On an upbeat note Kyle Walker has been announced as the winner of The PFA Young Player Of The Year Award.
He beat Bale, Welbeck, Sturridge, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Aguero.
I’ve been critical of Walker. I’m an old fashioned boy and have these crazy thoughts flash through my head when I hear a guy is a defender, I expect that to be his specialist area.
Yes he has pace. But it you went to see your GP with a sore throat and he gave you a prescription for verruca ointment you wouldn’t immediately think, ‘Okay, but I bet he has a mean 200m PB.’
I note in some negative comments left on Goal.com over this. The churlish suggestion being that he only won because he was very young (I know, you couldn’t make it up) and because he was English. The glaring truth of course is that he won because he’s been selected to play a lot for a high flying side that’s played some excellent football for most of the season.
Let’s hope that Kyle stays focused on improving as a defender.
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This is now a squad of huge complexity.
1. There are players who play well and can continue to play well with when properly managed.
2. There are player with great potential and can move up to the highest level – if coached properly
3. There are players who (next season) would not get into any other side in the top six.
4. There is some real talent emerging from the youth system.
Harry doesn’t seem to know who’s who. How at this stage of the season could our options seem so limited? If the plan is to try a tactic that has only ever worked once and never worked since then we are fucked.
The QPR line up could have been guessed 4 days before kick off. Our focus and strategy should have been based on how to prevent them from getting hold of the game. Instead it was more based on “let’s see who’s fit on Saturday”.
This is nuts. And this is how you ruin young players before they start their careers. Kyle Walker is aleady having to over compensate because of poor planning.
Another case is Danny Rose. Rose has more technical ability that BAE – but BAE is really street wise and can play above his level of ability because he is smart. So we have a good player keeping out a better player – with no succession planning in place.
Mourinho would have named both the QPR’s and Spurs’ team at the press conference on Friday. And that team would have been primed and ready for the task.
This one game and one result say’s everything. Limited but well organised opposition, with limited tactics and we could not find the right 11 players to beat them.
What a mess.
Walker should be the one to punch Harry – he’s get the Spurs player of the season award too then
Well done Kyle.
Rent-a-gob needs to be relieved of his duties right now. The team have lost all belief in him and look less interested in each passing game.
The bloke has completely run out of what few ideas he had, other teams have us sussed and the players know it. They know it’s no longer working and look lost.
Redknapp is in complete denial and will continue to stubbornly trot out the same old shit until the end of the season.
It’s broken, it needs fixing, but Bob’s gone missing!
its monday afternoon and he still hasnt been fired!
Give it till 2, if nothing then we’ll need to mob up and take it into our own hands.
Oh well. Like I said, it’s gonna take a few years.
How does the Sainsburys stadium sound for a new name…
:freu
http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/media/latest-stories/2012/20120229-sainsburys-spurs-on-tottenham-regeneration/