Your Worst Spurs Player from the last 20 years?

[luptic]

For me for pure waste of money David Bentley, But Anthony Gardnier was useless, Bambi on ice came to mind when he was playing.

 

[jonnyp]

Impossible to pick one out of all the dross the past 20 years.

Jason Dozzell
Allan Nielsen
Moussa Saib
Mauricio Taricco
Jose Dominguez
Ramon Vega
Steffen Freund
Chris Perry
Oyvind Leonhardsen
Ben Thatcher
Michael Brown
Noe Pamarot
Erik Edman
Sean Davis
Rasiak
Andy Reid
Kevin Prince Boateng
Gilberto
Nicola Berti
Didier Zokora
Acimovic
Zamora
Bunjevcevic
Ricardo Rocha
Tramezzani
Nethercott
Toda
Jason Cundy

Of the current lot I think Bentley, Pav and Jenas are very good future contenders for my list.

Can't believe people are saying Lee and Crouch over that shower of shite I just posted.

 

[gregga]

Most of the names in this thread have merit (bar Crouchy, which is harsh) but i thought rather than agree/repeat the names of these clowns, i'd share some games where players were just absolutely awful!


Doherty vs Leicester (H 4-4) 04.
Toda vs WBA (A) 03 (I think he touched the ball twice, yet still looked awful and Glenn dragged him at HT)
Thatcher vs Sunderland (H) 00. (shit AND got sent off, which is a shock i know. he may have been a sub in this game, in which case he was REALLY shit)
Richards RIP vs Pompey (H) 04
Rasiak vs Leicester (A, FA Cup 3R) 06
Alnwick vs Burnley (A, CC SF 2nd leg) 09
Pavyluchenko - almost every appearance for the club. his occasional goals paper over the cracks, a truly dreadful player
AND THE ABSOLUTE WORST, MATT ETHERINGTON vs Blackburn at home, the last game of 2002/03. So bad, he was tackled by a season ticket! Thankfully he was part of the Kanoute deal, and he never wore our colours again!

I'm sure i've missed some absolute garbage individual performances by these top class players, anyone want to add to the list? In a bizarre way, it's quite enjoyable, recounting the dross over the years. Makes me appreciate the current crop (sans Pav) a lot more!

The worst performance by a Spurs player I've ever seen was Dalmat in our 3-4 humiliation against 10-man City.

He was mind bogglingly bad - I've never seen anyone so disinterested and fail to do even one thing right in a game - which is odd because he clearly had talent and put in a few brilliant performances during his loan spell with us.

 

[StanSpur]

I look at it this way, With the quality of player we expect nowadays crouch deserves to be there... for the money 2 prem goals is a joke.

My choice is zokora the next carrick? lol for the money rubbish oh and postiga

I take it you've only been a spurs fan for 4-5 years. your choices are rediculous considering some of the players we've had. This is the worst of the last 20 years, talent wise not based on fitting with the present squad.

Crouch is an international, Zokora was an international and Postiga went on to do good things back in portugal. None of them make the top (or bottom) 30 in my opinion.

For those suggesting Armstrong i'd argue that too as he started with a great record but had to compete against the likes of Sheringham and Les Ferdininand so was never going to be the star but a 1 in 3 return is not rubbish and therefore he can't be on the list surely.

I found this list on another site and these names do have a case i can't really defend any of them.

1. Clive Wilson
2. Paul Mcveigh
3. Paolo Tramezzani
4. Milenko Acimovic
5. David Kerslake
6. Gary Doherty
7. Jason Dozzel
8. Ramon Vega
9. Stuart Nethercott
10. Johny Jackson
11. Moussa Saib
12. Ronnie Rosenthal
13. Mbulelo Mabizela
14. Kazuyuki Toda
15. Jose Dominguez
16. Dean Austin

 

[jose]

I take it you've only been a spurs fan for 4-5 years. your choices are rediculous considering some of the players we've had. This is the worst of the last 20 years, talent wise not based on fitting with the present squad.

Crouch is an international, Zokora was an international and Postiga went on to do good things back in portugal. None of them make the top (or bottom) 30 in my opinion.

For those suggesting Armstrong i'd argue that too as he started with a great record but had to compete against the likes of Sheringham and Les Ferdininand so was never going to be the star but a 1 in 3 return is not rubbish and therefore he can't be on the list surely.

I found this list on another site and these names do have a case i can't really defend any of them.

1. Clive Wilson
2. Paul Mcveigh
3. Paolo Tramezzani
4. Milenko Acimovic
5. David Kerslake
6. Gary Doherty
7. Jason Dozzel
8. Ramon Vega
9. Stuart Nethercott
10. Johny Jackson
11. Moussa Saib
12. Ronnie Rosenthal
13. Mbulelo Mabizela
14. Kazuyuki Toda
15. Jose Dominguez
16. Dean Austin

A few names on there that I had totally forgotten about, probably for the better! Makes me feel a lot better about our current situation.

