Player Watch: Serge Aurier

[DJS]

This kind of comment shows that many fans don't consider the human element of the game.

Imagine, you play for a nice north London team, you live in a nice home and your family are settled. Your club tells you that you're not wanted and you won't be put into the team anymore and that you should move on to some offers from clubs in Belgium and Qatar or Russia. You say fuck that, I'm happy living here and so is my family, why should I move. I'll find a club in England. So you agree with the club mutually to cancel your contract (no one has said he's been paid on his final year which I doubt that he has) and you can go where you like.

You're now free to choose where to play and earn a living (like everyone else) and when another north London club comes in for you (allegedly) the fans of your initial club call you out for shitty behaviour?

Whilst I do pretty much agree with your sentiment here, in Aurier’s case didn’t he refuse to sign a new deal with us citing that he wanted to try a new league and country?

I thought it was more him wanting out (even if on our part we weren’t massively putting in effort to persuade him otherwise).

So would be odd now having refused offers from abroad and engineered us tearing up his contract and then signing for arsenal.

Serge Aurier claims he has agreed his Tottenham exit and prefers a return to Paris Saint-Germain

Serge Aurier says he will not extend his Tottenham contract and claims he has agreement to leave the club; 28-year-old says return to Paris Saint-Germain would be his preference; Right-backs deal expires in the summer of 2022

www.skysports.com

Looked for the report where he said that and according to this he stated it in an interview with L’Equipe.

 

[dontcallme]

what evidence do you have that the media coverage is false? Of course I’m not suggesting that everything the media writes on football is gospel.

Didn’t say it was false.

 

[Mark_147]

 

[kaz Hirai]

Good luck to him, probably be a much better player in that league

 

[bradfordspur]

Up against Juan Foyth for the right back spot?

 

[freeeki]

Up against Juan Foyth for the right back spot?

No competition there tbh.

Foyth hands down.

 

[Montalbano]

Good luck to him. I'm happy he didn't choose Arsenal.

 

[Freddie]

No competition there tbh.

Foyth hands down.

Foyth really isn't a very good right back, hence why they've signed Aurier. He plugged a gap for them and he's a good versatile squad option but little more. I'd rather we kept KWP if we're lamenting right backs we've let go of, and he's just a bit better than ok.

 

[Tottenham_God]

Foyth really isn't a very good right back, hence why they've signed Aurier. He plugged a gap for them and he's a good versatile squad option but little more. I'd rather we kept KWP if we're lamenting right backs we've let go of, and he's just a bit better than ok.

Corluka

 

[cjbyid]

 

[DanielJohnCosta]

absolute class act, wish we had kept him instead of doh.

 

[Bluto Blutarsky]

Could have solved our RB and Backup Keeper problem if we had kept him:

 

[Marty]

Arise, Ser Geaurier.

 

[Sarsipius]

Could have solved our RB and Backup Keeper problem if we had kept him:

Gotta be in the running for shortest keeper ever?

 

[Freddie]

Gotta be in the running for shortest keeper ever?

Jorge Campos was 5'6, and he designed his own ridiculous shirts with massive wizzard sleeves to make him look even more like a child in his dad's clothes.

 

[VoteMe4Prez]

Please come back Serge, all is forgiven

 

[VoteMe4Prez]

Please come back Serge, all is forgiven

Btw that was due to Emerson's 1st half yesterday, not Matt Doherty's lovely 2nd half. He's playing well against Algeria today along with Big Franck

 

[wrd]

Serge Aurier exclusive: The real reason things turned sour at Spurs - and why Liverpool are beatable

Villarreal right-back admits he can be reckless on the pitch but says he could not play football any other way

www.telegraph.co.uk

Basically has a pop at Sacramento and says he likes being at Villarreal because they play with the ball:

“I feel loved and respected here,” he says. “It's not easy to change your life and adapt quickly, but Villarreal is the ideal place to do it. The way the team plays, unlike Tottenham, is always based on having the ball and that has helped me to integrate better.”

"Football is different compared to 10 years ago,” Aurier says. “He is still a great coach, but there are things that have evolved. Sometimes players need more love and attention. I'm not speaking for José, I'm speaking for his assistant. Joao is a tough guy and he didn't have a good relationship with the dressing room, that's why everything deteriorated. There was a lack of good communication.”

"It was one of his first experiences in a first team and he lacked calm with the players,” Aurier adds. “He needed to be more concerned about the person behind the player. Sometimes when you don't play a lot of s— goes through your head, and you need someone to calm you down and help you, to give you good vibes, not to send you negative messages. And I think it all started there."

 

[hellava_tough]

Funny how things pan out.

He left the club, which most on here (including me) were cool with, but then a few months later we hire a manager who plays with wingbacks, a position in which Aurier would probably flourish.

Oh well...

 

[Bobbins]

I never wanted him to leave, very much felt like he was as good as we were going to get. And as above, turns out he would've been the perfect player for Conte...

The main thing that irked me though was this idea of paying off his contract and just letting him go for nothing - he cost £25m and was a pretty good player - why did we cost ourselves so much money just to get rid of him?