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Unhappy Janssen stuck at Spurs?

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So Vincent Janssen is unhappy with his current situation at Spurs with a World Cup in Russia next summer and striker berths up for grabs in the Dutch squad. Currently Holland sit third in Group A behind leaders Sweden, who have 13 points, second placed France, who also have 13 points and the Holland on 10 points, all from 6 of the 10 qualifying group games.

It is hardly surprising he is unhappy, he hardly plays. Pochettino doesn't seem to trust him and Janssen hasn't done what he is paid to do, score goals. he seems to spend too much time with his back to goal when playing the lone striker role, while Harry Kane seems to spend more time facing the goal.

I remarked in a previous article about trust and confidence. Youri Tielemans, now at 20-year-old (21 next May) commented on why he was having a much better season last season than the one before at Anderlecht, he has since joined French champions Monaco. he said that his team mates trusted him more and therefore passed to him more and that gave him more confidence.

That certainly seems to be an issue with Janssen. You can see him flap his arms when a ball isn't played across the box into his path. There have been plenty of occasions when it should have been. He is young and his confidence must have suffered, just as the older Roberto Soldado's did.

We bought him young hoping he could adapt his game to ours, given his goalscoring ability, as yet that doesn't seem to have been sufficiently the case. Of course, we have hardly seen him this season and thta in itself tells a story.

For him to leave though a player must come in and there isn't much time left.


COYS
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5 comments

  1. the spurs crowd do support him but he dose not fit the bill
    • We don't play this style he likes crosses into the box he just wants first time finishes
  2. Thoughts on our transfer business I feel like it's to late, and the aurier tweet
  3. Well there is nothing new about V/J not fitting into our style of play. He wasn't trusted last season and he isn't trusted now which leads to why have we not sorted out this problem since we have known about it for over 6 months. I don't want to hear that players wont come because we have Harry . That is rubbish. Pay them and they will come or buy a player with the idea of actually playing them. Anyone ever heard of 2 or 3 strikers in a team ? Our success we are told is our problem. Finishing 2nd or 3rd is not a success, it is improvement. Trying to pick up fist class players for bargain basement prices is every clubs dream.
    Gosh I remember the day we signed Gazza !
    • Do you know, I think I had to see him play for Spurs a few times before I was too impressed. That I was though. What a player. I was younger then. I hope I'd have better forsight nowadays.

      I do believe though, that we are doing what we can scouting for strikers in a way that doesn't simply rely on picking up those the rest of the world are shouting about. VJ was one such, and a clever move. I know it doesn't seem to have paid off, but it's the type of somewhat overlooked potential we need to keep scouting for IMHO.

      It's true that strikers are harder to deal with that way but I suspect Spurs have a number of players under consideration (Not necessarily all in this window). They like to play their cards close to their chests, as you'll have noticed.

      COYS!!