The Spurs Youth Thread - 2018/19

[Bus-Conductor]

If Lucas is a 'deluxe Aaron Lennon', you're increasingly becoming a Pound Shop Piers Morgan, invalidating reasonable points of view by being needlessly inflammatory.

Does Piers Morgan ever make reasonable points?

 

[Blake Griffin]

What the general consensus on the type of player Amos is from the regular watchers?

Played well last night until he/we started to get tired.

tenacious box-to-box midfielder. he's not going to sit and dictate a game but will get in and around the opposition whilst being technically sound enough to play a bit himself. haven't watched last night's game yet but good to hear he held his own, not that i'm surprised.

 

[NRH]

Squad for the u21 france tournament:

Our travelling squad is: De Bie (GK), Freeman (GK), Bowden, Dinzeyi, Duncan, Edwards, Harrison, Hinds, Lyons-Foster, Maghoma, Markanday, Ogilvie, Parrott, Roles, A Shashoua, S Shashoua, Statham, Tracey.

https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/2018/july/development-squad-to-defend-title-in-france/

 

[coys200]

tenacious box-to-box midfielder. he's not going to sit and dictate a game but will get in and around the opposition whilst being technically sound enough to play a bit himself. haven't watched last night's game yet but good to hear he held his own, not that i'm surprised.

According to the Stevenage guy he played more advanced, I think he scored a couple for them as well.

 

[jonathanhotspur]

I know players who dribble get an oooh, and he's got some ability, but Moura's not going to propel us to the next level. He's just a deluxe Aaron Lennon.

Do you mean to say that Moura can run faster than Lennon, @Bus-Conductor?

 

[beats1]

Buying foreign players in january to bed them in is much better than summer. Lucas has had 6 months to get to know the squad, our training regimes whilst getting a feel for the pace of the premier league without having the pressure to come straight in and make a difference.

Definitely wasn't pointless to sign him in January. He's getting a full pre-season now and it's one he needs after dropping out of favour at PSG.

If we'd waited until this summer we'd have dithered and dragged it all the way to the deadline and it would likely have taken him the whole season to adapt.

I agree, but I fear this may not happen if we sign another attacking player and he may get relegated to being our 6th option behind Alli, Son, Eriksen, Lamela and New Guy

 

[Bus-Conductor]

Do you mean to say that Moura can run faster than Lennon, @Bus-Conductor?

No, probably not faster, but he’s a bit better at dribbling and at least his shot can reach the goal from further than 3 yards. Deluxe.

 

[Paolo10]

On the subject of Edwards and Lucas, Lucas came from poverty in Brazil and got two trains and a bus to training before moving out at 12 or something.

BC wonders why Lucas is in the squad and Marcus isn't?

Its abundantly clear to most people what should change for a player with boundless potential to make the most of his talent. I'm sure every Spurs fan hopes he does...he's 19, maybe he'll wise up soon.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

You guys are disrespectful to lennon including BC, before his injury in 2010, he was a huge player for us. He wasnt stupid or as bad as people make out.

He went shit in 2010 imo, as he didnt have his explosiveness. During the berbatov years, he played a huge part in our success and even us getting in to the CL and being in the CL

I loved Lennon btw. First Spurs shirt I ever got.

 

[mill]

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/tott...rter-vickers-loans-massive-for-my-development

 

[Bus-Conductor]

On the subject of Edwards and Lucas, Lucas came from poverty in Brazil and got two trains and a bus to training before moving out at 12 or something.

BC wonders why Lucas is in the squad and Marcus isn't?

Its abundantly clear to most people what should change for a player with boundless potential to make the most of his talent. I'm sure every Spurs fan hopes he does...he's 19, maybe he'll wise up soon.

Players needing to apply themselves the best they can and the club not providing them with "clear pathways" aren't always mutually exclusive things.

Personally I can understand how emotionally undeveloped adolescents can not always react perfectly to everything life chucks at them. Edwards might be an chippy ****, but he's not a fucking party boy who spends all day posting videos of himself smoking a bong whilst calling his manager a faggot, like one of the players we paid 25m for last summer. Wonder how Pochettino's/Spurs super high behavioural standard filter let that one slip through?

Perhaps someone who's not scared to read my posts can pass this reply on to you.

 

[Jake1882]

Amos vs Roma:

 

[coys200]

Asking the experts. If you assume KWP Onomah Ccv go on loan and you could give KWP squad place to another kid who would you choose?

 

[Danny1]

Squad for the u21 france tournament:

Our travelling squad is: De Bie (GK), Freeman (GK), Bowden, Dinzeyi, Duncan, Edwards, Harrison, Hinds, Lyons-Foster, Maghoma, Markanday, Ogilvie, Parrott, Roles, A Shashoua, S Shashoua, Statham, Tracey.

https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/2018/july/development-squad-to-defend-title-in-france/

Loving that Parrott is already with the U21's. He is clearly highly thought of & very talented. Those who know better, is he the youngest of the lads going?

 

[Blake Griffin]

Loving that Parrott is already with the U21's. He is clearly highly thought of & very talented. Those who know better, is he the youngest of the lads going?

he is the youngest there, yeah. though him being with this group is primarily down to sterling being away with the first team and grifffiths being wherever he is.

 

[Spurzinho]

I've been an Amos doubter since he joined the club fulltime but I'll admit that he is finally starting to look like the player he was as a schoolboy when he was so impressive. Strong, confident at taking the ball in tight spaces, sharp feet, good burst of pace over short distances, carries the ball confidently, good awareness of whats around him and brave in the tackle. He still lacks a little composure around the opposition box but that can be worked on.

 

[tiger666]

Players needing to apply themselves the best they can and the club not providing them with "clear pathways" aren't always mutually exclusive things.

Personally I can understand how emotionally immature adolescents can not always react perfectly to everything life chucks at them. Edwards might be an chippy ****, but he's not a fucking party boy who spends all day posting videos of himself smoking a bong whilst calling his manager a faggot, like one of the players we paid 25m for last summer. Wonder how Pochettino's/Spurs super high behavioural standard filter let that one slip through?

Perhaps someone who's not scared to read my posts can pass this reply on to you.

By all accounts he was late for training. Every single day. If he isn't going to take the chances we give him on loan by being professional, he can have no complaints about us not giving him a chance here.

 

[Danny1]

he is the youngest there, yeah. though him being with this group is primarily down to sterling being away with the first team and grifffiths being wherever he is.

Thanks for the info! Great opportunity for him then, everything we hear about him is that he is supremely talented & lets hope he has the mentality & workrate to take that talent to the next step.

 

[coys200]

I've been an Amos doubter since he joined the club fulltime but I'll admit that he is finally starting to look like the player he was as a schoolboy when he was so impressive. Strong, confident at taking the ball in tight spaces, sharp feet, good burst of pace over short distances, carries the ball confidently, good awareness of whats around him and brave in the tackle. He still lacks a little composure around the opposition box but that can be worked on.

Has the raw ingredients to be a complete midfielder. All the attributes you say and think he has a threat going forward based on what I heard about his loan spell.

 

[nicdic]

I've been an Amos doubter since he joined the club fulltime but I'll admit that he is finally starting to look like the player he was as a schoolboy when he was so impressive. Strong, confident at taking the ball in tight spaces, sharp feet, good burst of pace over short distances, carries the ball confidently, good awareness of whats around him and brave in the tackle. He still lacks a little composure around the opposition box but that can be worked on.

Was really impressed by his display the other night. Great to see the confidence that both he had in himself, and the rest of the team had in him. He didn't look out of place at all.