[Dancingwilldoit]

Dev if Tendayi had a final ball in him he would be playing for Bahsahlona. I would snatch anybodies hand off for £800k in the last year of his contract. Good luck to the lad and good business for us.

[spireitematt]

Wigan are a big fish in a small pond at the minute they have problems with attendances due to them being a rugby league town and not a footballing town. Players go where the money is but can't see Clucas going to Wigan, I think it would be daft and stupid for any Chesterfield player to be sold to another team in the same league as us as we will be competing against them in the forthcoming season and by selling our players to teams in the same league as us we are giving them ammo.

[Devongone]

Dancing, look around at supposedly top class wide men, wingers, midfield, full back and honestly tell me how many are capable of a really good final ball more thirty per cent of the time?

I can give you two in recent times - Beckham and the young Dutchman Jetro Williams. There are far more like Darikwa who do waste some good positions. My complaint with him has never been that. I think he needs to go for goal much more. He should have 5-10 goals in him at our level playing anywhere but in goal.

But he does pull the opposition apart. He works very hard. And he's there every week, keen and eager. In a world of poseurs and primadonnas how much is that worth? And when you watch the really good players they all do work hard - so he's cracked the first part of the conundrum for going higher.

Do Preston have anything like £800,000, when they signed Daniel Johnson wasn't he the only player they'd paid for?

[spireitematt]

I say keep all the squad if its possibly and add a few additions and see if we can get playoffs or even better next season.

[Dancingwilldoit]

Dev,
Tendayi can play no doubt but he is so frustrating when he repeatedly runs himself into trouble and turns attack into defending. His final ball can be woeful at times. He has a goal or 2 in him but as soon as he gets himself into a good position he is like a rabbit in car headlights.
I could never understand why he was never given some positive coaching. If he was then it never worked as its always been his Achilles heel. When he played midfield he scored quite a few good goals, So its even more baffling when he goes nowhere and just runs himself into trouble or puts the ball into the roof of the stand.
Leeds will expect more for £800k but I wish him well.

[Devongone]

Dancing,
You get to see far more of Tendayi than me! The bits I get to watch of him suggest that the only problems he has are inside his head.

He needs a clearer and quite simple idea of what people want from him ...... which is why I'd like him to focus on getting to the opposition box and shooting as much as he can. Lay-offs and crosses will improve ...... but as you say he is capable of scoring (he was a centre forward) ..... Once shot, lay-off and cross are all options presented by the attacker running with the ball, in the keeper's mind positioning becomes a real problem and it's a problem the centre backs face too - do they cover across or wait for the ball coming in .... or not?

The positive about my not seeing all his errors is that I do tend to notice the high percentage of dangerous and goalscoring moves in which Tendayi's name is mentioned. Equally despite the undoubted mistakes he makes, and despite his relative inexperience in defence, very few goals conceded seem to be down to him.

I'm sure you undervalue Tendayi's durability. He's there every game. In fact playing a lot of games seems a positive help to him. That has value.

I think you also undervalue the value of the confusion he creates in the opposition defence. Though there's a lot of truth in your criticism of him, a team full of tic-tac footballers all coming up with 90% pass completion rates don't create a goal without the wilder, unpredicatable talents of those who start a run and aren't quite sure of its final outcome. He's far from perfect .... but take a good look at the imperfections of some of the cheaper imports in the Premiership. He showed against Derby he'd handle the Championship. In this market £800,000 would get Leeds some dink from the fringes of the Bologna squad who can still pass the ball, but everyone knows his legs have gone. Tendayi's a snip.

[bluepooch]

Tendayi's strengths are his energy and tenacity that's why I've always said he's a better defender than attacker.However he does have pace and ability if used right and I think he will take the step up in his stride .

[Devongone]

You could be right Pooch. I always wanted to see the attacking qualities of his youth shine through .... because goals are the game's currency, but the evidence seems to be the more his career develops the fewer goals he scores. But yes he's tenacious, committed, brave, energetic, has stamina, is a proper athlete. I think we should measure people on positive qualities, though like everyone else I often fail to do it. The only question for me his how big a step-up he could make. And the limiting factor might just be a lack of self-belief. What do you reckon?

[Dancingwilldoit]

Tendayi will do ok in the Championship IMO but I don't think he will pull up any trees. I think £800k is an excellent price for him in the last year of his contract so if the rumours are true we will do ok.
Will he be missed? I don't think so if Drew stays fit but that's a big if. I think Drew is faster and is a better option going forward but maybe not as good defending. The only worry is Drews injury record. He has a habit of going down like a sack of potatoes every tackle so you never know if its genuine or not but hey it looks like he will be our right back for they new season and I think he will be good for us.

[spireitematt]

Rumour going around that Giles Coke is one of our targets he's been talked about before.