Man City Vs Tottenham: Match Thread

[Gaz_Gammon]

For the return so far. I'm not saying he will definitely be the next Bale, but he still has the potential to be world class. Bale really struggled at first for us, even Modric looked shakey. He's a young lad with plenty to learn and all it takes is a few breakthrough games. Even then, he may never live up to being a £30m player, but what is these days? Money is distorted in football these days so you can't really use that as a baromoter for a player's real worth. He may not live up to what we presume is £30m standard but still be a very good player for us in time. I get your frustration at the way we have thrown around money in the past few years, but really we haven't got a lot of choice. We're priced out of the market a lot of the time and we really have to do something special to prise away a team's top player. That's why Chelsea and City get away with buying world class players for a bit less than that sometimes, because they have power that we don't.

Nonetheless, my point still stands about using every single thing Lamela does wrong as a stick to beat him with. We've got to get behind players, even if they were bought for obscene amounts or are paid obscene amounts. We all know how you feel after the first time you say it, if you keep banging on about it then you end up sounding bitter.

He hasn't played well today though, did some nice link up for Eriksen's goal but is struggling to get into the game, particularly when we're on the back foot. Sometimes that price tag can be a killer for the player too. Psychologically, players who are bought for over-inflated amounts are desperate to live up to that price mark so they over-do everything in order to do so. They know they will be scrutinised more heavily and that can damage your reputation, particularly if you're trying to fight to get into the national team. I think we see that a lot with Lamela. That's why I feel sorry for him and hope he succeeds (well, that and he's our player) more than being pissed off with him.

I cannot understand paying 30 million for "potential" as you put it. At Spurs a club with limited transfer funds you'd expect someone a little further on than potential WHOEVER that player was.

 

[Spurrific]

Yeah it's his fault the officials have been utter dog shit.


Fuck me.

He dived? That kind of was his fault.

 

[thinktank]

Dier's definitely been told to drive forward more.

 

[Indisguise]

If Soldado gets dropped in the PL after this, I will despair...

If he could get a goal or two in this game the turnaround for the rest of the season could be awesome.

 

[L-man]

Aguero is a sensational player. Unbelievable how many times he gets running through on goal in a game

 

[thinktank]

Excelelnt play kabs.

 

[Jimbo78]

£30m for Lamela is a piss take. When you think we could of got Aguero for the same amount when we was actually in the champions league!

Good old Levy!

 

[thinktank]

Aguero is a sensational player. Unbelievable how many times he gets running through on goal in a game

He's simply lethal.

 

[CosmicHotspur]

Yaya warming up.

Tributes for Alan Henning, RIP...

 

[TheHoddleWaddle]

They have too much space in our half.

 

[CockFlavour]

I don't agree with the commentators' contention that we've been dreadful in defence. even for Aguero's first goal, the defence marshalled itself excellently - Aguero just managed to find the only possible angle to goal, because he's like that.

Most definitely did not. Kaboul did what you nevet should do: he opens up towards the goal instead of closing him down towards the back line.

 

[Bobbins]

Aguero is an absolute monster of a player. Great battle with him and Hugo.

 

[haxman]

That's a really good save. There was serious pace on that ball.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

£30m for Lamela is a piss take. When you think we could of got Aguero for the same amount when we was actually in the champions league!

Good old Levy!

One Jimbo,
Jimbo for sale.
He's going cheap.


etc....

 

[CosmicHotspur]

Thank you AGAIN Hugo - massive save.

 

[DuDe]

[/QUOTE]

I'm gonna abuse the fuck out of Jonathan Ross on Twitter

Why? What's he said now?

 

[Jimbo78]

Ffs Lamela you pussy

 

[Syn_13]

I cannot understand paying 30 million for "potential" as you put it. At Spurs a club with limited transfer funds you'd expect someone a little further on than potential WHOEVER that player was.

The world of football transfers is a crazy one. We can't buy an outright, already at their peak, £30m player. They will be snapped up by the Citys and Chelseas of this world immediately. We have to buy "the next big thing" and hope they develop, like Bale and Modric. We get little surprises too like Berbatov. The problem is, the money has really distorted for players now, so when teams like Roma, who are already CL standard and bigger in their country than we are in ours, have an amazing prospect that all the big clubs are salivating over but are too pre-occupied outbidding each other for the established players, we try to sneak in and buy them. Only problem is that the team overprice him, because to them he is worth that much, just like how we overpriced Bale. I don't get it nor agree with it, but it's how it is, sadly.

 

[Wheeler Dealer]

Fucking Dier and Lamela are making that wanker Milner look like a worldie

 

[Indisguise]

Time Jimbo went into limbo...