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Diop Tehuti Djed-Hotep Spence

Redemption

Redemption

Chief Eye Roller
It's sad for him, but he made the right decision to go Spurs.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but sometimes you have to seize the day no matter the risks.
 
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Beasty

Rice 34
It has been reported that his attitude wasn't always great when he was on loan here and got a couple of ticking offs about it along with sometimes being late for training or reporting for games.

When you're playing as well as he did that season though it's one of those where you have to look the other way to an extent.

As soon as a player like that isn't pulling their weight you get situations like he has been in before/after, I imagine not being in the starting 11 doesn't help things with these mercurial types with regards to attitude.
 
Strummer

Strummer

Socialismo O Muerte!
LTLF Minion
GOBIAS said:
Of course he did, I'm getting my Northern Italian, navy blue and red teams mixed up!
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That’s a sure-fire way to end up with a horse‘s head in your bed.
 
Senior Flange Technician

Senior Flange Technician

Andy!
Warnock said Djed Spence was shite
Duh duh duh duh duh duhduh
Now he has been proved right

Doesn't have the same ring to it.
 
Strummer

Strummer

Socialismo O Muerte!
LTLF Minion
Sauce?
 
Huxley

Huxley

John Robertson
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A loan with Spuds paying his wages. They must really want that Dragusin chap.


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Raymondo Ponte'

Raymondo Ponte'

It's all about mid-table...
Honestly, we'd be in Europe now if we'd kept um together.

Fantastic team.

Just "Agents team" now, and what do they know about football? f*** ALL.
 
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trentside69

Viv Anderson
Collymore! said:
I want to stick up for Djed for what it's worth and I also think it's a little low that we jump on the "bad attitude" bandwagon, when we should be the one fan base to go to bat for him. Our whole experience with Djed was that he went through the wall for us and was a huge part of our promotion. At times we single-handedly played down the right through Djed and Brennan. He was so good that teams were having to man-mark or double up on our RWB by the end of the season! The "Warnock said that Spence was shite" chant was a big part of the spirit of that season.

Warnock at 'Boro was public with his criticism, and now Farke at Leeds has hinted at similar neither great managers at clubs doing absolutely nothing. It's probably tough being mediocre, and easier to criticise young players, rather than try to put an arm around them and realising not everybody is the same. Not everybody is motivated by the same things or responds to criticism in the same ways. f*** them Djed, small minds discuss people and all that.

Imagine for a moment that you'd been criticised by Warnock and decided that you'd prove him wrong at Forest. You proceed to do the very thing people want by "improving your attitude" and proceed to have one of the best seasons a young player has had. You then make your dream move to Spurs and in week one your manager says "Spence is an investment of the club. The club wanted to do it." and proceeds to not give you a chance worthy of the name. Yeah, I'd be hugely motivated by that too. So then you're shipped out on loan to France, and the backwaters of the Championship again.

Showing that the difficult decision you made to "change your attitude" i.e. change a fundamental part of yourself, and "do as you're told more" was all for nothing on the pitch.

In this world where everybody is out for themselves, Warnock, Farke, and Conte etc just reaffirmed that. I'd argue that their job is to deal with lots of different attitudes and egos of which Djed is one, and they actually failed him. Djed is probably a character who needs an arm around him and regularly a little chat to remind him how good he is. I mean, get a chauffeur to pick him up for training if it's true that he's late - it's probably not something he does deliberately and is so easily resolved in this footballing world of excess!

There are many on here questioning his quality because it hasn't worked at Spurs or Leeds. A shame we've already forgotten what we saw with our own eyes less than 18 months ago. Farke has been playing him LB after just returning from injury, shocking they didn't see the best of him!

If we still had more of the promotion squad, Cooper, and played a back-five I'd have him in our starting XI.

Make the next step a positive one and prove them all wrong again Djed.
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I'm not putting the boot in on DJed and I was a big fan of his.
Sadly he proved warnock had judged him correctly when he decided to tweet warnock while smoking a cigar while everyone else was celebrating our famous win.
Like a lot of pro players I think he's immature and easily led
 
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