The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 6th January

[Gaz_Gammon]

I'm of the opinion that Levy over the years has often done business with agents/agencies repeatedly.
We shouldn't underestimate the role of agents in modern transfers; 'you should look at player X i'm representing.' and so on.

So I though that I'd do a bit of research.

Hugo Lloris' & Etienne Capoue's agency is massive, they've got Messi to start. Anyway they also represent Bruno Uvini (who loaned/trialled here for 3 months in 2012), Chicarito (who we're always linked with), Andreas Cornelius & Gary Hooper (got ITKed in the summer before other moves). They clearly like getting their players names out there.

And lo and behold, given Ryantegan mentioned him earlier, they represent Piotr Parzyszek.

That just has to be the name of a prescribed cough drop surely?

 

[Gaz_Gammon]

Yes why not. Sherwood uses the basic 4-4-2 system with an attacking mentality. We can see a lot of the same system that redknapp used when he first took over. The problem with the system is that our defense is significantly weakend. Without a hoolding midfielder to sweep the area between the back four and midfield, the opposition have a lot easier to control the midfield (like arsenal did) and a lot of dangerous space to operate in outside the box. I am not saying that Tim won't change or become a better manager, but the way we are playing now will probably not establish us a top four team for many seasons to come. All the top teams in this league play with three central midfielders and will therefore dominate in midfield and possesion against us. And if you do that, you win most games.

In short:

Both our main "holding midfielders" were out on Saturday, and one or both can return in that role.

Redknapp did finish 4/5/4 with a similar set-up so "not establish us a top four team for many seasons to come" just does not add up?


OR:

We can always revert to the formation AVB set up which was really:

Boring-Boring-1

I prefer the Redknapp / Tim theory of playing football at Spurs. Honest.

 

[rocklink]

Why we are looking for goal poachers instead of flair players like max kruse / bakkali / fishcher .......