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Clint Dempsey is good at......

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........being the only player smart enough to understand AVB without special post-it notes and powerpoint presentations.
 

kcmei

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Fact. Dempsey won the most aerial battles in the game despite being up front
 

fortworthspur

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being a professional. He played in Honduras Wednesday and still flies back to put in the full 90 minutes today. Compare that to Ade, who last played last Sunday. Dempsey is thoroughly unspectacular though often effective, but you cant question his commitment. AVB obviously trusts him more than Ade or Siggy.
 

beats1

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no problem with that :D

everyone knows he was just a replacement til avb could get his portugeezers in
I wouldnt hold my breathe if you expect AVB to get his targets, clearly we arent willing to spend big money

TBH if Sig and Ade step up over the next couple of weeks, Dempsey will leave regardless whether or not we make CL
 

amathews3416

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I wouldnt hold my breathe if you expect AVB to get his targets, clearly we arent willing to spend big money

TBH if Sig and Ade step up over the next couple of weeks, Dempsey will leave regardless whether or not we make CL

Disagree, Dempsey will be here one more season. I know majority of our fan base don't rate him, but it's obvious that AVB appreciates something in him as he continues to be first choice over Sigs. Dempsey is getting older in age and main reason he forced a move out of Fulham was to get to a club who would be in CL football. If we qualify, I highly doubt he will want to move and I highly doubt we will want to move him. Lets not kid ourselves and act like we will bring in a lot of new big signings over the summer if we get CL qualification and if we do get any big signings, it won't be in Dempsey's position.
 

beats1

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Disagree, Dempsey will be here one more season. I know majority of our fan base don't rate him, but it's obvious that AVB appreciates something in him as he continues to be first choice over Sigs. Dempsey is getting older in age and main reason he forced a move out of Fulham was to get to a club who would be in CL football. If we qualify, I highly doubt he will want to move and I highly doubt we will want to move him. Lets not kid ourselves and act like we will bring in a lot of new big signings over the summer if we get CL qualification and if we do get any big signings, it won't be in Dempsey's position.
Holtby will be playing over Dempsey and I personally rather have Sig here than Dempsey. Dempsey has mainly been used to cover the striking position, when we sign a striker he will go. I cant see Dempsey why we keep dempsey, he wouldnt make the first 11 of any other top 7 side yet he is in ours. Last couple of weeks has been poor, he is a good goalscorer but at this level you need to be more than that to warrant a first choice place for a top 7.

If we want to play the counter attacking game when ahead, Dempsey clearly showed today he cant be the false 9 we need to make it work, as soon as ade came on he got in their face and this allowed bale to run behind them

Also we tend to sell players when they get near the end of their contract and Dempsey won't want to leave with a year left when he can go for free. So it makes sense for us trying to sell him this summer
 

amathews3416

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Holtby will be playing over Dempsey and I personally rather have Sig here than Dempsey. Dempsey has mainly been used to cover the striking position, when we sign a striker he will go. I cant see Dempsey why we keep dempsey, he wouldnt make the first 11 of any other top 7 side yet he is in ours. Last couple of weeks has been poor, he is a good goalscorer but at this level you need to be more than that to warrant a first choice place for a top 7.

If we want to play the counter attacking game when ahead, Dempsey clearly showed today he cant be the false 9 we need to make it work, as soon as ade came on he got in their face and this allowed bale to run behind them

Also we tend to sell players when they get near the end of their contract and Dempsey won't want to leave with a year left when he can go for free. So it makes sense for us trying to sell him this summer

I guess we shall see. I don't agree with the assessment he was shit today. Every single article I've read on the game from pundits made mention of his solid play as well as the commentators of the game I was watching. For whatever reason, he can do no right in the eyes of Spurs fans.

Bales 1st goal - Who won the free kick outside of the box? Dempsey
Bales 2nd goal - Who's ball was it that played Bale thru? Dempsey
Bales missed sitter - Who played a great ball across goal? Dempsey

He was involved in both goals and was involved in what should have been a third.
 

kcmei

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I guess we shall see. I don't agree with the assessment he was shit today. Every single article I've read on the game from pundits made mention of his solid play as well as the commentators of the game I was watching. For whatever reason, he can do no right in the eyes of Spurs fans.

Bales 1st goal - Who won the free kick outside of the box? Dempsey
Bales 2nd goal - Who's ball was it that played Bale thru? Dempsey
Bales missed sitter - Who played a great ball across goal? Dempsey

He was involved in both goals and was involved in what should have been a third.

TBH, he was involved in most games and the goals in them but most spurs fans dont see it. Probably the most underrated player right now
 

fortworthspur

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I dont know what Dempsey has to do to get some love. AVB wants him to play in the center of the midfield, he does. Wants him on the left or the right, he does. Wants him to fly back 4000 miles from Honduras and play striker 24 hours later because our superstar Ade has issues to resolve in Togo, he does. He has 8 goals and 7 assists - 3rd best in both categories. But he's not good enough to wear a Spurs shirt.
 

beats1

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I guess we shall see. I don't agree with the assessment he was shit today. Every single article I've read on the game from pundits made mention of his solid play as well as the commentators of the game I was watching. For whatever reason, he can do no right in the eyes of Spurs fans.

Bales 1st goal - Who won the free kick outside of the box? Dempsey
Bales 2nd goal - Who's ball was it that played Bale thru? Dempsey
Bales missed sitter - Who played a great ball across goal? Dempsey

He was involved in both goals and was involved in what should have been a third.
Firstly the free kick had nothing to do with it being a goal, I have seen Defoe get fouled millions of times outside the box and us waste the free kick countless times, its not because Dempsey was fouled Bale decided to score(I hope not:cautious:)

Second goal - Are you being serious fucking hell, I went back and looked at the goal again as you made sound as if he actually passed the ball to Bale. It was a blind clearance lol and I just checked and it was Scott parkers clearance lol despite Ade doing arguably more by putting pressure on colloccini, what dempsey was doing maybe you could tell me

Bales missed sitter - This chance was created by Collocini miskicking a Dempsey cross that went straight to him and taylor on to bales chest, it was hardly a chance created by Dempsey

Now whilst I dont disagree with you Dempsey is a good player but the team performance is better without Dempsey and Defoe. One should be kept imo, as they both have the knack of scoring goals but in terms of overall play Holtby is better and Siggurdson can be better tbh and if Mason has good loan this next couple of months, one of him and Sig should be let go if at the end of this season or the season after

Nothing to do with spurs fans as most people even pundits agree that he isn't of the quality to command a starting place at any other top 7 team, but he is a good squad player. The person who coached him and help bring him to Premier League even said he wasnt a top 6 player(Terry Gibson, was assistant at fulham).
 

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Around 61st minute there is a play that sums Dempsey up and why he won't be at WHL long...
 
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