Transfer thread for 2016-17 season

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I'd pick Sunderland. Bigger club fullstop.

Wish Mason well, good player, seemed to get stunted by injury last season when he was a regular the season before. Hope he gets back to playing as well as he did that season and scores us some own goals when we play them.
Didn't he score the winner against Sunderland last year? Getting injured in the process?
 
Spurm said:
Didn't he score the winner against Sunderland last year? Getting injured in the process?
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**** quality, but a very nice move.
Our first win of the season and part of a 14 match unbeaten run in the league.
 
So Mason is signing for the club who, having injured him in a game last
season, effectively ended his Spurs career ??
 
Roo said:
I understand that we can't bring in top players to squad roles, that's not what i'm getting at mate. I also appreciate that in the literal sense, each club has a first XI and a bench. What I'm hoping that we can achieve is a squad where the replacement coming into an attacking role (in particular) offers something of an improved quality to what we currently have. There's a few areas in the squad where the option off the bench was quite frankly underwhelming and pretty much a pointless substitution last season. So far we've brought in Wanyama and Janssen who I'm very impressed with as signings to boost the squad quality. What i'd like to see is a couple more like these two. Wanyama was a solid player for saints in particular, and although he's got a sketchy disciplinary record, he'll do his job well on the whole. Janssen scored tonnes of goals last season and was the top scorer in the Holland.

There must be players in the positions we need, that fit the same mould as these two who we've got for an approx £30m combined.
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The idea is great but I think the realism of getting better squad players, even if marginally better, is quite thin. It's tough to get that balance of a very good player who's happy to come and fight for a place over ones who'd feel they deserve a starting spot from the off and would thus find us not too much of an appealing option depending on their mindset.

We done brilliantly with Janssen and Wanyama but I'd say both have been the products of excellent timing for Spurs. Wanyama had 12 months left on his deal and is joining a club in the CL. Despite the fact we have a recognised CM pairing, he knows as "third choice" he'll have an abundance of game time. Though if he didn't have just 12 months left, we wouldn't have got him for £11m and Soton would've likely wanted double that price, I doubt we would've bid that much for him if I'm honest.

With Janssen, we've got a young striker coming off the back of a superb first season at AZ, who play in a much inferior league to the Prem, although it's generally a good a platform for players to then step up to the Prem and early signs suggest Janssen will add to the success stories. If Janssen had that scoring record in one of Europe's top 5 leagues, then chances are there would've been much more interest, his value would've been at least double the £17m we paid and it would've been hard to convince him to join Spurs without truly guaranteeing a spot in the XI.

What I'm trying to ultimately get at is that we need make "perfect signings" in order to better the squad and I think it's so much easier said than done. All of us can say we should sign this player or that player but realistically £20m+ bracket players won't come here as squad players (which are generally the prices I'd say we'd need to pay for guys better than those in the squad slots) and so it's a case of either sticking with what we have or trying to find more hidden gems like we have in recent seasons with Dier, Alli & Wimmer and hope they blossom into great players in a short space of time.
 
Roo said:
Wolfsburg have apparently agreed personal terms with Son.
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But not with Spurs. Seems a bit odd.

Ante Coric, the 19-year-old Croatian midfielder, has supposedly turned down a move to Man City.
They agreed a £15m fee with his club, Dinamo Zagreb, but City intended to loan him out, so he'd rather stay where he is.
We've been linked with him, but so have a lot of sides. Probably won't be too long before he moves.
 
If Pochettino can show he manages his squad on merit and pragmatism, then
you have more chance of strengthening the squad to the standard we all hope for.
Otherwise you have to get comparative youth talent on the rise, willing to wait for
their opportunity (however it comes) .
 
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PleaseNotPoll said:
But not with Spurs. Seems a bit odd.

Ante Coric, the 19-year-old Croatian midfielder, has supposedly turned down a move to Man City.
They agreed a £15m fee with his club, Dinamo Zagreb, but City intended to loan him out, so he'd rather stay where he is.
We've been linked with him, but so have a lot of sides. Probably won't be too long before he moves.
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Sign him and loan him back to Zagreb immediately.
 
PleaseNotPoll said:
But not with Spurs. Seems a bit odd.

Ante Coric, the 19-year-old Croatian midfielder, has supposedly turned down a move to Man City.
They agreed a £15m fee with his club, Dinamo Zagreb, but City intended to loan him out, so he'd rather stay where he is.
We've been linked with him, but so have a lot of sides. Probably won't be too long before he moves.
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D.G.C. said:
Zaha deal blocked, are we disappointed?
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Seems like I'm the only one who is. So take it we're happy with chadli as back up. When did we become so big that Zaha isn't good enough. SAF man united saw something a couple of years ago and he's a better player now
 
Roo said:
Wolfsburg have apparently agreed personal terms with Son.
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Poch seemed to make it quite clear recently that Son very much remains part of his plans, so unless the is the player angling for regular 1st team football I find this hard to believe. Njie and Chadli will make way for GKN and not-Zaha, I reckon.

With Mason halfway out the door, it would be very nice indeed for Poch to have another look into strengthening the CM areas.

This week is make or break for us. The squad as it currently stands isn't good enough to build a title challenge as well as progress in the CL. True, the draw has helped us with a relatively easy group but we'd still need to throw the towel in on the minor cups to have a hope. Various hints from press conferences suggest GKN + 2 before the end of the window. Screw those three players up and we'll struggle to match what we accomplished last season. Get them spot on, and we'll build on it.
 
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Citizen Kane said:
The squad as it currently stands isn't good enough to build a title challenge as well as progress in the CL. True, the draw has helped us with a relatively easy group but we'd still need to throw the towel in on the minor cups to have a hope.
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No we don't. Pochettino just has to use the squad effectively.
If/when that means using academy talent, so be it.

As I laid out in the "season compass" article, the FA Cup and the UEFA
KO stages are the derailers of a PL campaign. And as they are at least
half a season away, I am not too worried.

And as I also said elsewhere, now is all about ambition and ethos as far
as squad and manager goes.
 
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