Spurs in January 2008

[eddiebailey]

Spurs in 2050

---------------C-1200-----------------

RDv3.1------CD-34------HardBot-------iLeftWinger

C3PO-----R2D2-----WindowsMidfielder------BaleJunior

----------T300--------34KJ1-------

C-1200 needs reprogramming to deal with crosses. RDv3.1 has not been the same since he went in for his upgrade, and CD-34 keeps freezing. C3PO and R2D2 are frankly past it, even if R2D2 is more mobile than Huddlestone. I would prefer to see iLeftWinger pushed up into a more advanced position, but unfortunately he and WindowsMidfielder are not compatible. BaleJunior wouldn't get in the team if his dad wasn't manager. T300 is quality, but this season he has been malfunctioning badly. As for 34KJI, he is just cheap Tiawanese crap. Hardbot is the only decent player among them, but come January he will be off to Manchester Unix...

 

[Dibby]

C-1200 needs reprogramming to deal with crosses. RDv3.1 has not been the same since he went in for his upgrade, and CD-34 keeps freezing. C3PO and R2D2 are frankly past it, even if R2D2 is more mobile than Huddlestone. I would prefer to see iLeftWinger pushed up into a more advanced position, but unfortunately he and WindowsMidfielder are not compatible. BaleJunior wouldn't get in the team if his dad wasn't manager. T300 is quality, but this season he has been malfunctioning badly. As for 34KJI, he is just cheap Tiawanese crap. Hardbot is the only decent player among them, but come January he will be off to Manchester Unix...

:clap:

 

[Hudspur]

I'd forgotten about Amnesia.

:rofl:

 

[thegreatap]

This thread has made me :rofl: alot

 

[BoringOldFan]

Speaking of stars of the future, any idea of the spec on Taarabt, Eddie? Are we keeping him out of the team until he learns to pass, or have we decided he's more useful as Kaboul's cook and housekeeper?

Trabant has been in France at some youth tournament. So not been featuring in the reserves or first team squad of late.

Somehow I don't think he's a Ramos type of player. I think he'll prefer the pace and distribution of Bale.

 

[SpurSince57]

Since September?

From what little I've seen of him, and yours and Eddie's reserves reports and those from Spurs Odyssey, I can't believe Ramos will be highly whelmed with him unless he can learn to pass the ball PDQ. I don't imagine fannying around with multiple step-overs ticks too many boxes for JR.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

Taarabt i can see being part-ex'd for someone, and it wouldn't shock me if that someone wasn't from Sevilla :shrug:

He has that ridiculous 24-step-overs-to-nowhere attitude that appears to be popular in Spain - he just has to nail the neck-shot-from-an-assault-rifle dive at the end and he'll be so popular over there someone might even pronounce his name right...

good luck to him.

 

[eddiebailey]

Difficult toimagine Ramos having much patiece with Tarbaby. At the time I was crtitical of Jol for playing safe in his selections rather than taking opportunities to blood reserves, but in hindsight it is easy to see how incredibly indulgent Jol was with young talents like Taarabt, Huddlestone, Ekottu, Kaboul and even Jenas (and doubtless he would have been more patient with the likes of Ziegler and Routledge if they had shown a better attitude). Players who are a long way from being the finsihed article, but who have enormous potential. The aim being to build a team that could mount a challenge for the title in a couple of years time. It is difficult to imagine Ramos taking such a long term view. He generally doesn't hang around that long.

 

[SpurSince57]

JR's already spoken of his admiration for Arsenal's playing style, and from what I've seen of Sevilla it's pretty clear what he wants to establish at Spurs once he's steadied the ship and got a bit of confidence back in the side. Given what he's shown so far, I simply don't see how Taarabt will fit into a high-tempo pass-and-move game.

 

[Legacy]

Guys, let's not forget that Taarabt is only 18 years old. He's young, eager to impress and desperate to make a name for himself. He's also very confident, which is why he's willing to try so many tricks on the big stage. He'll eventually be taught and trained to be more direct and assertive with the ball and there's no reason why he can't be moulded to fit into Ramos' playing style.

Don't forget when Ronaldo first joined Man Utd (for 10x the price of Taarabt) he was also slated for his constant stepovers and general lack of end product. Now, after a few years of training and development, he's regarded as one of the best players in the world, and his 'useless' stepovers are greeted with a cheer from the fans.

I'm not saying that Taarabt will be exactly like Ronaldo, but he'll definitely improve dramatically in the next year or two. He is raw talent at the moment, and raw talent can be honed into the finished article.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

Guys, let's not forget that Taarabt is only 18 years old. He's young, eager to impress and desperate to make a name for himself. He's also very confident, which is why he's willing to try so many tricks on the big stage. He'll eventually be taught and trained to be more direct and assertive with the ball and there's no reason why he can't be moulded to fit into Ramos' playing style.

Don't forget when Ronaldo first joined Man Utd (for 10x the price of Taarabt) he was also slated for his constant stepovers and general lack of end product. Now, after a few years of training and development, he's regarded as one of the best players in the world, and his 'useless' stepovers are greeted with a cheer from the fans.

I'm not saying that Taarabt will be exactly like Ronaldo, but he'll definitely improve dramatically in the next year or two. He is raw talent at the moment, and raw talent can be honed into the finished article.

But look where Ronaldo plays from - he runs the wing, but Man U's defence is far, far more disciplined than ours. We play our full backs quite a long way up the pitch, with Chimbo and Lee getting forward a lot, overlapping the midfielders and working from the halfway line, more like wing backs. Man U plays their full backs in a proper full back position and Ronaldo comes deep to receive the ball from them, meaning he's not under pressure from the oppo's defenders, and quite often far enough in to make the oppo's midfield think twice about coming for him.

The width they play means that he's got plenty of time to look around and get up to speed before he has to take on a man. Granted, his technique is sublime (my skin crawls to say it), but there's a fluidity there that we lack. We appear to prefer to push forward and take on the midfield and, lacking any kind of steel in the middle, we lose out often. Ronaldo doesn't look at the midfield as something to battle, he sees it as something to run through, which plays to his strengths.

If Taarabt and Lennon could come deeper to pick up the ball before running it down the wing then maybe their main talent will come to the fore - speed. We've seen how Lennon can skin a man in a second, but now all we see of him is being boxed into the last 16 yards of the oppo's end and, without a cross, that's not playing to his strengths at all.

 

[InOffMeLeftShin]

---------------Robinson-----------------

Alves------King------Dawson-------Bridge

Lennon-----Boateng-----Jenas------Bale

----------Kanoute--------Keane-------

Oh well, glad we have Ramos as boss. Let's spunk all our money on two fullbacks and replace Berba with Kanoute! How about we sign a consistently class central midfielder instead.