Oliver Skipp Confirmed

[OntarioFox]

Thought he had his best game for us today... 

[Silebyfox_89]

Honking.

[TonyN11]

Thought he was mediocre, expect a bit more for the money spent

[cropstonfox]

Does a lot of unseen work. 

 

[coolhandfox]

1 minute ago, cropstonfox said:

Does a lot of unseen work. 

 

Does be do the dishes at the training ground? 

[Old Fox]

2 minutes ago, cropstonfox said:

Does a lot of unseen work. 

 

Where ? Can’t be on the pitch - as posted he is absolutely honking - nearly as bad as Junior Lewis !

[shailen]

I don't get how the Spurs fans rated him so highly

[Clogger_]

7 minutes ago, cropstonfox said:

Does a lot of unseen work. 

 

Close. Nobody sees him working

[Jacob7839]

One of the worst footballers I've ever watched live seriously 

[Kitchandro]

When we had Kante, he wasn’t a silky player or a great passer. But he was exceptional, perhaps the best I’ve ever seen, at fulfilling a specific job for the team. Kante is the yardstick for how and why to scout and sign a player.

 

Skipp is the complete opposite of that. He’s a player signed without any particular idea of what his strengths are and what his role is. It’s very strange that he ever stood out at any level to end up at Tottenham. This signing alone should have resulted in about 10 sackings. Anyone who had anything to do with it and didn’t question it should never work in the sport again.

[Mike1983]

Just now, Kitchandro said:

When we had Kante, he wasn’t a silky player or a great passer. But he was exceptional, perhaps the best I’ve ever seen, at fulfilling a specific job for the team. Kante is the yardstick for how and why to scout and sign a player.

 

Skipp is the complete opposite of that. He’s a player signed without any particular idea of what his strengths are and what his role is. It’s very strange that he ever stood out at any level to end up at Tottenham. This signing alone should have resulted in about 10 sackings. Anyone who had anything to do with it and didn’t question it should never work in the sport again.

So what do you make of Ward’s extension, and on top of that, him playing 26 straight games at the top level?

[ronnup]

Basically played with 10 men until Winks came on

[funkyrobot]

Skipp looks to me that he hides on the pitch. Minimal movement off the ball. He’s happy to stay close to his marker and doesn't make much in the way of quick movements away from a marker to receive the ball from our deep builders - the goalie/centre halves or from throw ins. Because of this he doesn’t see much of the ball. Needs to be dropped for Winks. 

[MPH]

41 minutes ago, cropstonfox said:

Does a lot of unseen work. 

 

 

sorts the recycling at seagrave?

[The Guvnor]

35 minutes ago, shailen said:

I don't get how the Spurs fans rated him so highly

Was that just after we showed an interest?

[MPH]

15 minutes ago, Kitchandro said:

When we had Kante, he wasn’t a silky player or a great passer. But he was exceptional, perhaps the best I’ve ever seen, at fulfilling a specific job for the team. Kante is the yardstick for how and why to scout and sign a player.

 

Skipp is the complete opposite of that. He’s a player signed without any particular idea of what his strengths are and what his role is. It’s very strange that he ever stood out at any level to end up at Tottenham. This signing alone should have resulted in about 10 sackings. Anyone who had anything to do with it and didn’t question it should never work in the sport again.

 

lets be honest, we were on cheat mode having Kantè fulfill that job. It would be really unfair to judge or use him as a yardstick on which we should sign people.  We’re unlikely to ever sign anyone like him again.

[The Guvnor]

Seems weak in the challenge and not good on the ball a sort of pound shop Winks.

[CH1_Fox]

He just does nothing 

[Leeds Fox]

Oliver Skipp Confirmed… to be SHITE

[Kitchandro]

1 minute ago, MPH said:

 

lets be honest, we were on cheat mode having Kantè fulfill that job. It would be really unfair to judge or use him as a yardstick on which we should sign people.  We’re unlikely to ever sign anyone like him again.

That’s not the point. Players should be signed because they offer something to the football philosophy we’re supposed to have. Fuchs was the same. He’s wasn’t a pacy full back, which are and were popular, but we didn’t need that for the system. Okazaki wasn’t great but he was an effective partner for Vardy.

 

If Kante had been half as good it would still have been a great signing. Skipp could be twice the technical player that he actually is and he’d just be Dennis Praet.

 

We don’t have a philosophy so we don’t sign players for any real reason other than to make up the numbers.

[Mike Oxlong]

Not sure he even dresses himself 

[Claridge]

56 minutes ago, cropstonfox said:

Does a lot of unseen work. 

 

like a 12 hour night shift down the pit before a game, only explanation

[Pliskin]

Absolutely. ****ing. Hopeless. Player.

[Jattdogg]

3 hours ago, Tuna said:

Feels like he will have a career trajectory like this after leaving us: Watford, Reading, Swindon (loan), Wealdstone, Chesham United, Potters Bar Town.

Who said he will leave us? Rudkin will give him an extension.

 

Criminal weekly wage.

 

And this golden wiki nugget:

 

 

[MPH]

31 minutes ago, Kitchandro said:

That’s not the point. Players should be signed because they offer something to the football philosophy we’re supposed to have. Fuchs was the same. He’s wasn’t a pacy full back, which are and were popular, but we didn’t need that for the system. Okazaki wasn’t great but he was an effective partner for Vardy.

 

If Kante had been half as good it would still have been a great signing. Skipp could be twice the technical player that he actually is and he’d just be Dennis Praet.

 

We don’t have a philosophy so we don’t sign players for any real reason other than to make up the numbers.

 

Partly, the problem is chopping and changing the managers so much. Or, more accurately, hiring a manager who has different philosophy to what the current  team has and then not giving him money to make the changes he needs . Ending up with square pegs in round holes. Or in skipp’s case, asking a bag of cement to run a marathon..