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Spurs 1961

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Aug 31, 2012
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I'm sorry but I don't agree with this at all. What we're seeing right now is the Dembele that we should have been seeing for a long time but only rarely did. He was putting in one abject performance after another with the occasional good game thrown in. He's turned the corner but he absolutely has to keep that going now.

Thems me onions.
For me Dembele was a great disappointment after we bought him. I saw nothing in him for the first two years. Then he did start showing some real form but blew up in the battle of Stamford Bridge which cost us dearly for the end of the season and the start of last season.
Now at last we are beginning to see that form again and real consistency. I tend to put it down to fitness but it may be mental. Seems to me that if he is not one hundred percent fit then he is a liability; when fit he can just stifle the opposition. Can he maintain this high level of form or is he too fragile ... I don’t know
 

swarvsta

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Jul 25, 2008
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I actually find it very sad for our fans who just cannot appreciate the sheer brilliance of Dembele. Too wrapped up in the modern world of armchair fans who live by stats about assists and pass completion rates.

I feel these people just miss the beauty of football in the way I see it. His control of a game and manipulation of a football is just a joy to behold. Only Luka could give me that same feeling.

What our little friends down the road wouldn’t give to have a player who can control a midfield like he can. These players are so, so hard to find. Just amazes me that some fans don’t just admire and adore him...but actually criticise him continuously!

Would love to know who the anti-Dembele brigade would prefer to watch each week once he hangs up his boots?

Mousa, I hope you have a few more years left in you yet.

I will miss you when you’re done.
 

npearl4spurs

Believing Member
Sep 9, 2014
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Alright which one of you lot went and put in the Dembele God Mode Cheat Code?

You weren't content with us trying on the toughest difficulty you just wanted to win the whole damn thing, didn't you?
 

walworthyid

David Ginola
Oct 25, 2004
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He is the best all round midfielder in the pl and one of the best in Europe. For me he is as good as toure in his prime. His ability to go past players is almost unmatched because the majority of players who beat players do so with pace, he just walks past them like they aren't there. If you notice, after about 20 minutes or so players just stop trying to tackle him all together. You even see players let him go just so that he becomes somebody else's problem. I saw Wilshire and Ozil do it a couple if times on Saturday.

He could play for any team in world football.
 

BillyWhizz

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Nov 16, 2006
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At one point in the first half yesterday he took the ball off Lloris on the edge of our area with 2 Juve players next to him. Just turned them and ran off leaving them staring at each other wondering what happened. The sheer balls of the guy to try that. I love that guy. So much. I wish I was cooking dinner for him tonight instead of the moose I've got waiting for me at home.
 

rossdapep

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Aug 25, 2011
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At one point in the first half yesterday he took the ball off Lloris on the edge of our area with 2 Juve players next to him. Just turned them and ran off leaving them staring at each other wondering what happened. The sheer balls of the guy to try that. I love that guy. So much. I wish I was cooking dinner for him tonight instead of the moose I've got waiting for me at home.
I recall that, at the time I thought "Why has he received the ball there!!! That's suicidal!!" ......

Then I realised it was the Moose and I immediately calmed.
 

worcestersauce

"I'm no optimist I'm just a prisoner of hope
Jan 23, 2006
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Apparently Andy Dunn the chief sports writer in the Mirror gave his ratings
Mousa Dembele 7
Douglas Costa 8
You have to wonder two things, one is what game was he watching and two how is he the chief sports writer for a national newspaper.
 

markdadude

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Oct 25, 2007
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At one point in the first half yesterday he took the ball off Lloris on the edge of our area with 2 Juve players next to him. Just turned them and ran off leaving them staring at each other wondering what happened. The sheer balls of the guy to try that. I love that guy. So much. I wish I was cooking dinner for him tonight instead of the moose I've got waiting for me at home.

Yes it was amazing from Dembele but what the fuck was lloris thinking - so unnecessarily risky. His heart had to be in his mouth for a moment there. 2:20 on the vid just posted.
 

Bus-Conductor

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Oct 19, 2004
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I don't think we should be sucking each other off just yet. We've been here before many times with Dembele. Last season was a great example. He played for just under two thirds of it, and was very good in about 4 or 5 games.

Lets remind ourselves that we are 27 games into a season in which Dembele has been available for just about all of it, and we have just had 3 or 4 decent games out of him on the spin for the first time.

There was no Dembele when we were dismantling Real Madrid until we were already 3-0 up, and then they scored. There was no Dembele when we mullered Liverpool, but a rooky Winks.

There was a Dembele for our two worst performances of the season, away at Arsenal and ManC. And away at Newport. And he wasn't great for the first 45 minutes against Liverpool away.

When we are dominating possession, Dembele can look like a don. When we are the ones being blitzed, Dembele can still be rattled in making poor challenges and getting caught dawdling.

He was great last night but lets see what the rest of the season brings, but even if he's great for the rest of, it will still mean we've had a decent Dembele for about a third of a season.
 

