Les Ferdinand

[jonathanhotspur]

The one thing I've found most worrying is Clive Allen giving JD a DVD of Jimmy Greaves and telling him to finish like that, why have we now decided to change JD's game? His style has always been to bang them in and it's been effective until this season where he has changed his game.

Those type of articles about Defoe are cringeworthy. He has said that he is trying to learn how to place the ball instead of blasting it but I've seen no evidence of it. And when I compare what he says to what he does, I can't help but feel that he's as thick as two short planks. I know that's a fashionable thing to say about a footballer but who here isn't exasperated by his tendency to stray offside?...I am out of patience with him.

 

[jonathanhotspur]

I mean, look at this for crap...


“Clive is always giving me little reminders. On Tuesday (before Tottenham’s Carling Cup game at Old Trafford) he said, ‘The grass is wet so follow in the shots, the goalkeeper could spill one for a tap-in’. He scored 49 in a season once: unbelievable, isn’t it? Mad. Clive still joins in our finishing practice and he just caresses it into the corner, doesn’t hit it hard. Both feet, great technique. A lot of forwards can learn from that.

“And Les has great advice. He tells me, ‘Just keep it going, don’t take your foot off the gas.’ He’s just a cool guy, a leg [legend].”

“Harry Redknapp can tell you, when I was at West Ham, and 16, I’d always stay behind to hone my finishing. Always. Nobody told me to. I live football, obsess about it. When I’m away with England or whatever, in a hotel, I bring DVDs of great players with me. I’ve got a Maradona DVD, Zidane, Van Basten. I watch the finishing.”

 

[Spurs_Bear]

I mean, look at this for crap...


“Clive is always giving me little reminders. On Tuesday (before Tottenham’s Carling Cup game at Old Trafford) he said, ‘The grass is wet so follow in the shots, the goalkeeper could spill one for a tap-in’. He scored 49 in a season once: unbelievable, isn’t it? Mad. Clive still joins in our finishing practice and he just caresses it into the corner, doesn’t hit it hard. Both feet, great technique. A lot of forwards can learn from that.

“And Les has great advice. He tells me, ‘Just keep it going, don’t take your foot off the gas.’ He’s just a cool guy, a leg [legend].”

“Harry Redknapp can tell you, when I was at West Ham, and 16, I’d always stay behind to hone my finishing. Always. Nobody told me to. I live football, obsess about it. When I’m away with England or whatever, in a hotel, I bring DVDs of great players with me. I’ve got a Maradona DVD, Zidane, Van Basten. I watch the finishing.”

When doing an official interview though, surely you can understand you tow the club line, rather than saying something like "Yeah to be honest I just play my game, neither of those two old ****s can teach me nuffing, you know."

 

[jonathanhotspur]

When doing an official interview though, surely you can understand you tow the club line, rather than saying something like "Yeah to be honest I just play my game, neither of those two old ****s can teach me nuffing, you know."

I take your point but look at the advice that he claims they've given him. He either isn't listening or their advice isn't up to much.

 

[Spurs_Bear]

I take your point but look at the advice that he claims they've given him. He either isn't listening or their advice isn't up to much.

But that advice was from last year, when he was banging them in for fun, maybe they just cant advise him on how to get out of a slump in form.

Defoe always has these periods, it's why he isn't quite top drawer, he's only there in patches, and one of the reasons why the rumours that clubs like United and Liverpool were after him when he was 24/25 were only that and never happened.

 

[jonathanhotspur]

But that advice was from last year, when he was banging them in for fun, maybe they just cant advise him on how to get out of a slump in form.

Defoe always has these periods, it's why he isn't quite top drawer, he's only there in patches, and one of the reasons why the rumours that clubs like United and Liverpool were after him when he was 24/25 were only that and never happened.

It's true that those quotes are from the tail end of 2009 but only very recently did I read a new article about Defoe seeing the wisdom in opting for placement over power.

 

[DJS]

Those type of articles about Defoe are cringeworthy. He has said that he is trying to learn how to place the ball instead of blasting it but I've seen no evidence of it. And when I compare what he says to what he does, I can't help but feel that he's as thick as two short planks. I know that's a fashionable thing to say about a footballer but who here isn't exasperated by his tendency to stray offside?...I am out of patience with him.

This sums up my thinking of him quite well.

 

[theShiznit]

here is super pete's guide to getting the agility, speed and shooting needed for a top striker... :wink: (i kid you not)

http://www.mensfitness.co.uk/exercise/sports/6430/peter_crouchs_football_fitness_workout.html?