Parker

[Black]

So is this thread about Parker doing a job as a attacking threat consistently when his real role should be breaking up opposition attacks in defence.

They are only a few players in our team who look like they want to play in the champions league next season and Parker is one of them.

 

[Spurs_Bear]

That's a bit of an overreaction. The film photoshop has been going on here for ages. Players aren't infallible; even fan favourites will end up becoming sorry shadows of their former selves. King was my favourite player and I grew up with him as ever present in our lineup, unfortunately the tail end of last year, he lost his legs and couldn't hack it. We all realised he would never be as good as he was. Parker has never been 1/4 the player that King is, however now he's lost his legs, his weaknesses tactically and technically are exposed. Heart is nothing if you don't have the physicality to back it up. We have to let go and realise that he's not good enough for us. I don't think he was good enough for us anyway. A clueless, needless by Redknapp and IMO a waste of 5.5 mil when we had the superior Sandro already playing for us.
Time to let go Paolo.

I wish you would let go. Fuck me I dread to think what would have happened last year if we hadn't signed Parker. A needless and clueless buy? Absolute length.

 

[Blake Griffin]

not sure he was needless but at no point should he have ever been picked ahead of sandro.

 

[punkisback]

I wish you would let go. Fuck me I dread to think what would have happened last year if we hadn't signed Parker. A needless and clueless buy? Absolute length.

Well if he wasn't here, he sure as hell wouldn't be coming on against a weak villa team in the last 10 minutes when we had a fit striker on the bench. He's never been good enough for spurs, and we could have bought better players for the same price or cheaper even.

 

[only1waddle]

Well if he wasn't here, he sure as hell wouldn't be coming on against a weak villa team in the last 10 minutes when we had a fit striker on the bench. He's never been good enough for spurs, and we could have bought better players for the same price or cheaper even.

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You make it sound as though Parker got up and subbed himself on, i think Harry had something to do with that sub.. ridiculous argument..

 

[Spurs_Bear]

Well if he wasn't here, he sure as hell wouldn't be coming on against a weak villa team in the last 10 minutes when we had a fit striker on the bench. He's never been good enough for spurs, and we could have bought better players for the same price or cheaper even.

You are such. Such. A wally.

You're right though, we'd have been better off with Joke Livermore and Modric as our CM partnership while Sandro was injured. Would have been 10th at Christmas.

I'm sure people like you only talk to their dogs about football, so that they can't tell you how ridiculous your views are.

 

[punkisback]

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You make it sound as though Parker got up and subbed himself on, i think Harry had something to do with that sub.. ridiculous argument..

No but he was a Harry favourite and we all know that they get preferential treatment. He was actually injured as well too, and redknapp still came on. Bear my views are ridiculous to you because I don't rate Parker. A player you place too much importance on when it comes to the fortune of Spurs. I' not saying that Livermore was the answer, more that we could have had other players who were younger, quicker, stronger and better footballers than Parker. IF heart was all that was needed to be a pro, we'd all be in the Spurs first team, but we have carried a past it player for too long. See i'm not calling him any rude words or anything just providing an insight into why I don't rate him, if you could argue a rational case for him still being at Spurs next season, I would be more than happy to entertain the debate. Instead you'll probably spout some rhetoric or call me a **** for not rating your favourite player. You call Defoe an insipid ****, yet still get shirty when someone dares to criticise parker.

 

[only1waddle]

No but he was a Harry favourite and we all know that they get preferential treatment. He was actually injured as well too, and redknapp still came on. Bear my views are ridiculous to you because I don't rate Parker. A player you place too much importance on when it comes to the fortune of Spurs. I' not saying that Livermore was the answer, more that we could have had other players who were younger, quicker, stronger and better footballers than Parker. IF heart was all that was needed to be a pro, we'd all be in the Spurs first team, but we have carried a past it player for too long. See i'm not calling him any rude words or anything just providing an insight into why I don't rate him, if you could argue a rational case for him still being at Spurs next season, I would be more than happy to entertain the debate. Instead you'll probably spout some rhetoric or call me a **** for not rating your favourite player. You call Defoe an insipid ****, yet still get shirty when someone dares to criticise parker.

I believe we should upgrade Parker, but it still stands your point about the Villa game is nonsense..

 

[Spurs_Bear]

No but he was a Harry favourite and we all know that they get preferential treatment. He was actually injured as well too, and redknapp still came on. Bear my views are ridiculous to you because I don't rate Parker. A player you place too much importance on when it comes to the fortune of Spurs. I' not saying that Livermore was the answer, more that we could have had other players who were younger, quicker, stronger and better footballers than Parker. IF heart was all that was needed to be a pro, we'd all be in the Spurs first team, but we have carried a past it player for too long. See i'm not calling him any rude words or anything just providing an insight into why I don't rate him, if you could argue a rational case for him still being at Spurs next season, I would be more than happy to entertain the debate. Instead you'll probably spout some rhetoric or call me a **** for not rating your favourite player. You call Defoe an insipid ****, yet still get shirty when someone dares to criticise parker.

