Christian Eriksen

[thebenjamin]

Just reflecting back on the Summer transfer business and how we are shaping up as a squad.
Just curious as to what people think.
Would Christian Eriksen have been a good and viable option for this squad over the next 3 years?

We are a completely different side when Bentacour is fit and moving the ball between our players so freely.
His composure and the quality of his passing is exceptional.
And the other players seem to be becoming better at playing zippy passes into the feet of our attackers.

With hindsight, do you think we made the right choice to pass on him? Or too early to tell?

But there's no way Conte would have played him in Bentancur's position in a midfield 2. Nor could Eriksen play that role. The only position in our side he could play would be instead of Son or Kulusevski, both of which seem unlikely.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

I have to say it looks from the outside like ETH is seriously underestimating the physicality and pace of the Prem. We've seen so many teams built full of technical players get bullied out of games against teams filled with steel and determination and far less ability.

Blimey there were 20 agrees on this, I was the only one who disagreed ?? turns out fish knows what he’s talking about again and a lot of people blindly agreeing ?I knew Ten Haag would be very good for Man.U and so gutted we wasted 3 years since poch when we should’ve gone out and got Ten Haag.

If Levy turned Ten Haag down because he thought his character was weird as rumours had it, then that says absolutely everything about our club under Levy and why things never change for us and the same cycles repeat themselves because of the man at the top.

 

[Yiddo100]

Blimey there were 20 agrees on this, I was the only one who disagreed ?? turns out fish knows what he’s talking about again ? knew Ten Haag would be very good for Man.U and so gutted we wasted 3 years since poch when we should’ve gone out and got Ten Haag.

If Levy turned Ten Haag down because he thought his character was weird as rumours had it, then that says absolutely everything about our club under Levy and why things never change for us and the same cycles repeat themselves because of the man at the top.

De jong, Fernandes and eriksen is completely different than Casemiro eriksen and Fernandes. Casemiro has been immense and is certainly more physical than de jong.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

De jong, Fernandes and eriksen is completely different than Casemiro eriksen and Fernandes. Casemiro has been immense and is certainly more physical than de jong.

Fair that is true but the comment was still writing off eriksen and Fernandes AND ten haag underestimating the physicality AND PACE of the PL…

He knows what he’s doing.
1) It’s a fairly moot point as only 2 inches difference in height between de jong and Casemiro but yes casamerio is a little more of a physical player and de jong more technical but de jong would work in the PL in ten Haags system also
2) Key point here… the comment was about understanding the physicality of the PL… Ten Haag signed a 5ft 8ins CB ??
3) Ten Haag’s style of play goes perfectly well with the pace of the PL, its high intensity.

 

[Flobadob]

Blimey there were 20 agrees on this, I was the only one who disagreed ?? turns out fish knows what he’s talking about again ? knew Ten Haag would be very good for Man.U and so gutted we wasted 3 years since poch when we should’ve gone out and got Ten Haag.

If Levy turned Ten Haag down because he thought his character was weird as rumours had it, then that says absolutely everything about our club under Levy and why things never change for us and the same cycles repeat themselves because of the man at the top.

To be fair this was in reply to a post saying De Jong, Fernandes and Eriksen would be bullied in the PL. A Casemiro, Fernandes and Eriksen midfield looks quite a bit different and has a lovely balance if you ask me

 

[IamSpurtacus]

Blimey there were 20 agrees on this, I was the only one who disagreed ?? turns out fish knows what he’s talking about again and a lot of people blindly agreeing ?I knew Ten Haag would be very good for Man.U and so gutted we wasted 3 years since poch when we should’ve gone out and got Ten Haag.

If Levy turned Ten Haag down because he thought his character was weird as rumours had it, then that says absolutely everything about our club under Levy and why things never change for us and the same cycles repeat themselves because of the man at the top.

Do you think we would have backed him properly?

We would have failed to get De Jong - but we certainly wouldn't have got him a transformative Casimiro (or a plyaer of that caliber and pedigree) or signed Eriksen

We'd have ruined him like we end up ruining every manager eventually

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

Do you think we would have backed him properly?

We would have failed to get De Jong - but we certainly wouldn't have got him a transformative Casimiro (or a plyaer of that caliber and pedigree) or signed Eriksen

We'd have ruined him like we end up ruining every manager eventually

Perhaps but we’d be enjoying better football and he’d be getting more from the squad we gave him, also I don’t think he nessercarily needs casemerio type level signings, for Ajax he worked on a shoestring budget and made the likes of dusan tadic incredible as he creates a system and a team that a lot of players can fit into.

Conte on the other hand needs very specialised players for ideally a lot of money so I have no doubt he’d have been a much much better fit for our model as a club but levy can’t see this.

Poch worked best for us , Jose failed big time, he should’ve learnt from that.

 

[CanadaSpurs]

Did you seriously reach back to July to pat yourself on the back?

 

[spursville]

I know he's injured now, but the fact that we didn't resign Eriksen as a creative stop-gap (especially given Levy doesn't like to spend big) still raises big question marks for me. Along with Dembele, Toby, Verts, Walker etc. we've never really replaced him. Conte has even moaned about a lack of creative players. Just where are we going as a club?

