I guess in my mind, I would query it because Son and Kane are guaranteed starters, so with Bale we have a front 3. That means we are stuck with 3-4-3 (the 3 at the back seems non negotiable) and so that is only 2 places in Centre midfield. At the moment that means Hojbjerg and Skipp and that isn't working. I thought the prevalent view was that 3-5-2 was what we need, with a creative midfielder to come in. Not sure Bale is that player? If not, where does Bale fit?
I think with or without Bale we definitely need a creative midfielder. If Bale were to join then he'd replace Lucas on the right and the new creative mid taking the place of one of Hojbjerg or Skipp, to keep the 343. Currently without Bale and if we didn't re-sign him in January then Ndombele (for now) or the new creative mid (in January) replacing Lucas and we go 352.
£45m seems quite a modest fee for him if true, even if he does only have 18 months left on his deal. Would 100% take him at that price if he fancied joining.
Kessie Watch Belgian Watch Calcio Mercato are linking us with Brugge striker Charles De Ketelaere, a rumour which I can sum up my opinion of in one word: Yes Vlahovic Watch We're being linked with moves for both Dejan Kulusevski and Weston McKennie Juve are looking to raise funds to sign Dusan Vlahovic Right, which is the best configuration so we manage to get reenforcments while also keeping enough in reserve for Vlahovic and also depriving Juve of enough to fund their own move?
I've mentioned him on here a few times and it's the sort of move we used to make, but stopped. Not sure he's a striker though, exactly. Played a lot of positions, including everywhere up top.
I'm torn on this. If he carries on playing as he has done so far, a decent offer comes in and replacements are readily available, I think it would be stupid not to sell. He has been massively below par, looks totally disinterested and another 4 months of speculation really isn't helpful at all. I can't see Conte wanting to sell but the onus is then on him to get Kane performing.
If he wants to go, then he can replace Mbappe at PSG at the end of the season for stupid money. **** City. They wanted to piss around and lowball after tapping him up, so they can **** off.
Be interesting to see what they offer this time. Will they give Levy something to think about this time.
Is keeping him worth this? He's no desire to be here. His form is for **** and it seems that appointing Conte's made no difference to his attitude. Keeping him here isn't winning, if he's going to keep this up. If Conte's appointment has made no difference. it's time to get the best deal we can and get him gone.
Until we sort out service to the striker then whether you want Kane to stay or not it won’t make a bit of difference to the goals output because I can almost guarantee you that Kane or whoever else won’t score enough of them if we don’t get them the ball. Son’s been almost as **** as Kane but there’s barely a peep from fans about that whilst Scarlett’s also suffered in his sporadic chances. This will probably be Conte’s first short term priority; ensuring the ball gets into that final area sufficiently enough. Get that done, then we can really assess if Kane’s off form or just been feeding off the smallest of scraps.
^^^^^^ Agreed. Time to sell him before he loses anymore value. Let's get people in that actually want to play for spurs.
I think Kane isn’t fully fit and the lack of service all round has been appalling. I’ve seen stats showing us getting the ball into the final 3rd plenty but the final ball from out wide or the ability to work through the middle has been almost non-existent. It doesn’t matter who is up top of the service isn’t there.
That’s my point. We could theoretically sell Kane today for £120m, sign Vlahovic (or whoever) for £60m and I’m almost certain within a couple months they’d be labelled a flop by our fans. Until our creativity is fixed our strikers/ forwards will suffer and I think Conte knows it. I mean if fans honestly want our best player sold then we might as well sell Son as well. Least that way our expectations can go back to hoping for mid table, no one can be disappointed then.
kieran Maguire's prepared a table of how FFP affects each PL club's ability to spend in the forthcoming window. As one would expect, we're the least affected by a ****ing mile. If we raised the cash, we could currently spend £400m!, 50% more than our next nearest competitor Liverpool and double what Arsenal could spend. please log in to view this image https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/s...er-League-club-spend-transfers-FFP-rules.html It's not FFP that might continue to stop us from spending on sporting success, it's that the money's being spent elsewhere...and now, that needs adjusting, by ENIC taking steps to re-capitalize the club and backing Conte.
don't hit them with facts brian. If ENIC were to invest even a quarter of that money on transfers you'll proably end up in divison 1 like sunderland, financial trouble and going broke.
No, we cannot spend £400m - and the article itself says that figure is an estimate An analysis of top flight clubs undertaken for Sportsmail by Kieran Maguire, a lecturer in football finance at the University of Liverpool, estimates what each club could spend and still stay within the FFP limit. We can spend £400m and still comply with FFP, but that rests on one small detail: actually having £400m to spend in the first place. If we don't have £400m sloshing around in the coffers to spend, the figure is utterly meaningless Just in case we get kvetching at spending "only" £150m next summer
