him thrown on in the dying moments, just for a taste.
Yet here he was, selected ahead of senior Tottenham players for the club’s most high profile game of the season so far.
Having followed news of his selection for the game in Madrid two weeks ago by going for a sleep in his room – ‘I just wanted to chill’ he said – here at Wembley Winks was alive and awake, knitting together the play between defence and attack and landing a lovely cross field pass on to Trippier’s instep in the build-up to an opening goal that tipped the balance of power in the game irreversibly Tottenham’s way.
The real beauty of Winks is the certainty of just about everything he does. It is worth pointing out here that he has started only 20 games for Tottenham and two of those have come against one of the greatest club sides in the world.
Winks was not his team’s best player last night but he still received a standing ovation when he was substituted after Christina Eriksen’s sublime third goal. His education has been as intense as it could possibly be and his young brain has proved to be as receptive as sponge.
So another great night for Winks, a seismic one for Tottenham and, with Manchester City scoring four at the unbeaten leaders of Serie A, a pretty handy one for English football.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5040463/Tottenham-star-Harry-Winks-impresses-against-Real-Madrid.html#ixzz4xEEWck1d
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- Harry Winks left the field to a standing ovation after his display vs Real Madrid
- The 21-year-old was undaunted by the prospect of playing Europe's champions
- Letting the ball do the work, Winks has earned his nickname 'The Little Iniesta'
- His continued rise to prominence is testament to where Tottenham are going
Young Winks was a revelation again. He is 21 but looks younger and is still in the very infancy of his Tottenham career.
Twelve months ago Pochettino didn’t feel he was ready to start Premier League games. Winks began an EFL Cup game at Liverpool a year ago last week but that was sandwiched by league games that saw him thrown on in the dying moments, just for a taste.
Yet here he was, selected ahead of senior Tottenham players for the club’s most high profile game of the season so far.
Having followed news of his selection for the game in Madrid two weeks ago by going for a sleep in his room – ‘I just wanted to chill’ he said – here at Wembley Winks was alive and awake, knitting together the play between defence and attack and landing a lovely cross field pass on to Trippier’s instep in the build-up to an opening goal that tipped the balance of power in the game irreversibly Tottenham’s way.
The real beauty of Winks is the certainty of just about everything he does. It is worth pointing out here that he has started only 20 games for Tottenham and two of those have come against one of the greatest club sides in the world.
Winks was not his team’s best player last night but he still received a standing ovation when he was substituted after Christina Eriksen’s sublime third goal. His education has been as intense as it could possibly be and his young brain has proved to be as receptive as sponge.
So another great night for Winks, a seismic one for Tottenham and, with Manchester City scoring four at the unbeaten leaders of Serie A, a pretty handy one for English football.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5040463/Tottenham-star-Harry-Winks-impresses-against-Real-Madrid.html#ixzz4xEEWck1d
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...pur-real-madrid-champions-league-english-core
Tottenham’s English core put Real Madrid stars in the shade
Dele Alli, Harry Winks and Kieran Trippier showed no respect for reputations by forcing Toni Kroos into errors and putting Casemiro and co on their backsides
Barney Ronay at Wembley
Shortly before half-time on a thrilling, boisterous European night, there was a moment of rare comedy at Wembley. Tackling back in his own half, Harry Winks let an arm trail lightly across Casemiro’s shoulder, only for the Brazilian to reel back, stunned, tumbling over backwards desperately. Casemiro didn’t want the ball. He wanted a break. He wanted his free‑kick.
Ten minutes into the second half something similar happened. As Marcelo rumbled upfield Dele Alli sprinted 40 metres in an arc to harry him and eventually concede another foul as Marcelo crumpled gratefully. Marcelo didn’t really want the ball, either.
Alli bellowed at the fourth official, then at his manager. A minute later, still running on anger, he did something both wicked and beautiful to Casemiro just outside the Real Madrid box. Picking up a loose ball Alli slalomed forward, put Casemiro on his backside again with a lovely playground feint, then drove a shot into the back off the net via a deflection off Sergio Ramos.
Spurs were 2-0 up. Alli had his second goal. The stadium gurgled and bellowed, consumed by the most engrossing night of elite-level football involving a bunch of Englishmen this place has seen since its re-inception as modern Wembley.
Even before the kick-off there was something beautiful about the prospect of five young English players starting against Madrid; the oldest of whom Kieran Trippier, has worked his way to this stage from the Championship. This was a Champions League night that showed the best of English football, the state of the art, and surely the armature for any serious attempt at sending a workable young team to the World Cup in Russia next year.
Make no mistake: Madrid weren’t just beaten 3-1 here, they were given a chasing, flustered at times by the energy and craft of their young opponents. Wembley was in an unusually febrile mood as Karim Benzema kicked off, and Spurs drove hard at Madrid from the start, Alli, Winks and Eric Dier playing like three men roped together in a storm, holding a high midfield line and playing right in the faces of their illustrious opponents.
