Oliver Skipp Confirmed

[ceebeefox]

5 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

One of my concerns about us this season has been a real lack of physicality, we have a squad littered with players who are small and/or lack physical presence. 
 

When you look at other teams they look bigger, stronger, quicker and fitter than us, I really do think we need to have a look at the profile of players we want for next season and the following season in the premier league should we go up. 
 

Thomas, Winks, Skipp, VK look too lightweight and then when you look at players like Daka and Soumare, they just don’t have the resilience to cope with the physicality and pace of football in England.

 

I agree, we were linked with Sean Longstaff a while back, and, though many on here would’ve turned their noses up would’ve been a great signing even in this league.

[SK3Blue]

Homesick! Yuke Abe was homesick, reportedly Theo Zagorakis was too.

 

Oliver Skipp, what an absolute salad. 

[splinterdream]

17 hours ago, JonnyBoy said:

 

you would hope he would be decent in the champ for 25 million, he should be head and shoulders above every player in that league. We all know he isn't going to be though 

I didn't realise it's been nearly 5 yrs since he played for Norwich, and 77 appearances since then with only 1 goal. What were we thinking paying that amount of dough

[Paninistickers]

Nice to see him involved today 

 

The difference adding some legs to the team eh?.

 

Daka, McAteer, Stephy, Skipp all running hard last 20 and,.that has a knock of effect to Soumare and Bilal who have some legs around them. 

[CrispinLA in Texas]

Better when he got in the game but it's not his fault Rudkin paid 25m for him

[Realist Guy In The Room]

That was his best game for us.

[Paninistickers]

4 minutes ago, CrispinLA in Texas said:

it's not his fault Rudkin paid 25m for him

Which is why I don't get the negativity about him..

 

He's decent lad..just not a 25m lad..

[Aus Fox]

Statistically, there are only 3 worse players than him in the Premier League this season.

 £25 million down the drain

Jon Rudkin strikes again 🎶 

[Grebfromgrebland]

We're stuck with him and hopefully he'll be good enough to get us promotion.  

[Finnegan]

Just now, Grebfromgrebland said:

We're stuck with him and hopefully he'll be good enough to get us promotion.  

 

I suspect he'll be a fairly decent Championship box to box midfielder, to be honest, if his heart is in it.

 

Whilst he'll never be worth his fee, I have a sneaky feeling he might do well enough next year (again, if he has the right attitude) that people will generally forgive him for having no impact this season.

 

Low key think Woyo might wind up being brilliant next year, too, based on little but a hunch.

 

[Dan]

1 hour ago, Aus Fox said:

Statistically, there are only 3 worse players than him in the Premier League this season.

 £25 million down the drain

Jon Rudkin strikes again 🎶 

Naturally we've conceded to one of the two worse and will probably concede to the other on Saturday.

[Les-TA-Jon]

2 hours ago, Aus Fox said:

Statistically, there are only 3 worse players than him in the Premier League this season.

 £25 million down the drain

Jon Rudkin strikes again 🎶 

On what metric? 6.24 what? 

[kenny]

50 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

I suspect he'll be a fairly decent Championship box to box midfielder, to be honest, if his heart is in it.

 

Whilst he'll never be worth his fee, I have a sneaky feeling he might do well enough next year (again, if he has the right attitude) that people will generally forgive him for having no impact this season.

 

Low key think Woyo might wind up being brilliant next year, too, based on little but a hunch.

 

Got to stop playing him as a substitute Winks.

 

 Whilst I was underwhelmed by the signing, he looked good under Cooper as a box to box.

[RoboFox]

53 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

We're stuck with him and hopefully he'll be good enough to get us promotion.  

We're not getting promotion.

 

Will he be good enough as a mid-table nPower midfielder? Probably. 

 

The most expensive mid-table nPower midfielder ever. Only at KPFC. 

[Number 6]

4 hours ago, RoboFox said:

We're not getting promotion.

 

Will he be good enough as a mid-table nPower midfielder? Probably. 

