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I bet you're right IOMLS. The competition is still going on until tomorrow, so I wonder if most nations aren't obliged to hang around until then. The French must be amongst the most likely to do so, anyway.
Taarabt to be sold!
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Which would coincide with when Ramos started. Ramos has probably seen very little of Taarabt yet, so I would be very surprised if he has already formed an opinion on him, certainly to the extent where he would be sure he was going to leave.
It would also seem strange for Adel to say he wants to leave because he isn't playing first team football. He has probably only been with the squad for 2 games under Ramos, if indeed he has returned from the academy yet.
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llamafarmer
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Beautifully put SS57. I'm not so much criticising Taarabt, more trying to be realistic in the face of what I feel is an over-inflated opinion of him by a large number of spurs chatters.
To put the guy in the same sentence as Ronaldo or Zidane is utterly ludicrous. Has Zidane been retired too long for people to remember just how fucking horrendously brilliant he was? He was a once in a generation player! And remember that first time Ronaldo ran on at Old Trafford - the searing pace, the lightning quick feet? That kid was a diamond, rough around the edges and just needed a little polishing. The only thing he has in common with Zidane is being born in North Africa.
Taarabt is a decent talent and he could be very good with the right coaching, but right now he is not good enough to be playing for us regularly. Ramos seems to be doing good things with Lennon, so we'll see what happens, but in my view Bale is a far more exciting prospect and their price tags reflect that.
A future Ginola? Possibly. A future Zidane? God no!
Ffs people, Adel Taarabt is an eighteen-year-old kid living in a foreign country (as Kaboul's cook), and he's been away from the club representing his country in a prestigious youth tournament. Ramos will not have had much time, if any, working with him.
But what Taarabt needs is not people on here writing him off. He needs Ramos to do what Berbatov has described: ie talking with him one-on-one, identifying his strengths, and defining a role for him.
We all know Taarabt is talented and, at the moment, seems to prefer a stepover to a pass. But that's about decision making, and our skills trainer, Ricardo Moniz, has apparently already been working on this. Let's give Ramos time to work with the kid, including sending him out on loan for first-team experience if he judges that necessary.
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I think we all just need to accept that Trabant has a lot to learn, but has some talent. The key thing is whether the comments attributed to Tarantula are real or whether it is purely the media being arseholes. If he hasn't said that then I fully expect to him to develop well under the new management.
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Adel has come back though because he was in the squad that travelled to israel.
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Spot on mate - if Taarabt is going to be a proper European number 10 he certainly won't develop until a fair bit later in his career. I just wish people would stop calling for him to be thrown into the Premiership straight away and just let him develop in his own time.
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No he wasn't. Squad for Hapoel...
(G) Paul Robinson 1
(D) Pascal Chimbonda 2
(D) Michael Dawson 20
(D) Young-Pyo Lee 3
(D) Paul Stalteri 7
(M) Jermaine Jenas 8
(M) Aaron Lennon 25
(M) Steed Malbranque 15
(M) Didier Zokora 4
(S) Dimitar Berbatov 9
(S) Robbie Keane 10
Subs
(G) Radek Cerny 12
(D) Younes Kaboul 5
(M) Kevin-Prince Boateng 17
(M) Tom Huddlestone 22
(M) Teemu Tainio 6
(S) Darren Bent 23
(S) Jermain Defoe 18
Source: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/match?id=230390&cc=5739
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He wasn't in the squad but, he was with the team. There is a picture of him over on COYS in the team hotel posing with a fan and Zokora. So he was in Israel
SpurSince57
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And didn't Kaboul rush over to hug him after scoring the equaliser against Villa?
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Thats the starting 11 and 7 subs, theres more than 18 players that would be in the travelling squad, in case of injuries, so ill repeat again he was in the squad for Israel.
Nuff said. Perfect summary. Have some rep.
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put him in the 1st team squad until Jan
if we're 3 goals up put him on for a bit
that is where he will earn his pay, his stars, and a place in the 1st team
if we can't do this and he doesn't show a willingness, it's over. byeeeee
if we're 3 goals up put him on for a bit
that is where he will earn his pay, his stars, and a place in the 1st team
if we can't do this and he doesn't show a willingness, it's over. byeeeee
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Why, if he's not cutting it for the ressies?
For the moment, with the exception of Prince Bong, JR is going to be dependent on Clive's recommendations for ressies who deserve a turn in the squad; that's almost certainly the reason Troy Tempest's inclusion on Sunday. Everyone who's seen much of Sevilla reckons that effort comes first for JR.
Show ponies are out.
