Transfer Rumours transfer thread fact and fiction

Yes mate looks like Foyth will be announced v soon, especially as it looks like Wimmer is going soon too.

 

Wimmer and CCV out leaves us pretty short if the only incoming is a 19 year old who will be joining the PL2 squad. I guess Sanchez + Foyth is overall an upgrade on Wimmer and CCV, but we'll basically have no-one to cover Jan if he gets injured and won't be able to rotate Dier as much as necessary in order to give Wanyama the odd rest.

Seems like a classic 1 step forward, 2 steps backwards Spurs approach.

 

Yes buddy, lets hope this is the making of him, training with the squad and the odd U23 game isnt enough for him at Spurs. He needs experience to go with his undoubted talent.

 

It looks like we are playing 3 at the back with Sanchez and Foyth arriving but as you say we lack cover for Vertonghen. If he is injured or suspended then Davies could cover or we would revert to 4 at the back with two CB's with Alderweireld shifting over a bit.

 

I have seen it suggested that Poch has considered ditching his rule that Verts needs a left-footed understudy, which would (in theory) mean that Foyth is floating cover for Verts and whichever of Toby/Sanchez plays on the right side.

Part of this likely comes from the fact that, while Wimmer was great cover for Verts in a back four, he really wasn't suited to a back three...although that does beg the question why we never experimented with Wimmer in the centre with Verts and Toby on either side of him, as that would have been the most logical setup.

 

Kev just wasn't quick enough or good enough on the turn to play in a 3. More horizontal gaps open up in that system which, combined with the distance between the back line and our keeper that our (oft unseen it has to be said) high press meant that he was doomed to fail.

Kev will flourish in a traditional back 4, which is pretty much what we used in his first season.

As for playing 3 at the back and all are right-footed....Nah. Can't see it working. Wimmer out is the right decision. Only bringing Foyth in is the wrong one.

 

Have some Foyth in the lad, CK. The Foyth is strong in this one.

I can go all ****ing night.

 

I do believe we have a winner.

You sir, can have my coat.

 

MP could not get to know his players and their potential if they were out on loan

 

Perhaps. But they certainly could. Which I think is more important given the degree to which any major sport is played in the mind.

You can stand in the corner of a michelin star restaurant and watch the service all you like, fact of the matter is until you've done a summer at a Maccie D's you don't really know what it takes to succeed.

 

Apparently stoke are the latest team in for Wimmer. Supposedly another £15 mill bid

 

Of course CK but rightly MP first had to look at the ingredients and see if they worth using. Now he has and sends them on loan to develop their full flavour. A sensible course, the main course will follw

 

Daniel will be delighted - more interest from more clubs can only push the price up!

 

Aurier undertook a medical in Paris today ahead of his move to us according to French sources.

 

...which I assume is because he isn't allowed to step foot in this country. Will he be playing for us via skype?

In all seriousness, I don't think I've ever heard of a player doing a medical before a fee has been agreed and that agreement made public.

 

Aurier is a mirage. He'll have to have his conviction quashed in the next week to make it a possibility, and the wheels of justice grind slow. It seems the click-baiters have outdone themselves on this one. It will not happen.

What I'd settle for is one winger fit to face Real Madrid. I'm not holding my breath, but we did sign two players this window, so anything's possible.

 

Two remote possibilities :

1. GKN has a 'Bale' moment in both games

2. The scouting networks locate Kenneth McEvoy and
Pochettino whips him into shape before those games

 

It's common practice in Blackpool. Jurgen takes 'em up the Golden Mile (Oooooh errrr Missus!), shows them a dirty video and the next thing the doctors are doing their stuff and the player wakes up to find the German has ****ed off and the internet is awash with pictures of them wearing red with a lot of explaining to do.

In other news, ESPN's Dan Kilpatrick is reporting that we've pulled out of a move for Jadon Sancho, despite the player being keen to commit to us rather than Arsene Wenger's graveyard for young English players.

So, is it wages or Citeh's transfer fee that's causing us to play 'Transfer Deadline Day Chicken' again?

Brian's suggestion is we're pulling the same stroke as we did in relation to Foyth and are in the middle of with Barkley. Let's hope it works better than in relation to Pau Lopez!

 

Paging Standard Liege ...

 

I wonder if Levy is trying to tie up a deal for Draxler whilst he's out in Paris?