Talking of strikers, considering how long we waited just to drop £65m on Solanke, seeing Osimhen now head to Gala on loan feels like we really missed a trick.
Yeah I was gonna mention Osimhen but he seemed out of reach. Wonder how the financial side of that deal will work. There’s no way Galatasaray pay more than Spurs is there?
Probably similar to Sterling to Arsenal with his parent club picking up a large % of his weekly wage.
I think the big two in Turkey do have pretty high capacity for large wages, rumours are they’ll be paying the full wage which is about £250k.
Just gotta hope he proves last season wasn’t a one off. Really need someone to convert half chances in tight games. All well and good smashing the Everton’s of the world but too many games last season and already this we’ve not had that central figure capable of scoring when we really need it. He fluffed a hattrick of chances against Leicester, we'll put that down to first day nerves.
Yeah he needs to score a couple of goals asap to get going and just maybe he can become a regular scorer for Spurs. Looking at his career I don’t see consistency though so I’m not expecting much. I’ve already said I don’t see him as good as Richarlison.
I don't think that Osimhen was really an option for us. He was supposed to be going to Saudi but it fell through at the last minute when Napoli raised their asking price. He's gone to Turkey because he was frozen out of the squad by Conte and they were desperate. That desperation wouldn't have existed if the English window was still open. He got injured early on in that game, apparently. The half-call for a penalty, I think. I'm still not sold on him either, but a half-decent striker would still be preferable to no striker at all. Going from him, Richarlison and Lankshear to nothing in the space of a week is bloody typical, though.
At the start of the window he probably wasn't but I do wonder if we would have gotten whiff of his situation around a similar time we were looking at wrapping up the Solanke deal. Chelsea were regularly linked with him too throughout the window. Unsure on the timing of Solanke's injury during the Leicester match. Still think he was wasteful either way though, the chance in the second half where he just shot straight at the keeper instead of going for an angle is sort of typical of the difference of a good and great striker for me. I'd imagine we'll have at least one of them available for Arsenal in a couple weeks. If either of the senior two fancy scoring against them it'd go a long way to dispelling any doubts.
I wanna live in an era where I never have to talk about that guy again, lol. He’s lucky most of the talk on the thread has been about the defensive issues persisting from last season, because he dropped another rotter of a cameo that went under the radar.
No beef, I love the man. I just think he's starting to slow down. You don't, that's fair enough. But it was you bigging him up after the Everton game, not me. My take on it was 'let's see what he does against Toon and Arsenal'. He did nothing against the Toon, so let's see how he gets on in the NLD.
The man hit 17 goals and 10 assists in the league last season after the loss of his strike partner, if that's a decline then the rest of the forwards in our team would kill to decline. The quality surrounding and alongside him is more of an issue than he himself. From Kane, Eriksen and a prime Dele to largely midtable forwards and inconsistent attacking mids. There's only so much he can do. Give him half chances and he almost always slots them away. I can guarantee you this though, when he does actually decline and/ or leave, we'll feel it big time. It could even eventually cost Ange or whoever the manager will be by then their job if we don't have an adequate team in place to handle that sort of loss because he's the type of player that's worth about 2-3 positions in the league on his own.
Dragusin? If everyone stays level with Romero, then there's no problem. The main issue was Maddison, I think, failing to properly deal with Joelinton. That and Joelinton being on the pitch, of course.
