Good point, forgot about Kuol. Sparta Prague (big fish in small pond) traditionally have a strong ranking. Wow, just checked it... 1665!! Puts him 2nd highest after Arena , even im surprised by that!

Everytime I do this i realise that being being at a big club in a 2nd tier league is a higher level than playing at a bottom of the table italian, german or Spanish team. Case in point Bos vs Metcalfe/Irvine. Also playing at a club thats top end of championship (mcgree, Silvera, Luongo) is a...

Picking an 11 from that .. Ryan Circati Stensness Elder Metcalfe Luongo Irvine Bos Volpato McGree Toure

Update... Arena (Roma) 1767 Volpato (Sassuolo) 1629 Ryan (Levante) 1616 Bos (Feyenoord) 1601 Stensness, Daggers 1594 McGree, Silvera (Boro) 1589 Circati (Parma) 1583 Luongo (Millwall) 1577 Irvine, Metcalfe (St Pauli) 1562 Toure, Norwich 1547 Elder, Derby 1534 Mabil (Castellon) 1525 Irankunda...

The "not selling the shirt" narrative might sound strong but if that is really how Poppa is approaching things behind closed doors then thats idiotic. Fact of the matter is we are a small country football wise and most of our best talents are and gave always been dual nationals. If we cap a...

Have we added Rafael Rech and Okkas to this list yet?

Cant stand it.. fair enough if was against England but NZ? I thought it was always the trans tasman cup?

Tha Thats a crazy and also very exciting stat! Quite an achievement for a country on the opposite side of the world.

Hi all - havent been on this group for a long time after being Spurs obsessed the last 2 yrs. Just logged back on and went through all the recent posts ... cannot believe how many young players we seem to have at decent European levels! Whole bunch of guys ive never even heard of like Sapsford...

Will definitely end up playing for us despite people on here deriding his mention on the basis that "he is Italian" and doesn't want to play for us. Fact is he is miles off being selected for Italy and now that he isn't young anymore he isn't being courted by them or talked up. He will come back...

Rafael Rech - Juventude, Australia/Brazil https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Rech Georgios Okkas - Rio Ave, Cyprus/Australia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_Okkas Deni Juric - Koper Australia/Croatian

Surely matter of time before Younis gets called up to senior team?

Thought Franjic was good for the brief time we had him and Rhy Williams was outstanding in the few games he started at right back, but otherwise, yes it's been a struggle.

China v Australia 25/03/25 Using the football manager rating system, each player starts at 6, a positive contribution eg goal, assist, preassist, or overall good play pushes the player up 1 point, and a negative contribution eg mistake leading to goal, missed pen, pen conceded, overall bad play...

So noticed the tottenham forum has a player ratings thread whereby ppl post their player ratings after each game and then someone tallies them up and shows the averages. So figured I start this, starting this last match (China v Australia 25/3/2025).

Teague just came into the squad and started immediately

I agree.. Back then clubs prioritised cultural adaptibility over player quality eg English clubs buying English speakers, Italian ubs with Italian speakers, as well as there were simply less foreigners in the big leagues. The big 4 leagues have almost become super leagues, very rare now for an...

Dutch, Belgian, Danish, Austrian and Norwegian leagues have all served us well in recent years. All are professionally run ie no payment issues or crazy weekly sackings, English isn't an issue, prioritise technicality (at least to a degree ie more than British Isles), have relatively high ELO...

Best prospect SINCE Viduka

Doing the club comparison of socceroos using ELO on the other thread I made, the player that stood out to me the most was Mohammed Toure. He's only 20 but is playing at a Randers team that is ranked around the 1460 mark which is quite good, meanwhile has scored 6 in 14 games. This got me...