Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg looks to be on his way to Spurs from Southampton, bringing with him the sort of nonsense midfield rule that we’ve been crying out for. As per Jose Mourinho’s indelicate savaging of the Tottenham squad which was captured by Amazon and leaked yesterday, we’ve been too nice for too long.
Harry Winks is a nice boy. Good clean lad. Alas, if we look at his all-time heat map along with snapshots of his last passing accuracy maps from Wink’s recent games, a very reliable and familiar pattern builds up.
In fact, the 10 minutes Harry played recently against West Ham United at the foot of the inserted image below gives us a thinned out summary of the Englishman’s modus operandi. It’s boring.
Harry Winks is a determinedly accurate passer of the ball, but like a pendulum, it just goes back and forth interminably. A cursory glance at both players stats form this season reveals that there’s little between the two, beyond Winks is a marginally better passer of the ball, but Hojbjerg is more effective when it comes to defensive duties such as recovering the ball, sliding tackles, defensive duels and making interceptions.
Winks has been at Spurs for and never developed into anything exciting.
Nice guy, but one that simply doesn’t add enough. With any luck, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg ‘s arrival would trigger nice boy Winks’ sale.