Transfer Rumours transfer thread fact and fiction

Present yourself to the firing squad IMMEDIATELY !!!

 

Somebody really should mock up Spurs transfer window bingo cards.

Then again, they'd all need to have Isco, Kovacic and Rabiot on them, otherwise you might be accused of rigging the draw...

 

Which means it passes my "zeroth law" of ITK.
I believe this one.

 

I've read that we should buy Jese Rodriguez from PSG who can attack down the middle and has good ball skills. I thought we already possessed a plethora of attacking midfielders but I have to say he looks good.

 

With Inter needing to sell players before they can buy, it makes sense that one or two of them would be linked with us.

However, it's not one or two being linked with us, as this is the complete list of Inter players linked with us this summer...
Mauro Icardi
Gabriel Barbosa
Ivan Perisic
Antonio Candreva
Gary Medel
Geoffrey Kondogbia
Marcelo Brozovic
Andrea Pinamonti
Joao Mario

Add to that how we were linked with Andrea Ranocchia and Jeison Murillo in January, it's as if Itialian journalists are really keen to use the term Internazionale Tottenham.

 

Flattering indeed that for a club such as Inter, their hacks + player agents
are linking their players to Spurs (for whatever reason) .

 

Brozovic has perpetually been linked with us at least once per season since he was at Dinamo Zagreb, so he's in the same boat as Isco/Kovacic/Rabiot

Kondogbia was certainly linked with us prior to joining Inter, but since then we've moved Dier into midfield and signed Wanyama, so obviously that means he's not the player we desperately need like he was then - and it has to be said he's not an established first teamer at Inter.

Pinamonti actually looked like a decent shout at the time, as he's a hybrid of Kane and Janssen...although that was most likely agent talk as Inter were stalling on a professional contract, and as happens with half a dozen PSG youth teamers every season our name is a useful one to mention in order to get clubs to cave into demands.

 

Just had something flash up on my phone about bayern Munich gonna bid £50 million for Eric Dier why is it always spurs players that get mentioned

 

It's just an old rumour being recycled - the Express were running that story in April last year.

 

I just checked it again it's something to do with the sun newspaper so no worries there then

 

I got that beat: The Star's running it too!

You know your paper has an image problem when they;re seen as less reliable than Murdoch's Hate Comic...

 

Apparently Spurs and Juventus are both looking at the possibility of signing Joao Cancelo from Valencia, he's a right back so would be welcome.

 

Your phone is late:


http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2017/08/0...d-to-claim-linking-tottenhams-eric-dier-with/

 

Pacy, tricky, skillful, but a bit dodgy defensively. Pochettino might be able to fix that, though.

 

It's being suggested that Kieran Trippier's ankle is not going to allow him to play against Newcastle and for a few games beyond that. We've known for about 3 months that Kyle Walker was on the way out and must have known that Kyle Walker-Peters wasn't first team ready. Despite there being an array of potential options, we're still dithering like a wife in a shoe shop.

If we play Eric Dier at right back against Chelsea, like we played Sonny and Kevin Wimmer against them when we lost last season, then I'm going to be very, very unhappy.

 

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All too predictible, too.

 

If a gamble comes off you look clever, if it don't you look stupid...surely the sensible thing to do is NEVER take needless gambles but unfortunately it is a bad habit that we are unable to break.

 

If true we'll probably go to a back 4 with Dier at RB and be subjected to worse than even the most turgid football AVB ever conjured up.

I'd personally play Sissoko as a RWB and stick with 3 at the back. He seemed well up for it against Juve and will enjoy a few games front and centre of the shop window ahead of the window closing.

 

The issue is that, in football, there's so many examples of supposed sure things that don't pan out. In Spurs' case, here's the short list...
Jacques Santini was a sure thing who turned out to be a mentalist who hated full backs crossing the halfway line, had us playing utterly dire football, disrespected the passing of Bill Nicholson's and followed that up by flouncing out of the club by November
Juande Ramos was a sure thing who turned out to be more focused on banning ketchup than implementing a coherent tactical plan (seriously, to this day I have no idea what his plan was) which was especially apparent when he got a certain number of points from a certain number of games
George Graham was a sure thing who ran out of ideas after "difficult to beat"
Roberto Soldado was a sure thing who scored less league goals that season than Michael Dawson (yes, really)
Sergei Rebrov was a sure thing who played at the wrong time for the wrong manager(s) with the wrong tactics to use him properly
Paulinho was a sure thing who we can be thankful for the Chinese Super League's homicidal approach to transfer fees
Les Ferdinand was a sure thing who never came close to replicating his form from QPR or Newcastle
Refurbishing the East Stand was a sure thing, yet the cost doubled and the club nearly went bankrupt and was left with the choice of being run either by Robert Maxwell or Alan Sugar followed by a decade of knowing that Sugar would be put to better use on a glorified talent show than operating a business