Hang on. It's 24 goals (9 penalties) and 12 assists, so...that's alright. We should probably have played him up front more when we didn't have any actual strikers, but we've got Redmond for that now. It was still the right thing to sell.
Which ironically is the way Ajax train their youth from 5 upwards. I've heard stories of the youngsters training whilst wearing 'blinkers' around their waist that stops them seeing the ball at their feet. Makes complete sense and is genius in terms of the benefits that a 'head-up' style of play can deliver.
It was a huge loss selling him imo. He was head and shoulders our best player last season, so we did what we always do, and sold him. But at least it wasn’t to another PL team this time. And he obviously didn’t go to Amsterdam for the money, he went for the glory. So fair play to Dusan, Ajax and Saints
Didn't he have a release clause in favour of Ajax? Heard that somewhere. I will always wish him well, and be glad I saw in a Saints shirt. Remember his first game against Liverpool? OK we lost it, but I remember Danny Murphy talking about him and marvelling at how well we'd replaced Lallana. As others have said a very talented, technically gifted player, and I so hope he gets to the final with Ajax, albeit Barcelona await (well we bloody hope so!).
Worth remembering this is a league in which Vincent Janssen scored 27 goals a couple of seasons ago, yet he looked crap in the premier league. 35 year old Van Persie currently has 16, doubt he would get a regular start at his age over here. The standard of football really is poor. Yes, Tadic was not helped by poor managers over the past couple of years and many of our players were made to look worse than they actually are (Redmond for example). But be under no illusion that had we kept him then he would be banging in the goals for us. At 29 years old he probably wouldn't have offered us that much over the coming years and £10m isnt as bad as it may look.
you ****ting me. 10m is an absolute steal. To put it into perspective James tomkins went for 10m 3 years ago at 27 and andre gray 18m As for crap league, Tadic has been bossing it in the CL too (6 goals and 3 assists in 11 appearances).
Lets wait and see him repeat this next season. £10m after 2 seasons of being pretty average isnt horrendous at his age.
Tadic had lost his mojo here...he'd had a couple of years when things weren't how he liked. He wanted to move on...I'm glad it's worked out for him...am also very glad he isn't in the EPL (now that would have pissed me off ).
He did lose his mojo, but he also found it for the last 8 games. Had that not happened then we when be lingering in the Championship totally Ralphless. Tad is a legend. Will always be proud of his time here.
This. This exactly. Brilliant player. That performance against Real was just sublime, one of the best you will ever see at any level. The end of his stay here, To quote league of gentleman, a gold tooth in a rotten mouth.
Read my previous message mate - i do acknowledge that. My point was simply that we shouldn't get carried away with his form in the eredivisie due to the quality of the league.
I think the overall point is that his performances in the Champions League against some of the best teams in Europe have been nothing short of brilliant, which kind of backs up the fact that his form in the Eredivisie isn’t just down to the poor quality of the opposition.
Fair point - he has had a good champions league and was brilliant against Madrid. But if he was genuinely one of the top players in Europe, do you not think he would have still performed for us despite playing under 2 crap managers? Possible explanation is that he wasn't giving it his all? P.S - I know it looks as though I have something against Tadic but I honestly dont! He had an amazing spell with us and was so important in helping us cope with the loss of Lallana et al. I just find it strange that people suddenly think he is the dogs bollocks.
It’s no coincidence that his form for us dropped off when Koeman left and so did his striking partner Graziano Pellè. He was good under Puel but nowhere near as good as when we had a more swashbuckling manager. So I think we’re in agreement!