 

[The Apprentice]

I take it you've only been a spurs fan for 4-5 years. your choices are rediculous considering some of the players we've had. This is the worst of the last 20 years, talent wise not based on fitting with the present squad.

Crouch is an international, Zokora was an international and Postiga went on to do good things back in portugal. None of them make the top (or bottom) 30 in my opinion.

For those suggesting Armstrong i'd argue that too as he started with a great record but had to compete against the likes of Sheringham and Les Ferdininand so was never going to be the star but a 1 in 3 return is not rubbish and therefore he can't be on the list surely.

I found this list on another site and these names do have a case i can't really defend any of them.

1. Clive Wilson
2. Paul Mcveigh
3. Paolo Tramezzani
4. Milenko Acimovic
5. David Kerslake
6. Gary Doherty
7. Jason Dozzel
8. Ramon Vega
9. Stuart Nethercott
10. Johny Jackson
11. Moussa Saib
12. Ronnie Rosenthal
13. Mbulelo Mabizela
14. Kazuyuki Toda
15. Jose Dominguez
16. Dean Austin

Rocket Ronny? Dangerous Clive?

Poor shouts.

 

[Danny1]

Calum Davenport
Grzegor Rasiak
Willem Korsten
Kazayuki Toda
Gary Doherty
Kevin Scott
David Kerslake

 

[mark87]

Jonathan Blondel

 

[Gassin's finest]

Timothee Atouba. That is all.

 

[mark87]

Timothee Atouba. That is all.

Yes

 

[RickyVilla]

Calum Davenport
Grzegor Rasiak
Willem Korsten
Kazayuki Toda
Gary Doherty
Kevin Scott
David Kerslake

What? He was quality when he was fit. Are people just picking out names now to try and look original?:shrug:

 

[spurslenny]

You can't think of a less effective Spurs striker in the past 20 years than Crouch? Really????

What about Raisak who scored zero goals? Positiga who scored 1?

Neal Fenn, Rory Allen, Bobby Zamora (for us he did nothing) and I am sure there are others such as Rebrov who were also less effective for us than Crouch was.

You're right nothing has changed about Crouch since his Liverpool, Pompey, Villa or Southampton days, he is a limited player who does not make the most of his natural advantages and he was very frustrating to watch as he shyed about from the physical challenges and refused to attack crosses (content to allow the ball to hit him and hope for a knock down)

The fact is though he does offer something, he was a decent foil for VDV and he did play pretty well in Europe (how many times did Rory Allen or Neal Fenn score hattricks for us in an important CL qualifer?)

Crouch did no worse than Pav and probably better than both Keane and Defoe during their respective second spells at the club all four of our strikers from last season were well below par for the team and none of them are/were good enough for what we need currently.

So while I agree Crouch was a poor signing at a team when we should have been able to attract better and he was frustrating to watch, not least because of how our style of play reverted to long ball when he was on the team sheet, to call him the worse striker we have had on our books in the last 20 years let alone the worst player when we have had such utter utter shit representing us just smacks of you having a personal vendetta against Crouch and allowing it to influence your choice of player when you know full well there have been worse players than him.

Honestly do you think Raisak or Positga played better for Spurs than Crouch did? Crouch is an England international who has scored goals in World cups and CL's and he is therefore far better than Cundy or Dean Austin.... are you seriously saying in the past 20 years there have been no worse players for us than Peter Crouch???

Give me a break

Rebrov was a good player, but in the wrong team with the wrong tactics.
Ditto, to a certain extent, with postiga.
Cundy and Austin are not strikers, and I was talking about strikers.
I'm talking about strikers from the last 20 years, ones that have played a fair chunk of games, and crouch has played huge amount of games for us and others, and has proved time and time again that he's really not that good.

Anyway, I'm busy washing my 'I hate Peter crouch' duvet set.

Vendetta? No. Just say it how I see it.

 

[west indie]

Timothy atouba, ramon vega, michael brown, ruel fox, paul stalteri. Feel like adding crouch but will hold off for now.

 

[paddy30]

Timothy Atouba was pure muck

 

[RickyVilla]

Great goal against the geordies though

 

[C0YS]

Atouba had a lot of skill, just was completely mad! Was not actually a bad player, just a frustrating one.

Some are just adding names at random

Micheal Brown was incredibly useful for us at the time, and did his job well, better then say Sean Davis, a massive failure at the club.

