Player Watch: Pierre-Emile Højbjerg
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This and other answers to my post:
Is it really that difficult to understand that I’m NOT taking about most of the criticism he gets for his footballing skills or lack thereof, but mostly about all the irrelevant ott bullsh** about him dodging responsibility, blaming others, pointing being a problem, not caring and so on?
I do not think he is a bad player, and I also think something in his general personality and attitude annoys people leading to scrutiny of every little detail and mistake, and that contributes to him getting more stick than any other player when he plays a bad game. But I do not think he is a starter and I respect that there are different opinions. What I don’t respect is attacks on players’ mentality, motives or personality without any basis.
Very mature contribution
sundanceyid10
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I don’t see much talk other than his limited abilities, hence not a witch hunt as I said. I don’t think he is a bad player either just not good enough to where we are trying to go. That’s it. I don’t know what motivates him personally so I never comment on that, I
just comment on how I see him performing on the pitch. I think he is committed I don’t think he could be labelled otherwise, he clearly tries but I think as I said his level is below where we need to be.
For me he reminds me of players like Steffen Freund is the past, hard working and committed but ultimately just not skilful enough and to limited to get to where we need to go. Ok of which is actually a players fault, every player has a level of ability they can reach.
Rosco1984
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in this system sissoko would be more effective than hojbjerg.... he still wouldnt be good enough though but at least he would cover some ground and track his runners.
sundanceyid10
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He wasn’t good enough either.
Then you must not have read a lot of the posts in here.
Apart from that then it’s clearly not you I’m referring to them.
Not at all, your answers just don’t add anything of value and miss the point entirely. That’s all.
yido_number1
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January can't come soon enough he's so shit
agrdavidsfan
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Far from the worst problem out there
glacierSpurs
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They both have no place in this squad IMHO, when I quite like them myself. Unless we are getting Conte or another pragmatic coach, they just can't fit into this setup and play anymore.
GetKaned
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I don't hate either of them. But I love Spurs more. These are players that doesn't help the project.
agrdavidsfan
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Always looks awkward and off balance I don’t think he is actually a CDM as such I think box to box in a 3 he’s a very good player as he shows for Denmark can see him ending up back at Bayern
dontcallme
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Agree.
Not a straight comparison by any means but I remember people praising Sissoko's work rate. But if you watched there were loads of times he didn't chase back or put his body on the line to make a block.
Hojbjerg also ball watches and his defensive game isn't as good as many think.
I really hoped we'd find a buyer in the summer as his contract length means time to cash in is running out. I really hope someone puts in a suitable bid in January.
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