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BTN1

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I was sat here watching MOTD tonight, and realised I recognised a lot of ex spurs players playing for other teams. I decided to work out who, and where they played.

The results I found surprising. Only 7 of the top flight teams do not have ex Spurs players playing regularly for them. I always assumed West Ham, and Portsmouth took our rejects but top are Sunderland and Fulham who have 5 ex players each. Of the top 4 Man Utd have 2 and Villa have 1, Chelsea and Arsenal have 0. Is this unusual for EPL teams? Is this the Arneson legacy of buying so many players and selling on?

Out of all of them who was I sorry to see go? Well only the 2 to Man Utd if I’m honest, although I always liked Davies, Malbranque and Etherington. Barmby was always a favourite as he was in the Spurs team I first started supporting.

Below is the full list, what do you think? Any favourites, comments, memories?

Chelsea: 0
Man Utd: 2 Carrick; Berbatov
Arsenal: 0
Villa: 1 Young
Man City: 0
Liverpool: 0
Sunderland: 5 Fulop; Reid; Malbranque; Bent; Campbell;
Burnley: 0
Stoke: 1 Etherington
Fulham: 5 Kelly; Konchesky; Murphy; Davies; Zamora
Birmingham: 2 Carr; Tiaino
Everton: 0
Wigan: 1 Edman
Blackburn: 2 Robinson; Chimbonda
Hull: 3 Gardner; Barmby; Marney;
West Ham: 1 Davenport
Bolton: 1 Davis
Wolves: 0
Portsmouth: 4 Kaboul; O’hara; Brown; Boateng;

Lets see if this works for Premier league teams: Ok out of these who would win, and add in our current team:
(Best 11)
Robinson
Kelly Kaboul Chimbonda Young
Davies Tianio Carrick Malbranque
Bent Berbatov

(Worst 11)
Fulop
Carr Gardner Davenport Konchesky
Barmby Murphy Davis Etherington
Campbell Zomora

Gomez
Charlie King Woodgate Disco Benny
Lennon JJ Palacios Modric
Defoe Keane

I hope our current team would beat both teams, although the top one looks quite strong. Looking from these teams which I have ranked as the best and worst available, I think the top (best team) would be top 6 easily, and the worst Easily bottom 6
 

BringBack_leGin

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Its cool, nice to know I'm not the only crackpot obsessive around here. I left out players who chose to leave us, players we only had on loan and players on loan from us.
 

BTN1

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Lets see if this works for Premier league teams: Ok out of these who would win, and add in our current team:

Robinson
Kelly Kaboul Chimbonda Young
Davies Tianio Carrick Malbranque
Bent Berbatov
Sub: Etherington; Marney; Brown;

Fulop
Carr Gardner Davenport Konchesky
Barmby Murphy Davis Reid
Campbell Zomora

Gomez
Charlie King Woodgate Disco Benny
Lennon JJ Palacios Modric
Defoe Keane

Looking from these teams which I have ranked as the best and worst available, I think the top (best team) would be top 6 easily, and the worst Easily bottom 6
 

BTN1

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Lets see if this works for Premier league teams: Ok out of these who would win, and add in our current team:

Robinson
Kelly Kaboul Chimbonda Young
Davies Tianio Carrick Malbranque
Bent Berbatov
Sub: Etherington; Marney; Brown;

Fulop
Carr Gardner Davenport Konchesky
Barmby Murphy Davis Reid
Campbell Zomora

Gomez
Charlie King Woodgate Disco Benny
Lennon JJ Palacios Modric
Defoe Keane

Looking from these teams which I have ranked as the best and worst available, I think the top (best team) would be top 6 easily, and the worst Easily bottom 6

decided to add this to original colum, thanks for the idea BBLG :)
 

Dibby

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I'd say that first team would depend on which Berbatov turned up. :grin:
 

Greenspur

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Watched Sunderland last night. Fulop was excellent. What an error selling him. Also, Andy Reid was man of the match for about the twelfth time this season. Another mistake?
 

davidmatzdorf

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Fulop asked to leave to get 1st team experience more quickly - he wasn't even 2nd choice at Tottenham and he immediately took over at Sunderland after an injury.

Reid was stubbornly played at left wing at Spurs, despite plenty of evidence that he's not particularly effective as a winger. At Sunderland, he gets to play in an advanced central midfield role, which suits him better.
 

Greenspur

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Fulop asked to leave to get 1st team experience more quickly - he wasn't even 2nd choice at Tottenham and he immediately took over at Sunderland after an injury.

Reid was stubbornly played at left wing at Spurs, despite plenty of evidence that he's not particularly effective as a winger. At Sunderland, he gets to play in an advanced central midfield role, which suits him better.

I understand the reasons - but they would be useful at the moment.
 

Yakflange

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Good article, interesting read.

I think I remember reading somewhere recently that we have more ex-players (and maybe loan players) in other premier league teams than any other club. Probably by quite a margin.
 
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I'm wondering whether Michael Kightly would count, he plays for Wolves and was one of our youth team players, but he never played a first team game for us
 

dannythomas

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I think Erik Edman still thinks he plays for us, thanks for a couple of nice assists and giving AL freedom of the park yesterday !
 

BTN1

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I think Erik Edman still thinks he plays for us, thanks for a couple of nice assists and giving AL freedom of the park yesterday !

Agree, think it must have been in his contract. I like the way MOTD kept monaning on about him just returning from injury to explain his poor performance- but did Lennon just return aswell????
 

yidogra

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Memories?

Carrick tearing the scum's defence apart at the Library only to miss by a matter of inches...had it gone in, we would have been in the CL AND he would've easily won goal of the season
 

gloryglory

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Reid was stubbornly played at left wing at Spurs, despite plenty of evidence that he's not particularly effective as a winger. At Sunderland, he gets to play in an advanced central midfield role, which suits him better.

No, he doesn't. He plays left midfield. Cana and Cattermole are the central midfielders - Jordan Henderson has covered in Cattermole's absence. Reid played in the centre against Arsenal, but that was the first time.

He's just playing better now than he did for us. It happens. No matter - we essentially replaced him with Edgar Davids, so I didn't cry for his departure.
 

BoringOldFan

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I was involved in a similar discussion on another message board. We came up with a list of ex-Spurs players for every club currently in the Premier League:

Arsenal (Campbell)
Aston Villa (Luke Young, Routledge)
Birmingham (Kelly, Carr)
Blackburn (Robinson, Chimbonda)
Bolton (Ferdinand, Walker, Bergsson)
Burnley (Gascoigne)
Chelsea (Hoddle, Sullivan, Cundy)
Everton (Barmby, Ginola)
Fulham (Brown, Zamora, Murphy)
Hull (Gardner, Marney, Barmby)
Liverpool (Barmby, Ruddock, Keane)
Man City (Thatcher, Walsh)
Man Utd (Carrick, Berbatov)
Portsmouth (Thatcher, Mendes, Davis, Pamarot, Defoe, Kaboul, Boateng, O'Hara - loan)
Stoke (Etherington)
Sunderland (Reid, Malbranque, Tainio, Chimbonda, Bent)
West Ham (Davenport, Ferdinand, Sheringham, Zamora, Rebrov, Etherington, Tariccio)
Wigan (Zeigler, Edman, Brown, Mido)
Wolverhampton (Huddlestone - loan)

I doubt another club could do that!
 
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