Well it's a win-win as far as I'm concerned. Soldado gets to go back home and end his EPL nightmare and seemingly, someone else is about to sign for us instead. Roberto seemed like a top bloke that put in 100% but just didn't have it where it counts. So best of luck to him. Hopefully we have a cracking signing waiting in the wings, as soon as that cheque clears!
Je tiens à remercier tout le staff lyonnais , le président ainsi que tout les supporters ainsi que mes coéquipiers de l'#OL . Et je vous remercie aussi pour vos messages de soutien . Nouveau chapitre maintenant . #Tottenham#Spurs "I want to thank all the Lyons staff, the president, my teammates and all the fans of #OL. I would like to thank as well for your messages of support. New chapter now. #Tottenham #Spurs" Clinton Njie Joueur de Tottenham Hotspur et international Camerounais, Tottenham Hotspur and Cameroon player. I think it's a fairly safe bet we've signed him. The fee is supposed to be around 12 million. I think t's a good buy. We made at least one very sensible move to stop the goals coming in so often in this window. A pacy young attacking player who scored at a good clip in Ligue 1 at the age of 21 last year seems like a decent stab at adding to our own goal total. The only pacy attacker we have has never had much of a scoring record, so this should help. I'm encouraged that the 12 million fee is in the range where we've tended to make good buys. I like having another Indomitable Lion on board as well, having been a big fan of our last one. On the other hand, while he played mostly as as second striker, I don't know anything about him playing as a lone striker.
I don't know anything about this kid at all, only that he'd better not be a poor man's Berahino. I can see that most posters on here are drooling over the possibility that Njie and Berahino will be Spurs players by the end of the month. If that does happen (unlikely), what then becomes Pritchard's future at the club? It's pointless bringing through outrageously talented youngsters from the academy only to sign other outrageously talented youngsters who play in exactly the same positions. I'd be more than happy with this Mr Njie, with Townsend sent back to QPR in exchange for Austin, then use the money 'saved' on not buying Berahino to put towards 'New DM'.
Townsend's dad was quoted in the Standard saying that Andros is dead set on making it at Spurs, probably wouldn't stop the club selling him if we were desperate to, but I think he'll still be here after the window closes unless we get a big offer and are happy with the squad without him in it. Have QPR got the funds to make a serious bid for Andros? We shall see, a lot might hinge on Austin's sale (or lack thereof). Pritchard is flexible enough to play on the left or right or as a 10, so I think he'll get plenty of opportunities in the coming season as we have no real cover for Eriksen or Chadli, and the starting RM spot should be up for grabs anyway even if other N'jie or anyone else arrives - Poch seems keen to let the academy boys compete on an equal footing with signings. Even if N'jie and say Berahino arrive (although Levy might decide the latter is a bit expensive having been bitten recently with big fees, even thought Berahino has the PL experience other big buys have lacked) its quite conceivable that although both those players can play out wide, that all 3 of Kane and New Strikers x 2 will be competing for the starting no. 9 spot and that they will only be situational/emergency choices out wide. The impression I get with Austin is that he wants to go somewhere he will be first choice, now that is not something we can guarantee him. Berahino on the other hand seems to be more willing to compete, and him and Kane have played together for the England U21s with one starting out wide and the two of them interchanging during the match, so the WBA man is probably a better fit for us, if seemingly more expensive. And I'm not sure we'll get a DM now, which is a brave move from Poch, unless something comes out of the blue which is of course entirely possible. Given that Carroll and Alli seem to be set to feature quite regularly this season perhaps we won't see a signing there.
Never heard of Njie but from what i've read he plays the right role that we kinda need. IE, wide but can play up top too. He's young and relatively cheap in today's stupid money. Like it. If we also got in Berahino i'd be happy. He's kinda similar but more plays up top and can play out wide rather than vice versa. It will give us lots of versatility and, hopefully, fluidity in the final 3rd of the pitch if we have a bunch of players like that (and i think we already have a few)
My dad was also dead set on me making it at Spurs. Yet for some reason they never did send a scout to watch me doing my deer-in-the-headlights impression on a sunday afternoon.
I like N'Jie because he's something we don't have, which is a pacy attacking player. The advantage over Berahino is that he should be comfortable reprising his role with Lyon, playing a lot but not starting. Not unrelatedly, we got him for around the price we’ve often paid for good buys. Berahino might cost twice that and would expect to start. He has indeed played with Kane. But has it really worked, for Kane at least? Berahino has been the focus with the U-21s, and that might not bode well if he comes here. I’d be okay not getting anyone else, in the hopes that we would be giving our young players every chance. If we do get another player or two, I want it to be, again, something we don’t have: Yarmolenko or a first-rate DM. I have the feeling Berahino would be a big waste of money, and that Levy will turn out to be once burned twice shy about paying a big fee for a striker.There’s a case to be made for paying someone essentially to sit all year unless Kane and N’Jie get hurt, but I can’t see how it would help us much. As it stands we’d play four midfielders including Chadli, which might be a better idea. I think I would have gotten Lambert, since he’s a good player with a great history of playing as a lone strijker for Pochettino.
Shaquile Coulthirst has joined Wigan on loan. Hope this one works out for him. Does mean that we basically have one striker at the club that can legally buy a drink, though.
Villareal's president says he expects the announcement of Soldado in the next couple of hours. So as it stands its N'jie in, Soldado out.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...an-Draxler-replace-Arturo-Vidal-Juventus.html They can have Lamela, besides he's proven in Serie A, Eriksen would probably be rubbish there...
Connor Ogilvie, a 19 year-old left-back, has joined Stevenage on loan for a month. It would be nice if we could create a mutually beneficial link with Teddy Sheringham's club.
Coulthirst will be with Wigan until the end of October, so hopefully he gets some playing time - and since I'm on the subject, hopefully Man Utd fans grow up and stop taking the piss out of his name, not least because they've got somebody named Pig Farmer in their team Ogilvie will be at Stevenage for a month, no doubt because the club are still asking questions about the formation we played against them in the FA Cup. Get in line, Stevenage, we're still trying to work it out too. Which would make him at least on a par with that bloke who managed us a few years ago who said to the press that we needed to bring in Scott Parker - something he should've thought of before setting up a team to play Man City with Kranjcar deployed as a defensive midfielder, with predictable results.
He's a decent footballer who will surely boost Stevenage's quality as they looked really poor against us a fortnight ago.
Having their first team get comfortably beaten by our U21s can't have helped their confidence, either. They've also borrowed Chris Kettings from Palace for a month, so Sheringham's clearly not happy with their squad.
Apparently the Lyon chairman called Njie the future Eto, which means he will probably be sold to a Russian club in 12 months.
