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Really don’t know why we don’t make an approach to Lewandowski for a year (or two).
Match his £350k salary at Barca and it “only” sets us back £18m for the season plus bonuses and signing fee. He may choose a retirement deal in Saudi or MLS but it’s worth testing the water on, apparently clubs in Italy and Turkey are looking to offer him a deal, we’re in a financial position to offer better than most. Far better than chucking another £60m at a possible Richarlison or Solanke too.
About £220m down the ****ter.
Said the exact same to Power just the other day about our success rate. If we can get it back to 50% we’ll begin moving forward again.
I get every signing is a risk but you can’t constantly be getting them wrong without serious consequences.
Spurs escaped disaster on the last day of the season. Need to ensure the club isn’t in that position again no matter what it takes
I know it's YouTube but.....
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Interesting.
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I was going to mention him, but his last few performances in Spain have been pretty underwhelming tbh. Great striker in his day, probably would have jumped at the chance of getting him a year ago, but not sure he would be up to a PL / domestic season.
They don’t help themselves with some of the players they target. I mention them time and time again but Richarlison, Solanke and Gallagher at the prices (and wages in Gallagher’s case) meant we were always onto a loser.
Tel didn’t impress in his loan spell but we still spent £30m. Odobert was a punt at £25m and proving a waste, screams championship player to me. I don’t overly mind punts like that but they need to be at a time where we can afford a punt.
Even though I never wanted Simons because there’s a real issue with Bundesliga attacking mids and wingers coming to the Prem, he was at least of the right sort of profile and pedigree to target. If we signed 2-4 Simons per window there’s a good chance a couple will be genuinely decent players. But persist with midtable mediocrity and we’ll get that just that and worse.
Oh don’t get me wrong we’re never gonna get the Bayern version of the bloke but I’d still take a season of him than another of dumb and dumber.
I certainly don't want a goody-twoshoes and a beast with excellent ****housery qualities would be definitely on my list of preferable skills!
Just not sure that Toney is the guy for us. His baggage is fine in Saudi but it will catch up with him again in the PL - and is he that good anyway? A step up on The Cocktail Twosome we have now in terms of goalscoring, but that's hardly raising the bar.Have to say that Ramos being offered by PSG - if true - would be a real coup!!
"No clear options".
Part of the problem is that blokes like this routinely forget that Mikey Moore exists and just had a fantastic season for Rangers. Sure, right now he might be behind Savinho in his development, but he is also a whopping 4 years younger. We'll never know how good Mikey could be unless we bite the bullet and give him a chance.
Also another major factor in our left flank collapsing that literally no one seems to talk about is how we saw a year of Udogie picking up injuries every two weeks, didn't sign proper cover for him, and then went and make the same mistake last summer. Spence isn't good enough and as a predominantly right footed, offers no width on that flank.
Lots of penalties in these clips, what are they? and how does a team get them, can't remember Spurs getting one of those
We're being linked with Union SG's winger Anan Khalaily.
Although might be best to put this on the Politics Thread, as Khalaily is an Israeli-Arab.
Although might be best to put this on the Politics Thread, as Khalaily is an Israeli-Arab.
A few things keep shaping my thinking on our business.
Most importantly, availability is the best ability. This is always true but especially for Spurs given the problems over the last three seasons.
Then you have to look position by position and think - do we have at least two players who meet the level required?
LCB for example. We now have VdV and (let’s assume) Senesi. That’s good. No notes.
The question you then ask is, do we think there’s players on the market who are better than those two, who fits the profile the coach wants in that position?
(“Better” is doing a lot of work there - it has to be holistic. On pitch, off pitch, data, the eye test, other intangibles, accounting for distribution of HG/CG players for PL and UEFA rules, etc.)
You do that in every position, decide which ones have the most impact (for example, we have 2 senior 9s as well, but the upside of investing in that position would be much greater than buying a better LCB and selling one of the ones we have) and then try and do your business in order of priority.
With that said the order of priority in terms of urgency and level of investment for me has to be
1. LW. We only have one senior fit and he’s not consistently effective
2. A RW. All of ours are injured with no clear return date
3. A striker. We have two but neither of them are consistently available or good
4. CM. Our squad is a mess here and there needs to be some serious profiling work done before we make decisions
5. GK. Once decisions are made about Vic’s future and Kinsky’s level, then the kind of player we need here becomes clear
There’s reports that Savinho is close. That’s an interesting pickup because he plays LW and RW and the flexibility is really important given the unknowns around Kudus, Odobert, and Kulusevski’s returns. Depending on their timelines if we don’t sign another winger (and keep Moore around) that could leave us a bit light until players start returning.
Most importantly, availability is the best ability. This is always true but especially for Spurs given the problems over the last three seasons.
Then you have to look position by position and think - do we have at least two players who meet the level required?
LCB for example. We now have VdV and (let’s assume) Senesi. That’s good. No notes.
The question you then ask is, do we think there’s players on the market who are better than those two, who fits the profile the coach wants in that position?
(“Better” is doing a lot of work there - it has to be holistic. On pitch, off pitch, data, the eye test, other intangibles, accounting for distribution of HG/CG players for PL and UEFA rules, etc.)
You do that in every position, decide which ones have the most impact (for example, we have 2 senior 9s as well, but the upside of investing in that position would be much greater than buying a better LCB and selling one of the ones we have) and then try and do your business in order of priority.
With that said the order of priority in terms of urgency and level of investment for me has to be
1. LW. We only have one senior fit and he’s not consistently effective
2. A RW. All of ours are injured with no clear return date
3. A striker. We have two but neither of them are consistently available or good
4. CM. Our squad is a mess here and there needs to be some serious profiling work done before we make decisions
5. GK. Once decisions are made about Vic’s future and Kinsky’s level, then the kind of player we need here becomes clear
There’s reports that Savinho is close. That’s an interesting pickup because he plays LW and RW and the flexibility is really important given the unknowns around Kudus, Odobert, and Kulusevski’s returns. Depending on their timelines if we don’t sign another winger (and keep Moore around) that could leave us a bit light until players start returning.
One thing to consider: with Xavi out until the New Year and Madders always a 70 minute player, there's scope for Mikey to play as a 10 this coming season
...as long as you forget we keep getting linked with AMs
True.
I sincerely hope the club isn't ignoring the fact that we won't see Odobert until November, Xavi until February, and Kulusevski possibly ever again.
We are in an odd spot, winger-wise: one the one hand we have Kudus and Odobert scheduled to come back around October so rushing out and buying some starting wingers is obviously not the ploy as we'd wind up with having selection headaches, but on the other hand we clearly need some wingers to pick up the obvious slack for the early stages
A Perisic-like signing would be the wisest move: somebody it wouldn't look like De Zerbi lost a bet by having them start straight away, yet also it's understandable for them to sit once Kudus is getting back up to speed. For the sake of chucking a name in there, Harry Wilson makes a reasonable amount of sense
Wilson had a pretty good season for Fulham so would probably want guarantees of being a starter (we could just waft a brick of cash in his face and outright lie to him).
Lucas Moura is a free agent this summer, as are Vinicius Jr. and Vincent Janssen. We could get the band back together, maybe that would convince Kane to come back.
Mason Melia's given an interview with The42 where he talks about wanting to play first team football this coming season
Might be worth seeing is Oxford want to go 2 for 2 on loans
Might be worth seeing is Oxford want to go 2 for 2 on loans