How many games did we go unbeaten when we signed Parker after getting spanked in our opening two with a powderpuff midfield? Was he 'nothing' to do with that?

Are you patting your dogs head?

 

[punkisback]

How many games did we go unbeaten when we signed Parker after getting spanked in our opening two with a powderpuff midfield? Was he 'nothing' to do with that?

Are you patting your dogs head?

How many games last season did we draw, when parker tried to take too much responsibility for himself. Of course a midfield with KRancjar and Livermore/Modric would lose to the two best teams in the league. That winning run could be due to Modric's head being right a well, as the transfer window had closed. That was just Redknapp trying to make a point that we were weak in midfield. We could have had players like Dembele earlier, Sissoko (Moussa), Diame, who are all superior box to box destroyers than Parker. Instead we have deadweight in midfield in the latter half of the season and the same thing has happened this season. Its no secret that we were after M'Villa to help bolster our season

 

[Spurs_Bear]

How many games last season did we draw, when parker tried to take too much responsibility for himself. Of course a midfield with KRancjar and Livermore/Modric would lose to the two best teams in the league. That winning run could be due to Modric's head being right a well, as the transfer window had closed. That was just Redknapp trying to make a point that we were weak in midfield. We could have had players like Dembele earlier, Sissoko (Moussa), Diame, who are all superior box to box destroyers than Parker. Instead we have deadweight in midfield in the latter half of the season and the same thing has happened this season. Its no secret that we were after M'Villa to help bolster our season

Ah, so you've done that thing where you scout round the actual question. Good Doggie.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

Parker's biggest weakness is Jenas leaving.

 

[ItsBoris]

How many games did we go unbeaten when we signed Parker after getting spanked in our opening two with a powderpuff midfield? Was he 'nothing' to do with that?

Are you patting your dogs head?

How about when we got spanked 5-2 by Arsenal when Parker started with Modric in midfield? Or the 5-1 against Chelsea when Parker started with Modric?

Our midfield sucked in both those game as well so I don't see how you can use those two results to prove your point, when there are two even worse results from when Parker started.

 

[Spurs_Bear]

How about when we got spanked 5-2 by Arsenal when Parker started with Modric in midfield? Or the 5-1 against Chelsea when Parker started with Modric?

Our midfield sucked in both those game as well so I don't see how you can use those two results to prove your point, when there are two even worse results from when Parker started.

Seriously Boris have you gone fucking mad?

He said "he was a pointless and needless signing" which I used the two examples of getting fucked in the first two league games as an example of how he was anything BUT a pointless signing especially with Sandro injured.

We then went on something like a 12 match unbeaten run, which was my original question. Which was predictably ignored.

Fuck my old boots.

 

[ItsBoris]

Seriously Boris have you gone fucking mad?

He said "he was a pointless and needless signing" which I used the two examples of getting fucked in the first two league games as an example of how he was anything BUT a pointless signing especially with Sandro injured.

We then went on something like a 12 match unbeaten run, which was my original question. Which was predictably ignored.

Fuck my old boots.

We also signed Adebayor after those two games. I wouldn't go as far as saying that Parker was a 'pointless and needless' signing, BUT I think Spurs Bear you are definitely overestimating his affect on the team by a long, long way. We didn't get thrashed by City and United because we didn't have Parker yet.

 

[Spurs_Bear]

We also signed Adebayor after those two games. I wouldn't go as far as saying that Parker was a 'pointless and needless' signing, BUT I think Spurs Bear you are definitely overestimating his affect on the team by a long, long way. We didn't get thrashed by City and United because we didn't have Parker yet.

No, we got thrashed because we had a powder puff midfield. We needed to sign a midfielder. Which we did. We then started winning games and not looking as fragile.

Go back and read some of the threads from last year, you'll see how important everyone thought he was to us, now all you see are ****s crawling out the woodwork and talking bollocks.

 

[Spurs_Bear]

Parker's biggest weakness is Jenas leaving.

I think it's more that we haven't seen enough of Livermore recently...

 

[punkisback]

No, we got thrashed because we had a powder puff midfield. We needed to sign a midfielder. Which we did. We then started winning games and not looking as fragile.

Go back and read some of the threads from last year, you'll see how important everyone thought he was to us, now all you see are ****s crawling out the woodwork and talking bollocks.

Parker wouldn't have helped us against City or United. Adebayor and Modric really turned our fortunes around.

 

[mpickard2087]

Parker wouldn't have helped us against City or United. Adebayor and Modric really turned our fortunes around.

Come off it. You are saying he contributed nothing?

People were raging at Levy that we didn't sign him earlier, that's how much the majority could see we were missing a player of his type.

 

[ItsBoris]

No, we got thrashed because we had a powder puff midfield. We needed to sign a midfielder. Which we did. We then started winning games and not looking as fragile.

Go back and read some of the threads from last year, you'll see how important everyone thought he was to us, now all you see are ****s crawling out the woodwork and talking bollocks.

To be fair SB, I was unhappy with Parker last season and I was pretty vocal even then about starting Sandro in games. I haven't just started saying this now.

I also was unhappy with Friedel last season for the reasons people have only been mentioning this season.