Stalteri was part of one of the most successful defenses we have had in an age, he was a limited player, but all in all did his job, Kelly was much worse, but still no way near the list of worst players

Crouch is just crazy talk. 7 goals in 10 champions league games, and the top of our assist table last season....He was probably our best striker last season, certainly contributed more to the whole team then any other, just not a great goalscorer. In ten years time people will just laugh at the suggestion that Crouch was our worst player of those two seasons, yet alone the last twenty years. Rory Allen or even Gordon Durie probably deserves a mention, for a worse striker!

In fact other names who deserve a mention since I have been watching are (I don't actually think they are the worse players just something to think about)

Rory Allen (bit before my time)
Steven Clemence (not bad just a bit of a by-stander)
Rohan Ricketts
Mark Yeates
Gilberto
Andy Ried (probably harsh)
Sean Davis
Wayne Routledge

all deserve mentions

 

[AngerManagement]

Rebrov was a good player, but in the wrong team with the wrong tactics.
Ditto, to a certain extent, with postiga.
Cundy and Austin are not strikers, and I was talking about strikers.
I'm talking about strikers from the last 20 years, ones that have played a fair chunk of games, and crouch has played huge amount of games for us and others, and has proved time and time again that he's really not that good.

Anyway, I'm busy washing my 'I hate Peter crouch' duvet set.

Vendetta? No. Just say it how I see it.

The post was about worst player ever, you chose Crouch.

I gave examples of players who were far worse than Crouch and also strikers because you narrowed it down that way in your second post.

I don't think you are saying it how you see it, unless you are blinded by an anti Crouch agenda.

Postiga and Rebrov were both worse for Spurs than Crouch, you can have an opinion that they are better players in the wrong team etc but the fact is wearing a Spurs shirt both performed worse than Crouch did.

Andy Booth and Rasiak were also both significantly worse than Peter Crouch for Spurs, I don't think there is any logical way to argue against that.

Rory Allen and Neal Fenn were both clearly worse than Peter Crouch also.

You can say you want to judge it only on strikers who played a large amount of games....but there is a reason these guys played far less games than Crouch for us (because he is better than they were)

Pav has done no better for Spurs than Crouch and if anything he has been worse over all (has been at the club longer too)

I would actually say Crouch was better than Mido also.

If you were saying it how you see it you could not say that in the past 20 years there has not been a worse striker representing Spurs than Peter Crouch, because if you were then you clearly were not seeing Gary Doherty leading the line in a Spurs shirt.

 

[spurslenny]

The post was about worst player ever, you chose Crouch.

I gave examples of players who were far worse than Crouch and also strikers because you narrowed it down that way in your second post.

I don't think you are saying it how you see it, unless you are blinded by an anti Crouch agenda.

Postiga and Rebrov were both worse for Spurs than Crouch, you can have an opinion that they are better players in the wrong team etc but the fact is wearing a Spurs shirt both performed worse than Crouch did.

Andy Booth and Rasiak were also both significantly worse than Peter Crouch for Spurs, I don't think there is any logical way to argue against that.

Rory Allen and Neal Fenn were both clearly worse than Peter Crouch also.

You can say you want to judge it only on strikers who played a large amount of games....but there is a reason these guys played far less games than Crouch for us (because he is better than they were)

Pav has done no better for Spurs than Crouch and if anything he has been worse over all (has been at the club longer too)

I would actually say Crouch was better than Mido also.

If you were saying it how you see it you could not say that in the past 20 years there has not been a worse striker representing Spurs than Peter Crouch, because if you were then you clearly were not seeing Gary Doherty leading the line in a Spurs shirt.

Gary Docherty was a CB who had spells up front, that's why I rule him out.
But I did include him in my worst spurs XI a few pages back.

Rory Allen was a kid.
Mido? Infinitely better than crouch for the first couple of years, then slipped down the pecking order when Berbatov arrived.

I don't like the guy as a player. Live with it. :up:

 

[C0YS]

Gary Docherty was a CB who had spells up front, that's why I rule him out.
But I did include him in my worst spurs XI a few pages back.

Rory Allen was a kid.
Mido? Infinitely better than crouch for the first couple of years, then slipped down the pecking order when Berbatov arrived.

I don't like the guy as a player. Live with it. :up:

would be more appropriate, I reckon if Crouch looked more like a football player, and you where not to have a massive preconceived opinion every time he touched the ball, you would rate him much more highly. Crouch does not look like a footballer, and has an awkward footballing style, I feel thins is a large part of the problem. How else can a player who has a more then 1 in 2 record internationally (22 goals in 42 games) and a similar record in European football (25 goals in 54 games) be so badly regarded.

 

[RickyVilla]

There has been so much dross up front for us that Crouchie doesn't even come close to a mention for me. Different horses for different courses. Oh you're only jealous cos he married a gorgeous dumb bimbo!! ;-)