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Ditto. So that leaves us with only Bale and Rooney under 30 who really have the quality necessary.
Whereas Germany, Spain, Brazil all have lots.
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Ditto. So that leaves us with only Bale and Rooney under 30 who really have the quality necessary.
Whereas Germany, Spain, Brazil all have lots.
paulcumpstone
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Never took him long to start moaning
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/15/tom-huddlestone-andre-villas-boas-tottenham
played too much last season for my liking if anything. glad to see him moved on, not suited at all to a high tempo pressing game at all
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Feel mis-quoted, enjoyed my season with AVB and my whole time with spurs. If you read the quotes you get a clear picture, not the headline
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There are quotation marks around what he was alleged to have said. They definitely weren't saying how much he enjoyed his season with AVB. It's just typical unwanted player bitterness. It's just pride fucking with him. He should take a look at the new shirt he's wearing and realise why he wasn't always picked for ours.
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‘In my first few years the policy was to buy young British players — like me, Aaron Lennon, Gareth Bale, Michael Dawson and Jermaine Jenas.
‘Now most of us have left and it seems like the club is going the other way round and bringing in established continental players.’
But 3/5 of those players he lists are still with us, so most have not left. Hudd and Jenas left because they aren't good enough, not because they are British.
‘Now most of us have left and it seems like the club is going the other way round and bringing in established continental players.’
But 3/5 of those players he lists are still with us, so most have not left. Hudd and Jenas left because they aren't good enough, not because they are British.
Me neither, those who have a go because of what he said are mainly same ones who had a go at him every chance they got while he was here so it probably has little to do with what he said.
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Only just got around to this thread
Like Hudd as a player tbh but his comments are a bit ill advised - or perhaps plain stupid.
Let's talk about Lloris and Vertonghen shall we Tom?
Like Hudd as a player tbh but his comments are a bit ill advised - or perhaps plain stupid.
Let's talk about Lloris and Vertonghen shall we Tom?
At one point you started six consecutive prem games of which we lost four. These included a 4-2 home loss to Chelsea, the -5-2 stuffing at the hands of L'Arse and a home defeat to Wigan. Let me just think of a fitting explanation for you being dropped....
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He was subbed off right before the barrage against Chelsea. Think he was subbed off when it was 2-2.
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No, not at all - and that is clearly not the point I was trying to make.
This is about his comments. Hudd doesn't know why he was left out, yet the team was not getting results during the period where he was playing consistently..... quite the contrary we were very poor. so he can't be bloody surprised that the manager changes things. Had we been winning games and playing great football his comments would have had some merit ... but we werent't
Like I said in my post I really like Hudd so this is not a bashing - just a lighthearted rebuttal of his not so clever comments...
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Man you've clearly never been interviewed for a newspaper, if you think that there is no way what Huddlestone was saying wasn't taken out of context if not darn right misquoted. Whenever I or others have been quoted in the local rag we have never been quoted as saying anything but something of mild resemblance to what we actually said.
Anyway I did not come on this thread to talk about that. I wanted to say he played well when he came on for Hull and him and Livermore are bound to be stars of that team. Hull really made a coup in signing Hudd, one fan even thought that
and when looking at the players they have had in the past I think I'd agree with that.
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You choose to believe what you want to to believe, that's entirely your prerogative. Personally I think Hudd probably did say stuff along the lines of what was quoted, about him thinking he didn't get picked enough, I just don't agree with it. I hope Hudd and Livermore to OK in the rest of their careers, they always tried their best for us. It's not them that piss me off, it's the muppets that continually exaggerated his contribution, because if they were right he wouldn't have been a bit part for 7 out of 8 years here, and he wouldn't be at the Hull now, he'd have made it at least to the mediocracy of an established mid table club.
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He wasn't giving a full definative list so your point is, wel, pointless. He could have added Etherington, Davies, Reid, Routeledge, Rickets, O Hara, Gunther... but he probably didn't think that people could make such a normal, correct statement into a drama. We have changed, he is correct.
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It's not a normal statement though is it. It's a "lets blame Johnny Foreigner for me not being good enough to play regularly" statement. It's factually wrong and morally a bit shit.
Indeed, it also took Hudd 5 years and injuries to everyone else in his position for him to "settle" into the side.
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You have a pretty unique interpretation of what he said. He isn't blaming anyone for anything. He is basically saying that the club has moved on from buying British Youth to internationals. We have moved on, and now he has to move on. Doesn't sound bitter at all to me. Sounds more like he accepts his standing and that we have better players (like Brazils central midfield!).
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Surely the point is we have improved the quality of players and that is why he can't get a game, not because we haven't bought british players. Even then one of the players keeping him out in the last two years was Parker. A british player we bought. So he talking nonsense on every level.
What ever he said it wasn't the truth. The truth would be him saying "I just wasn't good enough". I don't expect him to say that, but what he did say was disingenuous.
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Eight years, a bunch of different managers and in a team that has progressively hauled itself up the food chain is plenty long enough and ample opportunity to cement a place in a team if you're good enough. Yes, seven or eight years ago Spurs bought more British players than they do now, because they're looking for a higher quality now, and when you do that you have to scour markets further afield. Huddlestone is a hugely talented player but his flaws mean he comes up short in terms of what Spurs need. I hope that regular games at Hull will bring the best out of him, but it'll be hard in a team that doesn't win as much possession and with team mates not so sharp as those he's had over the past few years.
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