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Is Winks the best English Midfielder in the game?

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Is Winks the best English Midfielder in the game?

For those that have read my thoughts on Winks over the last few years, you will know that for a long time now I have predicted that he would become the best midfielder Tottenham have produced in the modern Premier League era.

As always, not everyone agrees, even now there are those who think that he will never be good enough to hold down a starting place in our best starting Eleven.

Now is not the time to crow about his super stats against Real Madrid, even if they were as comprehensively convincing as his performance was, only a full consistent and improving season may be enough to convince those who doubt him.

He is full of intelligent energy (knows when to go, when to stay and when to move), his ability to shield and hold the ball under pressure is in my view as good as, if not better than Dembeles’, if only because at the end of it he`ll generally pass to someone with time and space and not just off-load it to relieve the pressure on himself. That`s a top-class skill all in itself.

His forward space finding and defence splitting through balls are some of the best I have ever seen from a player so young and so inexperienced at the top end of the game.

His call up to England felt to me as being premature, but his performance was such that already there are some now that are saying that he should be one of the first names on the England team sheet.
Given how little he has played, the speed of his elevation is breath taking, he is yet to have a bad performance which for a young player who is still also on the return from what was a nasty little injury is even more remarkable.

But he has not missed a heartbeat, if anything, he has come back stronger and fitter.

I have made and will not make any apologies for being so effusive and positive about him, Pochettino called him ‘Little Iniesta’ and in my view he could easily emulate his Barcelona nickname and become one of the games greats.

Exaggeration on my part? well it seems Danny Murphy agrees;
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/tottenham

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Off the reserves bench again.