Eric Dier - Signed

[danielneeds]

Id prefer lascalles tbh because
1- he's taller
2- he's played in a very hard leugue full of grant holts and Rickie lamberts unlike Eric Dier whose been playing against header postigas
There's a clear reason we'd get dier- price

Then again Forest have produced very few top players, while the Sporting youth and coaching structure is famed around Europe.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Id prefer lascalles tbh because
1- he's taller
2- he's played in a very hard leugue full of grant holts and Rickie lamberts unlike Eric Dier whose been playing against header postigas
There's a clear reason we'd get dier- price

Lascelles is 1cm taller...

Edit- Also, Lascelles has never been picked for the England U21s while Dier is a regular for them...

 

[danielneeds]

Doesn't mean they didn't want him though does it?

Seemed to happen after
Bruce grew frustrated by Dawson's intransigence.

 

[Son of spurs]

Lascelles is 1cm taller...

Edit- Also, Lascelles has never been picked for the England U21s while Dier is a regular for them...

So is he taller? Yes or no

 

[Ossie85]

It's not strange if we rate him highly, which is very possible. Unless you meant it's just strange that he will never be considered HG despite being born in England.

I haven't seen him tbh, but several that saw him said he was overrated. I would prefer to keep developing Veljkovic.
Lascelles makes sense as he counts as homegrown

Beside's I'm reading that he rejected the renew offers because he only played 16 games last season. Does he expect to play more with us??

 

[Son of spurs]

Lascelles is 1cm taller...

Edit- Also, Lascelles has never been picked for the England U21s while Dier is a regular for them...

Danny rose is a regular left winger for the u21...

 

[absolute bobbins]

Then again Forest have produced very few top players, while the Sporting youth and coaching structure is famed around Europe.

Didn't Forest produce Dawson? Would be fitting to replace him with another Forest player

 

[Good Doctor M]

Lascelles is 1cm taller...

If Defoe had been 1cm taller he would have got on the end of that Bale cross against City.

The defence rests!

Sign this guy up!!!

 

[Sweech]

Ali Z...

What's wrong with that?

Is he a ITK or not?

 

[Hitch]

Anyone have an idea on how Dier is rated by Sporting fans/media as compared to Ilori when he was there?

 

[Gedson100]

What's wrong with that?

Is he a ITK or not?

Put it this way:

If there were an ITK league table, many would expect him to be in a relegation battle.

That's about as diplomatic as I can be.

 

[mill]

Seemed to happen after
Bruce grew frustrated by Dawson's intransigence.

So there was a taker for him then though?

 

[Son of spurs]

Also what's the fixation on buying other teams youngsters rather then playing ours we may have good defenders such as veljkovic

 

[Bofrok]

Where you seeing this?

It's mentioned in the Cartilage Free Captain article that was linked:

"Mais Futebol say Dier will spend this season on loan at Sporting if the loan goes through."

 

[Hitch]

What's wrong with that?

Is he a ITK or not?

IMO not even close. Just my opinion though.

 

[Ossie85]

If you view it as being a foreign youth the scouting team rate highly, that comes with the advantage of already speaking the language fluently and has some experience of at least English top flight training, then to my eyes it does appear a good signing.

He's also undoubtedly fluent in Spanish by now, so would therefore also provide the advantage of helping translate for Poch in training. Would also be able to relay more specific commands more quickly during games as well.

Why would he be fluent in Spanish?

 

[Kraji]

Anyone have an idea on how Dier is rated by Sporting fans/media as compared to Ilori when he was there?

Most of Sporting fans rated Dier higher then Ilori. At the time, I thought that both were top class material but Ilori had a litle bit more potential

 

[Snarfalicious]

Also what's the fixation on buying other teams youngsters rather then playing ours we may have good defenders such as veljkovic

I agree, but Dier could realistically be a great partner to Veljkovic.

 

[Hitch]

Most of Sporting fans rated Dier higher then Ilori. In my opinion Ilori has a litle bit more potential

Thanks. Despite your view on their respective potential are you happy with us signing Dier?

I thought that Ilori would prove a good signing for Liverpool also but doesn't seem to be going well so far.

 

[DaSpurs]

Why would he be fluent in Spanish?

I apologize, in the haste of my edit I chose a very incorrect verb.

It is my understanding though from fluent Spanish speakers that speakers of Portuguese and Spanish can at least understand each other very well. I would speculate this is even more likely for Dier due to his living in Portugal, and growing up with many Spanish speaking players at Sporting along with people he would come into contact with on a frequent basis.

But yes, "fluent" was a poor choice in word. My bad.