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Lo Celso joins Villarreal

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Last night, the club confirmed that Argentine midfielder Giovani Lo Celso has joined Villarreal on loan for the season.

Of course, Lo Celso spent the second half of last season on loan with the yellow submarine, scoring once and setting up one goal – hardly impressive figures, but even the player’s strongest advocates will argue that Lo Celso’s game isn’t about scoring or creating.

Indeed, even at his best, he was always short in that department, and his loan spell with the Spaniards was still impressive enough that Emery insisted on his recruitment.

Since joining Spurs from Real Betis in the summer of 2019 on a loan deal later made permanent in January 2020, Lo Celso has scored 8 goals in 84 appearances.

We’ve seen glimpses of his undoubted talents, but not on a consistent enough basis to justify a regular place in the team.

Short on game time, Lo Celso only turned out 19 times for us last season before he joined Villarreal in January.

Granted, a host of managerial changes and injury problems have done him no favours, but the player must take responsibility for not winning Conte over; at the time of the Italian’s appointment, I thought that Lo Celso would be perfect for his system.

At his best, he’s tenacious, snappy, and a brilliant ball carrier – as demonstrated in the all too brief golden spell he had in 2020 under Mourinho – but, as I say, for one reason or another, he’s not demonstrated these qualities enough to legitimise a future at the club.

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  • TK says:

    Lo Celso was not a match for Spurs. He tipped over too easily. Not what we want from someone who had to carry the ball.

  • TK says:

    For me, Lo Celso is not the number one story of the day concerning Spurs. Yet it’s captured the lead thread position. This will discourage participation in discussions. If we lose a handful of participants we (?) will be down to a thread that is a monologue.

    Reward omarhussein by the amount of participation, not the number of threads.

    That being said, I’m impressed that omar seems to know Spurs and has a memory for the site. But we need a vitorous thread, not a maze of threads through which we are not finding one another.

    It’s bad enough that participants on VS often tell others to say less.

    To those who would shut others up when they don’t like what they’re saying: Shut up your shutting other up.

    Ooops! Now I’m guilty of shutting others up by complaining they are shutting others up. Maybe I should ask for a “shut up” thread be added every day.

    Time for me to shut up.

  • TK says:

    At least I’m talking about telling each other the shut up on a thread on which no one else is participating. Talk about a cry in the wilderness.

  • wentworth says:

    One legged, constantly falling over, couldn’t shoot for toffee. Ghastly, ineffective signing. Byeee.

  • BelgianSpur says:

    Poor fit for the PL but obviously a quality player in Spain and for Argentina. Horses for courses. Always played hard but couldn’t deal with the physicality of the PL. I wish him well.

  • wentworth says:

    Looks as though N’Dombele might be on the move. Another massive failure with so much talent but horrendous attitude.

    Both these players’ value dropped massively because of outrageously poor performances for such highly rated players. We cannot afford to make these expensive failures.

    I think our latest recruits seem to have the right attitude, skills and ability to add to our squad. I really like the look of Bissouma, Richarlison, Perisic, Lenglet and Spence. Just need a couple more to complete the squad. Maybe James Garner (unwanted cowboy of Maverick fame)

  • TK says:

    ww, ha ha ha. Maverick’s James Garner. Did you overlook that a principal feature of Maverick in that 1950’s show was his instinctual cowardice? Yes, he overcame his instinctual cowardice in the end of each episode, but still, he was one of the few anti-heroes of the Western cowboy era. Plus, as a professional gambler and essential hustler, he’d not be allowed to play. As an instinctual gambler he’d be hedging his bets every moment on the pitch. Absolutely charming fellow, however, but not one to strap on hot spurs and charge into the breech.

    I’d rather Black Adder if he’d manager to do an English western cowboy, if such a hybrid could be imagined. Unfortunately, we’d likely end up with a Baldrick instead.

    As to N’dombele, he’s been playing the role of Eddy Haskell–all promise and no effort to help the team.

    Now Richard Boone as Paladin on Have Gun Will Travel could put on hot spurs and ride in to glory.

  • TK says:

    My main complaint about the site right now is too many threads and not enough women on the site to fill them out. As men we’re too stupid to socialize in multiple spaces at the same time.

    e pluribus unum filum, From many threads to one thread. please.

    We are like headless chickens without a path to a single roost. Unify the site.

    • wentworth says:

      I have to admit TK that I am a Roy Rogers fan. I had the full cowboy outfit with two guns and spurs. Hence my romance with Spurs started at age of 9 in 1954.

  • TK says:

    Although I suspect OmarHussein is attending to encouragements to write multiple stories.

    Free Omar from the constraints of the greedy capitalist who hired him.

    He writes well and has a feel for our team. Free Omar !!!!!

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