 

The most expensive mid-table nPower midfielder ever. Only at KPFC. 

People need to stop the doom-mongering. Sheff Weds are midtable with players like Barry Bannan and Stuart Armstrong in centre mid.

[Foxmeister]

17 hours ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

On what metric? 6.24 what? 

I think it’s average rating 

[FoxesTez]

20 hours ago, Aus Fox said:

Statistically, there are only 3 worse players than him in the Premier League this season.

 £25 million down the drain

Jon Rudkin strikes again 🎶 

Nice screenshot but your statement can’t be true - there are way more than 287 players in the league. 

[everton carr]

On 12/04/2025 at 14:16, splinterdream said:

I didn't realise it's been nearly 5 yrs since he played for Norwich, and 77 appearances since then with only 1 goal. What were we thinking paying that amount of dough

He's a defensive midfielder how many goals did  Paul Ramsey or Neil Lennon score?

[DezFox]

Unpopular opinion but with the right management and if he is utilised correctly and wants to prove a point he we will be one of our best players next season and maybe one of best in championship. 

[Paninistickers]

7 minutes ago, DezFox said:

Unpopular opinion but with the right management and if he is utilised correctly and wants to prove a point he we will be one of our best players next season and maybe one of best in championship. 

We could say this for quite a few of our players. 

 

I'd be curious to see what VK looks like in a good team under good management. 

 

The travesty of this season, under both Cooper and the Dutchman, is Skipp, Winks, Wilf, Hamza and Soumare. Not one of them can successfully play in a two. All of them need three at this level to cover each others' deficiencies. So what do we do? Play ****ing a two all season

 

The two games we played a three we were half decent; Villa at home and Palace away. 

[honeybradger]

13 hours ago, Number 6 said:

People need to stop the doom-mongering. Sheff Weds are midtable with players like Barry Bannan and Stuart Armstrong in centre mid.

What you are saying implies that you think Skipp is better than those two. I wonder when people realise that Skipp is dogmuck, whether he cost £25mil or £5mil.

 

I really don't think he's any better as a 25 year old than Armstrong is at 33 and im not Armstrong's biggest fan either.

At least Armstrong's had a respectable career, Skipp on the other hand is so bad that he has people bringing up that one championship season with Norwich 5 years ago to defend his ability.

[everton carr]

54 minutes ago, honeybradger said:

What you are saying implies that you think Skipp is better than those two. I wonder when people realise that Skipp is dogmuck, whether he cost £25mil or £5mil.

 

I really don't think he's any better as a 25 year old than Armstrong is at 33 and im not Armstrong's biggest fan either.

At least Armstrong's had a respectable career, Skipp on the other hand is so bad that he has people bringing up that one championship season with Norwich 5 years ago to defend his ability.

Iain Hume on blue tinted glasses said he's an outstanding player .Have you ever actually attended a football match? You don't play over 100 'games for a top 6 club if you cant play go on the Spurs forums they rated him.highly .Enjoy watching the game on your armchair tomorrow

[whoareyaaa]

1 hour ago, DezFox said:

Unpopular opinion but with the right management and if he is utilised correctly and wants to prove a point he we will be one of our best players next season and maybe one of best in championship. 

I tend to agree Bilal and Skipp in the middle wouldn’t be that bad

[Parker Pen]

I don’t think Skipp and the rest of the squad look as fit as they should be this season. They certainly aren’t aggressive enough out of possession!

[honeybradger]

29 minutes ago, everton carr said:

Iain Hume on blue tinted glasses said he's an outstanding player .Have you ever actually attended a football match?

 

Yes, it's not a big deal.

 

You don't play over 100 'games for a top 6 club if you cant play go on the Spurs forums they rated him.highly .

Enjoy watching the game on your armchair tomorrow

You say this like it's an insult but youre the one spending time out of your weekend to watch a team who haven't scored in 9 consecutive home games. 

 

Edited 12 hours ago by honeybradger