did the club blunder with treatment/sale of defoe

[$hoguN]

we shouldnt have sold him, its unfortunate that he didnt get a run, but at the end of the day Keane and Berbatov are doing the buissness for us so we shouldnt cry about letting our 3rd choice striker go too much... He is a good lad and a great player nad will score goals where ever...

 

[chrissivad]

Defoe/Keane - always have been too similar and its was always going to end this way.

They are both small.....:shrug:


It was the right thing to do, and i cant see us having 4 top strikers next season.

Defoe wouldn't sign a new contract because he wanted to play, and wasn't getting the amount of games he wanted.

Jol/Ramos wanted to play Keane and Berbatov so everything came to a stalemate.

We have Bent and sold Defoe. still 3 top strikers and Bent can take over the role that Defoe had of playing on the last man and causeing problems higher up the pitch

 

[N10toN17]

Defoe had to go because he wouldn't sign a contract, people can stand in front of a camera until they're blue in the face saying how much they love a club and it's supporters, but I prefer to deal in actions if he'd resigned his contract he'd be a Spurs player, his choice and good luck to him.

 

[guiltyparty]

Do we have a problem scoring goals?

:clap:

He had the best strike partnership in the Premiership ahead of him, something that the media seem to consistently choose to forget when focusing on 'bad old Uncle Spurs' not giving poor little Jermaine more love.

We've scored almost as many goals as Man Utd, which suggests not playing him has been the right decision. Everything else has been his decision. Good luck to him, but we'll be fine.

 

[stevenqoz]

loved Defoe. That anyone is surprised that he is knocking goals in regularly astounds me. However I will say that he is typical of so many strikers over the years in that he has ups and downs and sometimes he has a red hot streak. He is similar to the Ted Mcdougal, Phil Boyer, Tony Cottees, Dean Saunders of this world in that sometimes they were on fire but then for a while when the luck was out, could not buy a goal. Fortunately for those named above few if ever had Berbatov / Keane keeping them on the bench. We are worse off without JD and were just fortunate that we had the situation of having him on the bench to come on.

 

[michaelden]

OP - no Defoe wasn't scoring for us and not linking up with Berbs or Defoe.

Good luck to Defoe. I liked him

 

[Mornstar]

Defoe's problem is that he can't play in a team. At pompey, he's thriving because he's played on his own most of the time and there's good service to him from the likes of mendes, krankchar and co.

 

[BOLT]

No. Defoe is rubbish. He's the sort of player who looks good to people who don't watch him very often. He was good for us when we first got him, but the past couple of seasons he was rubbish. Portsmouth will realise this themselves soon.

Rarely have I come across such a load of complete BOLLOCKS in one post!

Defoe is rubbish eh?

Yep, Harry knows fuck all about football....oh no, you know fuck all!:bang:

 

[ultimateloner]

Look barring injuries Keano and Berba will start.

No place for Defoe to play since he's not as good as either player, though we know he could do the business when given the chance.

Defoe doesn't contribute enough to the squad to warrant a 60,000/week contract (just guessing a number), nor can we gurantee no. of games.

He feels he is young enough to turn the tide against life on the bench - which he is right, since that requires one exceptional season.

Pompey's a great place for this - a mentor that he could trust, a team built to his strength, a relatively small team playing with the same tatics

end of story. it's not a personal thing that defoe went. it's no-one's fault. it's not good/bad decisions. It's just the circumstances.

 

[Koba]

I was never Defoes biggest fan. For every great goal he scored he missed some he should have scored considering his ability. I'd rather lose him and keep Keane.
Also, haven't a couple of his goals (at least 2) been penalties? (Not using that to argue against him and his goal scoring, just thinking 2 penalties in 8 games is going to bump up any goal scoring record a bit)

 

[nidge]

Just look at what happened with Forlan at Utd he couldn't get a goal. Moves to Villarreal where he had Riquelme laying on goals left, right and centre for him. It's the same with Defoe. Our style of play requires our strikers to be the creative force in attack, which is not Defoe's strength and as such the rest of his game suffers. At pompey he has is able to just play his natural game and as such combined with a run of games has started scoring goals.

 

[paul_1979yid]

I think (Now shoot me down for this) that if Defoe and Keane played the same amount of league games, say every prem game this season, then Defoe would score the most goals. :shrug:

 

[General Levy]

I think (Now shoot me down for this) that if Defoe and Keane played the same amount of league games, say every prem game this season, then Defoe would score the most goals. :shrug:

Maybe, but Defoe wouldn't have set up as many as Keane.

 

[paul_1979yid]

Maybe, but Defoe wouldn't have set up as many as Keane.

Yeah maybe your right but goals win games (i know SOMEONE needs to get the assist's but you see my point?)

 

[TheChosenOne]

I was never Defoes biggest fan. For every great goal he scored he missed some he should have scored considering his ability. I'd rather lose him and keep Keane.
Also, haven't a couple of his goals (at least 2) been penalties? (Not using that to argue against him and his goal scoring, just thinking 2 penalties in 8 games is going to bump up any goal scoring record a bit)

A converted peno in the 90+ min at WHU would have given us 3pts instead of 1

(Berbs woukd have got it. !)

 

[Flatters]

Rarely have I come across such a load of complete BOLLOCKS in one post!

Defoe is rubbish eh?

Yep, Harry knows fuck all about football....oh no, you know fuck all!:bang:

Defoe's rubbish in as much as he's nowhere near good enough for us. :up:

 

[sparx100]

Defoe was a good servant to Spurs - it is understandable that he wants to play football, and unfortunately he was not going to with Keane and Berbatov on form.

I am not bitter that he left, and he will score goals for Portsmouth (which he is proving), I think the issue is that there is not much more to his game (you dont see him dropping off, setting up etc..) and I think thats where Keane and Berbs have the edge.

Good Luck to him, but as a Tottenham fan, I think we need to look forward not back.

 

[nightgoat]

Yeah maybe your right but goals win games (i know SOMEONE needs to get the assist's but you see my point?)

But if goals win games, surely creating it is just as important as scoring it?

 

[lukespurs7]

offside to often so we sold him...i heard

 

[DC555]

I would say no, he was 3rd choice. Everyone knew he would score goals where ever he went, he wouldn't sign a new contract so had to go

Totally agree