It's funny because I think Aurier would have been better suited to this team and Emerson for Jose. I always felt Aurier was more of a wing back as I feel Emerson is a fullback.
Conte doesn't want to use Spence who is an actual wing back so I doubt he'd be too keen on Aurier. He values caution over unpredictability.
That’s mostly because he’s making a point about how he never asked for him to be signed. He uses Perisic, a converted winger, on the left.
It’s easy to look good as a defender when the opposition are sitting back to defend a lead.
Agreed. Aurier was better going forward, Emerson definitely better defensively.
And Emerson really is quite a good defender. I never feel troubled when he is right back defending. Maybe we can keep him as a strictly defensive option but as for RWB it will never be for him
I’m inclined to agree. He’s decent defensively he’s actually fairly good on the ball and is a big lad. He could play rcb.
Well he never has at any other team he's been at. Perhaps that says something about the options you are proposing, or about our current CB's that he feels need more cover than where he's been before.
This couldn't be more wrong. He has always favoured safe wing backs. Even guys who were converted wingers stuck to high-percentage plays. The obvious exception was Hakimi at Inter but he was the best wing back in the world so had a licence to take on players.
He's also a very decent player, just not for a system that relies on him being a creative wing back like Conte's does. Put him in a 4 at the back formation and he'd be a great player, able to get up the pitch a bit and then release to an attacking player.
It's hard to tell if he does favour him to Doherty. Before the injury Doherty appeared to be first choice. It took him some time to fully recover. He seems to be getting there now but I don't think he was ready to play 3 in a week. I still expect a level of rotation but expect we'll see more of Doherty now.
Speaks volumes of the alternatives or their fitness and Conte's opinion of them.
Doherty was on the shit heap for a long while. I regularly saw that he should never be seen in a Spurs shirt again. This is where we are getting with Emerson who is only 22. Already slated on here for any cross that’s not met by a bullet header or a misplaced pass, even though he has been decent in some games. You can hear the groans in the stadium.
For me Emerson is just well unspectacular, but that's fine because he's 22. He defends well enough, gets into decent positions, but is too cautious at times when he does. His final ball is lacking for sure but again he's 22. He certainly isn't that bad that he deserves the "disgrace" tag, because whatever else he does he always puts the work rate in, getting up and back. As someone else said earlier he isn't rapid quick and I think in some eyes that makes him shit. He isn't shit at all he's just as I say not spectacular. Trippier had the same issue with a lot of our fans, he wasn't Kyle walker quick and so he was "shit". Then he goes off to Athletico and wins La Liga and "we should never have sold him", despite being exactly the same player.
Not weighing in on the debate. Just informing he's nearly 24.
