{"id":174374,"date":"2025-10-02T04:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/174374\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:13:10","slug":"ange-postecoglou-was-100-per-cent-right-about-oliver-skipp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/174374\/","title":{"rendered":"Ange Postecoglou was 100 per cent right about Oliver Skipp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tottenham Hotspur sold Oliver Skipp<\/a> to Leicester City in August 2024, and it is laughable that the decision faced criticism back then. Many fans were sceptical, believing Skipp had more to offer than just a transfer fee.<\/p>\n

Well, they have been proven wrong now that their opinion has not stood the test of time. Skipp was never extraordinary for Tottenham. He simply wasn\u2019t that special and he hasn’t been great for Leicester City either. The decision to sell him for a decent fee of \u00a320 million was one of the best the club ever made.<\/p>\n

In the Championship clash between Leicester City and Wrexham yesterday, the Foxes were comfortably winning thanks to a first-half goal, until Skipp decided otherwise and pocketed two easy points off their table.<\/p>\n

He inexplicably left Nathan Broadhead unmarked, giving him the space to score a 77th-minute equaliser. That goal, though brilliant, never should have happened. But Skipp had to do it. And yes, it is totally on Skipp to have allowed that much space in the first place. <\/p>\n

Ange Postecoglou was 100 percent right about Oliver Skipp<\/p>\n

It is unbelievable that Postecoglou was criticised for selling Skipp. In hindsight, it was a brilliant decision. The Englishman was up to no good, and the manager had realised it back then.<\/p>\n

Skipp was inconsistent and offered no real solution during Tottenham\u2019s injury crisis in the 2023-24 season. He spent most of his time on the bench, which is why the club made the sensible choice to cash in on a player of his quality. And he gave some good returns, not on the field but on the balance sheet.<\/p>\n

That inconsistency because of which he was sold is continuing at Leicester City. In about five appearances for the Foxes, the defensive midfielder has done very little.<\/a> Averaging 1.6 tackles per game and winning no possession, his numbers are frankly awful.<\/p>\n

He also loses possession an average of 3.6 times per game, hardly new to his record.<\/p>\n

Even though he performed reasonably well last season for Leicester, he has started the current campaign poorly. This, unfortunately, is typical for him. There should be no doubt now that he was not worth keeping at Tottenham, and selling him was the club\u2019s best decision regarding him.<\/p>\n

Tottenham\u2019s current options in his position are far superior to what Skipp could ever have become. Looking back, two years on, the sale was smart, and Postecoglou was completely right to let him go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur sold Oliver Skipp to Leicester City in August 2024, and it is laughable that the decision…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-174374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}