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It's obvious what he brings to the team - if you look at this compilation of his play in a Spurs shirt you can clearly see he possesses the ability to carve teams open with his dribbling or by picking a pass. There aren't many players who can do it and he reminds me of Neymar sometimes when he plays at his best - a defender's nightmare.
It's up to the manager to use that pretty rare talent to decent effect by getting other players on the same wavelength and covering for his deficiencies / losing the ball.
Yes sometimes high risk but look at the panic being caused in defenders - that opens up a team and if the other players around him can take advantage we should score plenty of goals from it.
20 appearances this season with an average of 63 mins on the pitch per appearance, 3 goals and 7 assists. Not bad from where I'm sitting when he's not being used properly...
If he can click with Eriksen, Kane and Soldado then there's a lot of Premier League defences who are going to be ripped apart - he would have had a hell of a lot more assists if Adebayor hadn't wasted so much of Lamela's good work. Walker's return at right back will open up a lot more space outside him so cutting in will be easier, and if Kane and Soldado make intelligent runs and drag defenders out of position then we'll start seeing him at his best...
That's bollocks.