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Cornpattbuck

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Not following youth football that much. Does Skipp play like any current players/retired players? Want to know his playing style.

He looks about 10 years older in the head than most of the lads he faces in U23s, generally.

Very classy, excellent decision maker and tough when he needs to be without being blood and thunder. Looks like a Carrick clone from what I've seen of him.

I'll be gutted if he's never a Tottenham captain, for one obvious reason...
 

wlhatwhl

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Interesting question. Older fans might point to someone like Ray Wilkins. He's not a ball winner and he's not a playmaker. He recycles possession, acts as the pivot between defence and midfield, and as the anchor when the team attacks.

Is Skipp like a young 17-year old Steve Perryman who got into the first team as a combative, hard-working midfielder, alongside Mullery and Peters? I've only seen Skipp occasionally on tv but reading reports of his performances reminds me of our former skipper.
 

littlewilly

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Is Skipp like a young 17-year old Steve Perryman who got into the first team as a combative, hard-working midfielder, alongside Mullery and Peters? I've only seen Skipp occasionally on tv but reading reports of his performances reminds me of our former skipper.
Perryman had only moderate natural skills but made up for it with stamina and guts. The little I've seen of Skipp suggests he's more like Carrick in terms of basic ball skills, body type and vision.
 

WindyCOYS

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Interesting one. I can see that.
Upright style, technical ability and willingness to use the ball creatively (and to break forward) when given a chance, but ultimate focus on doing the side of the game that others shy away from and being a 'team man'.
 

Cornpattbuck

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I've always compared Skipp to Matic to anyone who has asked.

Yeah, I almost put Matic too. I think I always forget how 'upright' a player Matic really is. Easy to think he's a bruiser who is always sliding about etc when you haven't watched him for awhile. Good call.
 

Blake Griffin

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edwards still not ready apparently and now isn't the time to bring him in after conceding four :rolleyes:

(4:30)


i know he's not lamela off the ball but bloody hell, it's not like he just stands around and watches.
 

Spurzinho

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Would Carrick be an apt comparison?

I just don't see that comparison. Carrick, by nature, was a more of a static player. He played with a bit more ambition and drive for us but everywhere else he's pretty much pulled the strings from deep and that's not the role that Skipp has occupied in the time that I've known him. He definitely has something of the Dier about him, in a good way - I think people are way too harsh on Dier, personally. He patrols that zone between the lower thirds, moving laterally more than vertically. He will go to the ball and engage but his primary role (when he's got competent players around him) is to keep the defensive shape and intercept and quickly give the ball to someone more creative. Obviously not many players play just the one way all of the time, they get given special assignments and certain oppositions pose certain problems that stretch a player's comfort zone but by and large you'll find him doing the Dier job between the defence and the midfield.
 

Spurzinho

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Imagine if mark noble was good that’s Skipp :D

Ish.

I actually compared George Marsh to Noble a while back. Both are bitey little scrappers with a touch of the headless chicken. I really liked Marsh as an U16 and in his first year but he's stagnated a bit since then. Noble started out as a cultured midfield maestro at youth level and then at senior level his managers quickly (actually not all that quickly) realised that he wasn't actually all that good on the ball and since then he's been a pretty standard poor man's Scotty Parker. Scrapping for the ball and laying it off to more creative players. Don't be taken in by Noble's gnarled face, geeing up, playing to the crowd and fist shaking. He's not brave, or disciplined, or aggressive or much of a leader. in my opinion Noble is no better at that than he was in his previous incarnation as a starving man's Modric. Skipp is better than that because he's got a brain*.

*I'm obviously not suggesting that Skipp is already better than Noble. What I am saying is that Skipp possesses a far more potent skill set than Noble did and, arguably, does.
 

Clark28

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UEFA will be streaming it on their Youtube channel



IIRC it's geo-blocked for UK residents, but should be fine for everyone else.
 
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