Player watch: Christian Eriksen

[ronspurs]

Glad we can move on. The guy was great until his head was turned 18 months ago. Since then he’s phoned it in and let us down. I’m sure in 5 years time he will come back at half time and we will all have forgiven him

sorry end to the saga really, but at least we have made a profit on him and secured lo Celso for not too much more

 

[soflapaul]

Some great memories.

Classy response. Well done Spurs

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

they knew this would happen surely:

 

[michaelden]

He was great for us, wish him all the best.

 

[Goobers]

What a fucking player. Good luck Golazo

 

[SonEffect]

Classy response. Well done Spurs

Still baffles me that we literally did nothing for Poch’s departure

 

[freeeki]

Still baffles me that we literally did nothing for Poch’s departure

He was sacked

 

[Wig]

Still baffles me that we literally did nothing for Poch’s departure

We sacked him, it would seem a bit disingenuous to post gushing "thanks for the memories" communications at that moment, especially as that would only serve to draw more discontent/outrage when the new manager was announced within a few hours.

 

[fletch82]

Still baffles me that we literally did nothing for Poch’s departure

I read somewhere that we did about 12 million things for his departure

 

[paulcumpstone]

Good luck to eriksen, real class player with great technique, let down a few years ago by not signing another creative player to play alongside him. Always felt when eriksen played well so did we and when eriksen was poor so were we. Hence the decline in eriksen coupled with our poor form over the past 12 months. Glad its finally over, he was never one to put a foot in but his passing and commitment had clearly dropped and at least for now will stop him from being seen as a legend.

 

[EZSpur]

Just watching that Twitter highlights video back - what an unbelievably talented footballer he was for us.
Made things look so easy, effortless.
Not many out there able to hit 25 yarders with such accuracy.
I don't care about all the crappy corners - I'm gonna miss Christian big time.
We've lost a worldie.

IN BOCCA AL LUPO!

 

[-Afri-Coy-]

Spurs pocketing the proceeds of a friendly game with the Milan club in the future.

Jesus I love Daniel Levy. The man knows how to squeeze every last drop out of a deal.

 

[spursfan77]

It will be like Modric, he won’t be truly appreciated until now he’s left.

There’s an article on the Atlantic that’s really good and outlines his pluses and negatives. I’ll post the positives as we all know the other stuff. Actually really sad Eriksen has gone now, we will miss him at his best.

The good, the bad and the corner kicks: how Tottenham Hotspur fans should remember Christian Eriksen
https://theathletic.com/1538589/202...riksen-spurs-tottenham/?source=shared-article

