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Eriksen disappoints

EVERTON vs SPURS


The biggest disappointment yesterday was Dane Christian Eriksen who told us not to believe everything we read on the Internet, no doubt a reference to his wages situation and the apparent £150,000-a-week demand. It did seem excessive, one has to ask where the newspaper their source.

If he is asking for parity with top earners then that would seem fair enough, although our players seem to go through wage brackets. We seem to have one around £45,000 and £60,000 before we reach £75,000 and now perhaps £100,000.

I'd assume he wants to jump a few grades as it were and we want him to work a bit more through the wage structure, if his failure to sign yet is all about wages and not other matters.

Back to the game though and his performance. Once again h wanted to run away from the Everton goal and be behind the ball. We are pushing forward, there are players sideways and backwards to pass to yet he makes runs to get behind the ball leaving us with less attacking options and taking our own players out the game, invariably he then passes sideways, totally negating the point of him running behind the ball.

When we are playing an organised defence as we were yesterday that isn't what we need and he then looks ineffectual. Lamela is beginning to look more creative than Eriksen. The Dane relies on other running to create passes for him which isn't easy if the defence is stacked with bodies. he has to have more ideas, something different, something unusual. He is good when we break or is in space, he can see and play a pass. Against packed defences though he is often a passenger.

Lamela looks to have more tricks than Eriksen yesterday. On that performance Eriksen needs to start improving his game. His shot in the first half was weak, it had no pace and looked as though it was generally chipped towards goal to be on target than seriously a strike to score. That isn't enough, his shot needed purpose, it seemed to lack any.

If you are involved in wage negotiations then you should be giving top drawer performances every week, that performance wasn't worth a top wage. We are looking for an attacking midfielder and a wide attacker, perhaps we need them to put some pressure on him to perform better.


3 comments

  1. I agree with u but u forgot to mention how easily he is forced off the ball I think he is too one dimensional and only has creativity in spades when he has time something that players at this level aren't going to get so he needs to adapt his game to be quicker and more creative on the ball or he won't have to worry about a raise he's gonna have to worry about keeping his job
  2. His demands could be a bad move for him I think! Everybody rave's about him but I've always found him a little lack luster! His dead ball skills seem to have deserted him, if I'm correct I don't think he's scored from a free kick since Swansea away and Eric seems to have taken over at corners! If we could purchase someone else in this window I could see us cashing in on him! How many times have you seen him look that interested? Has he ever smiled on the pitch or look like he's enjoying it out there!
  3. His demands could be a bad move for him I think! Everybody rave's about him but I've always found him a little lack luster! His dead ball skills seem to have deserted him, if I'm correct I don't think he's scored from a free kick since Swansea away and Eric seems to have taken over at corners! If we could purchase someone else in this window I could see us cashing in on him! How many times have you seen him look that interested? Has he ever smiled on the pitch or look like he's enjoying it out there!