Eriksen, an insight from a Dane, Jan Molby
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Agree completely.
Suarez is a world class forward and despite Eriksen's talent he's not yet a world class playmaker why a direct swap between these two different types of footballers would peg us a back a notch. Or two.
I believe it's completely unthinkable that we would even think of swapping Eriksen with Suarez actually, and if we indeed were to sell Suarez anyways we'd be in the market for a new top forward.
I bet you have seen him more than me since he plays in the same team as Eriksen . He does look very good from what I have seen and that is a good description of him . Ajax have a lot of good players at the moment but they seem willing to let them go because they have a load of youth players coming through as well .
I do not get why people think Eriksen would be a replacement for Suarez . Different players . Different positions .
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PS If we are even thinking about wanting to get back to the top of the Premiership the last thing we should do is sell Suarez.
Not saying he's the only one who could get us there in time but we really need to build on what great players we've got instead of constantly looking for new solutions. I know Suarez could force us into a sale but I doubt it this coming Season at least.
So, Suarez stays, Eriksen plus a new top class DM and a new top class CB arrives.
Not saying he's the only one who could get us there in time but we really need to build on what great players we've got instead of constantly looking for new solutions. I know Suarez could force us into a sale but I doubt it this coming Season at least.
So, Suarez stays, Eriksen plus a new top class DM and a new top class CB arrives.
I'm not underestimating his ability, but there's no doubt he's lightweight. I've seen him a few times this season and he gets shoved off the ball very easily. I'm not Hendersons biggest fan by far, but he covers more ground than lucas and gerrard and is quite well built physically.
True but Suarez doesnt play in the position of a traditional forward roaming wherever he needs to get space and Eriksen is not really a midfielder he plays further forward with the same freedom to roam between the lines. Its not that they both couldnt play in the same team, but they couldnt really play in our team, not as it currently stands.
Sometimes a player is good enough to warrant ripping up the script and rebuilding your team around, we would need to do that for Eriksen,but Im not convinced hes worth doing that for.
I don't know about that. It's not like Suarez plays a traditional deep lying forward role or #10 as we seeing him popping up all over the place - often on the wing.
The true question is as you point out - is Eriksen good enough to gamble on?
They can both play together if he is.
To be honest, I thought Coutinho was that.
Well, assuming we get Eriksen:
... it should be the cue for Suso to try and emulate Coutinho's success on the opposite flank. Right forward might not be his best / favoured position but that's where he's been getting his chances, and Coutinho has shown that he has a lot of freedom to roam inwards as and when required. If Eriksen arrives, then the competition at the AM / support striker spot will be too stiff for Suso, with our options in Eriksen, Suarez and Coutinho; and then there's peers in Henderson and Shelvey who could have a claim on the spot as well.
The best thing for Suso in the immediate term, short of going out for a season-long loan in his preferred position, would be to push hard and place himself in front of Downing on the right. Even then, he'll probably still be second choice if all four of Suarez, Sturridge, Coutinho and Eriksen are fit, but at least that's a lot better than the queue in the middle.
... it should be the cue for Suso to try and emulate Coutinho's success on the opposite flank. Right forward might not be his best / favoured position but that's where he's been getting his chances, and Coutinho has shown that he has a lot of freedom to roam inwards as and when required. If Eriksen arrives, then the competition at the AM / support striker spot will be too stiff for Suso, with our options in Eriksen, Suarez and Coutinho; and then there's peers in Henderson and Shelvey who could have a claim on the spot as well.
The best thing for Suso in the immediate term, short of going out for a season-long loan in his preferred position, would be to push hard and place himself in front of Downing on the right. Even then, he'll probably still be second choice if all four of Suarez, Sturridge, Coutinho and Eriksen are fit, but at least that's a lot better than the queue in the middle.
Surely the fact that we signed Coutinho means we are unlikely to be looking at a player in Eriksens position this summer, its more reasonable to assume we will need to recruit a genuine wide player for the right hand side as we dont really have any of those. Sterling is too young to play a full season and Assaidi seems to be persona non grata
It would be odd to spend 8 million on Countinho only to go out and spend 3 times that in the summer on a similar player
Chances are we won't have that much money to spend in the summer seeing as how we won't even be in europe. So spending money on Eriksen would just be plain stupid IMO unless we're selling suarez. If suarez is staying then i can see him going back in for Ince and selling downing, but apart from that the rest of the budget should be spent of fixing our defensive issues. Even then i hope rodgers realises that his open football doesn't work and he works on restructuring his ideas.
This would mean Henderson will end up having to cover three different positions each game. Not to mention what would happen if both Coutinho and Suso move inside at the same time, in which case Henderson gets fucked whatever he does. I hate the cunt as much as the next guy, but he should at the very least be given some small hope of not getting fucked before you fuck him.
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A bit of fun from yesterdays training session in Ajax:
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?featur...=/watch?v=uqGtXao1pVc&feature=player_embedded
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?featur...=/watch?v=uqGtXao1pVc&feature=player_embedded
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Can someone embed please?
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Eriksen from yesterday.
Assisting the 1st and 3rd, loosing the ball to Strootman (whom otherwise looked a bit cumbersome) for PSV's 1st, and scoring Ajax's 2nd.
http://www.dailymotion.com/en/search/ajax+psv/1?af=1#video=xz0nc4
Assisting the 1st and 3rd, loosing the ball to Strootman (whom otherwise looked a bit cumbersome) for PSV's 1st, and scoring Ajax's 2nd.
http://www.dailymotion.com/en/search/ajax+psv/1?af=1#video=xz0nc4
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No idea why it won't embed, seems Dailymotion have disabled this function?
That link looks to be a search link rather than a proper video link.
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Yeah they are clever, probably something do with commercials on their site I reckon.
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