Djed to me?
I'd have had those three and Zinkernagels bagels. Still believe he would have done a decent squad job for us.
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What happened to the handsome bagel boy?
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Went Greek (Olympiacos), Belgian (Liege), Belgian again (Brugge) then Norwegian (Bodo/Glimt).
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Currently on a season long loan at Glimt from Club Brugge where his contract is set to expire in the summer, having netted 6 times in 35 appearances in all competitions since August 2023.
I didn't look that up or anything, I just have an encyclopedic knowledge of well groomed and finely chistled attacking midfielders plying their trade in obscure tinpot European leagues.
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Scored on debut in the Champs League for Oly then promptly fell out with Corberan and shipped off to Belgium.
Seemed a consummate pro for us but clearly something else going on because that's not quite the path he'd have hoped. If cheap, he CHDAJFU but I'm not overly upset for us. -
Dean Henderson starts for Ingerland later, it says here.
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At the time I’d definitely have signed Djed, but by all accounts he’d made it clear that his heart was set on Spurs (which was understandable, as a London boy), so it was never a likely option. Since then he has not exactly pulled up any trees - either at Tottenham or on loan - to the point where you begin to wonder whether his performance with us was the outlier… maybe Warnock had a point.
Would I swap Ola Aina for Djed? Not in a million years.
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He has found his way to Spurs bench this season it seems.
Though might have as much to do with a need to move him on.
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I have zero recollection of us ever being top of League One during that hellish three-year stint. Apparently we were.
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Pretty sure I was at that game, in the scaffolding stand. Gillingham has to be the largest dump of a town I've been to for football.
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Motion seconded. And I've been to Portsmouth.
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Motion carried.
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Was this before or after the Hessenthaler rugby tackle game?
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I would imagine after. I think we were still scrapping for our lives in the Championship for that one. Both ultimately losing obviously.
Although I could be wrong. The mid 00s are an unpleasant blur on a few levels, with Forest merely echoing that.
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'Your choice of homemade pie' is a nice nod...
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Ben Brereton Diaz is currently the player to have played most Premier League games without winning.
Should be play six more without a win, he will become the player with most Premier League games before first win. That record stands at 25 games, and is held by Oliver Burke.
We make some good ones!
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While these things are no doubt interesting to the stats crowd, they always seem to somewhat overlook the nature of team sports. If he'd been put in the manshitty side, he'd have won by now. Sheffield untied were, and sudhampton are, quite shit.
Getting a game at 'ship level, irrespective of the outcome, is a positive achievement.
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A point that Nick Miller makes in a few different ways in the article:
"This, hopefully, is not designed to denigrate or mock Brereton Diaz. He has just been unfortunate enough to play for a couple of struggling sides. "
"You could even argue that Brereton Diaz is almost being punished for being good. If you’re a terrible player in a terrible team, you probably aren’t going to stay in that team. But if you’re a decent player in a terrible team, you’ll be out there every week, your win-loss record at the mercy of the dysfunction around you."
"Not least because, by even making it to the Premier League, they’re already in the top one per cent of the top one per cent."
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I don't think it was the same game, I was also at that one and I think the 'tackle' was on Andy Reid so would have been a championship match I guess. Prob later.