The good
Eriksen certainly looked the part on his debut, setting up the first of two Gylfi Sigurdsson goals in a 2-0 win over Norwich City with an elegantly cushioned through-pass to his new Icelandic team-mate. He then scored his first goal for the club five days later in a Europa League tie with Tromso, controlling the ball with one touch, bamboozling a defender with the second, and bending a shot across the goalkeeper and into the far top corner with a third.
This may have seemed like the perfect start to life at a new club but, as Tottenham’s season quickly began to unravel in the way Tottenham’s seasons often did at the time, Eriksen was made the fall guy.
Spurs had started the season well — beating Norwich put them third after four matches — but a humiliating 3-0 home defeat by West Ham United saw Villas-Boas opt for a more pragmatic approach, with Eriksen and Mousa Dembele dropped in favour of Sandro and Lewis Holtby for the next three league matches. He returned in time for another home defeat, this time to Newcastle United, before spraining his ankle on international duty and missing Spurs’ next five league matches.
By the time Eriksen returned to full fitness, Villas-Boas had been sacked and Tim Sherwood parachuted in to replace him. It proved a turning point for Eriksen, who had grown frustrated with being rotated in and out of the side.
“Villas-Boas wasn’t a bad man, but he wanted everybody to be happy,” Eriksen would later tell The Mirror. “He played some guys three games and then other guys three games. When you are new it is difficult to get momentum and get to know your team-mates when you are not regularly in the team. It was a difficult time.”
Eriksen started Sherwood’s first nine Premier League matches, as Spurs kickstarted their season with six wins and two draws — the only defeat coming against champions-in-waiting Manchester City. During this run, Eriksen scored three goals and provided three assists, with one of each coming in a victory at Old Trafford.
That was the first time he had really made the difference against an elite opponent — it would not be the last.
After the turmoil of that first season, Eriksen really came into his own in 2014-15, even if the team around him was still looking shambolic at times.
He quickly became the player new manager Mauricio Pochettino could rely on to dig him out of bother. His seven Premier League goals from September to December were worth 11 points and his performances offered enough class and creativity to mask the side’s ongoing defensive deficiencies.
That would also apply to the League Cup where, having laid on no fewer than three assists in a 4-0 quarter-final demolition of Newcastle, he dragged Spurs over the line in a two-legged semi-final against Sheffield United.
Two very different but equally brilliant strikes helped Spurs scrape past their spirited League One opponents on a night when it looked for all the world like they were about to wilt. The first was an arching, bending, unstoppable free-kick that flummoxed Mark Howard in the opposition goal, looping over him and in off the far post. The second was an effortlessly elegant brushstroke with his left-foot, having timed his run onto Harry Kane’s through ball to perfection.
Spurs lost that League Cup final to Chelsea but by now the club had momentum and Eriksen was the man making them tick. The improving Kane was making all the headlines but it was the Dane pulling the strings — he was well on his way to establishing himself as one of the Premier League’s best.
All that made him integral to Tottenham’s unlikely title charge in 2015-16. His coolly taken winner at Manchester City in the February left Spurs two points off the top with 12 matches to play. He didn’t falter as the finish line approached, even if his team ultimately did. He provided five assists in four matches in April — including an absolutely glorious lofted diagonal ball to Dele Alli in a 4-0 evisceration of Stoke City — as Spurs kept pace with leaders Leicester.
There was to be no title, of course (Eriksen got another assist in the infamous draw at Stamford Bridge that crowned Leicester champions), but Spurs came back stronger the following season, as did Eriksen. His combined goals and assists — 35 in 48 matches across all competitions — is the best season total of his career to date.
His peak coincided with Tottenham’s, as he displayed the sheer breadth of his skill set. He now showed, week on week, that had everything required of an elite playmaker: the vision to spot a team-mate in space, the intelligence to know when to the release the ball, the imagination to try something previously unseen, the composure to keep going when the chips are down.
Be it the two arching crosses that provided Dele with two headed goals in a crucial win over Chelsea, the drop of the shoulder and rolled finish to settle a hard-fought win at Swansea, the no-look pass from the D to play through Kane against West Bromwich Albion, or the long-range drive that sealed three points late on at Crystal Palace, this was a player making the difference every single week. Any suggestions he was a shirker or a flake had long since been silenced.
By now, what were once occasional whispers suggesting he may suit a move to one of European football’s superpowers were becoming a near-constant buzz. In the summer of 2017, he said in an interview with FourFourTwo magazine: “Barcelona is a fantastic football club and I don’t think there are many players who would be able to say no to them.”
It seemed a matter of when not if he would move to the Nou Camp or Bernabeu, not least when he helped Spurs dismantle European champions Real Madrid at Wembley the following season, scoring the third goal as Spurs wiped the floor with Ramos, Ronaldo and co.
That performance was electrifying but his showing away to Juventus in the last 16 was perhaps even better. He ran the game, despite Spurs falling 2-0 down in the first 10 minutes, eventually drilling a free kick past the great Gianluigi Buffon to level the scores at 2-2. That night confirmed this was a player as much at home in the Champions League as he had made himself in England’s top flight.

 

[Snarfalicious]

He’s going to be amazing in Italy.

 

[double0]

Great player for Spurs just a poor ending.

I’m glad his gone now we can all move on.

 

[degoose]

Good luck to him, he was amazing for us.

I'm only a bit annoyed how he went so slack about things in the last year, he could have played it better and not tarnished the good support he had from all the fans. I'm happy its finally happened though as we can finally move on but i'm sure he will do a great job in italy.

 

[whitelanefever]

For years he made us tick & was our main source of creativity, funnily enough we were crying out for another creative player like Lo Celso to play with him & when we got one Eriksen was wildly out of form, a case of what could of been.. so sad to see him go even though its for the best, hope he can regain his form at Inter.. Think he should be remembered for how good he was for us for so long & of course the goal Kane stole from him.

 

[Gbspurs]

I feel the part about the warmth from the fans in his statement is telling. Sad how it ended for him here, should have gone on to he a club legend in my view. Hopefully the fact that he left and got us a fee when he could have stayed until he was free quells the hatred. Would personally love to see him back in some form in the future.

 

[LamelasLeftBoot]

Good luck to him and thanks for everything (I mean that sincerely, the guy was pure class for us for a long time up until 12 months ago), but at the same time good riddance, his head was turned and showed no signs of improvement under a new manager.

I just want the squad to be full of players who want to be here and not sulking whilst they leave/can't get the transfer they want

 

[glacierSpurs]

Win lose or draw, this sport is just a career for him IMO. I think he will always be remembered as a great player but short of being a legend in any of his playing clubs. Don't really see him as a Spurs through and through. Reckon after his retirement he will just be a very successful businessman to return to any of his former clubs in any capacity.