 

[Gassin's finest]

 

[parj]

I know he's injured now, but the fact that we didn't resign Eriksen as a creative stop-gap (especially given Levy doesn't like to spend big) still raises big question marks for me. Along with Dembele, Toby, Verts, Walker etc. we've never really replaced him. Conte has even moaned about a lack of creative players. Just where are we going as a club?

He plays with two CMs, where exactly was he going to play Eriksen? I know he played Eriksen at Inter but he could have put Kane in a three man midfield since Kane had been playing deep anyway, but didn't. GLC plays the role well for every team he plays for, just not us. Conte had options if he wanted to especially with all the attacking options we have, so I back Levy for not signing a player that wouldn't play.

I would loved Eriksen coming home, but I don't think he would have got enough games to justify it

 

[A Bit Much]

He plays with two CMs, where exactly was he going to play Eriksen? I know he played Eriksen at Inter but he could have put Kane in a three man midfield since Kane had been playing deep anyway, but didn't. GLC plays the role well for every team he plays for, just not us. Conte had options if he wanted to especially with all the attacking options we have, so I back Levy for not signing a player that wouldn't play.

I would loved Eriksen coming home, but I don't think he would have got enough games to justify it

This is a negative part of Conte regardless of whether you like his style or not. The creativity most teams require come from a position he was very uncomfortable with. Someone like eriksen would have improved us significantly in keeping hold of the ball and creating chances. Given that Conte doesn't tend to hang around anywhere, it creates that creativity gap when he leaves.

I still think it's a big shame we didn't get eriksen back, but I guess the financials didn't work and eriksen himself would have preferred a fresh start. We do need to find the next eriksen though!

 

[JimmyG2]

This is a negative part of Conte regardless of whether you like his style or not. The creativity most teams require come from a position he was very uncomfortable with. Someone like eriksen would have improved us significantly in keeping hold of the ball and creating chances. Given that Conte doesn't tend to hang around anywhere, it creates that creativity gap when he leaves.

I still think it's a big shame we didn't get eriksen back, but I guess the financials didn't work and eriksen himself would have preferred a fresh start. We do need to find the next eriksen though!

Maddison too dear now probably
but Ward-Prowse might be available when Southampton go down
at a reasonable price. 40 million?
28, in his prime.

 

[TPdYID]

Maddison too dear now probably
but Ward-Prowse might be available when Southampton go down
at a reasonable price. 40 million?
28, in his prime.

Reading JWP name being mentioned as a potential signing whilst trying to surpress the nostalgic memories of Ericksen is a sad indictment of how bad our squad is.

*Deep sigh!*

 

[coy-spurs1882]

He plays with two CMs, where exactly was he going to play Eriksen? I know he played Eriksen at Inter but he could have put Kane in a three man midfield since Kane had been playing deep anyway, but didn't. GLC plays the role well for every team he plays for, just not us. Conte had options if he wanted to especially with all the attacking options we have, so I back Levy for not signing a player that wouldn't play.

I would loved Eriksen coming home, but I don't think he would have got enough games to justify it

I still don't understand why he persisted with the failing 343 while his 352 at Inter was a success, if we brought Eriksen back it would similar to Inter (Eriksen in front of Brozovic and Barella vs Bentancur and Bissouma/Hojbjerg)

 

[Gilzeanking]

I still don't understand why he persisted with the failing 343 while his 352 at Inter was a success, if we brought Eriksen back it would similar to Inter (Eriksen in front of Brozovic and Barella vs Bentancur and Bissouma/Hojbjerg)

The longer Conte is gone the worse his rigidity looks to me. Other teams outwitted us due to endless predictability.

Eriksen on a free probably wanted to trash our wage structure.

 

[Freddie]

This is a negative part of Conte regardless of whether you like his style or not. The creativity most teams require come from a position he was very uncomfortable with. Someone like eriksen would have improved us significantly in keeping hold of the ball and creating chances. Given that Conte doesn't tend to hang around anywhere, it creates that creativity gap when he leaves.

I still think it's a big shame we didn't get eriksen back, but I guess the financials didn't work and eriksen himself would have preferred a fresh start. We do need to find the next eriksen though!

It was frustrating at the time when people kept trying to defend Conte on this by saying 'the system brings the creativity' when our eyes were seeing something to the contrary. His tenure got us champions league football when it looked unlikely but it's left us in pretty bad state. Eriksen seemed tailor made for what we needed.

 

[A Bit Much]

It was frustrating at the time when people kept trying to defend Conte on this by saying 'the system brings the creativity' when our eyes were seeing something to the contrary. His tenure got us champions league football when it looked unlikely but it's left us in pretty bad state. Eriksen seemed tailor made for what we needed.

It is indeed. Given how quickly managers move on, you take a big risk essentially specialising your squad to one style of play. Someone like eriksen for me can be perfect for pretty much any system (he even got time in a Conte line up at inter), and eriksens skill set is so important at the highest level. We know from experience how many times he bailed us out of a close match.

 

[SUIYHA]

Did Eriksen actually want to come back? Pretty sure if we'd moved for Poch before Chelsea did he'd be here by now but have a feeling Eriksen always would have chosen Utd unless we'd absolutely smashed the wage structure to bring him in.