Winks in particular was brilliantly assertive in that first half. The purring over his best moments has tended to centre on his “calmness”, the ability to appear unfazed by being asked to pass and receive a football, a level of praise for a basic elite skill that tells you all you need to know about recent English midfields.
Here he was up against a midfield powerhouse, arguably the top three in the world in their roles: Casemiro, king of suffocation; Toni Kroos, a wonderful passer; and Luka Modric a footballer who looks like he was born on the half‑turn, able to twist and turn and pause and do pretty much anything he wants with the ball.
In the back row of the press seats Spanish radio called the game with its usual pitch of enthusiasm, spitting out the names. Winks. Kane. Winks. There were a lot of Winkses. And there is so much to like about a player who makes the game feel this calm and orderly. Best of all Winks will often just stop and watch, reading where the ball might go next. Every team need a player like this. Given the current level of competition it seems self-evident Winks should get another chance to start in central midfield for England.
Tottenham were strangling Kroos into mistakes, pushing Modric right to the fringes. The opening goal was flickering just out of sight. When it came it was via the same triangular move Spurs had already trialled three times. Winks played a lovely floated pass from the centre out to Trippier. His volleyed cross skimmed across the six yard box and as Alli stretched to get there ahead of Nacho Wembley erupted, roaring the ball over the line ahead of time.
It was an excellent moment for Alli. At 21 he has already been talked up relentlessly as a player who belongs at this level, so convincing is his combination of quick feet, vision, cutting edge and athleticism. But before this he had done very little of note in the competition, scoring just the one goal last season in a dead rubber at the end of the group. This, though, was something else, a performance in the second half of real driving authority against the European champions. Daniel Levy might want to take the phone off the hook for the next year or so.
It brought a flurry of driving attacks in response. Madrid stretched the flanks, Achraf Hakimi galloping up and down the right like a man performing his own ceaseless bleep test, albeit one only vaguely related to the game of football going on around him. Spurs held firm and scored another brilliantly worked goal on the break though Christian Eriksen, who had a wonderful game. Cristiano Ronaldo eventually poked in a consolation, reward for some occasionally chaotic pressure.
But by the end Tottenham were cruising again, sucking the sweetness out of the best night in this competition for an English team since Chelsea won it five years ago. Nothing was decided, no medals handed out, no trophies hoisted. But football is a game of moments too, of hard-won breakthroughs, of team-building in the heat of competition; and Spurs and their English core had a night to cherish.
Tottenham’s English core put Real Madrid stars in the shade
Dele Alli, Harry Winks and Kieran Trippier showed no respect for reputations by forcing Toni Kroos into errors and putting Casemiro and co on their backsides
Barney Ronay at Wembley
Shortly before half-time on a thrilling, boisterous European night, there was a moment of rare comedy at Wembley. Tackling back in his own half, Harry Winks let an arm trail lightly across Casemiro’s shoulder, only for the Brazilian to reel back, stunned, tumbling over backwards desperately. Casemiro didn’t want the ball. He wanted a break. He wanted his free‑kick.
Ten minutes into the second half something similar happened. As Marcelo rumbled upfield Dele Alli sprinted 40 metres in an arc to harry him and eventually concede another foul as Marcelo crumpled gratefully. Marcelo didn’t really want the ball, either.
Alli bellowed at the fourth official, then at his manager. A minute later, still running on anger, he did something both wicked and beautiful to Casemiro just outside the Real Madrid box. Picking up a loose ball Alli slalomed forward, put Casemiro on his backside again with a lovely playground feint, then drove a shot into the back off the net via a deflection off Sergio Ramos.
Spurs were 2-0 up. Alli had his second goal. The stadium gurgled and bellowed, consumed by the most engrossing night of elite-level football involving a bunch of Englishmen this place has seen since its re-inception as modern Wembley.
Even before the kick-off there was something beautiful about the prospect of five young English players starting against Madrid; the oldest of whom Kieran Trippier, has worked his way to this stage from the Championship. This was a Champions League night that showed the best of English football, the state of the art, and surely the armature for any serious attempt at sending a workable young team to the World Cup in Russia next year.
Make no mistake: Madrid weren’t just beaten 3-1 here, they were given a chasing, flustered at times by the energy and craft of their young opponents. Wembley was in an unusually febrile mood as Karim Benzema kicked off, and Spurs drove hard at Madrid from the start, Alli, Winks and Eric Dier playing like three men roped together in a storm, holding a high midfield line and playing right in the faces of their illustrious opponents.
Winks in particular was brilliantly assertive in that first half. The purring over his best moments has tended to centre on his “calmness”, the ability to appear unfazed by being asked to pass and receive a football, a level of praise for a basic elite skill that tells you all you need to know about recent English midfields.
