He scored against us in the Europa league , not sure if that makes him a good striker though as most strikers are helping themselves lately
Honestly feels like a data signing, given his stats show he's got Werner's control and Richy's physicality The way he finishes coming off the left wing is similar to Son's, too
This probably tells you of where the ambition of the club is at the moment: A failed loan move for Kolo Muani, who struggled to get a place in a PSG side that's sold a lot of its superstars. An enquiry for Brobbey on loan, a player that's lost his spot to Prem flop, Weghorst and Championship journeyman, Akpom. Now considering an SPL forward who has a pretty average goal return so far in a leagaue where a 37 year old Defoe was hitting Kane-esque numbers.
I think both would make some sense to get done in this window but to actually go through in the next one. Loaning Dibling back to Southampton for the rest of the season to get game time would be good for his future and they'd probably prefer it. Gomes is out of contract with Lille at the end of the campaign, so we could presumably get him on a pre-contract now. Does that do us any good at the moment? Of course not. I'd fully expect anyone that we did sign to get injured in the space of about three weeks, though.
We could use them both right now, I think Dibling especially is a star in the making and would currently walk into the XI either at CM or RW. As for your final point, very true lol.
If I am right about the limits on our spending I don't think buying someone and loaning them back is likely to be possible. Loaning Cardoso in is more likely I think...we will then have better information as to whether we exercise our option in the summer.
Dibling would walk straight onto the bench of our treatment table, as he's injured! There's a picture doing the rounds of our missing XI. I'll stick it on the physio thread, if it's not there already.
If you’re correct (I’m still unsure you are) and Spurs have spent the maximum amount they’re allowed to, to end up with this unbalanced mish-mash of a squad then it’s even more damning on the transfer policy.
As far as I can calculate, and this is based on PS' own numbers, we still have appx. £30m to spend this season. But I suspect that the club has no interest in spending it as the manager is a dead man walking and we don't have CL money, so it will cut spending wherever possible.
Comes back to the club not acting professionally then doesn’t it. If the club don’t think Ange is the man then they should get rid of him asap for the sake of everyone
My calculation was before @Dier Hard pointed out that we would loose about £20m of budgeted income from finishing in our current league position. That reduces the amount we can spend this window by £100m. Winning any of the cups wipes that out but we can't bet on that.
You're going to have to help me get my head round how/why a covenant would impose a protective buffer 10 x the value of any loss.
Sorry, there was a typo in my post...it should have been £100m. Easier to see why by looking at it the other way around. If we had £20m more revenue this season then the covenant would permit the football spend to rise by £20m over the whole year, but there is only six months left. If we spent £100m on players on 5 year deals the amortisation this year would be £10m and the extra wages about £10m which would spend all the increased revenue.
I don't agree we have an unbalanced squad. With everyone fit we have at least two players for every position plus players like Gray and Kulusevski who can play in different positions. That's not quite true for the Europa squad where Spence should have been selected over Forster or Werner.
So the covenant tracks revenue or profit? There's a huge (and crucial) difference between the outcome of the two. I'm also surprised that we would have signed off on loans that restricted us to a 1:1 spending limit on whichever of the above is accurate.
