The biggest headscratcher with Doherty is he was surely signed to be the Trippier to Aurier's Walker, to both keep him on his toes knowing he had an able deputy behind him as well as somebody to fill in their share of games ...and yet that season Aurier was a habitual liability and yet Doherty never got a run of games in the same role, and as a result our passmaps looked like photocopies of one another with Aurier and Lucas being the Bermuda Triangle on the right flank
To be honest I think it is positive that we are prepared to do this with players who wanna play football rather than waste their careers. We did it with Aurier to iirc. And like @Dier Hard says could well happen with Ndombele and Lo Celso. What ain't good is our record of allowing managers to spend so much and then sacking them so soon after We did it with Pochettino, JM and Nuno.
So that’s two windows now this season, two terminated right backs! When you’ve signed so much rubbish I guess this is inevitable though and you just have accept the hit.
He was just an awful signing, nothing really else to say about it to be honest. Provided some comedy on Spurs YouTube though, so I suppose he had some use.
Far from ideal but hopefully the club realise it’s better to get rid of players that aren’t good enough rather than hang on to them for the sake of it. Like DH says, it won’t be the last deal like that
It’s the downside/ curse of having flops in the Premier League now, we’re the richest clubs in world football but there comes a price with that. Unless we can sell to a team in the same division, there’s becoming an increased probability that unwanted players are only ever going to head on loans with buy options that will never be triggered or having their contracts ran down/ terminated. European clubs just can’t afford to buy out their contracts from us as well as pay a fee on top.
Any danger of this Porro deal being announced? Would be so Spurs to get rid of 2 RWB and then not get the replacement in
Sporting have signed Bellerin, so I’d imagine the Porro stuff will be happening within the next 30 mins or so. We’ve longed it out for so long now though I can’t help but feel the excitement’s been sucked out of it a little, and it shouldn’t be, because he looks a bloody good and exciting player .
I'd push back on that DH. Granted, he wasn't Pavard or Hakimi, but iirc most of us were pretty happy with the signing, especially at that price. He was one of the best FBs outside of the top 6 for a few seasons running - it just proved to be a step too far for him and it turned out what he did at Wolves was literally the peak of his ceiling. As RCL said, perhaps a bigger problem to consider is that he never really got to play under the manager who actually signed him, similar to Lo Celso, Ndombele and Sessegnon, so we will never really know how good he might have been. Either way, I agree it is embarrassing for the club to have done this twice in quick succession.
Wow. Wow wow wow. Stop the train, Banter FC is climbing on board. Honestly, this is the stuff of pub leagues.
It’s one less deal for the club to work on in the summer at least. Porro and Spence are the future (hopefully) and will be more Walker and Trippier than Aurier, Emerson and Doherty.
Looks like it was clearly this option, given the fact that Doherty agreed his contract with Atletico 5 hours ago as a loanee, then came this hasty u-turn this evening as the collective brains running THFC realised that yes indeed, they cannot count. We had the entire ****ing window to sort this out and find a permanent move for him or Royal, or indeed any of our other 8 international loanees. Joke of a club.
Another shiete show of a transfer window with key areas of the team once again not improved upon, Porro aside (and even that transfer has been handled abysmally). As for realizing at the last minute we had too many players out on loan and terminating Doherty`s contract, that is a school boy error of the highest order, the fact nobody was aware of this until late in the window is a shambles. Vintage Levy.
I see a very short and equally slippery road from that attitude to essentially throwing the towel in on half a dozen more players, until we start cancelling contracts like they're going out of fashion.
Remember that Rennes were going to cut Rodon's loan short as recently as a month ago, while Gil wasn't expected to leave until practically the last minute