Here he was up against a midfield powerhouse, arguably the top three in the world in their roles: Casemiro, king of suffocation; Toni Kroos, a wonderful passer; and Luka Modric a footballer who looks like he was born on the half‑turn, able to twist and turn and pause and do pretty much anything he wants with the ball.
In the back row of the press seats Spanish radio called the game with its usual pitch of enthusiasm, spitting out the names. Winks. Kane. Winks. There were a lot of Winkses. And there is so much to like about a player who makes the game feel this calm and orderly. Best of all Winks will often just stop and watch, reading where the ball might go next. Every team need a player like this. Given the current level of competition it seems self-evident Winks should get another chance to start in central midfield for England.
Tottenham were strangling Kroos into mistakes, pushing Modric right to the fringes. The opening goal was flickering just out of sight. When it came it was via the same triangular move Spurs had already trialled three times. Winks played a lovely floated pass from the centre out to Trippier. His volleyed cross skimmed across the six yard box and as Alli stretched to get there ahead of Nacho Wembley erupted, roaring the ball over the line ahead of time.
It was an excellent moment for Alli. At 21 he has already been talked up relentlessly as a player who belongs at this level, so convincing is his combination of quick feet, vision, cutting edge and athleticism. But before this he had done very little of note in the competition, scoring just the one goal last season in a dead rubber at the end of the group. This, though, was something else, a performance in the second half of real driving authority against the European champions. Daniel Levy might want to take the phone off the hook for the next year or so.
It brought a flurry of driving attacks in response. Madrid stretched the flanks, Achraf Hakimi galloping up and down the right like a man performing his own ceaseless bleep test, albeit one only vaguely related to the game of football going on around him. Spurs held firm and scored another brilliantly worked goal on the break though Christian Eriksen, who had a wonderful game. Cristiano Ronaldo eventually poked in a consolation, reward for some occasionally chaotic pressure.
But by the end Tottenham were cruising again, sucking the sweetness out of the best night in this competition for an English team since Chelsea won it five years ago. Nothing was decided, no medals handed out, no trophies hoisted. But football is a game of moments too, of hard-won breakthroughs, of team-building in the heat of competition; and Spurs and their English core had a night to cherish.
St José Dominguez
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Another great game from him. Fully trust him in CM. If Wanyama is out and we feel need to add an additional DM to help Dier is one thing but I really, really hope we don't bring in someone who'll take starts away from Winks unless we're offloading Dembele.
In that 2nd CM position we are set and do not need a Barkley or anyone else getting in Winks' way in that position. Kid is flying and developing at rapid rate, don't disrupt it unnecessarily.
In that 2nd CM position we are set and do not need a Barkley or anyone else getting in Winks' way in that position. Kid is flying and developing at rapid rate, don't disrupt it unnecessarily.
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I thought initially that people were looking at him with Spurs tinted glasses and just getting over-excited but this kid just looks so good for us right now.
I actually prefer him to Dembele out there currently for sure. I just feel like he puts himself about more and is just a lot more forward thinking than Dembele, plus has a much wider range of passing.
I actually prefer him to Dembele out there currently for sure. I just feel like he puts himself about more and is just a lot more forward thinking than Dembele, plus has a much wider range of passing.
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he came of age last night. that was one of the first games where he really expressed himself, pushing forward, slinging it out to tripps etc and bossed the midfield against arguably the best two in world football.
that performance will tell him that he really does belong at this level, if there was ever any doubt. same kind of thing when Ledley played against France in the euros
that performance will tell him that he really does belong at this level, if there was ever any doubt. same kind of thing when Ledley played against France in the euros
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Genuinely he is rising through the ranks as one of my favorite Spurs players. The way he celebrates when we score, every damn time. It's like he was born out of the essence of that Kane celebration for his second goal against Arsenal the season before last.
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Better than Dembele, called it months ago
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Shadydan
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Why would you say that when they're completely different players?
tiger666
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Never heard of him.
Tottenham_God
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Because it makes me feel better for furiously masturbating over Winks
Shadydan
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Fair point, wank away.
We have 2 club trained players in our side with world class potential. And mini messi hasnt even broken through yet. That feels so good to say. What an academy we've got! La Masia be damned!
Wrt Winks. I've run out of superlatives for him. I love him
Wrt Winks. I've run out of superlatives for him. I love him
it's the harry kane scenario all over again.
from a perceived gap in the squad being filled by a nearly-good-enough to a name you demand to see on the teamsheet.
Title winners need more that a 7/10 player and we're seeing that out of nowhere (ish) he might be that guy.
A long way to go, but well done lad for forcing you way into the 11, and belonging there.
from a perceived gap in the squad being filled by a nearly-good-enough to a name you demand to see on the teamsheet.
Title winners need more that a 7/10 player and we're seeing that out of nowhere (ish) he might be that guy.
A long way to go, but well done lad for forcing you way into the 11, and belonging there.
