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« Reply #15 on: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 08:49:16 » |
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This isn't a pop, but how do we know he is any good? I guess Posh fans would be a good gauge..
Alex Pritchard is rated as one of the best upcoming talents in English football, obviously we don't know for certain how he actually performs but Spurs rate him as one of therir best product of the youth academy in several years. http://www.cartilagefreecaptain.com/2013/6/26/4467104/tottenham-hotspur-prospect-rankings-youth-academy-alex-pritchard
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« Reply #16 on: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 08:49:34 » |
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One word, 6 letters.
Did that trip to Thailand make you forget how to count?
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« Reply #17 on: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 09:00:57 » |
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Judging by that article we got ourselves a live one. Third only to Tom Carroll and Andros Townsend in terms of Tottenham's best young prospects. Luongo was rated ninth by the way.
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« Reply #18 on: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 09:08:43 » |
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Something unusual with Tijane and Pritchard. If we do sign both (which is quite possible) then we will have a predominantly left footed winger who prefers to play right wing and a predominantly right footed winger who prefer to play left wing.
Interesting.
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« Reply #19 on: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 09:23:26 » |
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reading the artcle on there regarding us signing Hall and Luongo on loan and potentially Pritchard the comments are not very complimentary about us. I can't blame them. Another mention of the £1 buyback clause too
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Bob's Orange
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« Reply #20 on: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 09:25:53 » |
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Did that trip to Thailand make you forget how to count?
counting and general numerics has never been my strongpoint!
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« Reply #21 on: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 09:28:01 » |
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On a slightly related note about ranking young players, this was linked on another forum. FourFourTwo top 100 youngsters in world football 2001. Worth a read.....and a laugh in places to....
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« Reply #22 on: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 09:30:16 » |
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In particular Cherno Samba at 71 above Michael Essien, Dimitar Berbatov and Kaka...
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #23 on: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 09:31:02 » |
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You need to be very careful when Prem clubs big up these lads, because the reality is somewhat different when they're playing against overseas competition. I did a post a few days back about how the limitations of England's top Prem youths have been exposed in the FIFA U'20 tournament in Turkey. England drawing with Iraq and Chile, then losing to Egypt, thus strtching a run of 17 games in these finals without a win dating back to 97 when Michael Owen scored a winner. Danny Mills summarising was particularly scathing about the kind of players the Prem U21 system produces...."technically not good enough for the Prem, and physically not strong enough for the lower leagues" So the Prem clubs import the foreign lads, with the technical ability....and the lower league clubs take the English kids who often struggle because of hype, over payment and the physical nature of the game. Of course there will be exceptions to thse rules, but we've seen a couple recently who've been involved in England age groups...Nouble and Bostock, who haven't set the world on fire.
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« Reply #24 on: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 09:35:27 » |
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I caught a bit of that after you mentioned it... Harry Kane (#4 on that Spurs list, coincidentally) was an utter donkey up front!
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« Reply #25 on: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 09:57:24 » |
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counting and general numerics has never been my strongpoint!
Aren't you in finance, or was I just making a logical leap based on your current and previous locations?
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« Reply #26 on: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 09:58:07 » |
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I caught a bit of that after you mentioned it... Harry Kane (#4 on that Spurs list, coincidentally) was an utter donkey up front!
Harry is a classic..big, strong and willing, but a bit limited. Nevertheless you'd expect him to have a career in football, just not at a high level.
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« Reply #27 on: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 10:03:15 » |
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Aren't you in finance, or was I just making a logical leap based on your current and previous locations?
Guilty as charged!
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« Reply #28 on: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 10:13:10 » |
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Guilty as charged! Crikey. So now at last we know who to blame the recession on.
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« Reply #29 on: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 10:15:32 » |
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Crikey. So now at last we know who to blame the recession on. Tad harsh! I am not really that involved in finances really anyway, more testing that the systems are calculating the correct numbers and all that jizz.
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