Player Watch Player Watch: Giovani Lo Celso

[spursfan77]

Quotes from the presser:

"Yes. I can confirm that [he is a player struggling for fitness]. Gio, I consider to be one of the victims of the rules and one of the victims of the protocols, because he was injured in the end of the period before the coronvirus situation.

He was in very bad conditions in the last three or four matches. He didn't play against Burnley, he played for 10 minutes and then we tried to have him ready for Leipzig but he wasn't even ready for Leipzig.

Because of the rules his injury is not an injury in need for surgery but needed treatment and daily treatment, needed close contact with physios and fitness coaches working with him but that was not possible. For about two months he was injured and he couldn't recover from it.

So when the training ground opened and he started to have treatment, it was not enough to have him 100 per cent. So I'd say only in the past days he's been training with the team.

Available for tomorrow, yes I think so. Tomorrow morning we will test if he is going to play 90 minutes. Is he going to start the game, I don't know but a difficult process for him."

Fairly promising tbf.

I wonder how many other clubs had players in the same position and might not have played by the rules?

 

[dtxspurs]

That is an absolute disaster! He is literally our only creative player.

I was not feeling confident with him in the team, now.........

He doesn’t have a goal or assist in the prem, I agree he looks really promising but that’s a bit over the top.

 

[danielneeds]

He doesn’t have a goal or assist in the prem, I agree he looks really promising but that’s a bit over the top.

Look back at Modric’s goal and assist record for is and it was nothing special but he was the heartbeat of the team. Gio is looking like a similar type of player.

 

[cozzo]

Did we ever find out which player was positive for Covid 19?

 

[Timberwolf]

Look back at Modric’s goal and assist record for is and it was nothing special but he was the heartbeat of the team. Gio is looking like a similar type of player.

He also definitely has the capability to score and assist plenty if we use him in the right way - he got loads for Betis.

 

[Johnny J]

What an absolute farce. He was injured for two months but couldn't recover because we couldn't give him treatment. I swear this shit happens to us way more than other teams.

 

[danielneeds]

He also definitely has the capability to score and assist plenty if we use him in the right way - he got loads for Betis.

He basically played as a shadow striker for them. I think he’s probably better dictating the play for us, but we’ll beed him to grab goals and assists too.

 

[Spursmatty87]

Did we ever find out which player was positive for Covid 19?

No but think it was probably Sanchez given that he was in then missing for about week and back in.

 

[mil1lion]

Look back at Modric’s goal and assist record for is and it was nothing special but he was the heartbeat of the team. Gio is looking like a similar type of player.

You could also say the same for Dembele. They're players who may not directly assist goals but they set off the moves that lead to assists and goals.

 

[Shadydan]

 

[coys200]

Tbh Mourinho story on him doesn’t add up at all. When they first returned he was pictured full training and looked absolutely ripped. And he has been pictured pretty consistently apart from maybe a week when he wasn’t. Certainly doesn’t fit in with Jose saying he’s only just returned to training.

 

[Shadydan]

Tbh Mourinho story on him doesn’t add up at all. When they first returned he was pictured full training and looked absolutely ripped. And he has been pictured pretty consistently apart from maybe a week when he wasn’t. Certainly doesn’t fit in with Jose saying he’s only just returned to training.

He be trollin

 

[thebenjamin]

Tbh Mourinho story on him doesn’t add up at all. When they first returned he was pictured full training and looked absolutely ripped. And he has been pictured pretty consistently apart from maybe a week when he wasn’t. Certainly doesn’t fit in with Jose saying he’s only just returned to training.

Gio and lamela have been doing pretty intensive fitness work in child's Hill park constantly throughout lockdown. He didn't look particularly injured from a distance but I guess he could still have needed treatment for something.

 

[Pochemon94]

I haven't seen the photos of the training but (i know it's different because it was preseason) but I went to the preseason training while they were in los angeles a couple of years ago and Lamela was injured at the time, he was wearing full training gear and just trained off to the side with a physio team. He was dribbling and shooting and all that but wasn't in any intensive training with the rest of the squad.

 

[spursfan77]

Tbh Mourinho story on him doesn’t add up at all. When they first returned he was pictured full training and looked absolutely ripped. And he has been pictured pretty consistently apart from maybe a week when he wasn’t. Certainly doesn’t fit in with Jose saying he’s only just returned to training.

Mind games innit

 

[cozzo]

Tbh Mourinho story on him doesn’t add up at all. When they first returned he was pictured full training and looked absolutely ripped. And he has been pictured pretty consistently apart from maybe a week when he wasn’t. Certainly doesn’t fit in with Jose saying he’s only just returned to training.

I reckon it was him that tested positive hence Mourinho nearly slipped up saying he's just returned to training

 

[SUIYHA]

Would really like to see him playing in a functional Spurs side with our best players around. Hard to believe that a player who has only started in two league wins all season (four when you including the Middlesbrough and Red Star cup games) was being talked about as our player of the season - but that's the kind of season it's been.

 

[Timberwolf]

Would really like to see him playing in a functional Spurs side with our best players around. Hard to believe that a player who has only started in two league wins all season (four when you including the Middlesbrough and Red Star cup games) was being talked about as our player of the season - but that's the kind of season it's been.

Yeah very odd. If someone told me that by this stage of the season Lo Celso would only have 7 league starts and 0 goals or assists I'd assume he'd been a massive flop. Yet bizarrely, having watched him, I probably would pick him as our player of the season.

If he can avoid injury I think next season will be his real breakthrough. Many of our best players in recent years like Modric, Bale, Eriksen and Son all took a year to find their feet and reach their true level and I think Lo Celso (and hopefully Ndombele) will be the same.

 

[SUIYHA]

Yeah very odd. If someone told me that by this stage of the season Lo Celso would only have 7 league starts and 0 goals or assists I'd assume he'd been a massive flop. Yet bizarrely, having watched him, I probably would pick him as our player of the season.

If he can avoid injury I think next season will be his real breakthrough. Many of our best players in recent years like Modric, Bale, Eriksen and Son all took a year to find their feet and reach their true level and I think Lo Celso (and hopefully Ndombele) will be the same.

What's interesting looking at that list is a reminder as well that I think all of those players except Modric had a long term injury in their first season - as did Lo Celso and Sessegnon this year.

To be fair - I think Eriksen won player of the season in his first year, but that was the Sherwood year so it's not exactly saying much (similar if Lo Celso won it this year I guess!)

 

[Timberwolf]

What's interesting looking at that list is a reminder as well that I think all of those players except Modric had a long term injury in their first season - as did Lo Celso and Sessegnon this year.

To be fair - I think Eriksen won player of the season in his first year, but that was the Sherwood year so it's not exactly saying much (similar if Lo Celso won it this year I guess!)

Wow - totally forgot Eriksen won that year. But yeah - hard to imagine who else could have won that season as the whole team was a mess.