Eric Dier is an extremely frustrating player, to put it mildly. Last night’s performance bar a handful of depressing errors was a decent performance from the Englishman.
Strong passing accuracy numbers, solid long passing, plenty of duels won, yet all outweighed by lapses in concentration that have undoubtedly dogged the 27-year-old’s career.
The first goal yet again featured our hero watching the ball, opposed to marking his man, and so Eric again is left facing his own goal whilst the ball whistles past Hugo Lloris.
Add to this a sorry bundle of eight incidents, where possession was lost – on seven occasions, this was in his own half.
Agree GLC has had tons of time and his stats are awful. Time to get rid and bring in somebody else. Apparently we bought him as the Eriksen replacement, what a joke.
That would breach FFP rules
Ledley didn’t help the situation .
The big word you use is if, if Levy chooses to invest the extra income.
Point taken. Still this isnt how you defend against runners from the edge of the box. This has been going on too long. What have the coaches been doing over the past 3-4 years. I’m not sure they know how to defend. Basic stuff that you see done better on a Sunday morning.
Nothing I have covered this point several times previously and it means we have had the worst owner in the premier league and that includes Ashley.
My opinion is that Levy convinced Lewis, who has absolutely no interest in football to stump up the money to buy the club. Once Sugar had sold out Lewis told Levy to run the business and not to bother him. The massive explosion in broadcast revenue has meant that it turned out to be a shrewd investment and they invested before this explosion.
Our bad luck was that sugar sold the club to those two t.spots. Had he not when the new money came into football we would have been one of the first clubs to be acquired. It’s possible we could have had worse owners but I doubt it.
I would love to have seen Toby, Romero, and Verts together as a back three. Now Conte could have done something with that lineup. That is the quality of lineup we need and that shows how far we are away from that with Dier and Davies
Not sure as England Mike says Romero manhandles him and Dier’s run back is impeded by the player on the ground
We may not have an oligarch but we have a multibillionaire owner and billionaire chairman. What’s stopping them putting £400 million into a transfer fund out of their wealth.
All 3 of our backs seem to have a mistake in them. Conte will have to work with them all, or ideally eventually bring in a CB general.
Not so sure, Romero had hold of the player that fell down and Dier was caught out by the goalscorer.
Davies had a decent game , GLC has not produced hardly any praiseworthy performances since he came, he is getting to the point where you doubt he can, alongside Bergy and Doherty too.
If we are serious about trophies (and even titles) then there should not be anyone even near our starting 11 who has a large portion of our fanbase doubting them.
In Dier’s case it is summed up in HH’s article above “lapses in concentration that have undoubtedly dogged the 27-year-old’s career.” The guy is 27 years of age – he should be in the prime of his career.
Don’t get me wrong – I’ve seen him have some great performances for us over the years, most of them at CDM, which is apparently not his preferred position. But we need Toby and Jan quality and consistency to truly compete.
I think all of our defenders are suffering from a severe lack of confidence. Jose certainly created this while he was at the club and unfortunately Nuno added to their woes.
I’m not making excuses but let’s see what Conte can do. I’m sure if performances don’t improve they will removed from the club, sharpish!
Eric Dier, in Eric Diers head thinks he’s a defender. He’s not !
He isn’t really good enough for his preferred role as a midfielder. He seems to have figured that with Jan & Toby leaving he could slot in.
Dier, like Winks, Dele, Davies have been at the club too long. The player churn needs to start quickly in January and continue in the summer.
And the league games?
Seriously you could increase the capacity of WHL by 9000 by demolishing one stand. That would in effect need to in accommodate 15,000 to make the numbers work. I’m not even sure whether it would have got around the planning regulations.
Despite what is said the ground is a football stadium and many people consider it to be one of the finest in the world, actually I’m a bit so so about it. Most opposition fans I know thing it is brilliant and an upgrade on what they have got.
In relation to other events the clubs primary source of income is from football where the clubs keeps all the revenue minus costs. At the events the club gets a hosting fee and perhaps the sales of food and drink.
Tottenham are not the only club to have demolished their home or moved to new stadia others just handled the project better
Extend the Paxton or Park Lane to make 45 thousand odd capacity. Job done.
It’s not even a football ground.
Cos they can’t sell em
The stadium was very much required. The attendance at all the league games averages nearly 58,000 compared to the old White Hart capacity of 36,000. Each home league game earns the club, according to Levy, over £6 million which is miles in excess of any other club. Indeed last nights gate would have filled White Hart Lane. You can question the cost of the project, some of its excesses in terms of the structure and the delay in its completion but over a season it delivers an additional £100 million into the club which if the club chose to potentially funds 2 £50 million players.
Given that broadcast revenue has plateaued and the club cannot deliver comparable sponsorship and merchandising income like Liverpool and Man Utd and are not backed by an oligarch for Tottenham to want to eat at the top table it was the sensible commercial option.
What makes it worse is that infrastructure is outside FFP rules so our owner could have contributed to the development allowing the club to invest in playing staff and possible on field success rather than diverting funds for the build.
Had we followed such a strategy the club might indeed be worth the £3.5 billion that Levy says it is worth.
How Dier & Davies get in the side before Rodon is criminal. Agree with most of what you say…..would persevere with GLC until end of season as I believe there is a create player in there which hopefully Conte can coax out
Until we upgrade Ben Davies, Eric Dier, Davinson Sanchez, Dele, Harry Winks, Steven Bergwijn and GLC we will continue to struggle.
The top tiers were NOT available for this game
Watch the video for first goal in slow motion. The Vitesse player threw himself to the floor to block Dier. This was a rehearsed move. Very clever.
36 thousand there. Almost Half empty. That’s the core support…the stadium was not required and actually completely unecessary. But then, it’s not for the football team really is it?
All of our defenders suffer the same traits… incapable of producing error less performances for no more than 3-4 weeks.. the top, top defenders tend to make 2-3 errors a season…ours do that individually most months.. I do think tho that if our midfield wasnt so disjointed & unfit the defence would make less mistakes.
Dier isn’t a top player he isn’t good enough guarantee he will get done in defence countless times, he needs to leave.