- Aug 18, 2005
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I've seen a few posts saying modric/Pav/GDS/... is not good enough for Spurs. My main concern is not with the posters who seem to have little patience with these new players but the club for not introducing new players more sensibly. Why do we never seem to have enough continutity to allows us to bring new players slowly into a settled first team? Look at the contrasts between Bale and Walcott. Wenger used Walcott sparingly last season and gradually brought him into the fold whereas Bale would have probably played most of our games if he hadn't been injured. A better example is probably Kaboul. He was thrust into a defence with no confidence and asked to partner Dawson, who is hardly a old head himself. Even if you're one of the best young defenders in the world you're going to find it hard. This leads to a large proportion of the fans getting on the players back.
The gradual introduction of new players isn't just important to youngsters either. It's also important with people who come in from abroad. Very few players adapt to the premiership overnight and it could take Modric and Pav months. I think sometimes we forget that these guys are moving there whole lives to a foreign country where they may not even know the language. Surely it would help them to be brought into an 11 where the other 9 are settled at the club and used to playing in the first team together? One could also argue that we still have to introduce Bent, who until this season, has hardly seen any first team action, into the starting eleven.
Anyway, here we are thrusting Campbell, Corluka, Gomes, Dos Santos, Modric and Pav (i should really have learnt to spell his name by now) into our team against Hull. It's no wonder they aren't hitting the ground running.
The gradual introduction of new players isn't just important to youngsters either. It's also important with people who come in from abroad. Very few players adapt to the premiership overnight and it could take Modric and Pav months. I think sometimes we forget that these guys are moving there whole lives to a foreign country where they may not even know the language. Surely it would help them to be brought into an 11 where the other 9 are settled at the club and used to playing in the first team together? One could also argue that we still have to introduce Bent, who until this season, has hardly seen any first team action, into the starting eleven.
Anyway, here we are thrusting Campbell, Corluka, Gomes, Dos Santos, Modric and Pav (i should really have learnt to spell his name by now) into our team against Hull. It's no wonder they aren't hitting the ground running.