Steven Pienaar

[GwladysBlue]

Thinking back, I don’t think I appreciated just how good Steven Pienaar was.

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Coleman Jagielka Lescott Baines
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? Arteta Pienaar
Cahill
Yakubu

We were so close to a brilliant team, but Kenwright wouldn’t get out to allow us to progress. We were three players short.

 

[orly]

Thinking back, I don’t think I appreciated just how good Steven Pienaar was.

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Coleman Jagielka Lescott Baines
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? Arteta Pienaar
Cahill
Yakubu

We were so close to a brilliant team, but Kenwright wouldn’t get out to allow us to progress. We were three players short.

If we had signed Bily at this time, we would have won the Europa League that season

 

[GwladysBlue]

If we had signed Bily at this time, we would have won the Europa League that season

I was convinced we were going to get Arshavin and he was going to lead us to glory.

Lescott leaving broke us. We’ve never properly recovered from that.

 

[Joey66]

I was convinced we were going to get Arshavin and he was going to lead us to glory.

Lescott leaving broke us. We’ve never properly recovered from that.

Arshavin DM tried to get him too many rubles was his comment -
even when he went to arsenal he thought his wages were Tax and NI free and spat his dummy out.....

 

[Lelouch]

Thinking back, I don’t think I appreciated just how good Steven Pienaar was.

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Coleman Jagielka Lescott Baines
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? Arteta Pienaar
Cahill
Yakubu

We were so close to a brilliant team, but Kenwright wouldn’t get out to allow us to progress. We were three players short.

Baines and Pienaar is one of the best partnerships in the PL period, They'd pick each other out if they were both blind.

 

[polish]

Love his twitter.

 

[havrey0123]

Are people forgetting when he left for spurs and then resigned for 1.5m more then he left.

He was never the same player when he came back from there.

 

[Badge1878]

Are people forgetting when he left for spurs and then resigned for 1.5m more then he left.

He was never the same player when he came back from there.

Did he score against Chelsea first game back from Spurs Gwladys St End? But I agree, it just wasn’t the same despite us wanting it to be. I remember seeing what may have been his first start in the eleven away at Bolton, the game was too fast for him and he looked weak and unable to contribute. But, how he improved....the interplay with Baines was telepathy and went beyond set training ground moves, they were instinct and natural ability. He had that knack of taking the ball in tight spaces and holding it, ora dribble or after he had adapted and built upper body strength he allowed us time to get other players up the pitch. We lacked that type of player this past season, so it went long too early and our forwards were isolated. A very clever player - Arsenal away in the snow when he ran through and chipped it in was a goal I’ll always remember. But, he’s no legend. The move to Spurs was controversial in some ways as summed up his selfish and petulant side to me. Like others, grass as they greener. Drink driving and a lover of late nights in Town showed he was no monk either.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Are people forgetting when he left for spurs and then resigned for 1.5m more then he left.

He was never the same player when he came back from there.

He left because we wouldn’t give him parity with Arteta by all accounts (around £60k pw) He was better at the time too so I find it hard to blame him.

 

[Groucho]

Did he score against Chelsea first game back from Spurs Gwladys St End?

No, first home start, v Chelsea Feb 11th 2012. Scored in Park End and the lad went crackers. Was there. AVB got the sack in the tunnel after we won 2-0 (straq the other scorer)

 

[Bluebonic]

As good an engine as i have ever seen on a footballer! Never flagged, and covered so much for Baines runs forward. His telepathic partnership with Baines will likely never be matched at Goodion!

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

I was gutted when he left, but delighted when he returned. He knew what he'd left behind too when he cried at the end of his loan.