Do you not rate Bales delivery the LDL? his whipped balls accros the box are second to none, ie city on sunday or in the champs league. He does it time and again, on a plate for people. He has everything for me, pace, strength, work ethic, goals, the odd skill and assists.
I agree. Luke is Utd fan, so slightly biased. I think at 22 Ronaldo was still falling over his own step- overs. He vastly improved, as will Bale, IMO. Ignore the nay Sayers they're jealous, or in denial. If he were made available for sale, there would be a massive clamour from every top side in Europe. That demonstrates the ability, and potential we're talking about here.
What's fantastic for us, is that Bale seems content to remain at Spurs for the foreseeable future. I'd love to think that he'll be the next Gazza, and enter the Hall of Legends in the same fashion.
For the 2nd time, no he's not as good as CR at this moment in time, I thought I cleared this up 2 pages ago. I doubt he will have the same skill level either, but could be equally effective in a game in his own way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EbDBhwRNoU This is a video of his first 25 goals. It looks like it might be in chronological order. So it looks like he scored 5 free kicks for Southampton and Wales before he scored for Spurs. Considering he only made 40 appearances for Saints at least three goals from free kicks isn't bad for a kid. He's definitely got a lot of ability at free kicks - hasn't he? I mean - he was that good when he was 17/18 - he can't be worse now, you'd have thought. I sometimes worry that Harry might not see the point of practising free kicks much.
It's obvious that we barely work on our set-pieces. Bale's actually got worse at them since his free-kick went in against Arsenal.
I'd love to think that he'll be the next Gazza, and enter the Hall of Legends in the same fashion. ---------- Hopefully not after suffering an horrific knee injury?!
that shocks me for a pro club playing at the highest end of english football PNP,really it does...why is it that they dont practice them much..or even if they do....why so poor...? ive seen VDV score some real crackers at his previous clubs....for example god knows we get plenty free kicks in goal scoring areas.
Very true, Dona. It might make some teams reconsider their tactic of constantly hacking down our players, for a start.
It's like we play with a different ball in training, our players seem to lack the abillity to get the ball up and down, whilst Larsson, Kolorov and other average players seem to have mastered it.
I was wondering that YV, but it appears that we train with the Nike Seitiro, which is the official ball. please log in to view this image Larsson's an immense free-kick taker. His delivery into the box from distance is exceptionally dangerous on them.
another training session over at spurs as Joe Jordan collects all the footballs after a free kick session
I do think you need more than just ability, its equal part mind, in training, scoring one is not going to equalise to salvage a draw, or win you a game. If it was that easy to do, every team would have 10 free kick takers. Most teams only have one or two which immediately puts into a specialist area. Incredibly as many threads have said, we seem to have missed having one in the ranks for a ludicrous length of time now. VdV's history I just don't know about, hard to imagine he was main FK taker at Madrid, and i just haven't followed him that closely to know, but theirs plenty of competition in the Dutch national team, Sneijder as I recall doing most of that. This begs the question why he's elevated himself to that job at Spurs, with from what I can see as very little evidence of doing it elsewhere. We had one of the best ever deadball specialists in Beckham this time last year, who was quite clearly unable to teach our lads a thing or two.
Apparently Barcelona have watched Tottenham's Gareth Bale seven times this season and are thought to be planning a summer player-plus-cash offer for the Wales midfielder. http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/tra...layer-plus-cash-summer-bid-article860939.html
