Troy Parrott

Will be a target as long as he is playing 23s as he is so high profile compared to most in that league.

CillDara wrote:

Scores 2 for Spurs u23s tonight against Man City and then comes off injured, hopefully just a dead leg, would be a terrible shame for him to pick up an injury a few hours after being called into the senior squad.

Saw one of the goals, curling left footed effort. Brilliant strike.

Gavin Bazunu was in goal for City.

Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic."

Scores 2 for Spurs u23s tonight against Man City and then comes off injured, hopefully just a dead leg, would be a terrible shame for him to pick up an injury a few hours after being called into the senior squad.

A short selection.

Parrott was left out of the under-23 squad as well; from this one could come to two reasonable conclusions:

He has a minor injury or illness that kept him out of both squads.

Or, he was in strong consideration to be named on the bench but just missed out.

One could also come to the reasonable conclusion that Pochettino simply felt N'Koudou was slightly better suited to this game, but that Parrott will get chances in other games.

There are numerous possibilities that are just as plausible as your wide-ranging assertion that he's "way down the pecking order" based solely on the 1st squad of the season.

We're decent enough..

The O'Shea wrote:

Territorial wrote:

The O'Shea wrote:

What is it about the start of the season that makes people draw wide ranging conclusions off a tiny sample of evidence? Parrott wasn't named on the bench for one game, hardly enough to conclude he's completely out of the picture.

Of course one game is hardly conclusive.

But with Son suspended and Dele injured, when will he get a better chance to make the subs bench in the PL?

The only conclusion must be that he's still 5th choice striker at best (Kane, Son, Moura, Nkoudou), in a team that usually only plays 1 or 2 up front.

And that's before you add Dele and Lamela, who can both play in an advanced role if need be. And Eriksen and Ndombele(?) and Lo Celso(?) generally weigh in with more than their share of goals for midfielders.

No, that's not the "only conclusion", there are literally dozens of conclusions one could plausibly draw. That's not really the point though, because at the end of the day there isn't yet enough evidence to fully support any of those possible conclusions, because we're literally only one game into a 38 game season ffs LOL

OK then, give me the first dozen "plausible conclusions" one could draw from TP not being on the bench on Saturday.

Literally. Wink

Edited by Territorial - 12 Aug 2019 at 2:40pm

The O'Shea wrote:

What is it about the start of the season that makes people draw wide ranging conclusions off a tiny sample of evidence? Parrott wasn't named on the bench for one game, hardly enough to conclude he's completely out of the picture.

Of course one game is hardly conclusive.

But with Son suspended and Dele injured, when will he get a better chance to make the subs bench in the PL?

The only conclusion must be that he's still 5th choice striker at best (Kane, Son, Moura, Nkoudou), in a team that usually only plays 1 or 2 up front.

And that's before you add Dele and Lamela, who can both play in an advanced role if need be. And Eriksen and Ndombele(?) and Lo Celso(?) generally weigh in with more than their share of goals for midfielders.

Understand he wasn't on bench but why didn't he play for the u23s so?

Originally posted by Zinedine Kilbane 110

Zinedine Kilbane 110 wrote:

Lucas Moura can play as a striker.

And Eriksen was on the bench.

On the Spurs website he is listed as an U18 player.

He will get some games but don’t expect him to be near the first team squad for important games.

The league cup games will be telling.

Honestly there is no rush. He is 17 and this is a top 4 club.

Moura played a very attacking role yesterday, both flanks, with Kane the other striker.

Son was suspended and Dele Alli out injured.

And if you look at the bench, the sole attacking sub was Kevin-Georges Nkoudou, who Spurs are desperately trying to offload.

Conclusion? TP must still be a long way off featuring for the 1st team, PL matches at least.

(Meanwhile although Eriksen gets his share of goals etc, he remains very much a central midfielder, eg coming on for Winks y'day, who had been "minding the shop" at the base of midfield.)