Dougal

Staff
Jun 4, 2004
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According to Bob Mills on Talksport Mousa Dembele is the kind of Dad on a picnic who's had a few beers and takes the football from the kids and says 'come on, try and get it off me!'.

Seems about right to me.
 

Japhet

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Aug 30, 2010
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I don't think we should be sucking each other off just yet. We've been here before many times with Dembele. Last season was a great example. He played for just under two thirds of it, and was very good in about 4 or 5 games.

Lets remind ourselves that we are 27 games into a season in which Dembele has been available for just about all of it, and we have just had 3 or 4 decent games out of him on the spin for the first time.

There was no Dembele when we were dismantling Real Madrid until we were already 3-0 up, and then they scored. There was no Dembele when we mullered Liverpool, but a rooky Winks.

There was a Dembele for our two worst performances of the season, away at Arsenal and ManC. And away at Newport. And he wasn't great for the first 45 minutes against Liverpool away.

When we are dominating possession, Dembele can look like a don. When we are the ones being blitzed, Dembele can still be rattled in making poor challenges and getting caught dawdling.

He was great last night but lets see what the rest of the season brings, but even if he's great for the rest of, it will still mean we've had a decent Dembele for about a third of a season.

Can't imagine the plaudits you'd be handing out if it was Onamah putting in performances like Dembele has over the past few weeks. Just accept that he's a fantastic player for us FFS.
 

Bus-Conductor

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Oct 19, 2004
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I actually find it very sad for our fans who just cannot appreciate the sheer brilliance of Dembele. Too wrapped up in the modern world of armchair fans who live by stats about assists and pass completion rates.

I feel these people just miss the beauty of football in the way I see it. His control of a game and manipulation of a football is just a joy to behold. Only Luka could give me that same feeling.

What our little friends down the road wouldn’t give to have a player who can control a midfield like he can. These players are so, so hard to find. Just amazes me that some fans don’t just admire and adore him...but actually criticise him continuously!

Would love to know who the anti-Dembele brigade would prefer to watch each week once he hangs up his boots?

Mousa, I hope you have a few more years left in you yet.

I will miss you when you’re done.

Ironic you use stats against the rest of us, when Dembele's pass completion is probably been the club that his admirers use most to beat the rest of us round the head with, ignoring the real world stuff like the fact that he rarely plays clever or incisive passes that change football matches.

I feel sad for any fan that's daft enough to be blinded by what he thinks he likes and what a player actually does, and compare a player who's controlled the midfield about 2 and a half games in a season with one that has been doing it at the highest end of football for several years week in week out.

I watch a lot of football, live and televised, and can honestly say there about 10-15 CM's I'd happily have had in our midfield over the last few years, ones that not only help teams control a game, but also know when to pass the ball instead trying to dribble past one more player, to then make a simple pass that could have been made at the start, players who play with their head up not down, players who are clever enough to know how to make the ball do the work, as well of or instead of their hips. Midfielders that turn up most weeks a season, not a handful. Midfielders who are exceptional even when they are being pressed, not just when they are playing against a bus.
 

adamsky

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Dec 8, 2006
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I don't think we should be sucking each other off just yet. We've been here before many times with Dembele. Last season was a great example. He played for just under two thirds of it, and was very good in about 4 or 5 games.

Lets remind ourselves that we are 27 games into a season in which Dembele has been available for just about all of it, and we have just had 3 or 4 decent games out of him on the spin for the first time.

There was no Dembele when we were dismantling Real Madrid until we were already 3-0 up, and then they scored. There was no Dembele when we mullered Liverpool, but a rooky Winks.

There was a Dembele for our two worst performances of the season, away at Arsenal and ManC. And away at Newport. And he wasn't great for the first 45 minutes against Liverpool away.

When we are dominating possession, Dembele can look like a don. When we are the ones being blitzed, Dembele can still be rattled in making poor challenges and getting caught dawdling.

He was great last night but lets see what the rest of the season brings, but even if he's great for the rest of, it will still mean we've had a decent Dembele for about a third of a season.
Over last few seasons our best performances are generally when Dembélé is playing well. I can’t remember the exact stat but there was a season when we were undefeated when he played. I guarantee every opposing midfielder gives a huge sigh of relief when they see he is not on the team sheet
 

Hazardousman

Audere est Facere
Jul 24, 2013
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Dembele when he is on form like this is easily the best player in this team, or at least, certainly the one with the most impact on how we play as a team.

He is majestic to watch.
 

Giovanni

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Aug 31, 2012
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3.32 in that video is epic.....moosa injures somebody without even touching them!!! Drop of the shoulder and snap went his ankle:ROFLMAO:
 

Hakkz

Svensk hetsporre
Jul 6, 2012
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Can't imagine the plaudits you'd be handing out if it was Onamah putting in performances like Dembele has over the past few weeks. Just accept that he's a fantastic player for us FFS.

Would be enough with one of those games..
 
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